Good morning and welcome to The Artist's Morning.
My name is Darius and I'm so grateful that you and I get this time together.
Our practice today is on the theme of love,
On the theme of peace.
Our practice today will involve us connecting with our own hearts and finding the love that's available,
The peace,
The calm that's available for us,
And then choosing if we'd like to amplify and share that love,
Allow it to overpour and flow into other places,
Other communities in the world.
I want to let you know up front that the theme,
The true theme of this meditation is about world peace,
World kindness,
World love.
There's a lot happening in the world right now,
Active conflicts and wars.
And if you believe like I believe that everything is energy and we can spread some of this love energy,
Some of this peace energy,
Some of this kindness energy to our brothers,
Our sisters,
Our family members throughout the world.
And if on this particular day you're not up for this practice,
That's okay.
That's okay.
Truly,
Truly,
Truly.
That's okay.
There's nothing that needs to happen here.
I'd like to invite you to close your eyes.
Start taking deeper,
Longer breaths,
Connecting with your heart,
Connecting with any feelings that are alive inside you now,
Feeling your feet against the ground,
Solid,
Supported,
Softening your forehead,
Your jaw,
Your neck.
When we soften the top of our bodies,
Our heads,
We allow new energy to pour in and work its way down,
Down,
Down,
Down,
Down our body,
Down into our hearts,
New grounded energy in.
Love,
Peace,
Kindness starts within.
As we soften and allow more of this energy to work its way into our system,
Into our being,
We are able to amplify the love energy,
Amplify the grounded,
Kind energy.
And from this place,
We can spread,
Distribute,
Amplify.
I'll guide you through a practice where we specifically focus on some regions and you can distribute this energy anywhere you like.
Let's take a nice deep breath in,
Ah,
Building the love energy,
Building the calm,
Peaceful energy,
Deep breath out,
Letting go of anything we no longer need.
We are here now.
We are grounded.
We are open.
We allow the light of the universe to pour into us and then pour through us into the world.
Light,
Love,
Kindness.
If you are open to it,
We're going to start where there's a lot of conflict,
A lot of pain right now in the Middle East.
You might not know this,
But I was born in the Middle East,
Specifically in Tehran,
In Iran.
If you are open to it,
You want to pour some energy to the people in Iran that are going through a war,
Letting them know they are loved,
They are cared for,
Helping even 1% to bring calm and peace to their day.
May our brothers and sisters in Iran,
May our family,
Our soul family in Iran know they are loved.
We can distribute this energy.
It grows,
It expands.
Love knows no boundaries.
It expands throughout the Middle East.
If you'd like to expand it to Israel,
To Palestine,
To Dubai,
To the Gulf,
Expanding,
Expanding.
I apologize if there's places and countries I haven't named.
My intention is to help us expand our love.
I apologize if there's places and countries I have named that activate,
That trigger.
But my intention is to spread the love,
To allow us to zoom out and remember how connected all of us are,
To allow the leaders,
The politicians to slow down.
That is my wish,
That the leaders,
The politicians slow down,
Zoom out,
And remember how connected we are.
As we zoom out,
We can spread this love to our brothers and sisters and our soul family in the Ukraine,
That are going through a hard time,
In Russia,
They're going through a battle.
Spread,
Spread,
Spread through Africa,
Through Asia,
Through Australia,
Through Europe.
Spread,
Spread,
Spread to the Americas.
Spread that love as much as you can,
May all beings know they are loved,
May all beings feel that they are loved.
Spread to our brothers and sisters,
Our soul family in Cuba,
Venezuela,
All through Central America,
South America,
Spreading it throughout the world.
May all beings know they are loved,
May all beings feel and experience connection,
Peace,
And calm in some way,
In some fashion.
Let's take a deep breath here.
Big exhale out.
There's any love,
Any kindness,
Any calm,
Any grounding energy that you'd like to distribute and share anywhere on the planet.
I want to encourage you to tap into your heart and gently,
Honestly,
Allow that love to radiate through you.
My prayer for you,
Dear one,
Is that at some point today,
You are able to remember how loved you are,
How cared for you are,
How supported you are.
To remember who walks with you always,
Side by side,
Forever having your back.
And from that place of support and love and kindness,
If you feel open to it,
If you feel willing,
You can take a few deep breaths,
Build that energy,
And at some point today,
Amplify and share that energy with some place,
Some people,
Some soul family members that could use that extra.
Support and love.
I feel my heart here.
It's got lots of sadness around it,
Lots of grief.
I'm holding my heart.
If you'd like to do so,
You can do the same.
Hello,
Dear heart.
I feel you.
I feel how much you care.
I am choosing to keep you open.
I'm choosing to keep you open.
I'm choosing to come back to love always.
This is our last song this morning.
I'm going to sit back and be quiet and allow you and your incredible heart to connect.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo,
Dear creator.
You made it to the end of another meditation.
I know this one was a different meditation.
It was a hard one for me to make because I'm feeling so much in my heart and it was an honest one for me to make.
Thank you for being here on this journey with me.
It means so much to me.
For those that are joining us live at the artist's morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and share an optional journal prompt to help us continue this practice.
Of course,
If you're catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on insight timer,
You can do the same.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and I'll see you next time.
