Sunflower Meditation

Use this meditation to expand constrictions or boundaries around a situation. Perhaps you have a situation unfolding in your life right now in which you’d like more expansion and possibility. Can you see the light and beauty in the situation? Do you know and sense the light and beauty there, even if covered by other emotions? This meditation will guide you into a field of love and light.

As Mary Oliver says: “Come with me into the field of sunflowers.”

Transcript

Hi everybody,

It's Emily Martin and I'm bringing you today Golden Sunflower Meditation.

So use this meditation when you're just seeking to explore the idea of possibility,

Expansion,

Transformation,

Or when something,

Or if you're already in that state,

To continue to manifest that love and light and that higher state that you're currently in.

I hope you enjoy it.

So before we get started,

Just go ahead and find yourself either relaxing on your back or sitting upright in a chair or on a meditation cushion.

I hope you enjoy it.

So I always like to get started by taking three deep breaths.

In through your nose and out through your mouth.

So let's do that.

Go ahead and start to feel the weight of your body.

Feel the Earth's gravitational field pulling you towards the center of the Earth.

Maybe your shoulders start to feel heavy.

Maybe you can feel the weight of your thighs and your bum being pulled down to the Earth.

Just allow this,

Knowing that it's nurturing and good for you,

To be held by our great creator,

Mother Earth.

Set your grounding connection,

So that's just a visual image that you have.

It can be anything,

But just something that connects your body into the Earth.

And maybe it is just that feeling of being pulled into the Earth from gravity.

But I like to actually imagine tree roots coming off of my sitz bones and penetrating into the soil and the bedrock of the Earth.

Firmly rooting me.

I am part and parcel of Mother Earth.

She is the great creator and I am her creation.

So whatever image works for you,

Waterfall,

Cord of light,

Tree roots,

Set your grounding cord now.

And make sure it's as wide as your hips so you're firmly,

Firmly connected into the Earth.

As you are rooted firmly into Mother Earth,

You are also deeply connected to Father Sky.

So in your mind's eye,

Just find a spot right above your head and just slowly move that spot higher and higher so you're above your house,

Above your town.

And your mind's eye is way out now above planet Earth.

It's in the beautiful,

Deep,

Dark cosmos.

And when you look all around from where you are,

You're surrounded by little tiny beacons of light.

All different colors.

And separating them is vast,

Uninterrupted space.

Deep purples,

Indigo blues.

It's calm,

It's quiet out here.

You can feel the pulse of each of those stars.

You can see the light of each of those stars.

And now without too much thought or worry,

There's no thinking or doing here.

Just intend or know,

Just know that one of those stars is your special star.

It's like your soul's library of information.

It's your special sparkle.

It gives you permission to be yourself in the world.

So just find a star.

Notice its color.

Find that star that may be shining more brightly.

Perhaps it's calling your name or it's twinkling at you.

Just take a moment.

Don't worry,

Everyone has one.

There will be one for you.

Once you find it,

Just allow that star to move or for you to move so you are directly underneath that star.

And just allow that starlight to come in through the crown of your head.

So it needs to have a color.

Don't let it be white light.

Any color besides white is fine.

And let that starlight,

Whatever color it is,

Just start to come in through the crown of your head.

Just let it as if you were pouring honey or something delicious and sweet and nurturing.

As if you were pouring honey over your body.

Just allow the energy of the starlight to flow in through your crown,

Down through your eyes,

Your ears,

Your head,

Your mouth,

Your neck,

Into your torso and your heart chakra,

Down your left arm,

All the way into your five fingers on your left side,

Down to your right arm,

To your right elbow,

All the way into the five fingers,

Down into your intestines and your stomach,

Your body,

To your pelvis,

Your groin,

Your thighs,

Your left knee,

All the way down to your left toes,

Your right eye,

Your right knee,

All the way down into your right toes.

And just feel the power of this beautiful sky energy,

This father sky energy that's giving you ultimate permission to be yourself and allowing you to know the exact right next steps in your life.

Just feel the starlight energy come back to your sits bones and feel the grounded,

Nurturing energy of the earth pulling you.

Know that you are deeply connected to both heaven and earth and you have this beautiful form of the human body.

