You're listening to the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast and I'm your host,
Liz Carlisle.
Thank you so much for tuning in,
For pressing play,
For creating an aura of wellness and focus and peace around your day.
You can do this meditation in a comfortable seated position or just lying flat on your back on your bed or your yoga mat.
The point is to be focused and alert but also relax.
You don't want to feel like you're forcing anything.
You just want to be and breathe.
So to start us off,
Let's go into a few guided breath sessions.
Let's take a deep breath in through the nose.
Hold and out.
You can make your breath audible,
That ujjayi breath.
You're still breathing in and out through the nose.
Breathe in and out.
Breathe in and out.
Last one together.
Breathe in deep.
Sip more air in and breathe everything out.
Meditation is one of the best ways to improve your health but also your compassion for others and that's step one of this meditation.
I want you to imagine someone that you love very much,
Envision their face,
Feel the emotion of love you have for this person and imagine your love.
It's almost like a mist or fog coming out of you and enveloping this person in good energy.
Notice the color that you chose for your fog.
Is it pink or blue or green?
And then with every breath,
I want you to expand that love outward so that it fills the room around you and then expands further into your town and then expands further.
You can see your country on a map and the mist is spreading out into neighboring countries and then imagine the world and the love is crossing the oceans and enveloping the entire world with your loving energy.
See it now and breathe.
Now I want you to think of something that you're incredibly grateful for.
Is it your nice bed?
Is it your partner?
Is it a child?
Is it your work?
Feel the emotion of gratitude reverberating through your body for whatever you've chosen today.
The next thing I want you to focus on is forgiveness.
Who do you need to forgive?
Maybe it's yourself.
Maybe it's a friend,
A coworker.
Envision whatever you need to forgive in front of you now and feel the release of tension and the release of attachment,
The release of ownership of a situation.
And with every breath,
You feel lighter and calmer and less bothered knowing that whatever happened is done and that you can move better through life without carrying it with you.
Imagine if you will letting a pack off of your back,
Loaded down with weight and you just leave it on the trail and keep moving.
So much lighter,
So much less pain in your shoulders and in your back and you can focus on what's to come.
And that's what this next part is.
It's called future dreaming.
What do you see for yourself,
For your life?
What do you want to manifest into your day,
Into your year?
Visualize what you want to create for yourself.
It can be as fantastical as you wish.
Let go of any limitations that you may put in place.
This is just for fun.
Right here,
Right now,
You have full agency to create whatever you wish.
What is that?
Now that you've created in your mind's eye what you would like to create in your future,
I want to transition that to your perfect day.
What does your perfect day look like today?
Are you going to make a particular kind of coffee?
Are you going to have a great conversation with a friend?
Are you going to have some wins at work?
Are the kids going to behave?
Whatever it is,
Imagine your perfect day and your place in it.
Visualize that now.
And to round out this practice,
Connect with your higher power,
Whether it's God or the universe or source,
Whatever you understand to be the intelligent overarching source of life.
Connect with that and give thanks and accept the blessing from above.
You are cared for.
You are loved.
And God,
The universe,
Whatever you want to call it,
Truly does want the best for you.
Connecting to that source is an incredible way to move forward.
Thank you for joining me for this guided meditation.
Please stay in meditation for as long as you need here today.
Go through the six steps again if you wish and notice,
Maybe even write down how you feel right now,
The shift that happened from before you pressed play till right now.
Notice how much more energy you may have than when you began,
How much more optimistic and light you feel.
This is real.
I know you feel that too.
Thank you for joining me.
Until next week,
Namaste.
