Welcome to this short guided meditation and medicine wheel teaching.
My name is Fola and here on DeepMindSquared we hope to inspire you to align with your personal truth.
The medicine wheel is a way to connect with your personal power.
And what is power?
It's being able to take energy and move it as you wish.
It's about standing in your own personal strength and for what you truly believe.
Using your energy in a powerful way can be exciting and scary all at the same time and that's why finding balance is important.
One way we can do this is through the balance of the medicine wheel.
The medicine wheel has been part of many ancient indigenous people's stories.
The wheel is a way of seeing the world.
You can start by imagining a big circle around you that lines up with the directions of a compass.
East,
West,
South,
And North.
These are the main cardinal points and they each have a corresponding nature aspect.
In this series we are going to connect to each direction of the wheel along with its corresponding magical and natural aspects.
To begin we start with the East with the direction related to the Sun.
With the Sun we recognize the power of light,
The inspiration,
And the spark of creation.
Whether you believe in a divine being or not we can't help but look at the Sun and get a sense of its power as it rises each day and goes to sleep each night.
It truly is connected to us as humans.
It's what gives life.
It bursts a spark of inspiration and creativity in each of us.
And of course it gives life through the nurturing of plants,
Lighting and heating things up so we can stay warm on a cold winter's day.
And it shines its light on us so we can have the vitality necessary to live on this planet.
I recall the image of the tarot card with the Sun.
That child riding the white stallion with open arms.
Beautiful sunflowers blooming behind him.
What does it mean for you to let the light shine through you?
And in the teachings I was given by my teacher in the East where the Sun sits we also have the connection to the grandfathers and the stars.
And just like the Sun awakens and goes to sleep each day we also can see the stars with their points in the sky that have been there since the beginning of time.
They have led our ancestors to different destinations and they have inspired us to continue to look up and be an on wonder of all that is around us.
Our grandfathers are one reason we are here and yet the grandfather that wonderful masculine energy that is both wise and playful.
It's with him that we can call to ourselves the energies of the East during this guided process.
In relation to the Sun we also have the ideas of inspiration and enlightenment.
Now what does it mean to be enlightened?
To find the light within.
Breaking down these words and light me.
The light in me.
And just like the Sun rising each morning and falling each night you too go through cycles.
When we can acknowledge these cycles and see the brightness within we are more truly in our power.
So with this teaching I'm inviting you now to awaken the energies of the East within you.
You can start by taking a few deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Inhaling deeply exhaling out.
Inhaling filling the lungs and exhaling relaxing the shoulders down.
And now returning to a normal pace of breath that's right for you and your body.
As you imagine yourself facing the Sun in the East at its breaking point of the dawn.
See it just barely over the horizon.
Its rays starting to reach up into the sky and as that light of the Sun begins to emerge for the day you feel it touching your face warming your skin.
You can see a gentle glow from behind closed eyelids.
You being bathed by the Sun warmed by its energy allowing it to continue to fill you with this golden light as it moves down through the rest of your body.
From your head to your neck and shoulders into your chest and your heart.
Filling your upper and moving down into your belly.
This golden light continues to travel down moving into your hips and your pelvis and then down into both legs.
Filling both legs with golden light all the way to your tiptoes.
And the palms of your hands face forward embracing this warm sunlight as it inspires you and awakens within you the connection to the divine source of all.
You continue to breathe as you notice whatever it is that's showing up in your awareness.
And just like the Sun is our central star you begin to connect to all the other stars and suns across the galaxies in the universe.
Each in their perfect place.
Each emanating their own beautiful potency.
And you see your grandfathers,
Your grandfather's grandfathers,
And every grandfather across time.
And then you hone in on your own personal star.
You the soul that was meant to be here at this exact moment in time.
This constellation of stars and suns and grandfathers.
The souls interwoven with you are a beautiful child.
