Settling into our bodies and settling into our breath.
Taking a moment to be completely at ease.
If it feels right for you,
Closing your eyes or keeping them open.
Unclenching the jaw,
Softening the brow and sinking into the shoulders.
Allowing our bodies to arrive into this present moment.
Breathing into the parts of our bodies that are resistant to rest.
Feeling the breath and allowing it to radiate warmth over our entire body.
Noticing the breath and its natural rhythm.
With every in-breath we welcome stillness.
And on every out-breath,
Releasing any tension.
All of our worries.
All the thoughts that no longer serve us.
Arriving into this present moment.
Allowing ourselves to be here.
Fully present and aware.
Connecting the breath and the body together,
Moment by moment.
Letting go and letting it be.
Allowing ourselves to feel whatever is present.
No yesterday,
No tomorrow,
No today.
Just right now.
You arriving into this present moment.
Placing our left hands over our hearts and our right hands over our bellies.
Holding ourselves here with compassion and with love and with kindness.
Allowing ourselves to soften.
Reshaping ourselves with our words.
Remolding ourselves with our thoughts.
Recreating ourselves with affirmations.
Repeating after me.
I am deserving.
I am worthy.
And I am enough.
Noticing what those words feel like in our minds and in our bodies.
Noticing any resistance that may arise.
Any tension,
Any heaviness.
Noticing what it feels like to affirm ourselves just as we are.
In full acceptance.
On the in-breath,
We say I am.
And on the out-breath,
Deserving.
I am deserving.
I am worthy.
I am enough.
Noticing how these words feel.
Noticing where the mind goes.
The thoughts that arise,
Telling us otherwise.
Sitting with these feelings and with these thoughts.
Without judgment,
Without resistance.
Just noticing and allowing whatever comes up.
And again,
I am deserving.
I am worthy.
And I am enough.
I am worthy.
I am deserving.
And I am enough.
I am worthy.
I am deserving.
And I am enough.
Taking a moment now just to receive these words.
Allowing our hearts to open.
Giving ourselves the permission to feel what it is that we need to feel for these words to hold true.
I am worthy.
I am deserving.
And I am enough.
As this practice comes to an end.
We become present to our bodies.
We become present to the room.
We become present to the sounds and the sensations.
Maybe taking a moment now to invite movement back into our hands and to our feet.
And taking a stretch.
And whatever feels right for you,
Gently and slowly opening your eyes.
And thanking yourself for being in practice.