Welcome home sacred one.
I want to first invite you to take a nice deep breath in through the nose and release out the mouth.
A nice deep breath in through the nose and releasing out the mouth.
A few more breaths like this allowing the out breath to be a release,
Feeling free to make any sounds,
A sigh or any other sounds that want to come out to help with this release.
Now I want to invite you to allow your breath to settle and allow yourself to settle into this moment.
Now I invite you to just observe.
Observe what is present for you here in this moment and as you observe see if you can do so with slightly less story,
Slightly less judgment,
Slightly less resistance to what is and then allowing yourself to be aware and more fully present with the pain.
When I say the pain,
Allowing your perception to go straight to the pain that feels the most intense or that which becomes most present when we speak to it,
When we identify it,
Whether this is physical or emotional,
Mental pain,
Whatever kind of pain it is,
Allow it to be seen in this moment.
And I want to invite you to do something that might be a little different.
I want to first invite you to realize and understand a very important truth about this pain.
This pain is not your enemy.
This pain is not trying to harm you.
This pain is not trying to hurt you.
This pain is here to help you.
As difficult as that might seem to accept,
I really invite you,
Especially if this pain has been with you for quite some time,
To understand just how much it is wanting to help you,
Just how much it is wanting to open you up to greater parts of yourself,
To help you understand how to truly and deeply heal on a multidimensional level.
And I'm going to invite you to do something that might also seem a little strange.
And that is we are going to engage with this pain.
And I want to invite you first to imagine that this pain is a person.
And perhaps to make this even a little easier,
I want you to imagine that this pain is a frightened small child that you have just encountered,
Lost in the woods.
And just as you would if you encounter this scared lost child,
I want to invite you to first see if you can create a space of safety for this pain,
This scared child that represents this pain,
To be heard,
To be seen,
To be held safe and protected.
I want to invite you to embrace this pain.
Give it a warm blanket.
Bring it over to a warm fire and sit with it for a moment.
As you do this,
I want to invite you to breathe.
Start breathing intentionally,
Deeply into the space within yourself where this pain resides.
And imagining that this breath,
It's not there to fix or to solve any problems.
It's just there to embrace,
To nourish,
To bring safety to this pain.
And now I want to invite you to get curious.
I want to invite you,
And I will be offering some space,
For you to ask questions.
And I want to invite you to be truly curious,
Like you are truly and compassionately discovering where this pain,
The scared child came from.
And I want to invite you to understand that you are not asking questions,
You are not investigating,
So that you can solve the problem.
Because we first and foremost want to make sure this pain feels safe.
And feels held and feels heard.
So in a moment I will give you space and I just invite you to ask questions like,
Where did you come from?
Why are you here?
And most importantly,
What do you need to find your way home again?
What do you need,
Dear friend,
To feel safe,
To feel held,
To feel healed?
And just allow the answers to those questions to come as they will,
With no expectation.
Understanding that it may come in impressions,
Visions,
Feelings,
Words,
Or just little bits of information of some sort.
And if you feel like you're not getting any answers,
Then that's fine.
Because sometimes this scared child just needs to hear the questions.
And it is your invitation to hold this pain in the deepest levels of love and compassion that you can.
So now I will give you a few moments and I invite you to sit with and get curious with this pain.
And now I invite you to take a step back and cultivate once again a compassionate witnessing of this pain.
And whatever information or experience that you have encountered during these moments with this pain,
I invite you to put that in your back pocket for later reflection and contemplation.
And for now,
Let's just honor this pain.
Honor this moment.
Honor this experience.
And I invite you,
To whatever degree that you can,
To cultivate a feeling of gratitude for this pain.
Gratitude for without this pain,
You would not have the opportunity to grow from it.
Without this pain,
You would not have the opportunity to learn from it.
And without this pain,
You would not have the opportunity to find a deeper sense of meaning,
Of belonging,
And compassion for yourself.
So let us together open up space for the possibility that there is no pain without purpose.
And if this pain is still present here in this moment,
I want to just invite you to embrace it,
Holding this sense of gratitude.
And I want to invite you to repeat some words after me.
And in doing so,
Speaking them directly to the heart of this pain,
Directly to the heart of this scared little child,
With as much depth of meaning that you can muster.
Here we go.
And I want to celebrate you for showing up in this moment for yourself,
For this part of yourself.
I invite you to come back to this meditation as many times as necessary,
So that you can cultivate this gratitude,
This curiosity,
This compassion for this experience,
This part of yourself.
And just know that it is changing.
This too shall pass.
And it will happen with greater harmony,
Balance,
And ease if you can seriously and compassionately do your best to find the medicine in the pain.
Blessings to you,
Dear one.
I believe in you.
