Hey friends,
Welcome to another mindful moment.
I don't know about you,
But there are just some days where you have an expectation of what you'd like to get done.
And the day takes a completely different turn from what you were hoping or dare I say expecting.
And all of a sudden the time has passed and so many of the things that you were wanting to get done haven't even begun.
Oh,
Can you relate to that?
And so here I am in that situation.
And instead of getting frustrated or irritated or another emotion of lower vibration,
I am stopping,
Literally stopping.
And so today that's what we're going to practice,
Is stopping.
Sometimes it's so easy because we know we need to rest and pause and we're ready for it.
And there are other times where we resist stopping and we go in the complete opposite direction.
It's just what we do sometimes,
Isn't it,
And it's actually okay.
So as I stop and sit here with you,
Slater,
Who is my precious 12 year old kitty,
Is supporting this decision and he has hopped up on the couch and is purring and lying down and just so excited to be taking a moment to pause and stop.
So wherever you are,
See if you can find a comfortable position,
Seated,
Lying down.
And if you are going about your day and just listening,
See if you could just pause for a couple moments with me.
And if that's not a possibility for you today,
That's okay too.
So once you've found your position,
If it feels good to you,
We can close our eyes.
If you are sitting and listening and maybe enjoying a cup of a warm beverage or even a meal,
I invite you to slow down.
If you don't want to come to a stop or a pause,
Maybe just slowing down.
And in this moment,
I invite you to feel into your body,
Feeling your feet,
Ankles,
Calves,
And shins,
Feeling into your knees,
Your quads,
Hamstrings,
Feeling your hips and pelvis,
Feeling the connection through your sit bones like you have roots that are growing from you deep into the earth,
Offering you stability,
Groundedness,
And moving the sensation up into your stomach,
Up into your belly button,
Up into your ribcage,
Your chest,
Your heart,
Up into your shoulders,
And from your shoulders down into your arms,
Going through your biceps,
Into your elbows,
Into your forearms,
Into your wrists and palms,
And all the way to your fingertips.
And then let's pull that energy back up into the palms and the back of the hands,
Through the wrist,
Up the top of the arms,
Elbows,
Through the triceps or the back of the arms,
Into your armpits,
Down your sides,
And making its way into your low back.
Taking a moment here to notice your breath,
Feeling the natural flow and natural rhythm of your system,
Feeling the connection to life,
Connecting with that energy in your low back,
Moving into your middle back,
Up your spine,
Into your upper back,
And back into your shoulders,
A place where we can often hold our tension and stress.
Again connecting to our breath,
Moving from the shoulders to the base of the neck,
Moving up,
Feeling the muscles on either side of your spine as it connects to your skull and the back of your head,
Bringing the energy up,
Feeling your scalp up into your crown chakra,
The very top of your head,
The connection between you and a higher world,
A higher vibration,
A connection to spirit and source.
And then I want you to imagine a beautiful bright light coming out from the top of your head and connecting you to higher possibility,
Higher vibration,
Infinite possibility.
And then feeling into your scalp once again,
Down into your forehead where we also can hold so much tension and moving the energy into our temples,
The side of our head,
Dropping the energy into our ears,
Moving into our eyeballs,
Relaxing our eyes,
Into the nose,
Again feeling the breath enter your body.
See if you notice the air passing through your nostrils,
Moving down into your lips,
Relaxing the inside of your mouth,
Your tongue,
Relaxing your tongue,
Relaxing your cheeks and your jaw,
Moving down into your throat and from your throat moving into your collar bones and back into your chest,
This time connecting to your breath.
See if you can feel or imagine,
Create the vision of your heart opening into beautiful radiant light,
Connecting your heart beaming and bursting from you out into the world,
Rejecting and exuding and sending out love,
Compassion,
Kindness,
Gratitude,
Appreciation.
And while that brilliant light is emitting from you,
See if you can also receive love from the universe,
God,
Source,
Spirit,
That which has no name,
Receiving love from our friends,
Our family,
And really embrace and allow yourself to receive.
And try if you can to notice as the love goes out,
It also comes back in and out and in as if it makes an infinity loop ever flowing between us and the world.
And if you feel comfortable,
Even putting a hand on your chest,
Acknowledging the love that you both give and receive and also connecting to the energy that connects us to our higher world of spirit or higher thinking,
If that's more comfortable for you,
Coming from the top of our head and it too,
As we connect going from the top of our head up to the heavens or the divine source,
Also receiving that radiant,
Brilliant light coming into us and washing through our whole body.
And we are being filled with love,
Divine support,
Receiving guidance,
Wisdom,
And again,
Like an infinity loop as we connect above us,
As it also brings the energy into us,
Feeling that connection for just a moment.
Exhaling your breath,
Entering and leaving the body.
Stopping for just this moment to connect to an energy that is always there.
We just lose the connection with our hurried and busy working lives that we have,
And that's okay because these moments that we have together remind us of who we are and help us to connect to that energy that is always waiting for us,
Waiting for that connection,
That eternal love that is always there for us without judgment.
It's just there and it welcomes us back each and every time as if to say,
Dear friend,
I have missed you so much.
Let me open my arms and wrap you with a warm embrace.
Welcome home,
Dear friend.
Welcome home.
I have missed you so much and I'm so happy to be with you again.
And this is what stopping can offer us.
Total pause,
A reconnection.
I don't know about you,
But it feels so good to slow down and feeling that connection to the beauty and presence of this moment can bring tears to my eyes at the simplicity and beauty of just being here with you.
Thank you for taking time for yourself.
Thank you for opening up your heart and opening up your mind to a higher vibration,
To a higher thought process.
And as you bring yourself back into the room,
Back into our days,
I hope that you remember how amazing you are and how precious and sacred this life is.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
May you have an amazing day.
So much love and delight and support to you from my heart to yours.
Be well,
My friends.
