I invite you to begin focusing on your breath.
Expand your chest with every in-breath and feel your heart open.
Imagine a beautiful green light emanating from your heart space,
Pulsing with every breath you take.
The heart is the strongest muscle in the human body.
It works tirelessly to keep you alive,
Every minute of every day.
Place your hands on your heart and see if you can notice your heartbeat.
Whether you hear it or not is immaterial because it beats all the same.
The heart is the center of your being.
Express gratitude to your heart.
The earth also has a heartbeat and our hearts beat in rhythm to the earth's.
Touch the ground and let your heart hear the heartbeat of the earth.
Whether you hear it or not is immaterial because it beats all the same.
Keep breathing into your heart space and feel a sense of expansiveness in your chest.
Now quietly say to yourself,
May I be held in loving-kindness.
May I be filled with loving-kindness.
May I accept myself exactly as I am.
Now send love to one or more of your loved ones.
May they be held in loving-kindness.
May they be filled with loving-kindness.
May they accept themselves exactly as they are.
May we appreciate the joy and wonder of being alive.
And may we be free.
Take one more deep breath and open your eyes.
