Good morning and welcome to the Artist's Morning.
My name is Darius and I'm so grateful we have this time together.
Today's meditation will be focused on helping bring more grounding energy,
More rooted energy into your day.
Let's begin our meditation by finding a nice comfortable seat and if your eyes are still open I invite you to close them now as we begin to go inwards together.
The point of meditation is not to silence your mind.
It is an impossible task.
My approach to meditation is rather to give permission,
Your mind,
Your heart,
Your soul,
Your body,
Any part of you to just be.
As we sit here together let's intentionally give ourselves permission to just be.
Allow yourself to land in this new morning,
In this seat in your body,
In your breath.
If you happen to find yourself with a very active mind that's okay.
Creative minds do sometimes.
If you like take a couple of deep breaths moving the energy from your forehead and your mind.
Bring it from the tips of your lips,
Tongue,
Your throat,
Heart space,
Your belly.
But to follow your breath,
Really making contact,
Feeling every instance that your breath connects with your body.
See if you are able to deepen your breath.
Take a deeper inhale.
See if you are open to making a louder noise with your exhale.
Imagining anything that is stagnant,
Anything that is unneeded,
You are letting go of with your exhale.
As we breathe deeper together,
Slowing things down,
Getting ourselves to access more calm,
More gentleness,
Ease into our day.
Sometimes as we do that our brain continues to throw up thoughts into our awareness,
Ideas,
Busyness is acceptable and welcome.
Thank you mind.
Thank you for how hard you work,
How creative and clever you can be.
Thank you mind for worrying about us all the time.
Taking another deep breath,
Seeing if you can breathe this one all the way down to your feet.
This breath you've taken all day.
Nice inhale now,
Taking a moment in between song.
Feel what's here.
Well done dear artist.
Take another deep breath together here.
For this next part of our meditation,
We're going to go on a little journey together.
A little guided visualization.
I want you to imagine a beautiful forest.
The weather is just perfect.
You hear the birds singing.
There are flowers and plants and beautiful tall trees everywhere.
And there is one tree that is special.
We will become this tree.
I want you to imagine you are this beautiful tree.
Can you feel your roots going deep into the earth?
Can you feel the nourishment and the support your roots are able to get for hundreds of feet in every direction beneath you?
So deeply grounded.
You feel that in your body and your being as we work up your body as this tree.
Can you feel the tremendous strength in your trunk?
Stability.
Can you feel how solid you are breathing up your roots?
Breathing up your trunk as we work our way tall strong body we get to your branches.
Can you feel how expansive open you are?
Deeply rooted,
Strong and solid,
Open and expansive.
Take in the wisdom,
Magic,
Yourself as this tree.
Take it in.
You have been here for hundreds of years,
Thousands of seasons.
The only way you could do that is by being open to receive support.
Everything around you.
I invite you to take in the nourishment from the soil.
Take it into your being.
Even on rainy days you are able to take in the healing power of the rain.
Feel the rain on your branches,
On your leaves.
Feel how they can cleanse and wash away anything that is not needed.
Feeling the magic of the sun to refresh and renew every aspect of you creating new life,
New leaves,
New branches.
You dear artist,
Deeply rooted.
You dear artist,
You are strong and solid,
Open and expansive.
One last moment to take in all of the wisdom and support of you as a tree.
Feeling it through your being.
One last song left in our meditation.
It's going to be really simple.
I'm going to stay quiet and just let you feel and integrate this energy you have created this morning.
Bravo dear artist,
Bravo dear creator.
Thank you for playing with me this morning.
Thank you for being silly and sacred together here.
As always for those of you joining us live at the artist morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock.
A little bit more time than we normally have,
Which is 15 minutes.
20 minutes on the clock to allow you to do some private personal journaling.
For anyone joining us on a replay,
Feel free to do the same.
Put 20 minutes on your own clock and see what's here and ready to express through you.
My name is Darius.
It's been a wonderful morning together here with you.
I can't wait to meditate again soon.
