This is a meditation for chaotic times.
For change.
For when forces are swirling around us.
First let's just take a moment to arrive.
Maybe close your eyes.
Get comfortable.
Just take a few breaths.
In through the nose and out through the mouth.
At your pace just take a few breaths.
In through the nose,
Out through the mouth,
At a normal rate.
Watching as things can calm down just a little bit.
As your mind starts to wander just bring it back to your breath or the music.
The cadence of the piano.
The sounds of the crickets.
Fall into it with your breath.
With each exhale a little bit of tension can release and we can just arrive to right now.
Right here right now.
Even with so much going on around us we can just agree to blockade off those thoughts for now and let them go like clouds passing by and just be right here right now as a break.
Breathing in,
Breathing out at a normal pace.
If there's any tension in your body,
You're feeling it in your hands or your neck,
Your fingers or your eyes.
Stretch those out a little bit and find more ways to roll those shoulders and just release more into just this moment,
This little break from the storm around us.
As we breathe in through our nose and out through the mouth,
The music takes us inward.
Good.
In times of chaos,
In times of great change,
Great transition,
When it feels like things are coming at us,
Forces from outside that we can't control,
The medicine we need and what is being asked of us is an inner fortitude to bring as much presence as we can because the mind will want to go to the future and the past to protect ourselves and we can say thank you to the mind to say thank you for doing your job.
We have to keep returning to the now,
Into our hearts.
Right now let's breathe into the heart,
Into the nose.
Expand it out as you feel the energy in your heart moving through your whole body.
It's happening right now.
Breathe into your heart,
Into your knowing of now.
Let the music hold you.
As you breathe into your heart and expand it out on the exhale,
Expand it to everything around you,
The room you're in.
Breathe out to expand through the walls,
Through the earth,
Into the sky,
Into all the beings around you,
All living life.
Expanding outward.
You hold all that is around you in your heart,
You give with the exhale.
You are here now.
Nowhere else to be.
When the thoughts come up,
You see them,
You witness them from the seat of your heart.
Breathe them out as they dissipate into the wind,
Into the earth.
Let the love of your heart pushing everything outward and outward,
The gift.
You are love.
You are a brave soul incarnated in a time of change and you can do it.
You are needed.
What is needed is simply just your presence here now,
The groundedness you are able to bring with your breath.
Place a hand on your heart and a hand on your stomach as you breathe in into this heart space and feel this presence and this wonderful energy that you have,
The strength.
Maybe it only feels like a small candle flame in you and not a large fire,
But it's there.
I am strong.
I am here.
I am fortitude.
I am needed.
I am held.
Release your hands.
Let a small smile curve upon your face.
Continue to breathe at your pace.
Stay focused into your nose,
Out through your mouth.
Plant the seed in your heart now,
In your mind,
In the tender parts of your being.
You can do this.
You can do this.
You are doing it.
I can do this.
I am here.
I am here.
I am here.
I am here.
I am here.
I am here.
I am here.
I am here.
Not a fear of the future,
An apparition of the past,
But right now you are doing it.
You are here.
You are needed.
You are strong.
Instead of pushing the world away with our fears,
We will bring it in with the energy of our hearts,
The presence of the now.
We're in the dance of life.
Sometimes it's hard.
Sometimes it takes a bit of courage.
And you have that courage.
You are that courage.
Rest into the courage.
Rest and release into the knowing that you're OK.
Wherever you are,
Whatever is going on,
It's OK.
Trust you are held.
Accept the love holding you.
Accept the love holding you.
We can give ourselves over to the river that we are flowing in with the trust that the river is holding us.
Always returning back to the great mother of the ocean that is us as well.
You cannot be lost.
You are safe even when you do not feel safe.
Because there is a part of you that maybe even in a small way you can feel it right now in this moment.
That candle flame inside you is always there.
And you can return to it in any moment with your breath.
You can place your hand on your heart,
On your stomach.
And your body will remember.
And you can trust in the dance that you are in.
The dance of your life.
Your incarnation.
Your choice.
It's OK to take a break.
It's OK to be here now.
It's needed.
You are needed.
You are here.
You are here.
