My name is Kari.
Let's do this meditation together focused around sitting with your grief.
If you can come to a seated position,
Rest your hands on your lap and close off your eyes.
Just sit.
You may notice that if you don't try and change the way that you sit,
Your shoulders may be slumped and your back may be not quite straight.
So you're naturally leaning over as if you're curling up a little bit into a ball.
You may have already adjusted your body into a very good meditation position with your back nice and straight.
But naturally,
Especially when we have grief present in our body,
When we have that energy,
It's a very strong energy and it has a very low vibration.
And grief will make you drop your shoulders and curl up slightly as if you're in a place where you feel as if you need to protect yourself.
That's grief.
For now,
Try and straighten your spine.
Try and place your shoulders back so you're opening your chest.
You can get more air into your lungs.
This will help you to start to feel as if you're expanding just a little bit.
You're lifting up and expanding open.
And that's a start.
That's a good place to start.
With your eyes closed,
Just start to feel into your body.
See if you can find what hurts.
There's going to be places inside of your body where you're storing the grief more than other places.
Feel inside of yourself.
This is our time where we're not running away from the grief.
We're going to just sit.
We're sitting with the grief.
You probably definitely feel it in your heart.
Your heart may feel heavy.
You may even feel numb in your heart.
This is okay.
We're not trying to change anything right now.
We're just sitting in it,
Almost as if we're admitting it.
You may feel grief in your throat.
It generally feels tight or blocked.
That's okay too.
Your grief is real.
It's present in your physical body as well as in your emotional cell.
Your body is carrying the weight of grief too.
Your body may feel tired.
Today,
We're just trying to find some healing in being with our grief rather than trying to run away from it.
When we face something,
It tends to take the fear,
The unknown out of it.
And what we're feeling inside of us isn't going to go away.
If we try and suppress it and suppress it and suppress it,
Or run away from it,
Avoid it,
Maybe we feel like we shouldn't be feeling it.
Whatever our reasons are,
Grief is an energy that weighs heavy in our body and on our minds.
So let's just see if we can be with it.
Maybe we can release some of it.
Take a deep breath for me and see if you can start to relax into your body.
Breathing in longer,
Slower,
Deeper breaths.
Start to take breaths into the places that you might be feeling grief in your body.
So take a big deep breath and bring it down into your heart.
Imagine that your heart is starting to just feed your heart.
Put an intention on your breath,
Like your breath is coming into your heart and it's feeding it support and comfort.
Let your breath bring space to your heart so that your heart feels like it can just feel whatever it needs to feel.
Give it the space to do that.
Just keep breathing into your heart space.
Whatever comes up,
Let it come up.
Whatever you're feeling,
Just let yourself feel it.
Know that any of it is okay.
Sadness is okay.
Discomfort is okay.
Feeling angry or irritated is okay too.
Just let yourself feel any of it.
Anything that you're feeling is what you're supposed to be feeling.
All of it is okay.
Take your breath and send it with the intention of just resting and supporting that space around your throat.
Breathe into your throat and let yourself feel whatever you need to feel while you breathe into that space.
Let the feelings come,
Let the thoughts come.
Whatever sensations come,
Just let them all come and sit with it.
All of it's okay.
Every single thought,
Every single feeling is okay.
These are your thoughts and your feelings and your emotions.
And they all have a place.
They're all coming up for a reason.
So let's just let them come.
If you feel like you want to journal,
If you feel like you want to scream,
If you have feelings that you want to release the energy through crying or talking or singing,
Maybe you want to punch a punching bag or maybe you want to dance.
See if you can honor whatever comes up in your body is the point of this meditation.
Sitting with your grief and allowing it to have a voice is the most healing thing that you can do for yourself.
Namaste my friend.
You
