Good morning.
Welcome to this meditation.
Take a moment to breathe deeply into your belly.
Inhale.
Hold the breath at the top of your lungs.
Push it down into your belly like you're inflating a balloon.
And again.
Take a little moment to follow that breath down into your belly.
Look for that sweet spot.
Where your breath meets your body.
Where you begin to feel centred and still.
The power of breath is amazing.
I've really been leaning into the power of breath myself the last few days.
To still myself,
To steady myself.
Not just on a yoga mat.
And that's what I find to be so invaluable about the practice of meditation.
Is that,
Yes,
It's effective and so game-changing when we practice it methodically,
On a consistent regular basis.
Whether that's sitting on a yoga mat or using an app to meditate at the end of the day before you sleep.
Or regularly taking time out during the day to intentionally meditate on a park bench or somewhere quiet.
But for me,
The real power in this is the inner knowing and the self-knowledge that I can come back to it at any time.
And I can tap into it as a tool for self-regulation,
For comfort,
For recalibrating.
When the day becomes discombobulating and when curveballs are thrown and unwittingly received out of nowhere.
Meditation,
Breath work,
The ability to clock out and clock in to that safe inner space.
The knowing that there is a doorway,
A portal inside one's own being.
It's so powerful and it's so game-changing.
Because life can be crazy.
Life in the external muggle world can be derailing at the best of times.
It doesn't matter how healed or how spiritually zen we think we might be in a moment of prayer and meditation.
It's how we take that out into the external world that really counts.
And not only that,
But how we allow ourselves to reset in our inner worlds when we have been knocked about a bit in muggle land.
So I invite you to breathe deeply into your body.
Find that sweet spot and recognize it.
Know that it's yours.
Know that it's your doorway.
Know that it's your portal into calm.
Know that no one can take it away from you.
Know that it's your privilege as a human being,
But a spiritual being,
To access that doorway at any time.
Know that it's always there.
Sometimes when we're lost in the maze of the external world,
It's hard to find that doorway.
Rattling on the knobs of closed doors.
Begging to be let in.
Fearful because we think we're being chased down and we've got to enter.
In these moments,
It's important to breathe.
It's that deep breath.
That steady,
Deep breath.
When we inhale,
Allows us to push oxygen deep into the far off regions of our bodies.
To oxygenate all those little feelers.
Those places that are waiting for those nerve cell endings that are just waiting for signals from our hearts and our brain.
When we breathe deeply,
We're allowing,
We're inviting inspiration from the divine creator,
The cosmic hum.
We're bringing it into our bodies and allowing it to mix with the miraculous stardust that is us.
Breathing really deeply helps that magic happen faster.
Pushing that breath intensely into our extremities.
So much more effective than breathing and breathing up here.
Deep,
Deep,
Deep breath.
It's what channels and guides the innate wisdom within us.
Helping us to navigate our way through that maze and find the unlocked door,
Find the untrapped door.
So that we can open it,
Walk through it into peace,
Walk through it into calm.
So that we can find that safe space within us.
Feels centered,
Feels like home.
We can connect with the light.
The light that sometimes burns really bright within us and sometimes feels dimmed.
But the light that is always burning.
The light that is always on.
And we have the ability to inflame it,
Turn it up.
Once we've discovered meditation,
We have essentially a dimmer switch.
We can turn it up and down at our will.
The light.
I like that analogy of meditation,
Breath work.
It's like having access to a dimmer switch or a lighter switch.
Let's call it a lighter switch.
A glimmer switch.
And we can turn up and down at our will.
I'd like to end this meditation with a prayer that is dear to me.
Dear God,
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
And so it is.
