Good morning and welcome to The Artist's Morning.
My name's Darius and today's meditation practice will be on the theme of tapping into our creative essence.
Today's practice will be one part meditation,
One part guided visualization.
Let's begin.
If your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now.
Let's just notice what's alive inside us this morning.
Taking a few deep breaths,
Just taking a moment to slow everything down and to land inside our bodies,
Land inside our hearts.
Each day is different.
Each one of us is different.
I have no idea what's happening inside your heart this morning.
Maybe there's calm and peace.
Maybe there's some anxious energy,
Some fear,
And maybe something completely different.
There's also a chance that you can't really feel your heart.
Wherever you are at this morning,
However you feel,
Whatever energy is present,
It's welcome here.
All of you,
All of your parts are welcome here.
Take a moment to see how you receive that statement.
Are you open to it?
Is there resistance to it?
I believe all of us are creative beings.
All of us are cosmic artists.
Lives are a canvas.
We are creating all the time.
All of your experiences,
All of your emotions,
They are simply colors of paint.
You get to choose which colors you paint with.
You get to choose which colors you'll create with.
Make something or don't.
You,
My dear,
Are forever worthy of love.
There is a fresh canvas in front of you.
You get to choose.
You make something are forever worthy of love.
Let's take a deep breath here and give ourselves a moment to start again.
Whatever's happened in the meditation so far,
Or in your day,
Or even in your life,
Let's take a moment now to start again.
Take a deep breath here.
All of your wins,
All of your failures,
All of your dreams,
And all of your fears,
All your epic love stories,
And all your heartbreaks are simply colors of paint sitting on a palette in front of you.
Can you see the colors?
You get to choose maybe certain colors are too intense.
You want to ignore them.
Maybe you want all of the colors available to you.
All of your failures,
Your dreams,
And all of your fears of your epic love stories,
And all of your heartbreaks are simply colors of paint sitting in front of you now.
Sitting right in front of your face is a brand new canvas untouched.
You get to choose.
Make something or don't.
Either way,
You are forever worthy of love.
Let's take a moment to be right here.
You don't need to do anything or feel any ways.
Can you see the colors in front of you?
Can you see the brand new fresh canvas?
You pick up a brush,
Make something,
Brush.
Maybe you want to get your hands in the paint.
You just want to sit for a moment.
This is your life.
You get to choose.
Make something dear.
You are forever worthy of love.
This is our last song together this morning.
One more opportunity if you're open to it to start again.
To let go of what was and to be here now.
This paint in your hands with this canvas directly in front of you.
I'm going to stay quiet for the rest of this meditation.
Just let you be.
Let's take a moment here to land back in our bodies.
Let's take a breath together.
Breathing in.
If you're open to it,
Place one hand on your heart,
One hand just above your belly button.
Nice and gentle.
Let's just hold ourselves and love ourselves for just a moment.
Thank you human.
Thank you for everything you do,
Everything you've done.
You can leave your hands there or place them back down on your laps.
Whatever feels right for you.
Thank you for meditating with me this morning.
However far,
However deep,
However much you received or resisted today's meditation,
You made it to the end and I'm so grateful for that.
For those of you 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.
If you're catching us on a replay or on insight timer,
Perhaps you can of course do the same.
Once again,
Thank you for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and I'll see you next time.