You've been gifted this human form,

This one precious life.

Now I'd like you to move into your heart space,

Your heart chakra and bring to mind,

Mind and heart,

Bring to mind and heart a situation in your life in which you really feel either that you're at the edge of a boundary and you want to expand and allow and manifest more light into the situation or a situation which you don't quite feel the lightness and the love and the divinity in it yet,

But you can just taste it.

You know that this could be good for you,

Could be in your highest good if you allow the boundaries to expand,

To become translucent,

To ease a little bit.

So go into your heart now and find that situation,

That situation that's maybe it's a career opportunity or love relationship or familial interaction.

Just bring it into your heart and just allow it to rest there.

Let's just start with showing it some gratitude.

Maybe something so exciting and such a blessing that it's easy to give it gratitude.

Maybe you've met a new friend and you're just filled with the possibilities of your friendship,

What you can learn from each other or it may be a little hard to offer gratitude.

Just have the intention that you're grateful for this experience unfolding in your life now.

Once you have the situation,

Just let that light part of it emerge.

So focus on the light,

So focus on if there's something a little troubling or with a little friction,

What's the light part,

The love?

So maybe it's the spark of inspiration for a project,

To create a project or that spark of friendship or love.

And when you find that light,

The light of the situation,

Just let it grow in your heart.

Just like a little miniature sunshine or a candle.

It's that golden light just growing in your heart.

Now imagine maybe the constraints or the constrictions or the friction points.

Just allow those to manifest,

Just allow them to become aware,

Bring your awareness to those points.

And then let's just allow that light,

So now go back to the light,

The light that's growing in your heart.

Just allow that light to either dissolve or outshine or melt,

Whatever works best.

Just kind of,

I sort of see those friction points as just little bits of darkness in the recesses of my heart when I bring my situation to mind.

And as that light shines like a candle where the light is strongest at the center and then the light diffuses outward,

It's those tendrils of light and heat and outward motion that's just pushing those constraints just a little further.

And a little further.

And as we focus on the light in our heart and the love,

The deep love that's within the situation,

The possibility of beauty and expansion,

That light grows stronger and bigger.

And perhaps some of the constraints are still there but they're a little bit further away.

They're a little more dissipated,

Maybe a little farther apart,

Not quite such a wall or boundary.

Just hold on to this beautiful feeling of that light penetrating your entire heart center.

And why don't you just let that light permeate the entire heart chakra and flow down through your body to the ground.

Coming back to the heart,

The light that's shining brightly,

Bring that heart light now up through your high heart,

Your throat chakra for use of expressing your truth and creative power.

Bring that light chakra,

Sorry,

That light from your heart chakra all the way up through your throat,

Back of your neck,

Shoulders,

Up through your head,

Out through your crown.

I want you to imagine a beautiful field of sunflowers and how the sunflowers at the start of the day,

They track the sun in the sky and as the sun moves in an arc throughout the summer day,

The sunflower's head tracks the light of the sun.

In such a way,

I invite you to track the light in the situation like a sunflower.

So you might imagine even that sunflower image that I just shared with you of a sunflower against a blue,

Deep blue sky.

That sunflower tracking the sun,

Creating a golden arc of light as it tracks.

Imagine bringing that field of sunflowers or one large beautiful sunflower into your heart.

And your heart now tracks the light of the situation.

It may change,

The light and the love of the situation will change and morph as moments and days go by.

But the sunflower never loses sight of the sun.

In the same way,

Your heart will never lose sight of the love and the light that's in the situation.

And just allow it to focus on that love and light.

And if this beautiful energy field of light radiating from your heart feels good to you,

Feel free to just relax into this beautiful space.

Fall into silent meditation.

If you need to,

You can call to mind the constraints and boundaries that may have been constricting this experience.

And again,

Like a pulsating orb,

Just shine the light on those places and allow the boundaries and the limits to expand.

Rest in the knowing that you are one with divine love and light.

Given intention and opportunity,

You can feel that love in your energetic space,

Which is just what you've done here today.

Feel free to continue in silence without me or to end your meditation.

It's been a great honor and pleasure serving you.