Good morning,
And welcome to the artist's morning.
My name is Darius and I am so grateful that you and I get this time together.
Let's begin our practice.
If your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now.
Allowing your body to settle into your seat.
Allowing your system to slow down,
Dropping your shoulders,
Allowing any weight that's resting on your mind,
On your shoulders,
Just to melt away,
Melt away,
Softening.
And let's take a few deep intentional breaths,
Breathing in and letting it go.
Slowing everything down,
Allowing our system to know we are safe here.
We are safe here.
We are safe here.
What does that feel like?
That slower,
Restful energy.
Continue taking deep breaths.
The breath will help you move from your headspace into your heart space.
With today's practice,
We are going to tap in to the ability for our creative energy,
Our creative essence,
To heal,
To love,
To bless first ourselves and then others.
The whole thing is going to be done through a fun,
Active visualization.
You can't get it wrong.
So when your mind tries to convince you you're not doing it right,
Say,
Thank you,
Mind.
But Darius said,
There's no way to get this wrong because we are playing here.
Let's take a nice deep breath,
Hold at the top and let it go.
I want you to imagine in front of you is a small,
Colorful electric ball.
It's just floating in front of you now.
It's beautiful.
What color is your ball?
Remember,
You can't get this wrong.
You can feel there is something incredibly powerful and magical about this ball in front of you.
It's about the size of an orange.
It's electric.
It's magnetic.
It's sacred.
I want to invite you to place your hands on this ball.
And as you do,
This incredible sensation works its way through your fingers and your hands all the way down your body to your toes.
It feels warm and loving,
Feels familiar,
And it begins to awaken parts of you.
Take a nice deep breath here as you hold this very special ball.
You can tell that this ball has the ability to heal.
This ball has the ability to soothe.
This ball has the ability to inspire.
And as you move your hands in and out,
The ball changes shapes.
Maybe you want to keep it nice and small.
Maybe you'd like to grow it.
Take a moment just to play and have some fun with it.
You get to choose if you want to actually move your hands or if you want to just imagine your hands are moving.
Both options work perfectly fine.
Take a moment to feel the energy of this ball again.
The electricity.
And in a moment,
I'm going to invite you,
If you're open to it,
To place this ball somewhere in your body.
All options work.
Don't overthink it.
And as you do,
This ball will do incredible things,
Miraculous things.
It will bless your body,
Your mind,
Your spirit,
Your cells.
If you're open to it,
If you are ready for it,
I want to invite you to bring this ball into one place in your body now.
And as this ball works its way through your body,
It heals you.
It soothes you.
It inspires you.
It awakens you.
This ball will continue working its way through your system in incredible ways.
And now,
There is another ball again floating in front of you.
And you know that this ball is connected to your creative spirit and essence and is abundant.
In this second ball,
You are going to bless forward to another human.
You are going to send it as a gift.
You're going to send it in the spirit of love and kindness forward towards another human.
That human is standing in front of you now.
Don't overthink it.
You can come back to this anytime and pick a different human.
If you are open to it,
You are going to take this ball and place it onto the body of this human in front of you now.
We are going to allow our creative spirit to bless someone else.
Continue breathing deeply,
Allowing this experience perhaps to surprise you in lovely ways.
We will use our creative spirit to bless the lives of our family and friends.
We will use our creative spirit to bless the lives of our community.
There is a beautiful light inside of you.
If you are open to it,
You can share it with the world.
There is a beautiful light inside of you.
If you are open to it,
You can share it with the world.
Taking a moment to feel that energy working its way through your body.
Taking a moment to feel that energy working its way through this person in front of you.
We have one song left today.
I am going to leave a lot of space for you to travel,
To explore,
To feel.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo,
Dear creator.
You made it to the end of another meditation.
For that,
I am so grateful.
Thank you for tapping into your own creative spirit.
Thank you for taking some time to feel and imagine how this spirit,
This light,
This energy inside you can not only bless your life,
But the lives of others.
For those that are joining live at The Artist Morning,
I am going to put some time on the clock and share a journaling prompt and allow us to continue this exploration.
Of course,
If you are catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on Insight Timer,
You can do the same.
Thanks again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius.
I will see you next time.
