What I want to keep in mind for myself.
So with any morning meditation,
Get grounded first,
Put your feet on the floor.
You can do this laying in bed,
You don't have to sit up,
But it's nice to sit up because the spinal fluid will be able to flow up your spine into your brain.
For 2024,
Welcoming in,
Morning meditation,
Focus first on kindness and what kindness means to you.
Looking for ways to incorporate this into my day,
I naturally work from a place of kindness.
I spread kindness to the people I interact with.
I share kindness easily and openly with everyone.
Kindness,
Balancing my work life with my home life and my self-care.
I have a balanced work life situation.
I'm able to work hard,
Get great results,
And I also have self-care as my main priority.
I find I am naturally in a state of work life balance.
I focus on strength in my body,
My mind,
And my spirit.
Strength to overcome the challenges in my life and strength that is cultivated so that I am able to face head-on any of those challenges.
I focus on strength in my life.
Self-care.
Self-care is the antidote to my perimenopause and menopausal symptoms.
Whenever I find myself falling into pain,
Frustration,
Difficulty,
I move immediately into self-care.
I ask the essential questions,
What is happening and how does it show me what I need to do to take care of myself.
I move seamlessly into self-care.
Focus on well-being.
My focus for my life is on my well-being.
My well-being involves more than lack of physical symptoms or illness.
My well-being involves all aspects of my life.
Well-being is something that I can cultivate through how I focus my energy throughout my day.
My focus is on well-being.
So I move,
I rest,
I eat,
I drink with that in mind.
I cultivate feeling at home.
When I have had difficulty in the last year feeling like I'm spinning out,
I've recognized a lot of it comes from not feeling at home.
Feeling at home in my body,
Feeling at home in my life and literally feeling at home in my house.
I cultivate feeling at home by nurturing myself,
By giving myself breaks,
By giving myself comfort and by reminding myself that home is more than a physical belonging.
It's not a location and I can cultivate that feeling of being at home regardless of where I'm at physically.
Feeling at home in a body that is changing,
Coming to a place where I trust my own inner wisdom,
Learning to trust the Satguru,
The woman inside of myself,
The all-wise,
Knowing part of myself that has guided me through so many challenges in my life and helped me to come to this incredible place where I am largely cared for and safe.
Trusting that inner wisdom will come in the form of will come out as the voice of reason when I'm struggling with symptoms and illness and difficulties in my midlife journey.
Trusting my inner wisdom.
And lastly,
Self-acceptance.
Self-acceptance as not just tolerating my quirky weirdness or the way that I look at the world or see things.
Acceptance is like an envelope and I put all of the different aspects of myself inside of this envelope.
The wonderful parts and the less wonderful parts all together.
And when I practice the self-acceptance,
I come to a place of deep peace inside of myself.
I can accept my flaws,
Which is different than putting up with them.
When I embrace my quirky weirdness,
I am free to be myself in my life with my loved ones and in the greater world.
The freedom to be myself allows the people around me the freedom to also accept themselves and be themselves in a way that's authentic,
True,
And loving.
May everyone everywhere experience the kindness,
Have a balanced work life,
Be able to focus on strength and self-care with their emphasis on well-being while they feel at home and trust their wisdom.
To come to that place of self-acceptance.
May everyone everywhere be well in body,
Mind,
And spirit.
May everyone experience being held in loving kindness.
Namaste.
The light in me sees the light in you.
