Close your eyes and soften your jaw.
Feel your breath slowing down on the inhale and the exhale as if you were coasting along.
Slowly enjoying the breath.
Feel how tired you are.
Maybe that tiredness is tinged with sadness or with anger.
Inviting the emotions that you feel to relax and rest there.
Feel that it's not you that has to hold space for your own emotions.
Allow yourself the comfort of knowing that it's the whole universe here,
Holding your emotions for you and with you.
And feel your body leaning into that support.
You might feel your shoulders soften,
Your belly soften,
And the soles of your feet soften.
Allowing yourself to drop a little more weight into that support.
Begin to find the beginning of your inhale.
Where it roots itself in the body,
Maybe in the chest,
The belly,
The back of the throat,
Anywhere you feel the breath beginning.
And as you begin the next inhale,
Feel a light growing from that place in your body.
Feel the light growing on the inhale.
And softening on the exhale,
But always present.
So that as you breathe in and out,
You can feel this gentle rhythmic pulsation of light in your body.
Let yourself really enjoy the creativity,
The impulse of this rhythm of light.
As you continue to enjoy this gentle pulsing of light and energy in your body.
Begin to imagine a star in the sky so far away from you.
But mirroring exactly the pulsing of your inner light.
Imagine this star.
Completely on its own,
In its own infinite amount of space,
Enjoying its own rhythmic pulsing of energy.
And it may be the same colour or spectrum of colours as your own light.
Allow that light of the star to flash with the colors of your emotions.
All emotions are welcome here.
All colors are welcome here.
All energies are welcome here.
Notice how they come and go,
How they shift in and out.
And as you watch this pulsing of colour in and out.
You begin to see that you've created a little distance.
Between your experience.
And a new experience of watching how the energy moves in your body.
And how this energy is mirrored.
In the universe around you.
Letting yourself feel connected to the sky.
Connected in your body.
I invite you now to drop your awareness down through the earth,
Down to the earth's core.
Where there's another light pulsing.
On your inhale and your exhale.
The heartbeat of the earth rhythmically echoing your own heartbeat.
Let yourself feel balanced by the star above and the earth's core below.
Let yourself enjoy.
This deep connection that you have to the cosmos.
And start to feel yourself easing the tension of your body and easing the tension of your mind.
Let the colors of your breath become more subtle.
You start to become more aware of the temperature of your skin.
More aware of the breath as it enters the body,
Perhaps through the nostrils or the mouth.
Becoming more aware of the weight of the body,
And you might like to shift your weight a little side to side.
I wonder how you're feeling now.
In this present moment.
Let yourself soak up that feeling a little more,
A little more deeply,
A little more intimately.
As if you're slowing down this moment.
And then thank yourself for taking time to be with yourself as completely as you can.
And we conclude our practice.
