BALANCE: Making Friends With Uncertainty

Join me for this journey into a space of connecting to BALANCE even in moments of uncertainty! Finding a new way to view uncertainty in our lives helps us feel more peace in the shifting tides of life! We take a beautiful journey to visit with a sage who allows us to see through a new lens with regards to how uncertainty shows up in our lives! Tap into this new way of viewing moments of unrest and walk away feeling deeply rooted, grounded and BALANCED!

Transcript

And so I welcome you in this evening to our meditation,

Balance making friends with uncertainty.

And I invite you to begin your journey this evening by just dropping into the breath,

Beginning to slow things down,

Finding a comfortable seat.

I'm always going to invite you to close your eyes or soften your gaze and bring that focus and awareness internally.

But you are always invited first and foremost to take good care of yourself and whatever that looks like for you today in this moment.

And so we're going to take three detoxifying breaths together.

So what we're going to do is inhale into the belly,

Nice big full breath,

And audibly exhale it out.

Like a nice sigh,

Right?

Taking a really nice big deep breath again.

Big belly,

Expansive breath,

And releasing that out again.

Last and best breath here.

Nice big belly breath,

Inhaling in.

And exhale that out.

Just dropping into the body in the moment,

The breath.

And making any final adjustments as needed to your props,

Your clothing,

Your body,

Just to be that much more relaxed.

And as we begin our journey today,

We are going to set the tone of our practice with an intention that you create for yourself or the Sankalpa I've created for our journey this evening.

Planting the seed of this thought using my words as your words if they resonate.

I am grateful to find balance in making friends with uncertainty as I view it through my lens of wonder and the anchor of my breath that holds me in the strength of internal peace even in the shifting tides of life.

I am grateful to find balance in making friends with uncertainty as I view it through my lens of wonder and the anchor of my breath that holds me in the strength of internal peace even in the shifting tides of life.

I am grateful to find balance in making friends with uncertainty as I view it through my lens of wonder and the anchor of my breath that holds me in the strength of internal peace even in the shifting tides of life.

And today I invite you to begin the journey of tapping more deeply into balance by riding the wave of the breath,

Just beginning to know the fluid and study wave of the breath.

And just allowing that breath to ground and root you,

Riding the wave of the breath.

And no effort whatsoever here,

Just allowing that breath to be the guide and anchor for this moment.

You are so rooted,

Grounded and balanced as you come to this beautiful space of the breath and allow it to roll like waves of the ocean,

Taking time to deeply notice where you feel this within the body on a physical level,

Sensing the wave of the breath in the body,

Noticing the physical sensations of the body and then allowing it to release and roll away like a wave.

And next I invite you to notice the thoughts of the moment.

You are so rooted,

Grounded and balanced and you can just notice the thoughts and then allow them to roll away to make space for this moment for just the next breath right now.

And feeling so rooted,

Grounded and balanced,

We allow the thoughts to float away on the waves,

Bringing the awareness to the emotions of the moment,

Just allowing any emotions here to rise and fall just like the breath and then move away in a wave.

And next we notice the awareness of intuition as you are so rooted,

Grounded and balanced,

Just taking note of intuition and wisdom as you allow whatever arises to once again float away on the breath as you breathe here.

And last we roll with the waves in this beautiful space,

Just allowing the breath to root,

Ground and balance as we float here in the waves,

Coming very present,

Having released the attachments to the mind,

Body and spirit,

Allowing yourself here to float with the breath.

And in your mind,

We begin to make our way to an incredible field.

It is full of abundant summer flowers and blooms.

Everywhere you look are colors almost unimaginable and alive.

There is tall grass waving in the breeze and the sun is shining.

It is warm and you can see a beautiful and magical tree off in the distance.

This tree standing so tall,

You cannot really see the top.

And it is glowing a beautiful gold.

The branches like a willow tree drip in leaves that vary in every color of the rainbow.

And the branches are dancing in the breeze just like they are inviting you and waving you over.

And listening to that intuition,

You begin to make your way towards the tree.

There is a sense of a pull.

This tree has something to share with you.

And trusting this,

You walk up and as you do,

There is a doorway that opens so that you can enter into the center of this tree.

Crossing the threshold and before you appear is a curved doorway.

There are other doors here,

But you instinctively know that the one straight ahead is the one that is meant for you.

And as you near it,

You sense that there is a veil covering the doorway.

And as you walk through it,

There is a shield that wraps lovingly around you as you cross through the doorway and emerge on the other side onto a path.

Stone paved and easy to walk on,

The sense of this place is ancient.

The light here is warm and bright.

It is not as lush as other places you have been,

But the energy is incredible and has the sense of an almost desert-like landscape.

And as you move down the path,

You begin to see a stand of stones that are like sentinels,

A circle of seven stones that have a radiance of each color of the rainbow.

