On days you need to lighten your burden,
Lean into your humanness,
And surrender the pretense of control this prayer is for you.
Tune in,
My friend.
Take a soft breath in,
A nice long exhale out.
Now imagine your heart has lungs of its own.
Can you let her breathe?
Can you feel the expansion of your heart with every inhale?
And on the exhale,
Feel the energy of your heart expand throughout your entire body.
And allow this prayer to reach you.
Today I am here in my humanness,
Not in a perfect persona or the pretense that I have control.
Today I lay down the weight of believing I can control everything.
May I soften around the parts of life I cannot predict,
Fix,
Or force,
And learn to rest in your presence.
Today I surrender to you the apology in my spine,
The shame in my veins,
The guilt in my bones,
And my addiction to playing small.
May I have the humility today to see and embody the gifts you placed in me.
Today I surrender to you my judgment of other people's judgment of me and the ways I let that illusion shape how I interact with the world around me.
May tenderness meet the places I have judged.
May you open me to the freedom of being authentically who you designed me to be.
Today I surrender my obsession with knowing the how and every step from A to Z.
May I trust the deeper why you planted in my heart.
May I release the need to know exactly how this will unfold.
May today I remember that control is not the same as safety.
May today I belong to you and stand in the truth that I do not need to collapse to belong.
May today I trust the timing of what is unfolding through me.
May today I remember that softening is not falling behind.
May today I allow myself to be guided,
Held,
And helped.
May today I have the bravery and innocence to believe in miracles again and again and again.
So it is.
Thank you for joining me on the path of unconditioning.
My name is Hedy and I see you in the next one.
