Good morning and welcome to the artist morning.
My name is Darius and I'm so grateful that you and I get this time together.
Our practice today will be on the theme of focus.
Our practice will involve reorganizing our energy and attention,
Pulling our energy back to us,
Back to our core and amplifying and enlivening the life force energy that's already within us.
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 by just noticing when we close our eyes and we sit in a little bit of stillness and silence,
What happens for us,
What's here now.
For some,
The stillness,
The silence might calm you,
Might center you.
For others,
It might get really loud in there when my voice goes away.
Our first step is simply noticing where our attention,
Where our energy naturally goes.
Does it go to the past,
Something that's already happened?
Does your energy go into something that's going to happen in the future or might happen in the future?
Our practice today will be reorganizing our energy and our attention so that it is in the most optimal place for us so that our energy stays within us and specifically within our core,
The center of us,
Both literally and energetically and spiritually too within our heart space.
This will be a practice,
Literally us practicing just like you practice sports so that when the real game of life occurs,
We have muscle memory.
We have heart memory of how to keep our energy with us.
The first thing we're going to do is use our breath to lovingly pull any energy that is in the past,
Any part of us that is not fully here now.
We're going to pull them in with our inhales.
Let's take a nice deep inhale and imagine those parts of you being lovingly pulled into your core,
Into your heart space.
Deep breath in,
Breathing in now,
Pulling in all parts of you that are in the past into your heart now and distributing that energy within yourself.
Sometimes I like to take my left hand and extend it out and lovingly pull in any part of me that's in the past.
Let's try that together.
Deep breath in,
Left hand goes out and distribute the energy within yourself.
And now we're going to do the same with our right hand.
Any part of you that's in the future,
The potential future,
An event,
An occurrence,
A conversation,
A happening that might happen,
But hasn't happened.
We're going to take our right hand and lovingly hug and pull those parts into your core,
Energizing yourself now,
Breathing in,
Bringing it into your heart space.
One more deep breath,
Right hand extended out,
Bringing any part of you that's not fully here,
That's thinking about what might happen back home,
Back to your heart now.
All I need is within me now.
All I need is within me now.
All I need is within me now.
Now we're going to pull any energy that has fallen to the back of your being,
To the back of your mind,
To the back of your consciousness.
We're going to lovingly bring these energies forward.
Deep breath in,
Bringing those energies,
Those parts to your heart space now.
One more deep breath,
Pulling any energy that is falling back to the back of your mind,
To the back of your heart,
To the back of your consciousness.
We're going to breathe that in to the present moment,
Breathing in,
Imagining those energies reorganizing into your heart space,
Feeling perhaps a little bit more present,
A little bit more awake and alive.
You dear artist have good work to do.
You have the work of your soul,
Of your heart,
And to do that effectively,
We will bring our energy back to center.
We will expand our heart space because our heart needs space.
It deserves space and we will give it the space it deserves.
Taking a few deep breaths,
Imagining your heart expanding in every direction,
Not only expanding but the vibrance,
The colors that are coming out of your heart,
They are brighter and brighter with each deep breath.
You dear artist have good work to do,
Important work,
Work of your soul,
Work of your heart.
And taking a moment just to feel what it's like to have more energy in your heart,
More space in your heart.
There are so many things that pull our attention and our energy outwardly,
And the most powerful place for our attention and our energy to be is with us in our core.
Yes,
We can care about others.
Yes,
We can be excited about things in the world.
And we will be present deeply,
Powerfully present right here,
Right now.
Our voice is strong.
Our eyes are clear.
Our spine is tall.
And we are ready for whatever this day has to offer.
This is our last song,
Dear artist,
And I'm going to stay quiet and let you and your glorious heart have some time together.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
You made it to the end of another meditation and for that I am so grateful.
Let's take a moment to connect with our hearts once again.
If you're open to it,
Place one or two hands on your heart space.
Take a nice deep breath and feel that glorious,
That powerful,
That infinitely creative heart of yours in your chest.
Thank you beautiful souls for meditating with me.
For those that are joining us live at the artist morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and share a journaling prompt with you and invite you to continue the exploration of what it feels like to reorganize our energy,
Bring it back to ourselves,
To our center and intentionally,
Consciously amplify the magic and magnificence of our own hearts.
Of course,
If you are catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on insight timer,
You can do the same.
Put some time 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.
