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.
Our practice today can be used on any day and is probably most effective on days where we could use a little extra confidence,
A little extra lift.
Some days maybe where there's a lot going on or we're feeling a little extra uncertainty in our lives.
Let's begin our practice.
If your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to gently close them now as we begin to go inwards together,
Allowing yourself to settle into your seat,
Nice,
Gentle,
Tall spine,
Shoulders back and softly just drop to the ground with our heart space open.
We're going to take a few deep breaths here,
Falling into the rhythm of your body as you breathe in and out,
In and out,
Softening our foreheads,
Softening your jaw,
Softening the muscles around your neck and shoulders,
Allowing this soft,
Gentle energy just to work its way down your back and just melting away any tension.
Using the breath to take us deeper,
Using the breath to move our energy from our head space into our heart space.
Sometimes I like to take deep breaths and make some noise on my exhale,
It releases tension and it signals to my body that we are safe here,
We're allowed to let go,
We are allowed to express ourselves,
We are allowed to take up space.
Let's try that together,
One deep breath with some noise on our exhale,
Breathing in,
Holding at the top,
Taking another sip and letting go with some noise,
I am safe here,
I am safe here,
I am safe here,
I am allowed to take up space,
I am allowed to take up space,
I am allowed to take up space.
Inevitably in all of our lives,
We will experience beauty and joy and love.
Inevitably in all of our lives,
We will experience sadness and pain and anger,
This is life,
We are allowed to have all of our feelings.
I am not afraid of my feelings,
I am not afraid of my feelings,
I am not afraid of my feelings,
Because all feelings are temporary,
All feelings have gifts for me,
All feelings are happening for me,
For my highest self,
For my highest good,
I choose to live my life with an open heart,
I choose to live my life with an open heart,
I choose to live my life with an open heart,
Because an open heart is a strong,
Healthy heart,
I am strong,
I am brave,
I am generous,
And no matter what happens in my life,
I choose to live my life with an open heart,
I am strong,
I am brave,
I am kind and generous,
And no matter what has happened or will happen,
I choose to live my life with an open heart,
Sometimes in life things happen and our hearts get bruised,
Sometimes they even get injured,
Sometimes we need to allow our hearts to rest a little,
To recover a little,
And it's important,
Once the rest is complete,
Once the recovery is complete,
We show up again,
We don't hide our hearts,
We show up,
I'd like to invite you to use your hands to connect with your heart and see if there are any parts of your heart that feel closed,
That feel tight and contracted,
And we use our hands to massage,
To heal,
To remove any old scar tissue that is ready to be melted away,
I have my hands on my heart now,
And I am imagining my hands can feel into any place in my heart that has built scar tissue,
Almost like a plaque around our hearts,
Could be physically,
Could be energetically,
Could be spiritually,
And my hand is slowly,
Lovingly,
Melting away the scar tissue,
The scar tissue,
Working my hands around my heart,
Melting away the scar tissue,
Melting away the pain that is ready to be let go,
The memories that are ready to be forgiven,
I choose to live with an open heart,
I choose to live with an open heart,
Right here and right now,
I am choosing to live my life with an open heart,
And I understand when we put our hearts behind walls and keep them away from the world,
Yes,
There's less chance that they will get hurt,
But my heart,
Just like your heart,
Was not meant to be hidden,
Our hearts were meant to soar,
Soar,
I'm going to stay quiet for the rest of this song,
Dear artist,
And allow you in your beautiful,
Glorious heart to have some time together,
Bravo,
Dear artist,
You made it to the end of our meditation,
To bring our practice to an end today,
Let's take one last deep breath together,
Breathing in and letting it go,
Wherever your heart is in this moment,
Wherever you are in the journey,
I'm grateful,
I'm grateful we have this time,
I'm grateful there are other humans out there that believe in the power of our hearts,
That believe we are here to share our gifts and share our light with the world,
For those that are joining us 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'm going to share a journaling prompt,
And of course if you're catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on insight timer,
You can do the same,
Put some time on your 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.
