You can rest down into your seat and grow through your spine as you allow your eyes to close and use the sound of the bell to turn back inwards,
Reconnecting with your internal state,
Opening in curiosity and non-judgment,
Ready to listen,
Observe,
And receive.
You can place all of your attention on your breath as you allow it to naturally and gently lengthen and deepen,
Not forcing any changes,
Just being with the ones that happen naturally,
Accompanying focused attention.
You can give yourself permission to arrive fully and completely in the present moment,
Allowing this moment,
This experience,
And whoever you are within it to be enough.
We can let go of the need to control,
To force any one outcome to fix or solve.
As we simply arrive in loving acceptance of whatever is right here and right now,
And you can follow your breath back inward,
Reconnecting with your internal state,
Focusing on your heart space,
This core of your being that's nothing but love,
Peace,
Compassion,
Acceptance,
And gratitude,
Remembering that this heart space is a safe space for all experiences,
And here in the heart,
All things can be held and nurtured and healed.
Reconnect with what the heart values most.
What is it that's most important to you?
What is it that you truly prioritize?
Who is it that you would like to be out in the world?
How would you like to be showing up for self,
Others,
And the world?
What is it that you would like to be offering to the world,
And what would you like to be receiving from the world?
Breathe in to this heart space and allow each breath to expand and open your heart wider and wider.
Know that the energies of the heart are so much bigger than just you,
That they are also present out in the world in all living beings and all life forms,
And allow the barriers between your own being and this expansive heart space to dissolve.
Imagine the heart expanding past all of your layers of doubt,
Worry,
All of the can'ts that you hold on to,
And your ideas of impossibilities.
Allow the heart to expand into the room around you,
Filling the space beyond your body,
And then allow it to expand even further out into your town,
Out towards the people in your life.
The larger the heart gets,
The stronger hope becomes.
The more that we trust this heart space and its ability to connect with the world around us,
The stronger hope becomes.
Allow the hope to take over the whole heart space and expand outwards into the world.
Feel the hope moving with the heart space outward,
Outward,
Outward,
Expanding into the world around you and connecting with the spirit of all of life.
Feel as your own desires and wants drop away and the greater human possibility takes over your entire being.
Remember that this hope is so much bigger than just you,
So much bigger than your idea of what success looks like,
Or what healing looks like,
Or what the desired outcome looks like.
Remember that this hope has a true vision connected with a greater system and the healing of all of life forms.
Trust the vision of this potential.
Trust that it's holding you and all of us and that it's continually doing its healing work within you and around you.
And from this place of trust,
Allow hope to run wild.
Allow it to take over your mind and create a vision for the future.
Quiet any form of doubt or denial.
Hand yourself over to hope.
Observe the beautiful vision that it creates,
One that's beyond all of your expectations,
Beyond your own limitations,
Beyond what you could imagine as an individual self.
Play in this creativity.
Allow the vision to expand as large as it wants.
What does this look like to truly have a healed world?
To have a hopeful world?
To have a peaceful world?
What does it truly look like for happiness to fill all beings?
What does hope look like in the world?
And when you're imagining this vision,
How do you feel?
What are you seeing and hearing,
Smelling and feeling?
What is the world like when filled with hope?
What is the nature of all beings?
How are you interacting with these other living beings and the world?
And what are you prioritizing when you're living with hope?
Who are you being in this hopeful world?
Allow yourself to believe in the possibility and set intentions for giving yourself over to the cultivation of this greater human potential.
Offer yourself to the healing of all beings and trust that you can do it,
That within your heart space is all of the skills and energies necessary to heal self and the world.
Hold these intentions in your heart and your core and allow them to integrate into every fiber of your being This is your heart's true essence.
With hope we continue with the practice knowing that with each day that we choose to cultivate more light,
More love,
More peace and kindness,
Compassion and acceptance,
And more gratitude.
We heal ourselves and the world.
Bring these hopeful intentions with you as I ring the bell three times and we come back to our shared space
