Good morning.
Welcome to this meditation.
I invite you to take a really deep breath.
Hold it at the top of your lungs and then gently push it down into your belly.
Feel your belly inflate like a balloon and again push that breath down into your belly.
I invite you to move around until you found that place of stillness on your mat,
Wherever you may be,
Listening to this meditation,
Maybe lying down,
Maybe walking,
Listening to it,
Sitting on a park bench,
Wherever it is that you choose to check in,
That's absolutely fine.
Just finding that intentionally connecting with that place of stillness within you.
Take another deep breath.
I like to think that when I breathe in,
I'm breathing in inspiration.
French.
Inspire.
Exhale love.
Exhale creativity.
When you found that place of stillness,
Settle there,
Rest there gently.
And I just invite you to take a few moments to think about the energy of the day,
The energy of the day ahead.
What does it feel like to you?
Sometimes we can wake up in the morning and there's a sense of excitement and nervous anticipation about the unfolding of the day.
Other times we can wake up feeling heavy,
Like it's almost impossible to breathe because we're so frightened or so full of grief,
So full of sadness for what has been or fear for what might come.
I hope you've woken up feeling excited and full of anticipation today,
But if you are feeling heavy,
If you do have sadness weighing on your heart,
I invite you to take this moment to just soften into it.
Just soften into the sadness.
Don't reject it.
Stroke it.
Try and envisage it with an aura of light around it.
See it as love.
Sometimes when we're afraid of something that might happen or we're enduring something that has happened,
The intense emotion that we feel around it,
When we really distil it down,
We can see that it does come from a place of love,
A place of desire for connection or desire to stay connected.
Maybe we've broken up from a relationship that we wanted to stay in or maybe we've lost someone or something that we really didn't want to lose.
Maybe we didn't get that job.
Maybe that house that we so desperately thought was ours,
Maybe the sails fallen through.
Maybe your spouse has just died and we weren't expecting it.
Maybe you're caring for an ailing relative,
Maybe they've been ill for a long time and you're just weighted down by this sense of heaviness.
Maybe all those things.
But I invite you to look at why you feel so heavy and so sad and see that the root of it is love.
It's all huge waves of love.
Because if we didn't love,
If we didn't desperately fear the loss or feel the loss of the idea,
The person,
There would be no emotion,
There would be no feeling.
So I invite you to soften into that,
That sadness,
That fear and embrace it.
Transform it.
Even just for a moment.
Into something soft and smooth.
Pull it into you.
Integrate it.
Stroke it.
Don't push it away.
Let it become part of you,
Like a gentle layer,
Like a new layer of skin.
Every day we wake up we feel different.
Each day brings new challenges.
Each moment brings new challenges,
You know.
We only have the moment.
It's a deep irony of this human life that we have to juggle the being in the moment with planning ahead.
The practicalities of living in the 3D world juxtaposed with the very visceral,
The very internal experience of living in our hearts and minds and bodies.
Whilst navigating this rocky,
Rocky,
Beautiful,
Unpredictable external 3D world,
I'd invite you with me to see meditation as a way to access the stillness that is possible to find in the waves of emotion.
Be they excited,
Anticipatory,
Joyous or indeed fearful,
Grief laden.
All of these emotions are so beautifully human.
Is it possible to have them all at once?
Yes.
Is it possible to feel weighed down by one?
Yes.
Is it possible to feel that you're riding high on the wave of one?
Yes.
None are right or wrong.
None stay.
They all come and go like waves,
Like the weather.
I invite you to really just acknowledge whatever it is that you're feeling today.
To lean into it,
Not reject it.
Bring it into you.
Integrate it into your layers.
It's when we push things away,
When we reject them,
When we say no,
No,
No or too much of a yes,
Yes,
Yes.
It's just about bringing it in.
Wrapping it in considered love.
And saying it's okay.
Come and visit for a while.
But don't take over.
Because when any of these emotions take over,
They cloud our connection to the divine.
I invite you to envisage whatever emotion is feeling strong for you today.
And to shine light on it.
To invite light in to that place that it's sitting.
Is it happy,
Joyous,
Free energy?
Great.
Invite more light.
Is it deep fear?
Is it sadness?
Is it grief?
Is it stagnancy?
Invite light.
Invite the light in.
Even if you don't believe,
Just for a moment say,
Please bring me light.
I invite you to breathe in deeply.
Breathe in love.
Breathe in inspiration.
Breathe in light.
Send that light deep into your heart,
Deep into the places that it needs to go,
That it needs to visit.
Invite in a loving,
Steady light.
A light that will fill you with equilibrium.
Fill you with peace,
Even if it's just momentarily.
A light that you can reconnect to at any point.
A light that's your connection point with the divine.
Breathe in love.
Breathe in light.
Inhale light.
Exhale steadiness.
Exhale peace.
Exhale strength.
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.
Amen.
