A Meditation For When You Are Missing Someone

I recorded this the day after we were all told that lockdown rules would be tightened over Christmas and felt the collective sadness. When we are in pain we tend to shut it down and avoid it. It feels that to acknowledge it fully will be too much, so we carry it around and it weighs heavy.

The truth is that emotions are simply waves of energy and if we allow them to be felt they pass through us and as they do they transform, leaving us lighter and freer. Your pain may be real and present and if so there may be many waves, let them arise and pass through, breathe through them, and make way for other emotions that will follow in their wake.

Love brings joy and pain, we cannot have one without the other. Meet all these emotions with tenderness. These too will pass.

Transcript

Finding a comfortable chair where you can put your feet firmly on the floor and you have a firm base for your bottom so your back can rise straight and tall bend your head forward and stretch the muscles at the back of your neck and then bring it back to a balance point take a deep breath feeling your ribcage rise and then let the breath go feeling yourself sinking deeper into the chair allowing your weight to be supported and close your eyes turn your attention to your heart acknowledge your heart meet it with tenderness allow it to open so you can feel all the emotion held here breathe into the grief breathe into the anger the confusion the frustration the despair whatever's here meet it and allow it to be felt emotions are like waves they rise up and they fall away this is natural the waves are just energy so letting the waves wave meeting each with tenderness and love and now bringing to mind a loved one and open your heart and send love to them noticing distance is irrelevant love is given and received and there are no boundaries feel the connection and then imagine drawing them into your heart and holding them enclosing them in the love of your heart and feel the love return and now open to another loved one send love to them acknowledge the pain is the love without pain the stronger the love the deeper the pain they're two sides of the same love brings joy love brings pain and they naturally rise and fall leaving your heart intact so continue sending love to all you hold dear and imagine them sending love back we are connected and draw each into your heart so you can feel their presence closer than a heartbeat sustaining you as you sustain them and noticing we're all connected we're all missing people we're all hurting and send tenderness to everyone and now send tenderness again to your own heart envelop your heart with love send kindness to your heart give yourself an inner smile feel that radiating through you feel it lifting you and sustaining you you'll be okay this too will pass and then bringing yourself back bring your attention back to your body you can open your eyes

Reviews

Amazing. I’ve been dealing with severe anxiety around having to send my young child to daycare and missing her during the day, and this helped me process my emotions. Thank you.

Thank you! This meditation allowed me to face my feelings instead of brushing them under the carpet evoking tears in my eyes 🙏🏻

It was wonderful to allow the feelings to flow through like waves and then open to the feelings of love. I felt a warm glow from my heart spreading throughout my body ❤️
Thank you 🙏