Good morning,
And welcome to The Artist's Morning.
My name's Darius,
And I'm so grateful that you and I get this time together.
Let's begin our practice.
If your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now.
As we begin to go inwards together,
We're going to go on a little journey today.
But before any of that,
Let's take a moment to settle in,
Finding a nice,
Comfortable position in your seat,
And slowly,
Intentionally beginning to take a few deeper breaths,
Imagining each inhale bringing fresh,
New energy into your mind,
Body,
And soul,
Each exhale gently letting go of any stagnant energy,
Any energy of any sort that you no longer need,
Connecting with your breath,
Noticing if it's shallow or deep,
If it's loud or quiet,
And allowing the almost hypnotic rising and falling of your chest and belly as you inhale and exhale,
To bring a gentle calm to your entire system.
Sometimes I like to make some noise with my exhales,
Just signaling to my body that I'm safe,
I'm allowed to let go.
Let's practice that together.
Deep breath in,
And letting it go with some noise.
We are safe here.
This is our own protective bubble around us.
We are safe here.
We can be softer here.
We can be still.
And you can be whatever you want here,
If you don't want to be soft or still,
It's totally okay.
It's your space.
Today's practice is one in which we gently,
Lovingly look backwards.
Today's practice is dedicated to all parts of you from the past,
All versions of you from the past,
All ages,
All perspectives,
All your parts.
We stand here now in this present moment,
And we lovingly recognize,
Respect,
Praise all parts of us in the past.
Let's take a deep breath here,
I'll guide you the whole way,
I just wanted to set that framing for us.
Imagine yourself here now,
And let's breathe into that present moment,
You breathing in.
We are here now in this.
We are here now in this,
And from this place of privilege,
From this place that not every human gets to achieve,
We made it all the way through to this day.
I promise you,
No matter who you are,
This is a new record for you.
You have never been alive for this many consecutive days in a row,
And that is a celebration.
And you couldn't have got here without the help of all your past selves.
You could not have got here without the help of all your past selves.
Take that in for a moment.
All the past versions of you,
Different ages,
Different jobs,
Different relationships,
Different philosophies,
Beliefs,
Mindsets,
Deep bow of respect,
Deepest appreciation and gratitude for all parts of us from the past that did whatever they had to,
Did the best they could with what they had to get us here now in this.
We are here now in this.
I say we,
Because all of your parts are here with you,
They live inside us.
And when we can recognize all of our parts,
When we can rally,
Support,
Love,
Align all of our parts,
When we can integrate our parts,
We are stronger,
We are wiser,
We are bolder than ever before.
We are stronger,
We are wiser,
We are bolder than ever before.
We are stronger,
We are wiser.
We are bolder than ever before.
Let's take a moment to feel the energy of our parts from the past that are still alive within us,
Coming together,
Beginning to align all the hard work,
All the successes,
All the failures,
All the relationships,
All the dreams,
All the fears,
All the joys from all your parts were needed.
All your parts have value,
The confident parts,
The shy parts,
Extroverted,
Introverted,
Young,
Bold,
All your parts have value,
They don't all need to agree.
Just take a moment to feel what it's like for them to even one inch move closer together,
One inch more aligned and integrated together,
And to gently,
Lovingly breathe them into your heart and meet them with unconditional love.
We are stronger,
We are wiser,
We are bolder together.
We are stronger,
We are wiser,
We are bolder together.
There is space,
There is love,
There is respect for all of our parts.
This is our last song,
Dear artist,
I'm going to stay quiet and let you and all your parts have a little bit of quality time together.
Bravo,
Dear artist,
You made it to the end of our meditation today and for that I am so grateful.
For those that are joining live at the artist morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and allow us to do some private personal journaling.
I'll also share a journaling prompt.
The intention of the journaling prompt is to take this practice,
This meditation and go a little deeper.
Of course,
If you're catching us on a replay,
You can do the same,
Put 20 minutes on your own clock and see what's here and ready to be expressed through you.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and I will see you next time.