Meditation For Honoring Your Truth In Decision Making

In this meditation, Nicole guides you through an inner child meditation to help calm the parts inside of you that may be activated by the response of others to a decision you made. The goal is for you to walk away with your little one feeling heard, loved, and understood in a way that calms their nervous system and allows you to continue to honor your truth and hold to the decision you've made - regardless of what is happening around you.

Transcript

Welcome to this talk today on Insight Timer and today we're gonna be looking at what it's like when you know something to be true to your core and when you make a decision that's honoring that truth but when people around you don't accept that as your truth or try to tell you that they know best or they're hearing something different about what you should and shouldn't do and we've all been in those situations before and if you come from a people-pleasing background like I did growing up then it can be really hard in those moments to not try to make the other person feel comfortable.

It can be really difficult to stay in your truth,

To stay grounded in your knowing and when that happens that staying true to ourselves is acts as a little bit of an initiation.

It's telling ourselves,

It's telling the world around us,

It's telling the universe that yes I trust myself and as we do that we'll be able to see more and more over time that our intuition is stronger,

That we can hear that voice louder as a confidence grows that we're actually gonna trust it this time especially when we may have spent years not trusting it.

So I just want to offer a little bit of a guided meditation for those parts of us that are struggling in those moments where we make those choices that are aligned for us and when people may not understand it and then those younger parts of ourselves get activated worrying that the people are gonna leave us.

We may worry that we're gonna lose those relationships altogether or we may just feel icky inside knowing that our decisions and our actions to honor ourselves are making somebody else uncomfortable and those younger parts they just want to fix it.

They just want to make it all feel better and the way that we can help those younger parts while still staying true to ourselves is by witnessing them.

So I'm gonna start guiding us on that short journey just to witness those younger parts that may be activated and as we do that I just want you to settle in feeling the ground beneath you whether you're sitting or standing feeling what you're sitting on or standing on and where that connects with the earth and if possible try to put your feet on the ground stabilizing that connection to the earth grounding us into the present moment helping us get out of the scripts of the past or the experiences of the past that may have us activated and as we ground in just take a deep breath allowing the breath to get a little deeper each time placing your hand if you're able and it's safe for you to do so right now on your stomach so you can feel that breath start to navigate down from your chest and actually be allowed to fill up your stomach it's gonna allow you a couple of seconds here to start slowing down connecting with your breath getting behind your eyes realizing that you're here in this moment listening to my voice right now reminding those younger parts that you're totally safe in this moment and you're supported and you're guided and you're protected that right now nothing bad's happening you're not in any imminent danger I want you to imagine in your mind's eye or for those of you that are more audible you may hear it in your head or you may actually hear it outside of you this little one that's activated because you made a decision and others aren't responding in a loving and accepting way because of their own stuff it really has nothing to do with you little one let's sense an age or see if you can imagine this little one in your mind's eye and when I do this my little one tends to be really young somewhere around four or five or six years old just imagine that little one standing before you and asking them if they're willing and able if they would like to sit beside you or they may if you've done some work to connect with this younger part already they may immediately want to hug from you or to sit in your lap wherever they're at's okay stay behind your eyes stay as the adult who is witnessing this little one that needs love and support right now from you it's really not needing anything from the outside it's needing it from you it's all within you and as you witness this little one whether they're sitting beside you they're standing up they may be mad they may be crying they may be frustrated and pitching a complete fit or they may be so happy that you're there with them or they may be afraid to look at you wherever they are we are to honor them to thank them for just showing up and as you connect with this little one in whatever way feel safe for you and safe for your little one I want you to make space for them to tell you how they're feeling right now how are they feeling now that you've made this decision that feels right to you you may hear a lot of activation in their voice you may sense in your own physical body that they're so uncomfortable with this decision because of its effects on others just sit with it allow the feelings to come up and remain separate for the feelings again you're watching them as the observer you're not allowing them to overtake you I'm just allow them to tell you how they're feeling and maybe they're feeling frustrated and mad and angry or maybe they're scared like oh no what have we done we made this decision and this other person's mad or they're angry or they're acting different towards us or they're being passive-aggressive or you just sense the energetic shift the change acknowledge that they're uncomfortable then I want you to remind them that you are here with them and for them that you are here to keep them safe they can take a deep breath and rest knowing it's not their job to take care of this other person and that you are here to take care of this little part inside of you that's upset and I want you to ask it what does it need right now and be open to whatever it may say this part of you may need a hug and if so offer it this part of you may need to be able to play it may tell you that it wants you to play with it it can be creative it may tell you that it wants you to go outside and to just run and to be free it may tell you it wants you to go lie on the grass and connect with nature and just watch the birds fly above you it may want to sing or it may want to dance and whatever it says it may make you feel a little uncomfortable because this may be parts of you you haven't accessed in a very long time and I encourage you to see the innocence of this little one to see the ways in which it needs you to show up and only if you're able to keep that commitment I want you to tell them okay I see you I hear you and we will play I see you I hear you and you can come to me and I will hold you while you share your deepest hurts and pains with me providing you the love and the comfort and the nourishment you did not get as a little one I am here now to provide it for you and I want you to watch and feel in your body since even the smallest shift maybe there'll be a sigh as the energy releases or yawn maybe your body will loosen a bit maybe you'll see this little one maybe start to look up at you if it wasn't willing to make eye contact or maybe it starts to let you in just a very little bit more and it's important to remember in these times that those small shifts are massive progress in the right direction and before we leave those little ones I want you to remind them that you're here for them now and that you will continue to come back to check up on it to make sure it's okay when you can sense it's been activated I want you to tell them by in whatever way seems appropriate for you in this little one that you're reconnecting with in this moment it may be just an acknowledgment a nodding of the head it may be a hug a deep embrace this younger part may tell you thank you and if so I encourage you to tell it thank you for showing up and starting to trust you a little more I want you to remind it that you're here and say goodbye in whatever way feels right after you say goodbye I want you to start coming back into your body in this present moment feeling the chair or the ground beneath you starting to wiggle your fingers and your toes a little bit at a time gently starting to open your eyes and allowing yourself to re-acclimate to the room slowly and then I want you to notice those shifts in your body even if it's the small ones being more present here in the moment and realizing how safe you truly are in the decision that you made and acknowledging that it's the other person's path that they're on that wherever they are is not your responsibility and that when we step up and we honor ourselves and we remain in love that it helps and benefits everyone around us and that over time our body will get more comfortable each time we start to step into our truth to use our voice to honor ourselves and what we need each time we do that as we repeat it time after time and become second nature and it creates new pathways new energetic pathways and connections in our minds and those connections are what changes our lives what gets us out of our patterns and paths and puts us into a new timeline a new future and I'll leave you here grounding into the present moment allowing yourself to be proud for honoring your truth even when the outside circumstance around you may not support it and knowing that as we make changes on the inside our external environment over time starts to change starts to shift and as those things shift the internal environment becomes representative on the outside and that's where the magic is held

Reviews

I loved this would be good if you were able to edit out the background noise around 18 minutes xx