Hello and thank you for joining.
To begin our connection to snow and snowflakes,
We'll begin by becoming present and clearing our mind through the breath.
Whatever posture you find yourself,
Take a moment to draw deeper,
Longer,
And slower breaths.
If you find your mind drifting,
Your thoughts chattering,
Your awareness getting distracted,
Just come back to your breath and the sound of my voice.
Take a deep inhale in to the bottom of your belly and take a deep exhale out,
Squeezing all the air out from the bottom of your belly.
And we'll do this again.
Deep inhale in,
Breathing deeper and deeper,
And exhale,
Releasing all the air from the bottom.
Take another moment to breathe,
Watching the air come in your nose,
In your throat,
In your lungs,
And then back out.
And we'll begin.
When the clouds are brimming with moisture and temperatures drop just cold enough,
Ice crystals bind to water molecules to create a snowflake.
These snowflakes get heavy enough to eventually fall from the sky to the earth.
On their way down,
They encounter many different elements,
Which continually transform the structure of these frozen water droplets.
Now imagine that you are looking at a snowflake.
You see squares,
Circles,
Cubes,
Columns,
Pointed lines,
All different geometric shapes overlap upon one another,
Connected at the center.
They then stem out like branches from the trunk of a tree.
Perhaps they resemble jewels on a crown,
Or perhaps a beautiful spider-like web of crystal bridges.
Whatever images you see,
Let that feeling shimmer in your mind,
Resonate into your heart,
And then let that feeling seek deep down into your belly.
Now,
As you gaze upon your snowflake,
Admire its whiteness.
It shows you all of the wavelengths of all the colors being reflected back at once.
White shows purity and innocence and sincerity.
It reflects back effortlessly all of the colors we have come to paint within our world.
Now imagine connecting with all the other colors that can come to be,
Only to reflect back that which is pure.
Do this with kindness and tender fragility,
For it is only under precarious conditions that these ice crystals are even-born.
Snowflakes,
Like ourselves,
Are a freeze-frame glimpse into the complexity of life that even a frozen water droplet contains in its molecular expression.
Snowflakes can be very similar to one another,
Based off of their proximity and creation in the clouds,
And their closeness and paths on their way down to the Earth,
As yes,
They are affected by many similar variables.
Yet each frozen microcosm of life in the snowflake will ultimately express itself in its own authentic pattern,
Distinct from any other.
These snowflakes are quite like us.
Allow yourself to connect to your nature,
Like to that of a snowflake.
Allow yourself to see beauty and find purity in honor of our unique,
Authentic,
And fragile lives.
You're welcome to stay here in meditation,
Continue breathing,
Bringing your awareness to the present moment,
And letting your mind expand with the visualization and imagination.
Thank you for joining.
