Today,
Let's greet our sadness in a different way.
As you allow your body to become more comfortable,
Softly start to move your awareness into the body.
Connect your awareness with the sensations within your muscles,
And as you create this mind-body connection,
Gently allow the sensations of sadness to also become revealed.
One key to doing this exploration is to approach it from a standpoint of non-judgment.
However your sadness feels is how your sadness feels.
We allow the awareness of the sensation to just develop on its own.
As you breathe,
Simply allow the sensation of sadness,
Wherever it is in your body,
To become more prevalent and more expressive in your awareness.
Allow it to communicate with you as you hold a space of open awareness that is not judgmental and does not run away with a story behind the sadness.
Although the story may feel relevant,
Letting go of the story can often allow the sensation behind the emotion to be properly processed and released.
So,
Simply be with the sadness and gently shift your awareness into the body further and guide your body to relax.
Allow the muscles in your legs to relax,
Allow the muscles in your hips and pelvis to soften through your abdomen,
Chest,
Back and neck.
As you continue to also allow the sadness to arise and reveal itself further.
Although it may feel contrary at first,
With practice you will develop the skill of allowing the physical form to relax as your emotional self shows itself to you in order to express itself.
Your physical relaxation is akin to you listening to your favorite person in the world express themselves to you openly from the perspective of sharing a conversation that allows them to heal.
So for yourself,
Allow your physical body to relax further from the shoulders into the neck,
Up your scalp and into your facial muscles.
And if you're crying,
Don't fight what your facial muscles are doing,
But sink behind the tears and allow them to reveal themselves to you as well.
As a really cathartic part of this inner self-expression.
Whatever body parts feel ready to relax,
Just allow them to soften and sink into your bed or chair and continue with kind guidance and compassion to allow this emotional release to occur through you and out.
Intermittently remind yourself that this sensation of sadness within comes from something in your past.
The past no longer exists in this moment.
The sensations may persist because they were previously bottled but now you are in an empowered state where you are allowing the sensations to move through you and out and you are in a place where you are ready for deep healing.
So for the next few moments,
Continue to focus on relaxing the body while you compassionately allow the sadness to communicate and evolve on its own.
The body knows how to heal your physical wounds such as paper cuts and it also has the intelligence to heal the emotional holding if we allow it to do so.
So relax and allow this emotional self to balance itself while you trust it to do so.
While you allow this to happen,
Softly also notice if you can feel the energy healing that is coming through for you in these moments.
Continue to breathe,
Soften your concentration on the sadness and increase your focus on softening the muscles.
It's normal for the emotions to build and it's easiest to allow their evolution if we soften and reduce our concentration on them.
The more we focus on the sadness,
The more there is resistance against allowing it to unfold into clarity.
So just allow it to move through as you focus on creating the softness in your physical form.
Wherever you notice places of holding and tightness,
You can use your breath to breathe into that area and into the resistance and as that eases,
More flow will return to both the physical and the emotional bodies.
Your soft breath work can give a spark of energy to move the stagnation and as the stagnation transforms,
So too do your emotions,
Your muscles and your spiritual wellness.
Take the next few moments to continue to allow this processing to happen within you and know that with each layer of emotion that you processed in this way,
You have really allowed it to transform and be released.
Emotions may be built upon previous layers of similar emotion but as you remove each layer,
You become clearer,
Stronger and more able to stay in the present moment.
So stay in this soft state of release and relaxation for as long as you like but if you feel ready,
You can bring your awareness back into your fingers and toes,
Wiggling them and moving them,
Rotating your wrists and ankles.
Just do a simple body scan from your toes all the way up to your head and neck and notice if you feel clearer,
Lighter,
More open,
More free and if not,
Sometimes the heaviness of what we process may linger.
So stay in this state of continual softening for as long as you need and once you do feel softer and clearer,
Then feel free to open your eyes and see if you see the world with clearer vision.
