Thank you for being here.
My name is Daphne Garrido.
I'm going to be doing a meditation on presence.
There are many things that keep us.
From embodying presence in anyone.
We can become.
In thoughts.
Of the future.
In rumination.
About our past.
Are worries and anxiety.
To become present.
Is what we experience sometimes in nature.
When we are beside a stream in the forest.
Listening to its trickling sound.
When we're before the ocean.
Watching its breaking swell.
Allowing.
It's time.
To reach us.
Through waves crashing onto the beach.
When we take those breaks.
And sit in silence in the woods.
When we're with people we really love.
You try it out.
We don't pick animals.
Children.
A presence comes forward.
Because we want to soak in.
Every month.
So just find your breath here.
Make an effort.
Pull back.
From control.
We can find presence.
In the beating of our own heart.
In our breath.
We can find it.
While we're enjoying art.
We can find it when we're eating great food.
But achieving it and holding it.
On a day-to-day basis.
In a moment to moment basis.
Something that is right there for us.
If we allow ourselves to grasp it.
And so just allow your breath.
To become steady and light.
And control.
Pull yourself back.
And witness the flowing of your own breath.
Perhaps place a hand.
And your heart.
And feel a beating.
Within your chest.
And on your next inhalation.
Take a very deep breath in.
All the way.
Sigh it out.
Take another deep breath in all the way.
And let it go.
Hmm.
Allow yourself to ground here.
Connecting.
With the size and scope of the planet below you.
Feeling.
Embrace it.
One more deep breath and we'll hold it this time all the way in.
Squeezed from your perennial.
Keep your chin tucked.
And release when you're ready.
Ahhhh!
Let it go.
Go ahead and wiggle it out.
Roll your wrist.
Loosen your shoulders.
Perhaps roll your neck.
Loosen your hip.
Find yourself.
I find one of the most important things to staying grounded in the moment.
To have forgiveness.
For things you might hope can still happen.
Might hold against your mind,
Your heart,
Your body.
Regret.
We all have to.
And it's okay.
These are hard.
These are the things which allow us to learn.
Very good.
Everyone makes mistakes.
It's only human.
And when we forgive ourselves.
We realize our perpetrations.
Primarily against.
Our own state of being.
By becoming one.
Who has had peace with all that has passed.
Finding a mode of atoning to ourself first and others when necessary.
It can help us to live.
But there is also a very human tendency.
To be pulled forward.
About things as simple as what you might have for dinner tonight.
To think about what you want to bring into your life in the future.
Think about all you need to accomplish to get there.
To your next big life goal.
All those are valid explorations.
Sometimes they become unhealthy fixations.
So just set the intention.
Bringing all into your life.
It's your wish.
And allow yourself to let go.
Of the details.
To let go.
The hows and whips.
To trust.
To surrender.
To release control.
We live in an ever-changing universe.
In a world.
Where nothing truly lasts.
Our bodies grow old.
Time passes.
And to live in acceptance of change.
Can help us.
To release anxiety.
To release the urges we have.
To manipulate.
Better future.
And what is in store for us.
I like to think of these challenges.
Of something.
We've planned out ahead of time.
Agreements we've made.
By soul.
To have chosen.
To live through and learn from.
And that by looking.
And our lives from this outside perspective.
We can come to appreciate.
All of our life's challenge.
So try and find gratitude here.
Try and find gratitude for the things you do have.
Try and find gratitude for this very moment.
Think of your heart.
As a vortex of light.
As a center.
Of your power.
And think of something that makes you feel truly grateful.
Whether it's a moment spent beside someone.
Moment in nature.
Animals who love your family.
And bring that love.
Gratitude into your heart.
Empower.
Your vortex of light.
Whatever color you see it.
And stay here for a moment.
Perhaps placing a kidney.
Your hand on your heart.
And allowing yourself to focus on the gratitude.
That you have.
And your heart.
And just breathe into it.
For a few moments.
Allow yourself to melt into these feelings of gratitude.
And empowered.
Your heart's fortune.
Feeling the strength of your heart.
Power of your gratitude.
The embrace of Mother Earth.
Continue breathing into your chest.
Cultivating this feeling further.
Growing your vortex.
And I want to thank you.
I ask you to think of someone.
Who has been very troublesome to you.
Someone who you associate with great amounts of challenge.
Frustration.
That you are willing to forgive.
And to understand.
That threw their perpetrations upon you.
Beneath the dome.
Is sorrow.
It hurts.
And forgive yourself.
For letting them become your enemies.
By forgiving them internally.
Now releasing your hand through your heart.
Bring your focus to the very top of your head.
And endeavor to share your state of presence.
We're from.
Intend to offer forgiveness.
Too long.
Now we.
.
.
Knowing that we hold.
Anger.
Toward the people.
We are not serving ourselves.
And that by releasing it,
It is theirs to hold.
And so we'll do a few more.
Deep,
Releasing breaths.
All the way in now.
Out with a sigh.
One more in.
Out with a sigh.
Last one in and hold.
Slip in through your mouth if you can.
And when you need to,
Really.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Try not to think about what you'll do next.
Try and stay here with yourself and your body.
Stay present with your heart.
And how it feels right now.
Do not create.
Allow your breath to flow.
I ask you to join me.
In a prayer of tension.
Great Mother.
It's okay if you get a head on your.
.
.
O Great Mother.
Please hold me steady and strong.
Please grant me presence going forward.
On Mother.
Please keep me steady.
And this is Trump.
And grant me presence going forward.
Or great mother.
Keep me steady and strong.
Keep me present going forward.
Thank you for joining me here.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
Wonderful rest of your day.
