Hello beautiful soul and welcome to today's meditation.
This meditation is an opportunity for you to listen to what your body is communicating back to you through your emotions,
Through the breath and through whatever sensations you might be feeling.
It's an opportunity to feel what is real for you in this moment so that you can express whatever that emotion is and you can let it go.
Emotions take 90 seconds to move through the body and diffuse.
If we don't suppress our emotions and we allow ourselves to feel them and let them go we can experience the full spectrum of emotions healthily and wholesomely.
This is the way that we are meant to experience life.
So whatever time of day you might be listening to this,
Find yourself a quiet place to settle in for a few minutes so that you can experience life in a natural and wholesome way.
If it feels comfortable for you to do so then close down your eyes and if it doesn't maybe you just want to lower your gaze ever so slightly and start to bring your awareness to your body.
Notice the weight of your body against the surface that you're sitting on or lying on.
Notice the temperature of your skin where it connects to your clothing or the air around you.
Notice how your body is feeling right now,
Whether it be tense or relaxed,
Heavy or light.
Maybe there's a stiffness if it's first thing in the morning so welcome in a stretch to open up if that feels right for you.
Maybe stretching your arms to the ceiling and arching your back or maybe just wriggling fingers and toes.
Whatever feels like it needs to move for you just allowing that movement and then settling back down into your seat.
Slowly starting to bring your awareness to the breath,
To your breath as it moves in and out of your body.
Not trying to control it,
Not trying to deepen the breath or set the tempo,
Just allowing it to move naturally the way that it feels like it should in this moment and following the breath in and out of the body.
Noticing where you feel the breath in your body,
Where you might feel movement and maybe that movement is in your belly or your chest.
Maybe you can feel movement around your nose or your mouth,
Seeing if you can follow that breath and that movement in and out as it dances through your body and into the ether around you.
Tuning in to any sounds in your environment,
Maybe you can hear birdsong,
Maybe there is traffic outside your window,
Maybe the chatter of people walking past or in the next room,
Maybe you can hear the wind dancing across the chimney tops.
Notice the sounds and experience them without letting them pull you away from where you are,
Right here,
Right now.
Allowing the breath to continue to move through you in its natural way and tuning in to any physical sensations that you might be feeling in your body,
Without judging yourself for feeling them and without fixating on them,
Just noticing if there is any change in the way your body is feeling.
We can often get sucked into specifics and details and we love analysing,
So this is an opportunity to practice simple observation.
Almost taking a macro view without getting sucked into the detail,
Noticing the sensations that are there and being okay with whatever those are,
All the while staying with the breath,
Following the inhale,
Following the exhale.
And now bring your awareness to how you are feeling right now,
Not physically but deeper than that,
What emotions are present for you in this moment,
Without judging yourself,
Without criticising what you might be feeling,
But being completely aware and honest with what is true for you right now,
Letting what is real simply be there,
Knowing that you don't need to find a reason as to why you might be feeling the way you feel right now,
There is no analysis that needs to take place,
We don't need to label whatever the feeling is,
You can allow yourself to simply feel,
Allow yourself to breathe through that feeling,
Inhale,
Feeding into exhale,
Being in whatever the feeling is without trying to control it,
Without trying to compartmentalise it,
Raw emotion,
Feeling and letting the depth of that feeling be.
Letting the inhale come naturally,
Letting the exhale go naturally,
And letting yourself be in that feeling until it feels like it's ready to move on,
And when it's ready to move on,
Simply letting it go with the breath,
Letting it leave your body through the exhale,
Out and beyond into the ether,
And maybe it feels like another feeling wants to move in,
And that's okay,
Letting your emotions flow naturally and freely,
Without restraint,
Taking a step back and looking at the macro view,
Looking at the flow of sensation and feeling and breath and how it connects to your beautiful body,
Acknowledging yourself for allowing yourself to be fully in your body,
Fully in what you are feeling here and now,
Acknowledging yourself for allowing it all to simply be there,
And for letting it go when it's ready to leave.
This natural flow of emotion is how we were intended to live,
To experience life through these emotions,
To feel everything that we come into contact with,
And what a privilege it is to be able to experience existence in this way.
And just bringing your awareness back to the breath,
And gently placing a hand on your heart,
Feeling that connecting point between your hand and your heart,
And the warmth that is emanated through that connection,
And saying thank you to your body for holding you through your life's experiences,
Saying thank you to yourself for being here for yourself,
And saying thank you to yourself for the compassion that it takes to take this time for yourself.
Thank you so much for spending this time with me,
And I wish you a wonderful day further.
