Welcome.
This is a prayer and practice for receiving guidance on how to share your gifts.
First the prayer.
You might come into a comfortable seat or lie down,
Make a shape with your body that feels supportive and nourishing to you right now.
I invite you to soften or close your eyes and then place your hands where it feels right,
On the heart space,
Or folded together in your lap,
Or maybe bringing the palms together in a prayer position.
Take a few breaths into the heart,
Into the body.
Dear Creator,
God,
Spirit,
I have this beautiful,
Pure energy that you have gifted me with and I know it comes from you.
I feel how you want to flow through me and I am grateful,
So grateful for this gift.
You've called me to share it,
But I don't really know how.
I try and I feel like I'm showing up with authenticity,
But then it doesn't turn out the way that I had hoped.
My heart is weary.
There are times I feel alone and I feel the hope draining out of me,
And yet I know you are with me.
I know that you are alongside me and I know that you call me to be here.
Please show me how you want me to channel my gifts.
Please show me I am yours.
And now the practice,
Making yourself a vessel.
Soften or close your eyes.
Settle into being here.
Feeling grounded,
Feeling into the earth beneath you,
Supporting you.
Allowing yourself to receive some support from whatever you're sitting on or lying on.
Feel the integrity of the spine,
The crown of the head reaching up toward the sky and the tailbone pointing down toward the earth.
Place your hands on your heart and breathe here.
Make yourself a vessel,
Opening the crown chakra at the top of the head,
Opening the portal at the soles of the feet to the earth.
Letting energy now flow from the heavens to the earth and from the earth to the heavens all through you.
Making yourself a vessel.
Dive deep now into the heart space.
Draw your attention here to the heart space and rest at the heart.
Moving through the layers of the outside world's advice and shoulds,
Dive past them into the heart space.
Rest here at the heart center.
And as you do,
Feel the heart opening like your favorite flower.
Receive sunshine and rain.
Receive grace.
Receive nourishment.
Receive love.
Feel that love flowing through you,
Blossoming,
Receiving and blossoming with love.
And now from this space,
Ask and receive wisdom.
Ask for guidance.
Maybe it comes in the form of an image,
Sensations,
Colors,
An emotion or words.
Ask and receive wisdom now.
And then,
Now see yourself acting from this place of heart and inspiration,
From love.
See yourself doing just the next right thing based on what you received,
Trusting it,
Even if it doesn't make logical sense quite yet.
See yourself acting on this guidance with deep trust and surrender and a full heart.
And then know that you are being guided and you are loved.
To end this practice,
You might sweep the arms out to the side and up toward the heavens and bring the palms of the hands to touch.
And then bring them down,
Drawing them through the center line of your body,
Blessing your forehead,
Your eyes,
Mouth,
Throat and heart.
Let's do that two more times together,
Inhaling,
Reaching up and exhale,
Blessing,
Sealing in that wisdom,
That divine trust.
May you know deep in your bones that you are being guided and may you know that you are so deeply held,
Accompanied and loved.
