Just start by getting comfortable.
Either finding yourself a seat or laying down.
Roll your shoulders down your spine and rest your hands wherever comfortable.
Take a really deep breath in all the way to the bottom of your lungs.
And then let it out.
Do this several times.
Inhaling,
Filling up your chest and your belly.
Exhaling,
Letting it all out.
Notice with each inhale how you breathe in deeper and deeper and with every exhale how you breathe out longer.
In other words,
Deepen your inhale.
Lengthen your exhale.
Notice how each and every time you take a breath,
Your body relaxes just a little more.
When your body relaxes,
Your mind quiet.
Listen to the sound of the fire crackling.
And just notice what memories come up for you.
What memories you have of fire.
Fire is powerful,
Destructive,
Transformative.
It's freeing.
It's life changing.
Fire through cultures,
Societies,
And religions have been a place of sacrifice and offering and letting go.
And that's where we're going today right now.
Imagine yourself sitting in front of a fire.
You are by yourself gazing into the embers.
Watching the flames and the wood breaking down from its solid form.
It's nothing but ashes.
Take this time right now to search inside for something that no longer serves you.
A memory,
A thought,
An opinion of yourself or others a memory,
Something that you no longer want holding you back or directing you or inputting its little pieces of influence into your life.
And extract that memory from your brain from your mind and put it in your hands while you're sitting in front of the fire by yourself.
Notice this piece of you that you want to let go and examine it.
The power that it holds or has held over you or your life or the direction of your life.
Look back at where it came from and how long it's been around.
And really determine are you ready to let this go?
Are you ready to stop letting this govern your life,
Your opinions,
Your judgments?
Either way,
You'll still throw it in the fire.
But how many times you come back to this meditation is determined by how much you're ready to release.
Take a really deep breath in.
Let it out.
While sitting alone in front of this fire with this memory or whatever it is in your hand,
This thought,
This opinion hold it close to your heart and feel gratitude for having it in your life.
Is there any way that you can connect to a feeling of knowing why you've had it?
How it could have helped you cope throughout all of this time?
Feel the gratitude in your chest,
In your heart,
In your heart center.
Pull your hands away and blow the gratitude into your hands,
Into the thought,
Into the opinion.
With this release,
With this wanting to let go.
Take your hands to the fire,
To the heat of the fire,
To the hottest part you can see.
And release it to be transformed,
To be deconstructed,
Destructed.
Let go.
And watch it burn.
Watch it burn in a way that you can feel yourself,
Your cells letting go of that very thing.
Notice yourself no longer needing it and yet feeling grateful.
In this moment completely releasing all hold it has on you and you have on it.
Watch it burn.
Watch it turn to embers.
Feel the release in your body,
The let go.
Stay here as long as you need.
And whenever you're ready.
Wiggle your fingers,
Your toes.
And let go.
And when you're ready,
Wiggle your fingers,
Your toes.
Bringing yourself back to this present moment.
And all this is staying.
