Morning Blessing Gift Of The Storm Before The Calm

Morning Blessing Gifts awaken, stimulate and deepen meditation and spiritual practice. The meditations provide a friendly, comforting and accessible way to wake up and affirm the whole self. Each blessing has seven brief paragraphs that offer a welcome to the day, a silent meditation, affirmations of body, heart and soul, a blessing and a gift for each day. It begins and ends with a ring of a singing bowl.

Transcript

Just as the day welcomes you,

All qualities of you,

You can welcome the day,

Knowing it will bring a variety of experiences.

Welcome or not,

Here is the day.

Even the silence has a texture,

Now rough,

Now smooth,

Now thin,

Now full.

As the quiet unfolds,

Simply be aware of its changes.

Your body breathes and pulsates its way into the day given to life.

Blood is pumped and circulates.

Muscles contract and expand.

Breath comes in and goes out.

The landscape of emotions has peaks and valleys,

Gentle rolling hills and high craggy peaks,

And all the weather in between.

Inhabit this enlivening land,

Which may have a tempest or a lull.

Your spirit,

Who you have always been and always will be,

Is woven together of threads coarse and fine,

Old and new,

Bright and dark,

Noisy and quiet.

May you embrace the thunder and the peace of this day.

Your gift today is the storm before the calm.