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.
Our practice today will be an invitation to come back to here and now and to remember that everything you need is already within you now.
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.
And let's start real slow,
Find our selves here,
Feel ourselves here.
And check in to see if you have arrived here.
And if there are parts of you that aren't here yet,
Let's invite them back home.
Taking a few deep breaths,
Nourishing,
Loving breaths into our bodies,
Letting all of our parts know that it's safe here.
It's safe here.
Deep breath in,
Letting it go.
We are safe here,
Are loved here.
We are allowed to go slow,
We are allowed to be distracted,
That's okay.
Your mind wanders,
No need to fight it,
No need to judge it.
That's what creative minds do,
Sometimes they wander,
They're curious,
Just like children.
The invitation here is to keep breathing in the most nourishing,
Loving way you can.
With each inhale,
We're bringing new,
Fresh energy into our bodies,
And each time we do that,
We make our home,
Our being,
Our hearts even more welcoming.
So those parts that are perhaps elsewhere,
They come back,
Come back to your heart,
Come back to your center,
Continuing to breathe in a loving,
Nourishing way into your heart space,
Remembering that this can be really soft and simple.
This can be really gentle,
And if you pay attention in that soft,
Gentle breath,
There's often pleasure,
There's often joy.
Let's take another deep breath here together,
Deep into your belly,
Breathing in,
Hold to the top of your breath,
Big exhale out.
Ah,
Are you able to feel a little bit of joy,
A little bit of ease and lightness?
For me,
It feels like my heart is smiling,
Sometimes it makes my face smile,
And I'm going to share one of my favorite affirmations.
It's a simple affirmation,
And you get to choose if you'd like to repeat it,
If you'd like to let it float away,
Deep breath in,
Letting it go.
All I need is within me now.
All I need is within me now.
All I need is within me now.
If you believe in that,
Even 1%,
I want to invite you to breathe it in and let it impact your body,
Your cells,
Your being.
All I need is within me now.
All I need is within me now.
This affirmation is an acknowledgement to your divine essence.
This affirmation is an acknowledgement that each and every one of us is a living miracle.
This is our last song,
Dear artist.
Maybe you do not believe in this affirmation,
Maybe you do not acknowledge what I just shared.
If that is true for you,
I respect you for your beliefs.
That's the beautiful thing about this life.
Each one of us get to choose our beliefs.
It's a creative decision and it's an incredibly important one to make what you believe.
I'm going to stay quiet for the rest of this song and allow you to explore and to bring our meditation to an end.
Let's take one last deep breath here together,
Breathing in.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo,
Dear creator.
You made it to the end of another meditation and for that,
I am so,
So deeply grateful.
For those joining live at the artist's morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and share a journaling prompt for us to continue this exploration.
And of course,
If you're catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on insight timer,
You can do the same.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and I will see you next time.
