Hello and welcome.
My name is Paige Lee.
Thanks for joining me today.
This is a meditation for the times in our life when it feels like our world is spinning out of control.
It feels like chaos,
Like the sky is falling.
It's hard to predict.
Or settle into or find any sense of relief.
Clarity,
Support,
Ease,
Trust,
Safety.
I want to start off by saying that the fact that you are here.
And this moment is commendable.
Showing up for yourself in a very beautiful way.
Profound.
And dedicated way.
To lead yourself.
To moments of stability and anchor despite.
The fragility of the world around you.
That's a really big deal.
That's a really big deal.
So before we move any further,
Take a moment to simply extend some acknowledgement to yourself.
It's in these decisions and choices,
Like this,
Where we show up for ourselves in the middle of chaos.
That things begin to shift.
This is where things begin to shift.
You are breaking the patterns of allowing the stress and the chaos to capsize you.
And instead.
.
.
You're turning inward.
And choosing to see the things.
And focus on the things that you can control.
Which is you.
You are the only thing you can control.
So let's take a moment to settle in.
To that concept,
That realization.
Maybe you start in a comfortable seated position.
Maybe roll the shoulders up towards the ears and then slide them all the way back down.
Let's do one more just like that,
Simply to just bring some physical movement into the body.
Physical feeling.
And then maybe the tops of the palms face down on the thighs here.
A sense of groundedness,
Grounding,
Anchoring down.
Sometimes we forget that we can touch our body.
But it's a really amazing way to bring,
One,
A sense of connection to ourselves,
But two,
A sense of connection to the present moment.
And often that's the first that escapes us.
When the world feels stressful and out of control,
It's very easy for us to dissociate,
Disconnect.
Unhooked.
And move into that fight or flight mode.
And the quickest way to reconnect and come back to the feeling moment.
Is to build some awareness around the senses.
By bringing the hands to the thighs or to another place on the body.
And then physically sending the attention towards those places in which the pinkies,
The ring fingers,
The middle fingers,
First fingers,
And thumbs how they connect.
To that place on the body.
You might press through each one of those,
Really curl the fingers into the thighs or wherever they're resting.
A gentle loving squeeze until you feel it.
And maybe you're at least bad.
Notice what that feels like as the fingertips and palms contract away from the thighs.
And maybe you press down through the fingers and the palms once more.
I'm finding this.
Very gentle You're slow.
Massaging action.
As you squeeze and release.
Through the fingers into the thighs.
And maybe as you move through those repetitions of squeezing and gently releasing,
Maybe slowly move the palms just half an inch or an inch at a time.
To a different spot on the bow.
It's an opportunity here to.
.
.
Some feeling to this present moment.
Some simple connection with yourself right here in the present moment.
And when you feel complete and connected to that,
Let's begin to deepen the breath here.
Reconnecting to a tall spine reaching up and out through the crown.
And taking a big breath in through the nose to puff up through the chest.
And let's open mouth exhale here to offload heat and release.
Few more rounds just like that.
Inhale to fill,
Fill,
Fill.
Open mouth exhale,
Dump it out.
Another one.
Let it go.
Continue with some natural rounds of breathing.
Nice and slow,
Easy does it.
Really inviting this new sense of safety and connection to return right here to this moment right in front of us.
So eyes open or closed,
Tune in now,
Sending the awareness to the ears.
Can you send the attention towards the ear lobes?
Can you feel those?
If it feels challenging to feel the earlobes in this moment right here,
You're invited to draw the hands,
The first finger,
And the thumbs up towards each of the ears and finding a slight pinch or a slight squeeze of the earlobes.
Bringing some feeling.
And attention.
To this part of your body.
And then maybe you alternate pressing and releasing.
Through the fingers on either earlobe.
And from there maybe you begin shifting The fingers up.
So that they scale the outside of the ears.
And when they get to the top Maybe you start making your way all the way back down,
Gently squeezing and releasing through the fingers on either ear.
When you feel complete with that the palms can Return to rest on the lap.
And simply feel in now the sensation,
Feel for energy or warmth or any pulsing that might be taking place in the ears.
As we've built some connection.
In this part of our body.
Now with the ears turned on.
What can you hear?
What sounds or noises are taking shape around you?
What can you hear?
Scanning for each of the different layers.
Taking a moment to describe those.
Sounds.
To yourself internally.
Come back to the breath if you've lost it.
Add that on as we continue to build awareness in the moment here.
We are in control of all of these things right now.
Your hands and fingers,
The sensations you're building in the different places and areas of the body.
You are in control of your breath.
You are in control of turning on the ears.
And to what degree.
You're in control of opening and closing the eyes.
You're in control of your attention.
Remember this moment and this space,
These feelings.
As you move through the rest of your day or days where it feels like everything.
Is spiraling out of control.
You have the power.
You have everything you need.
Right here.
In every present moment.
You are in control of your life.
Your life is not in control of you.
Energy responds to energy.
So we are showing up to life from a place of stress and chaos.
And that is what gets mirrored back to us.
But when we show up and approach life from a place of connection.
Choice.
Groundedness.
Centeredness.
Peace,
Ease,
Acceptance,
Trust.
Discernment.
Curiosity.
That.
Is the energy that gets mirrored back.
And our energy starts with us.
How we show up for ourselves in moments that life tests us.
It's challenging you.
To see just how dedicated you are to you.
How are you going to show up for you in the moments when life gets hard?
How are you going to respond?
Navigate it.
How are you going to observe and choose differently?
And it starts with connection with ourself.
We'll be bringing some completion into this moment here in just a few more rounds of breath.
So perhaps place some meaning behind these final rounds of breath here in this moment and allow it to serve as a symbolic experience for you.
A symbolic reminder.
That you are in control.
And you are in control of everything that you can control.
The things that we can't control.
That we want to control so much.
If that worked,
That would have worked by now.
You are so good.
You are so good at scanning and predicting.
And pivoting and adjusting and discerning and making plans.
And always being 10 steps ahead.
It takes a tremendous amount of energy to do all of that.
None of it is your responsibility.
You are in control of you.
Learning you,
Understanding you.
Connecting.
With you.
A beautiful person experiencing life.
All of it.
The ups and the downs.
And how you allow yourself to experience it.
What you learn about you all along the way.
In the way you continue to return to you over and over and over yet again.
Whisper one.
Final.
.
.
Closing.
.
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Sentiment to yourself here.
And then we'll seal it in with one big,
Meaningful round of breath,
The biggest yet.
Inhale to pull all of that wonderful energy into the body.
Fresh clarity,
Fresh confidence.
And then seal all of that in as you slowly exhale the breath out of the body completely.
From here begin to flutter open the eyes if they're closed.
Reorient yourself to the things that you can see in the room and environment around you.
You blink the eyes a couple of times.
Welcome back to the present moment.
I wish you a beautiful rest of your day.
You've got this.
