Welcome to your session today.
Today is all about acceptance and letting go.
Realizing what is within our circle of control and areas where maybe we can just breathe.
We can settle in and we can understand that we don't always have to be in control of everything.
Some things in life we can truly accept them for what they are and we can let go,
Creating space for ease,
Peace,
And a little bit of freedom.
So wherever you are today,
However you are joining me for your session,
Welcome.
I invite you to get nice and comfortable with your body and with your breath.
Close the windows of your eyes and as we begin every single session together,
Starting to draw your attention to your breath.
Drawing that inhalation in through your nose,
Feeling the coolness of your inhalation on the edges of your nostrils,
And sending that breath all the way down to your feet.
The process of accepting and letting go can sometimes bring forward a little bit of fear or anxiety.
So giving yourself an opportunity today to breathe down into your feet and get grounded first,
I think is really important.
Breathing in,
Sending the breath down,
Recognizing the lowest point of contact that your body makes with the ground.
This is your anchor.
Here you are held with safety and love and compassion.
And there's nothing else that is demanding of your attention right now.
Just breathing into your beautiful body,
Becoming present and aware,
Melting down and growing a little bit heavy,
And maybe starting to bring to mind a situation that would be deserving of a little bit of acceptance,
Some gentleness and ease right now.
Maybe it's a professional situation,
Something that you've encountered at work.
Maybe it's a personal relationship.
Somewhere in your life where something is happening that is beyond your circle of control,
There is someone else in the picture that is equally responsible for their own actions,
Words,
And reactions as you are for your own.
The process of acceptance is recognizing what is within our control and therefore what we are personally responsible for and what is not.
So thinking about this situation and in your mind's eye,
Starting to draw out a circle,
Placing yourself in the center of that circle,
And considering what is within my control,
My words,
My actions,
My reactions,
To an extent my thoughts and my feelings,
Though those two things come naturally without force as they need to.
Anything that falls within your circle of control is your responsibility to manage.
Things that fall outside the circle of control that are the responsibility of someone else,
They're not for you,
And therefore you can focus on letting them go.
So taking a big breath in and out as you come to that space of self-actualization and realization.
You cannot be held responsible for all of the things,
And the sooner that we come to a space of acceptance within that,
The closer we get to freedom and ease.
The process of letting go is that of creating space for dentalness,
For softness,
For ease and for freedom.
It's on the other side of acceptance and letting go where we come to this beautiful space where we can breathe again,
Where things are quiet and soft.
Acceptance and letting go,
Recognizing what is within our circle of control,
And therefore what we are responsible for,
And coming to the realization that anything that exists beyond that boundary is not for us.
Therefore,
It doesn't need to be worried about.
Placing hands over heart today.
Acceptance and letting go is a continuous process.
It's not a one and done conversation.
It's a check-in point where we need to repeat this over and over and over.
We are heightening our emotional capacity.
We are deepening our emotional intelligence.
And we are giving so much love,
Understanding and compassion to ourselves within the permission to accept something for what it is,
And to mindfully and gently let it go.
Tucking the chin,
Bowing the head to seal in your practice today.
Giving yourself some gratitude for showing up here,
And being gentle with your emotions as you exit your meditation today.
You are worthy of the freedom waiting for you on the other side of letting go.
Hold on to that.
Work within your circle of control and those boundaries,
And ease in to acceptance and letting go.
