Welcome,
Welcome,
Welcome.
Let's become aware of the breath once again.
Allowing anything that no longer serves us or that was in our mind to be shed.
And with every breath,
We become more and more present.
With every inhale and exhale,
We allow the mind to settle.
Becoming easeful and natural.
Without rushing anything,
Without trying to control anything,
We continue to practice yesterday's practice of allowing and surrendering.
And with every moment that passes,
We allow more and more fully.
With every breath that passes,
Let us remember the heart as a sun.
And as the breath moves in and out of the chest,
The sun becomes more and more present,
Golden and warm,
And sets our mind at ease.
Today,
We'll practice the power of acceptance and to do so,
We'll need to become aware of the power of love that exists in the heart.
We'll need to experience the heart as a force,
As a power of love like the sun.
The sun simply shines.
And this is what it does,
And we are the sun.
So with every breath,
Let us allow ourselves to surrender to the quality of our heart as a sun.
And through our surrender to the heart,
We become more and more powerful.
Powerful in our vulnerability and in our ability to accept.
Now,
To practice the power of acceptance,
We'll need something to practice with.
So let's recall a time recently when we may have been triggered.
Maybe we were frustrated or irritated,
Jealous,
Impatient,
Angry,
Sad,
Depressed.
Whatever emotion that we feel is generally unpleasant for us,
Let us recall a time when we felt that more recently.
And let us remember how we were thinking.
What were our thoughts like?
What was the quality of our emotion?
And what were some body sensations?
Perhaps we were thinking,
They are so wrong.
They don't know what they are talking about.
Maybe we experienced ourselves feeling righteous in our irritation.
Maybe we experienced that quality of emotion that is just contraction.
In our body,
We may have felt our shoulders shrug,
Our stomach clench,
Our hands sweat.
In any case,
Recall how you felt in that situation.
When we feel something 100%,
The feeling cannot stay within us.
So we're going to practice feeling something fully in order to accept it.
So imagine yourself in this situation feeling as you did.
And with a few breaths,
Accept yourself in that experience.
With every inhale,
Allow yourself to be that way.
Not to feed it,
But to accept it.
And we can even use the power of the heart by accepting that emotion,
That experience into the heart.
Yes,
I have this irritation inside of me.
Yes,
I have this frustration inside of me.
Yes,
I have this depressive quality inside of me.
And accept it into the heart.
When we do this fully,
A quality of softness and vulnerability naturally arises.
So we feel that experience fully and we accept it fully into our heart.
And with every breath,
We allow the heart to grow more and more fully,
Expanding and consuming this contracted quality.
And now looking for ourselves if we notice a space.
If the quality is not gone,
There's usually the quality of resistance in place.
We might not want to feel differently.
We might want to be right.
We might like the way we feel because it feels powerful and there may be reasons why we feel that way.
All of these different statements are different qualities of resistance.
And how do we deal with resistance?
Just as we did with any other contracted quality,
We accept it into the heart.
So let us take that resistance that we might feel anywhere in the body and as an emotion or as a thought and accept that,
Yes,
I have resistance and it's okay.
I accept this resistance fully into the power of my heart.
And we may even wish to hold our heart to feel its presence.
And now we may wish to go back to that original quality of irritation,
Frustration or sadness and welcome that experience into the heart.
And simply notice.
Does it grow?
Does it stay rigid or does it dissolve?
And if it does not dissolve,
There's likely a level of resistance,
Which is okay.
Simply accept that resistance to the heart and allow it to dissolve so that we can courageously face ourselves once again.
And now let us revisit the power of the heart.
Feeling the heart's movements as a sun.
Feeling the natural quality and power of the heart as it grows with every moment and its power and unshakable of love.
With every breath,
We allow and surrender to that quality of the heart.
Like a mountain that is immovable.
By days and days of sun and wind and weather,
The heart becomes immovable and unshakable in its power of love.
We become more raw.
We become more vulnerable.
Because we are more embodied by the heart.
With every breath,
We welcome these qualities of transparency,
Connection,
Relationship,
Openness,
Service.
We become more and more open to that heart's expression into every facet of our life.
With every breath,
We open ourselves and our surrender.
With every breath,
We open ourselves to our own tenderness.
With every breath,
We become more and more of who we are.
