This meditation is for you to remember.
It's safe to feel.
You are allowed to feel the whole spectrum of human emotions and so many feelings can coexist all at once.
So instead of pretending or avoiding,
This meditation is for you to hold space for yourself to feel.
Take your sweet time landing in a place that feels comforting and safe and grounding.
Closing your eyes if that feels okay and maybe you've tried to busy your way out of these feelings or avoid and distract yourself.
It's so brave that you're here choosing to stay and feel and just get really quiet.
Listen what feelings are asking to be felt.
Maybe putting a label onto the feeling,
Making it known.
See if you can really turn toward all the feelings.
Let them be seen and known and felt.
Breathe through when it feels like too much.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Lisa Olivero writes,
I used to think the opposite was true.
That if I keep the right height of a wall up,
I'd get less hurt.
Or that being less hurt was even possible without pretending.
Or if I stayed neutral when what I wanted to do was fully feel,
My strength would increase.
As I've lived into this more and more though,
I've realized the more I soften,
The stronger I become.
The strongest people I know are also the softest.
I am stronger when I allow myself to be fully awake to the moment I'm in.
I am stronger when I allow all parts of me to exist.
I am stronger when I allow myself to melt when parts of me want to harden.
I am stronger when I give myself permission to be impacted by life.
I am stronger when I don't use so much energy managing how I'm perceived.
I am stronger when I don't use so much energy keeping people out.
I am stronger when I soften into reality.
Breathe in.
Breathe it out.
Strength doesn't look like the way we've been taught it looks.
It is strong to admit when you are crumbling.
It is strong to receive support.
It is strong to embrace softness,
Vulnerability,
Tenderness,
Uncertainty,
And everything we don't know.
It is strong to slowly take down the walls that we've built.
It is strong to honor our emotions.
It is strong to lean into grief.
It is strong to allow.
Breathe in gently.
Exhale.
Place your hands over your beautiful beating heart.
The one that feels so much.
Whisper to yourself,
I no longer strive to become someone unaffected by life.
I no longer strive to be someone who is good at hiding my humanity.
I no longer strive to be someone who has it all together.
I no longer strive to be someone who always knows the right thing to do or say or be.
I strive to keep softening,
To keep allowing,
To keep letting myself be more and more human.
I strive to soften.
Breathe in.
Exhale.
Can you actually feel your entire soul soften?
It's a gift to be impacted.
It is a gift to feel.
Don't hold back.
Allow yourself to soften and know that you will be stronger because of it.
Notice any shift within you.
Be gentle and continue to hold space to feel,
To melt,
To be soft.
Take one more deep breath.
Inhale.
Exhale.
From my big feeling heart to yours.
