We live in a world that moves so fast,
Faster than ever before,
Faster than our bodies,
Our nervous systems were really designed for.
It moves with the momentum of thought,
But thought is but one energy in a body that also needs rest,
Calm,
Stillness,
Downtime.
When we're in it and our plates are full,
It can feel like a non-stop,
Never-ending push towards an ever-elusive finish line,
The end of a to-do list,
The completion of a project,
The manifestation of a dream,
Like a mirage that keeps moving equidistant from us into the horizon.
In the midst of the chaos,
We promise ourselves,
I will give myself permission to stop then,
To rest then,
To breathe then,
I'll relax then.
But we live in a world so full and so fast and so out of our control that waiting for then becomes a surefire way to find ourselves passed out in the middle of a desert of an endless stream of action,
Of doing and to-doing,
Maybe starting to wonder what it's all for.
So this meditation is for anyone who needs a break from the speed,
For anyone who needs a window to remember their nature as a human being instead of a human doing.
During our time here together,
It's okay for you to not be okay.
It's okay to feel messy.
It's okay to ignore me and go inside yourself.
It's definitely okay to pretend that your email,
Your phone,
The news,
That they don't even exist.
It's okay to turn off.
It's okay to be tired.
It's okay to feel everything that you're feeling.
The lower half of our body knows.
It is our sanctuary,
A sanctuary of being,
A sanctuary of feeling,
And a sanctuary of deep,
Deep healing.
And trust me when I say that it loves your attention so that it can bring you much needed balance to your body in these very,
Very imbalanced times.
So close your eyes now and come inside to your sanctuary within,
To the healing within.
Tap into your breath,
Inviting your breath to slow,
Inviting your exhales to lengthen.
Breathe into your diaphragm,
Deep breaths into your lower abdomen.
Inhaling,
Feel your belly expand,
Exhaling as your belly contracts.
Turn off your thinking brain,
The one inside your head.
Let it melt into peace and turn on your feeling brain,
The one inside your body.
Find it to take up all the space now in your awareness.
Drop into a sensational connection to your body.
Invite feeling to emerge and travel inwards to your body's main center for emotions,
The sanctuary of your sacral center.
Simply with your focus,
Awaken this powerful gateway to your soul,
Sitting at the very center of your pelvic region.
Be with this watery,
Soft,
Receptive,
Emotional center of feeling.
Invite its tender consciousness to light up in your body like light landing on the surface of the moon,
This center receptive like the moon,
This center ever-changing like the moon,
Full of wisdom on the rhythms and cycles of energy that flow through your body.
Listen to all your reproductive organs,
This center powerful to seed and nurture and grow your life.
This gateway to your soul deeply connected to the emotional aspect of the divine feminine,
Holding a vital and near-forgotten consciousness to bring you and this world into balance.
Take a moment now to be with your feelings and offer them the same reverence you would give a bright,
Beautiful moon rising in a colorful sky at the start of night.
Honor how you feel today,
Respect how you feel today,
And in doing so,
Allow yourself to care for yourself and how you feel today.
Feel the moon inside your sacrum now and feel that moon fill your entire body with energies of nurturing,
With softness,
With gentleness.
All these beautiful qualities that can be so hard to access in our current whirlwind of a world.
Hold these energies inside you,
Melt into their tenderness,
Embody their quiet power,
Nurturing,
Softness,
Gentleness.
Let them smooth any hard edges in your body.
Let them soothe any frayed nerves inside you.
And as the surface of the moon is but a receiver of the light from a much bigger source,
So too can your moon,
The center of your body,
Receive its light from a much greater divine source.
A source of compassion beyond comprehension,
A source of endless support,
A source of the deepest care available always to you.
This is a source of love that cannot be depleted.
This is a source of love that will never resent your vulnerability but welcomes it with open arms.
It is and has always been awaiting your invitation.
So receive now in your sacrum that great big love.
Lose yourself in a long-awaited divine embrace.
This is the tender love of your highest self,
Of your soul,
Of the divine spark that knows all of you,
Sees all of you,
Feels all of you,
And has the infinite power to love all of you back to wholeness.
Receive its light.
This divine love,
Creating a safe space to welcome any feelings that have ever been judged,
Repressed,
Or held inside your body to come out into the light.
Do not be afraid.
This is a safe place for you to feel.
This is the safest place.
And if any fear does come up,
If it feels scary to receive like this,
To feel this deeply,
It's okay.
We were not taught to lean into spirit as we were divinely designed to do,
But we can learn.
Learn to live in connection.
Learn to be loved wholly.
Learn to be vulnerable.
And know that this vulnerability that you create here,
It is not weakness.
It is as brave and strong and powerful as you can be.
All you need to do is keep feeling and breathing.
You will not get lost here or trapped,
But like bubbles coming to the surface of the water,
Once these feelings are fully felt,
The energy in them is free to release.
They're gifts integrated into your soul.
Trust this process of maturation.
Trust the intelligence of your emotions.
Trust all of it to integrate and enrich the deepest parts of you.
Tendrils of energy may emerge from your emotional depths anywhere in your body.
Breathe,
Relax,
Allow.
And rest here for some time in this sanctuary of feeling.
Rest here in this sanctuary of soul.
Feel that this deep space of rest is rejuvenating you now like a great long sleep.
Feel it lighting up your beauty from within.
And feel into another gift of this center.
Feel that you are very open to receive now,
Intensely open to receive now,
So that you may ask and then receive support and love and blessings on your path,
Inviting more ease to infuse your life's journey.
Right now,
With spirit,
Turn over your troubles.
Turn over your dreams.
Turn over all of it.
Turn it all over to the highest source of love and creativity and care and power.
Turn over all of you to love.
This support that you feel now,
That you receive now,
Is your freedom from the need to be on and full and bright and shining every minute of every day.
Keep giving yourself breaks like the moon does and allow dark nights of newness to grow slowly into bright,
Shining fullness.
Honor your cycles and rhythms of creativity and energy like the moon.
Let life hold you and love you and continue to nurture you as you step forward from this meditation so that every day,
Slowly but surely,
With ease and patience,
Your life becomes a manifest reflection of a sanctuary that you create within,
Your whole life a safe space for you to rest and feel and be.
