Hello,
And welcome to healing inside out.
I'm your host,
Nicole Matheson.
And this is your meditation on Emperor energy.
You can do this meditation sitting down or standing up.
Go ahead and close your eyes,
Start to come into your breath.
And whether you're sitting or standing,
Make sure you are feeling your feet flat on the ground.
If you are standing,
Take your feet just slightly wider than your hips with soft knees and really feel into your feet and the support they provide you.
Take a few slow,
Deep body breaths,
Bringing breath into the whole body and exhaling from the whole body.
The wisdom of the Emperor reminds us that to step into more of ourselves and our power,
We must root into connection,
Connection to the planet,
To our bodies,
Connection to the collective and the entire web of life.
We spend so much time in our heads,
In our thinking mind.
We often feel ungrounded or disconnected from the earth or isolated from other people.
But the Emperor knows that through connection to our bodies,
Physical,
Mental,
Emotional and spiritual bodies,
And connection to all living creatures and to this planet,
This is where we are truly resourced.
This is where power thrives.
These connections to body,
To planet,
To others,
They create strength and stability.
So we start by cultivating connection.
Imagine a root coming out of the base of your spine and that root goes all the way down to the center of the planet.
As it plunges through the earth's crust,
Mantle and core,
More roots grow out of it,
Rooting out to the side,
All these roots extending down with the main root all the way down to the center of the planet.
The roots grow thick and strong as they wind down and out and down into the earth below you.
Take a deep body breath here.
Big inhale.
Slow exhale.
Allowing your attention,
Your spirit to drop into the body.
It's safe here.
And you are being held in earth's loving arms.
Notice how these roots bring a sense of stability,
Groundedness.
You feel protected and comforted because these roots do more than keep you grounded.
They gather up from the earth all the nutrients you need to heal and thrive.
They bring up the loving energy of mother earth up through those roots and up through your entire body into each and every cell.
Take a moment and feel into this,
That steadiness,
Stability and that nourishing loving care.
All right.
Notice how the roots come together at the base of the spine and start to form a trunk that runs up through the hips,
Abdomen,
Chest.
A solid trunk.
Powerful.
Assured.
You might notice yourself sitting up or standing up a bit taller.
And just as the roots branched out below the ground,
Now the trunk branches out at the top into many branches,
Reaching out,
Reaching long,
Reaching with strength to the sides and up towards the sun.
Green leaves sprouting from the branches.
They open to the light of the sun,
Which feeds you,
Energizes you.
Each leaf like a shining jewel in your crown.
And your branches become a safe home for birds,
Bees and other creatures.
So grateful for your hospitality,
Your structure,
Your sturdiness.
Take a few big body breaths here.
And simply notice what you're experiencing.
And then bringing your attention back down into those roots.
As you look more closely,
You see that those roots are connected by a smaller network of branching threads.
This web of underground threads allows your roots to connect with roots of other trees.
This allows you to communicate with each other,
To support each other,
Even share nutrients with each other.
And this is helpful if there's a tree perhaps that doesn't get as much sun as your tree.
Your tree produces more sugars than you need.
And through these networks,
You can share your sugars with that other tree,
Allowing it to strengthen and thrive.
Because you know that together,
You are stronger.
When a tree is strong,
It is less susceptible to succumb to and spread diseases and pests.
The trees know we are in this life together with each other and for all the other creatures that the trees support and who support them.
This is shared power.
Humans are also connected.
But many of us have forgotten that we are better together.
When we share power,
When we support each other,
We all become stronger.
Like that underground network,
There is a network between all of us.
We may not see it,
But in our hearts,
We feel it.
This is why we might smile when we see that others are joyful,
Or why we may grieve when they experience loss.
When we feel into this connection,
We are in our power.
This is the medicine of the Emperor.
So take a couple of big inhales,
Slow exhales into this entire web of life.
What do you notice?
What do you feel?
All experiences are welcome.
Like a rooted mature tree,
Emperor energy is the power to build and sustain life for the one and the many.
Resourcing the self efficiently through connections delighting in supporting others and being supported by others.
To be strong and stable with flexible branches to adapt to changes in the environment.
When you are feeling isolated,
Overwhelmed,
Helpless,
Powerless,
Stuck,
Or sick,
Know that you can always take a moment and root into your connections.
Cultivate your connection to your body,
All the bodies.
Cultivate your connection to other people and the entire web of life.
Know that you can call on the Emperor within any time for clarity on what actions to take and to identify your best resources.
Before we close,
We'll take about one minute in silence to ask the Emperor for a message or for anything you want.
You might ask for clarity or strategy.
You might ask how to build your energy or how to preserve it with proper boundaries.
Ask what unique gift you can bring to building a better world.
Let's take a moment here to connect and listen.
Look at your dependents today.
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Go ahead and thank the Emperor for any message you received or that you will receive.
And know that you can come back to this meditation or to Emperor energy anytime.
When we honor the Emperor with our attention,
The Emperor honors us with wisdom.
