Hello,
Welcome to today's meditation.
Today's meditation is to help you alleviate your feeling of loneliness.
Before we begin today's meditation I encourage you to find a safe place where you can relax without any distractions being fully present in the moment.
Finding a safe place to lie or sit or relax.
We begin today's meditation on our breath work.
We inhale two three four and we exhale two three four.
Inhale and exhale.
As you continue to breathe I want you to analyze your body and see if there's any areas of tension,
Soreness,
Stiffness,
Aches,
Pain,
Stress,
Worry or care.
Anything that isn't serving you today I encourage you to let it go with each exhale.
Inhaling a feeling of peace,
Restoration and comfort and allowing the rest to just let go.
Giving you one more moment to wiggle in your seat or in your place to find that area of comfort and relaxation and let's begin today's meditation.
If you've ever felt lost and loneliness then you know how difficult it is to shake this feeling.
Luckily when you combine the desire with dedication amazing changes in your life will occur.
Daily meditation is simple yet so so powerful.
Implementing a task and sticking to it that's how we make habits.
Loneliness is simply a feeling that has become a habit.
It cannot be cured by any external means.
Your life could be full of people and you still feel lonely.
You could have no friends and feel lonesomeness.
You could be completely alone and still feel lonely.
As you see it is a simply a thought a thought of separation that creates a feeling of loneliness.
This can have a never-ending task and a circling effect until you change your focus.
Again finding that very comfortable position and making sure you will not be disturbed.
Begin by acknowledging the person who needs you the most.
You will find this person when you look in the mirror.
Say to yourself now thank you thank you for this moment as an opportunity.
Give yourself now the time to breathe and breathe your very best.
Many of us will go entire days without even thinking about our breath yet it's the very thing keeping us alive.
Your breath has been there for you since the beginning.
Fitting in each moment exactly how it needs.
A breath it never asks a question and it never judges you.
It simply does what is required and it does what is required instantaneously.
So let's honor our breath right now and all it has been doing for us with five significant purposeful breaths together.
Let's begin.
One fully inhale expanding your belly and your chest as much as you can.
Holding it for one moment and exhale feeling a wave of relaxation sweep over you.
Two inhale feeling your entire breathing system with fresh oxygen.
Hold it and exhale.
Notice again that wave of relaxation gently sweeping over you.
Three inhale so deeply that you are brimming and at the brim of air.
Taking a moment at the top soaking in the life force we call oxygen and exhale.
Exhale noticing that your body is relaxing in different areas without any effort from you.
Four fully inhale the life force beginning to feel these breaths purifying purifying your entire body.
Exhaling now and not having to do anything at all.
Just noticing how you are feeling.
And five the last one a full beautiful breath coming in.
Hold it.
The feeling of goodness of this simple task and exhale allowing that wave of relaxation to sweep to sweep over you again.
Just take note of how you are feeling in this very moment.
You now have an abundance of oxygen.
This is how we are truly created to feel.
Breathing deeply and fully is an expression of self compassion.
Let and allow your breath to be natural now and notice how abundance feels.
Good.
This this is your new tool that when you use and faced with the feelings of negativity and loneliness you decide to take this five deep purposeful breaths and helpful breaths that allow you to relax.
These conscious and dedicated breaths even make it difficult for you to think negatively.
Next time you catch yourself feeling hopeless you must take these five breaths.
There are many many meditative techniques that give you back the reins allowing you to take control of your emotions and instead of letting your emotions control you.
Mindfulness through meditation helps you become better and better acquainted with yourself and your emotions.
So presently you are just relaxing and feeling very safe and comfortable.
No one needs you right now.
This is the time you have dedicated to yourself and nothing is disturbing you.
You have nowhere to go and you have nothing to do right now.
You you are completely safe and relaxed and you are able to make great changes without much effort.
You are now being guided by your relaxation.
It's amazing how our feelings come and go like waves of the ocean shore.
We all know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with feeling relaxed so it is just the same as there is nothing wrong with feeling uncomfortable.
There are only sensations that you are experiencing.
Sensations that come and go,
Come and go,
Come and go.
Now gently bring into your awareness the feeling of loneliness and notice how and where any sensations of discomfort arise.
Be with this feeling as if you are with a friend who is very upset about something that has happened to them.
Be there for your discomfort as if you are consoling a dear friend who has tears in their eyes.
Join with your loneliness as if you were meeting up someone you love because they called you and they needed you.
Is the feeling of loneliness actually scary or is it just like that friend who is experiencing a bad day and is calling out for someone to console them?
You can soothe your friends tears with your compassion the same as you soothe your lonesome feelings.
Be present and listen because you,
You my dear friend are the only one who can give solace to this feeling just as how your friend reached out to only you when they needed comfort.
You,
You alleviate feelings of dissociation by being there.
Being there with them and never pushing them away.
Would you tell your troubled friend to go away when they call you?
When they call you upset asking for your presence?
No.
Then do not tell your loneliness to go away either.
Good.
Allow any feelings of seclusion discomfort or pain to just pass by.
Pass by like a rain cloud that has a bright and that has brought that heavy rain.
The cloud that passes by and the sun peeks out beaming with light and warmth.
When you console uncomfortable feelings and you sit with them as a friend you are allowing a storm of upset to rain down letting go and continue in the wind seeing the sun break through and drying up the waters with its warmth.
You can clearly see a smile on your friend's face because you,
You are always there for them.
Wonderful.
The cure for loneliness is to change our focus and as soon as you feel it arise you change that focus.
By practicing these necessary techniques they make for meaningful encounters with your inner self allowing your loneliness to become your ally.
I encourage you to take another moment here to sit with your loneliness not pushing it away just being present comforting it acknowledging it.
I thank you for such a good job today.
Sometimes sitting with heavier emotions is hard but I am proud of you and proud of your courage and your bravery to be able to sit there with your loneliness.
When you are ready I encourage you to come back to the moments the days and weeks and months ahead of you.
Allowing your body to come back to life to be present here in this moment breathing in fully and deeply exhaling slowly and softly remembering that the warrior inside of me sees and honors the warriors inside of you.
Namaste.
Again I thank you for joining today's meditation on alleviating loneliness and helping with that feeling I am your host Katie Sarma.
Thank you.
