Welcome friend Start off by finding yourself in a posture that feels comfortable But alert this isn't nap times,
Unfortunately And then deepen your next inhale through the nose Expand the ribcage You might sigh or exhale that out the mouth,
Huh?
And a big inhale through the nose expand fill up Exhale letting go One more breath a big inhale through the nose And out the mouth let it go And then just breathe in and out your nose In any way that works for you a Practice of meta or well-wishing Is a formal practice of repeating phrases and what are we repeating phrases about today?
You might have experienced a time where you were out in a group of people When your behavior changed in some way to feel Like you fit in here like you felt accepted some sort of Changing of the way you speak or the way you act I Know when I grew up in a really rural Towns,
I felt like my some of my feminine Characteristics things I would like to do the way I talked The way I gestured As things Communicated to me non-verbally that those things were unacceptable.
They weren't allowed They were wrong in some way So I developed these sort of Masks Or different ways of behaving That denied the fullness who I was You might already have a sense of some of these things that how how you've done this in your life Denying your whole self The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else Thanks EE Cummings for those wonderful words To get into the formal practice out of this well-wishing or meta Bring to mind someone,
You know,
Really well But you love easily or have Really easy time being your full self around them Feeling some sense of warmth or goodness when you're around them It could even be a pet or a plant if that works for you people can be tricky sometimes Imagine this being right before you like you're sitting down to coffee with them See or their eyes gazing into yours It See if you can feel what it's like in real life to be in their presence If you know him really well,
You might have also seen how they mask in public How they have this public persona versus their more authentic or whole or vulnerable self And Maybe they felt they had to hide parts of themselves or change parts of themselves to be acceptable Because they want to be loved accepted And you know,
They have an innate goodness to them You may repeat these phrases after me out loud or whisper them really quietly in the back your mind if you're Somewhere you don't want to be caught speaking out loud Imagine you're turning right to this person or this being and saying these phrases to them.
I Wish you well,
I Hope you feel loved You deserve to be fully accepted just as you are I wish you well.
I Hope you feel loved You deserve to be fully accepted just as you are Maybe deepening your earnestness with this last round.
I wish you will I Hope you feel loved You Deserve to be fully accepted just as you are And whatever feelings have come about bring them along with you as you let that person go And come back to what you might consider parts of yourself That aren't allowed or Maybe haven't been accepted These masks you put on or maybe there's a part of yourself that's asking for care Maybe picture this version of yourself this whole you as If you're sitting next to them or you could imagine gazing into a mirror to see yourself Or Perhaps looking and sitting with a younger version of yourself who felt like they weren't allowed to be themselves Just as the loved one we just worked with acknowledge that you or this version of you this whole you Wants to be loved and fully accepted for all of who you are and that you have any goodness And Turning to yourself or this part of yourself for this whole saw Saying I wish you well,
I Hope you feel loved You deserve to be fully accepted just as you are I Wish you well,
I Hope you feel loved You deserve to be fully accepted just as you are Maybe there's a gesture that comes along to deepen this feeling maybe a hand on the heart Or giving yourself a hug for this last round of saying I wish you well I Hope you feel loved You deserve to be fully accepted just as you are Start to bring some awareness back to your whole body In whatever space you're in And as our late great st.
Whitney said Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all
