Good morning and welcome to your morning soul seed meditation.
This is a little pocket of time where you get to plant the seed for your day in order to grow some radical shifts and transformation.
Begin by rising or falling into Sukhasana,
Easy seat pose or just a simple cross-legged seat.
Create some movement in your body to release any tension you have from your sleep.
You can do this by simply deepening your breath.
Take some swaying motions with your head side to side.
Lean one way or another for some side bends.
Maybe even add some arm circles forward,
Up and around.
Take a few rounds of deep breaths here,
Listen to what your body is telling you.
Move around in a way that feels good for you right now.
Now slowly bring your hands to rest in your lap or on the tops of your knees with your palms facing up or down.
Take one last movement through your jaw as you release through your facial muscles.
Allow your eyelids to close.
Soften the space between your eyebrows.
Bring awareness to your breath.
Take a deep breath in through your nose and exhale gently to let that breath go.
Release.
Keep a nice steady even breath just like that.
In through your nose,
Fill up.
Exhale through your nose and release.
As you continue to breathe on your own,
Notice what physical sensations you can feel as you breathe.
Connect to your physical body by observing the different pockets of your body that feel sensation as you inhale and those that hold sensation as you exhale.
Perhaps you feel something in your chest,
Your back or your shoulders.
Simply scan your body as you slowly breathe in and out.
What can you observe?
How do you feel and where do you feel it?
Now pick one point in your body that perhaps feels a little uncomfortable in this position you're in.
It can be at any place in your body and it can be even the tiniest sensation of discomfort.
Do take note that there is a large difference between pain and discomfort.
If something feels painful,
Do create movement to release it but if it's simply uncomfortable,
Place and hold your awareness there.
Rather than trying to change this discomfort,
Imagine holding this discomfort as if it's something tangible.
Hold it with your breath as you inhale and exhale and allow this sensation to be okay.
Allow it to be as it is.
As you continue to be in this present moment,
As you continue to hold this feeling of discomfort with your breath,
Keep breathing slowly and softly.
On your inhale,
Repeat in your mind the words,
This is.
And on your exhale,
Repeat in your mind,
Impermanence.
Inhale this is.
Exhale impermanence.
Continue now.
Inhale this is.
Exhale impermanence on your own for a few long deep breaths.
On your next exhale,
Release your air out through your mouth with a loud audible sigh.
Release the hold you have on this point of discomfort.
And shift now to observing and scanning your body.
This time for a pocket of sensation that feels at ease.
Again,
This can be at any point in your body.
It can have a noticeable ease to it or perhaps it's simply a part of your body you feel positively connected to in this moment.
Hold this point in your awareness once you find it.
And imagine holding it as you breathe as if it too were tangible.
Allow yourself to feel the goodness in this point here.
Feel this comfort.
Know that just like the discomfort that this too is impermanent.
And repeat the mantra again.
Inhale this is.
Exhale impermanent.
Take a few long mindful breaths again.
Repeating this mantra of impermanence.
Slowly detaching a little more.
With each inhale and each exhale.
Gently now begin to pull in just a little more air with your breath.
Deep in and lengthen your breath as you breathe and expand.
Slowly expand your awareness to the feeling in the very crown of your head.
Imagine a bright energizing light and hold it here.
Send this warmth and light down to the space between your eyes known as your third eye or the space that holds your intuition.
Feel its warmth and imagine it filling your whole body with life and energy and a sensation of non-attachment to the outcome of this beautiful day ahead where it too is impermanent.
Gently stretch through your fingers.
Draw your palms to touch at the center of your chest.
Gently guide your palms up so you can press your thumbs to the space in between your eyes.
Give your third eye a little massage here with your thumbs.
Circle them around one way then the other here as you breathe.
Practicing non-attachment means practicing the willingness to face the reality that everything shifts.
And when you can practice non-attachment in situations,
Moments and relationships,
You may be able to appreciate the true freedom that's within the fluidity of life.
Nothing and no one can hold your happiness.
Practice non-attachment and perhaps find the ability to feel and recognize the learning and love that's right here in this step,
In this moment before it shifts.
Take a deep breath.
Fill up.
Exhale,
Sigh it out loud through your mouth and release.
Do that one more time again.
Inhale,
Fill all the way up.
This time hold knowing that whoever else is taking this practice with us in a different time,
A different day,
Different place,
All here holding our breath together.
Exhale,
Sigh it out loud and release.
Thank you so much for sharing your morning with me today.
Have a beautiful rest of your day.
I look forward to sitting with you again soon.
