I invite you to find a space where you can get comfortable either sitting or lying down where you won't be disturbed.
Settle in and feel the ground beneath you supporting your body.
If you are sitting,
I encourage you to sit up tall,
Lengthen your spine and neck,
Your shoulders down away from your ears and press your bottom into the surface underneath.
Gently place your hands either in your lap,
On your heart or by your sides.
If you are lying down,
Allow your body to become heavy.
Roll your shoulders back and down.
Place your arms by your sides or resting gently over your heart area.
Gently close your eyes if that feels good.
And take a nice long inhale and exhale out of your mouth with a big sigh.
And again,
A nice long inhale and this time holding for a brief moment at the top.
And exhale out with another big sigh.
Allow your breath now to become smooth and natural,
Unforced,
Whatever feels comfortable and easy.
We will spend the next moments with the concept of non-attachment.
It has been said that the root of suffering is attachment.
Non-attachment is not just about the physical such as your car or bank account,
But also to fixed ideas or expectations,
Concepts about how you think things will go or expectations of how you think someone should act or what someone should say.
Non-attachment helps us to realize the gift of now,
Being in the present moment.
If someone has said something that has hurt you in the past,
Are you still holding on to that?
Is it causing resentment or anger,
Hostility,
Quite possibly a host of many other physical ailments?
Perhaps today is the day to begin letting go.
Today is the only day that matters,
The only day that is our reality.
Releasing things that may have hurt us in our past allows us to begin the healing process.
On your next inhalation and starting from the bottoms of your feet and working up to the top of your head,
Welcome in love,
Peace,
Healing and light.
And from the top of your head and down through the ends of your feet as you exhale,
Release any negative and stagnant emotions,
Anything that no longer serves you.
Inhaling in light,
Peace,
Love and healing and exhaling out anger,
Fear,
Pain,
Jealousy.
Let it all go.
Non-attachment is about going with the flow and allowing things to happen exactly as they happen,
Accepting things as they occur,
Acknowledge and then moving on,
Trusting in the process of life,
Going with the flow,
Trusting in the process.
When we live with non-attachment,
We become less controlled by our own emotions.
We aren't so attached and therefore possibly let down,
Disappointed to an outcome that we had hoped for,
Expected.
Non-attachment allows for a feeling of freedom as well as clearness of mind,
Which brings a serene,
Happy,
Peaceful,
Loving feeling for life in general and for ourselves.
Slowly when you are ready,
Bring your awareness back to your space.
Slowly wiggle your hands and feet.
Let's take another nice inhale and exhale out with a deep long sigh.
Flutter your eyelids open.
Take just a moment to thank yourself for these moments that you've given to yourself.
Namaste.
