Hello and welcome and thank you so much for joining to meditate today as we aim to move through a real sadness that is on our heart.
So glad you are here.
I wonder how you experience your sadness,
Maybe as something quite negative or unpleasant.
Perhaps there are other ways though we can see it more positively,
Like the flow of water in a waterfall.
At least if we are dealing with it healthily,
We feel it moving through us,
From that sense of loss and out through our bodies,
Our thoughts,
Our tears.
I am separated from the mother of my two children and I regularly feel a deep sadness for them,
Deprived of the unified family that many children enjoy,
And sadness for myself.
But it's amazing too because as I mourn our loss,
I also am learning to treasure the times we do share.
I sometimes arrive four hours early to the town where they live,
Also where I work,
Just to take them to school,
A chore before that I sometimes resented.
I wonder how sadness may already be affecting you in positive ways.
There is genuine beauty in our sadness.
Before we move into deeper awareness and flow,
Taking a moment,
Maybe with the eyes open or in the mind's eye,
To perceive a couple of beautiful things around us.
Maybe you have a beautiful cat or dog.
Maybe you can see the beauty in your eyes in the reflection.
Maybe in the hills behind where you live and in the scurrying clouds or infinite blue of the sky.
If you're really lucky,
Maybe you can overhear the beauty of people laughing together or witness an older couple holding hands.
Maybe you can sense it in the finish of some wooden furniture at home.
Smiling now at these beautiful things.
Closing our eyes now then and entering a place of calm watchfulness,
We bring our attention and our intention to our breathing.
Through the nose in,
Through the nose back out.
As the lungs empty,
In no major rush to fill them again,
A moment of perfect emptiness and availability.
Sensing maybe the pulse of the heart or what I call the glistening of the watchful mind.
And again,
Breathing,
Sensing,
Emptying.
Thoughts are likely beginning to come.
They always do.
Ah,
There's a thought.
Thank you,
Thought.
And back to the breath and the sensing and emptying.
Okay.
Now,
Maybe our sadness has a clear focus point for us.
Maybe it doesn't.
Maybe there are other things going on too.
So we are just going to check in with a small melody.
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Honey,
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Listening to the response sensing how our body feels if there is sadness there we need to allow its space to be,
Be felt and to move yes it's okay to feel sad honey yes it's okay to feel sad it's hard enough as it is if you don't feel too silly you can take one hand in the other and give it a light squeeze stroking the hand lightly we are letting our inner child know that we are here for them yes yes we are in all of us are deep wells of love and joy breathe perceiving them now breathe we keep moving and affirming I love love I love trust I love joy they are right here it is my decision today to love to trust to be in joy trusting in the truth of these affirmations I slow my breathing just a little and allow my body to fully relax confident that this is a safe space to absorb these beautiful truths I'm letting my guard down now now I'm ready to start sensing the wonder can I sense it can I see it can I glimpse it so much joy can I taste it can I embrace it can I breathe so much joy can I face it can I free it can I be it so much joy can I hold it can I hide it can I confide so much joy so not replacing our sadness but sensing its shift as we experience all these treasures soon we need to continue moving through our day and that's good smiling now having a stretch as we slowly bring ourselves back to the surroundings and release any pressure in our eyes in our faces and allow those wonderful eyes to open you are beautiful and may your day be also thank you so much for taking part today
