Hi my friend,
This is a short meditation moment for you to drop into your heart and feel the strength in your softening.
If it feels right,
Closing your eyes and placing a hand or two over your heart.
Allow your body to breathe deeply,
Inhaling,
Exhaling.
Feel how your breath guides you to your heart.
Inhale,
Exhale,
Dropping into your heart.
Use the breath to connect you deeply to the softness in your heart.
Inhale,
Exhale.
Feel your heart beating,
Feel the strength,
The tenderness.
Take in these beautiful words by Alyssa Waghorn.
Feel free to insert the pronouns that you identify with.
Strong is she.
She is strong,
Not because of how much she can lift,
But for how she lifts others up when they're at their lowest.
Not because she is capable of withstanding the storm,
But because she'll navigate the storm and then show you how to do the same.
Not because she is indestructible,
But because after every fall she will always,
Always rise.
She is strong,
Not because she chose to be,
But because the world demanded her to be.
She has walked through so much hardship,
Faced battles most will not comprehend,
And yet despite it all,
She still chooses to be kind,
To be soft.
Her strength comes from within,
From learning how to turn pain into power,
Chaos into calm,
Wounds into wisdom.
Strong is she who knows her worth and refuses to settle for less.
Strong is she who will not back down,
Who will fight for what she believes in.
Strong is she who has love wrapped around her heart,
Courage knitted in her bones,
And fire running through her veins.
She is strong because she is soft.
Breathe into your heart space,
Inhale,
Exhale.
To be soft is to be powerful.
To be soft is to be strong.
May you really feel this,
May you really believe this.
Feel the strength in your softening,
The gentleness in your heart.
Feel into the energy of your heart now.
Carry this strength of softening with you.
Follow your breath in,
Follow your breath out.
Feel free to stay in the space of your heart a little bit longer.
Eventually,
My friend,
Take your sweet time to come back into the room you're in.
Stay connected to your heart.
It is strong to be soft.
From my heart to yours.
