Hi my friend.
Gently close your eyes if you'd like and maybe right away place a hand on your beating heart.
Inhale as you lift your heart.
Exhale as you soften your shoulders.
Feel your beautiful heart beating.
This heart of yours that has been with you through it all.
This heart of yours that feels and is the keeper of your feelings.
My friend,
It is okay to not be okay.
May you never say I'm fine when really you are not.
As you hold yourself in this moment can you answer this question honestly?
How are you really?
Breathe in.
It's okay if it feels complex,
If you don't know,
If there's a lot of feelings swirling within you,
Simply hold space for you.
What feelings are asking to be felt?
In this moment free your mind of needing everything to be okay or fine,
Of not needing to justify any emotion.
Just feel.
Can you feel your mind start to unwind?
Getting out of the over-analyzing thinking mind and into the feeling heart.
Notice the sensation of your feelings.
We have to feel it to free it.
Feelings are simply asking to be felt.
Feelings are simply energy.
Use the breath to move that energy and feel it through.
Feelings are not really asking for intervention.
Feelings are simply asking to be acknowledged and felt.
Free your mind of the story,
The why,
And just let yourself feel fully.
Jamie Verone writes,
Hope.
It's about having hope in yourself.
Hope that you'll hold yourself through the harder times,
That you won't create stories about your worth based on how other people treat you.
Hope that you will decide your own value.
Hope that you will keep the fire of your dreams alive.
Hope that you'll let your dreams shift and change too.
Hope that you won't hold yourself hostage to a past version of you.
Hope that you won't let societal expectations morph you into someone you don't recognize.
Hope that you can always renew yourself,
Reframe your thoughts,
Rewrite your narratives.
May you stay soft,
Stay gentle,
And stay right here with yourself through it all.
Breathing into your heart a little more.
Exhale,
Release.
Notice how you feel now.
Maybe the true medicine is just giving yourself attention,
Love,
Acceptance,
And awareness.
Whispering to yourself,
I am loving awareness.
Whispering to yourself,
I am loving awareness.
I am loving awareness.
I am loving awareness.
What a gift it is to just be with you and to stop pretending.
Feelings are part of the human experience.
May you continue to tap into them,
Welcome them with non-judgment.
Slowly just see yourself in the room that you are in,
Acknowledging that you are here.
Breathing in,
Letting it go.
Taking your sweet time to move your hands,
Your feet.
Maybe rolling your shoulders a couple times.
Gently drifting out of your practice,
But carrying it with you.
Inhale deeply,
Gently blinking your eyes open if they were closed.
Go slowly,
Stay with you from my heart to yours.