There is a space in the center where seven sitting stones are also correlating with the colors of the sentinels.

And as you near the center,

You notice a sage old woman sitting on one of the stones that is a beautiful purple.

And you take a seat across from her on a stone of red.

And for a moment,

You just breathe here at peace with this woman,

Even though you don't know her.

You know her on a soul level.

Matching her silence,

You sense that she will talk when she is ready and that she uses discernment for every word she speaks.

In the quiet,

You breathe and honor her wisdom,

Surrounded by the sentinel stones and sensing the sacredness of this place,

Full of magic and grace.

Finally,

The woman begins to move and you see she has a sage smudge stick which she lights and begins to blow the smoke towards you as if to cleanse you and the smoke enveloping you.

And when it does,

You begin to see the challenges of your life.

Moving through the moments where you felt uncertain as if a ship on a rocky sea.

Moving from afar,

The anxiety strain and the gripping for the moments where you felt imbalance.

And softly,

You can hear the woman's voice as the image of the sea rolls.

Her voice is like smoke and gravel as she says,

You see the turmoil.

The turmoil is but the sacred experience of life forming you.

You may be feeling unsteady,

But return to the breath.

Anchor yourself in the breath and the light within.

It is always with you.

All peace cannot be broken or breached without permission.

Imagine the sentinel stones in your mind and become like the stone,

Unyielding sense of power and strength.

You are capable of enduring hard things.

Considering the moments in your life where you felt uncertain and how often you were being given tremendous gifts.

Like falling in love,

Having children,

Paving your path to purpose.

All things you were not sure of the outcome,

But felt drawn.

You were always guided.

You have the choice of how to receive the moments of uncertainty.

I invite you to experience awe,

Wonder,

And curiosity.

And notice that as you do,

The waves seem to recede.

Take on the quality and strength of the stone,

Feeling so grounded,

Rooted,

And balanced.

When you step into that sense of wonder of things that are not assured,

But grow a sense of trust in your intuition and awareness.

Imagine the moments of uncertainty are gifts or teachers.

Gifts or teachers.

Each one of them pivotal in your journey and they are guiding you to live into the purpose of your life in this season.

Anger through the breath as you sense the waves around you,

But yet separate from them for the deep internal peace that is within.

Really sensing that here as you breathe.

Thank you.

Beginning to sense the smoke is receding and once again before you is the beautiful sage woman once again silent.

You bow to her in the form of gratitude and honor as she dips her head slightly to let you know that she sees you and that your time here is done.

Beginning to move your way back down the path and towards the incredible tree of life.

The doorway is open and greets you in the sense of pressing through that veil as you walk through it once again and then into the core of the tree.

Back through the center of that tree and out the other side leaving the tree through the doorway straight in front of you feeling so grounded,

So balanced,

Aware that you have the ability to choose how you will show up in moments of uncertainty.

That you would be better served for your awe,

Wonder and curiosity rather than fear.

To receive the gifts and teachers.

We return again to that intention or sankalpa for practice to send it even more deeply through the layers of our being using my words as your words if they resonate.

I am grateful to find balance in making friends with uncertainty as I view it through my lens of wonder and the anchor of my breath that holds me in the strength of internal peace even in the shifting tides of life.

I am grateful to find balance in making friends with uncertainty as I view it through my lens of wonder and the anchor of my breath that holds me in the strength of internal peace even in the shifting tides of life.

I am grateful to find balance in making friends with uncertainty as I view it through my lens of wonder and the anchor of my breath that holds me in the strength of internal peace even in the shifting tides of life.

And slowly here beginning to return to the earth body feeling the sense of the muscles and bones and how they root you in the physical plane just as the breath does.

Bringing awareness to how you are feeling right now just noticing the soul in this earth body the clarity,

The light,

The peace and the sense of balance.

Bringing awareness to the breath in your body as it expands the chest ribs and belly bringing in vital life force energy once again connecting with the wave of the breath.

Starting to run the thumbs across the ends of the fingertips slowly wiggling fingers and toes just bringing gentle awareness but not moving fully out of meditation just yet.

Inviting you to rub your hands together to create some warmth if that would feel good to gently place your hands over your heart or one hand on heart one hand on belly.

Connecting with the flow and the wave of the breath here and pausing as you breathe here feeling so rooted and grounded and balanced in the breath and in the face of uncertainty we can return here to the sense of being anchored in the breath our strength.

Home-like strength and countenance and as we gently close the practice I encourage you to stay connected to the anchor of the breath and uncertainty and to make friends with the tides of life allowing you to move more easily through those moments and to see them as delivering you to exactly where you need to be.

I invite you to bring your hands to a prayer position at heart center if that feels good for you as we close.

The anchor of my soul honors the anchor of your soul bringing us into balance as we move through the waves of life with greater ease making us one from a place of love and light.

Namaste.