Hello,
Here we are.
Wherever you are in this moment,
Give yourself a little bit of a buffer in your sense of place and space in this moment,
Really turning all of your attention not only inwardly,
But imagining that you are creating a beautiful cottony pillow all the way around you,
Just a nice soft perimeter,
Letting everyone know that this is your time,
And you'll be back.
You can open up the tabs again on your Chromebook,
You can turn on your phone,
But for right now,
It's us together in this space,
And there's nothing else to do,
There's nowhere else to be,
And your focus can begin to relax,
Just allowing yourself a few moments to settle in.
The purpose of our time together today is to notice our impact,
To really begin paying attention to the reach that you have,
And you may be feeling isolated,
Or withdrawn,
Or withholding,
I don't really want to connect,
I don't really want to think about my reach in the world,
Does my impact really matter,
But for right now,
Just allow those thoughts to be,
They're simply thoughts,
We're not taking action from that place,
And if any sensations arise from those thoughts,
Just be present to them,
But you don't have to focus or turn towards them,
Just allow them to be right now.
So I'd like for you to begin opening your imagination,
And we're walking towards a covered bridge,
There's a really beautiful thatched roof on top,
And there's worn paint along the sides of the slats of wood,
It used to be a deep red,
And as we begin to make our way onto the bridge,
Just give yourself a lot of space,
We don't have to be right next to one another,
But beneath the bridge is a really well-established,
Wide and steadily flowing river,
Downstream,
You can see the glimmers of the sunshine on the water's surface,
There are boulders,
Trees lining the river's edge,
And you can hear the current,
You can even begin feeling a slight breeze crossing your left cheek,
And I hand you a black walnut,
I invite you to take a smell,
Just give a nice sniff to the exterior of the black walnut it's bright chartreuse green,
Bumpy texture,
Just put it up to your nose and inhale for a moment and do you smell that bright citrusy scent,
Roll it around in your hands for a moment and I want you to bring to mind something that you're really passionate about,
Something that lives in your heart and you think about it multiple times in a day or a week,
Something that you walk with and you dream about and you feel,
You feel it deep deep deep in your heart center,
You know that this is for you you might not know how or when,
But you know that this passion that burns inside of you is unmistakable and maybe it isn't a fire yet,
Maybe it is a spark or a glimmer,
It's something you've caught notice of and it's beginning to grow,
Infuse the essence of that passion project,
That passionate state that feeling in the black walnut,
And now I'd like for you to make that as an offering to the river go ahead and drop it off of the bridge and let it go down into the river and notice the ripples that begin to take shape,
Once the shell breaks the river,
The top of the water's tension just begin to see the ripples and watch as the ripples grow and grow and get wider and wider and they're reaching downstream to both sides of the river bank just keep noticing because it's still growing,
It's still going and it's just slowly starting to dissipate,
The rings met the bank and the outer edges are so far downstream we can't see them anymore,
But they're still going you are the nut and the water is the collective by the simple act of diving in and taking action,
You sent out large large ripples you didn't know how it would turn out or what would take place once you threw the nut off of the bridge but you had enough of an interest to try that beautiful passion that lives inside you is a seed,
If you will and it's growing in you,
You're the host,
You're the soil,
You're the environment for it and when you begin taking actions and letting that seed really take shape and flourish you'll now have an imprint or an impression of how far it can really go placing a hand on your heart and one on your third eye making the connection that what lives in your heart is an intuitive calling something that the mind may not understand something that your support system and family systems may not understand but it lives in you you are growing something beautiful and all you need to do is give yourself the chance to water that seed and keep nurturing it allowing your intuition to guide you and your heart to steer taking in a nice deep breath really filling your lungs and expanding your abdomen trusting that that seed would not have taken root in you if you were not the right host just give yourself time one more nice deep inhalation blowing out any doubts,
Any worries or any place that feels a little constricted just really allow the air to come all the way out take in one more nourishing breath there's nothing to do today beyond be be you,
Be here and be well
