Just sit or lie comfortably in a place where you have some peace and some quiet where you won't be disturbed for the next 10 minutes.
And just check in with your internal state.
We're just checking in with ourselves,
That's really all meditation is.
Checking in with your own internal awareness.
Checking in with your connectedness to the greater sense of living.
Meditation gives us the opportunity to be more aware of ourselves and to check for those bumpy sticky places where we could use some healing,
Some space,
Some tenderness.
So finding your way into a comfortable position to settle in,
Settle into the body.
This meditation is to bring awareness to our third chakra,
The solar plexus chakra.
It sits just below the sternum at the entrance to the stomach.
This chakra rules the pancreas and our system of digestion.
You can bring your awareness now to that place right at the opening of your stomach,
Right beneath the rib cage,
Beneath the sternum.
Not beneath the rib cage,
Pardon.
Beneath the sternum,
Right in the center between your ribs.
You can either physically place your hand there,
Start to massage it around in a circle.
Lots of us have tension and tightness there.
You can start to loosen that manually with your hand.
And just begin to breathe into this space,
Inhaling big healthy breath,
Exhaling letting go.
The color of this chakra is golden bright yellow.
You can visualize a wheel spinning clockwise,
A disk of brilliant yellow.
See it spinning and see it glowing and spin it faster and glow it brighter with your mind's eye.
And breathe some vitality and some life into this.
And add just a touch of gold to this spinning yellow disk,
Brightening it,
Polishing it,
Making it brighter and more vital.
Breathing in,
Breathing out.
The solar plexus is named for the sun and the sun's element is fire and fire is a transmutable element that transforms our food into energy for our body,
Transforms our ideas into our beliefs and our concepts of ourselves.
And there's a true,
True sense of self that is fixed beyond what our ego may tell us,
Beyond what stories we may make up about ourselves.
This true sense of self is worthy and deserving beyond all external circumstances.
It's the truth of who we are,
It's the truth of who you are and the truth of who you are is someone who is valuable just because you're alive,
Just because you're here,
Your life has meaning.
Just because you're a spirit in a body,
You matter.
You have value,
You have worth and you are so deserving of the life you choose to live.
You have power over the life you choose to live.
You decide who you will be in this lifetime and you can choose the best for yourself.
You can choose to love yourself in spite of anything that you may have been telling yourself in the past that would take you out of that self-love place.
Loving yourself is powerful.
Loving yourself just because you are who you are is magical,
Powerful.
And when you sit in this place of truly loving yourself,
You automatically choose goodness and light and love.
Choose things that are healthy for you,
Activities that bring you light and joy.
You choose people that support you and want the best for you and you for them because you are worthy of the life that you say that you want.
You are worthy of the best and you have every ability and capability to make your life work.
The more you cultivate this sense of love for yourself,
The more you will see in your external circumstances this love reflected back to you.
Sitting and residing in this place,
Feeling this golden yellow light glowing within you.
This is the home that you get to come back to when life throws challenges your way.
If you're in a situation that feels very difficult,
Come home to this place,
Your true home where you are worthy,
Deserving,
Loved,
Where you can honor yourself.
Taking deep breaths,
Letting whatever emotions come up,
Come up,
Let them be felt,
Let them move.
Emotions are energy in motion,
They do not like being stuck,
They like to move.
Let yourself feel whatever you're feeling,
Let emotions move through the body and any thoughts that are coming up,
Just observe them and let them also move.
Stay flexible,
Stay open to life.
Know that you have the power to create the life that you want.
You have the ability to believe in yourself,
It's a practice.
Return to this practice as often as necessary,
Daily even.
Coming back to this place of loving who you are,
Being tender with yourself and also being strong,
That you don't live for the appreciation or the acceptance of the crowd or for anyone.
To live a full life only requires your own acceptance and the more you can embrace yourself and honor yourself,
Harmful and negative aspects of your life just automatically begin to leave you.
You get to choose,
You always get to choose.
So today as you sit with this meditation choose you,
Choose your best life and the actions that you take and the thoughts that you think.
Choose to love yourself.
Take a deep breath in and exhale and let this glowing yellow wheel expand,
See it expanding to encompass your whole body,
Radiating warmth,
Self-love.
Take another deep breath,
See this golden yellow light expanding even more to encompass the place you live in,
Expanding even more to encompass the country you belong to and expanding even more going out and around this whole planet earth,
Expanding even more out into the universe,
Into infinity.
Feeling this energy moving through your body,
Knowing that you belong to the universe,
Knowing that there's nothing wrong with you,
You get to love and honor yourself just as you are.
You can start to wiggle your fingers and toes when you're ready coming back to the environment,
The room that you're in,
The space that you occupy.
Take a deep breath in and when you're ready,
Flutter your eyes open,
Feeling excited,
Feeling energized,
Feeling peaceful.
