Quiet your mind.
Breathe deeply into your belly.
Still your hands and relax your jaw and shoulders.
Let your forehead relax.
Roll your head slightly side to side.
Breathe.
Just breathe.
Now allow your eyes to close.
Drop into yourself as if you are a stone tossed into a deep sea.
You sway back and forth as you travel lower,
Gently and safely,
Settling at the bottom where all is quiet.
Where the waves fighting above you are no longer visible.
The howling wind and seagulls cry are mute and muffled.
Drop into the space where creamy softness cocoons you and light leaks into your pores.
Where warmth spreads over you like a cozy blanket,
Like the intoxicating weight of a newborn slumbering on your chest.
This is where you must come,
When life feels as if it's taking you.
This is where your fractured heart finds repair.
And empty reservoirs of tears become replenished.
Where anger dissolves to empathy.
This space will restore you when you think you cannot do it one more day.
When the unknown is feared more than the known.
When the life you poured into this universe isn't recognizable to you anymore.
This is where you must come.
Your bruised spirit with its hard-earned scar tissue,
Your loneliness wondering if anyone understands.
Your weariness telling you it's too much.
This is where you must come and stay.
Until your breath comes evenly.
Until the limitless love of your higher power spills over and drenches you in new strength.
Until hope is hemmed into your sides and seams and is tucked into the edges of you.
To be carried safely with you on this immense journey.
Then,
When your bones have been warmed through and your chest becomes unlocked,
You begin to rise,
Resurface.
The constant undercurrent of dread replaced with a ripple of steadiness,
Determination,
And promise.
