Hello everyone and welcome to this meditation.
Whether you are brand new at this practice or you are seasoned and just looking for something new,
Try to release all expectation of what this meditation will look and sound and feel like.
For me the goal of meditation is not necessarily to have a clear mind.
It's not to have no thoughts,
But rather it's about this place of observation.
Can I have racing thoughts or any thoughts?
Can I feel an experience in my body?
Can I feel emotion,
Distraction,
Dis-ease and just observe it without judgment?
Could I still have peace in the midst of chaos?
So I invite you to that possibility today to just sit with the thoughts or experiences that arise and try not to judge them.
Sitting or lying comfortably now,
Start to take a few deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
A generous exhale in through the nose and let it go.
This time is for you to make room,
To receive.
A lot of times in this quiet space we place our palms facing down to ground.
We find it soothing to hold ourselves together in the places that feel weak.
I want you to notice where your hands are right now.
If you're familiar with the chakras,
The energy centers in the body,
Maybe you can correlate the location of your hands if they are on your physical body.
Notice if that area is an area of your life that's needing some extra love right now.
If your hands are on your stomach,
Solar plexus,
Maybe you're struggling with identity,
Motivation,
Maybe you're feeling drained and uninspired,
Like your inner fire has been lost.
Maybe your hands are closer to your hips,
You're feeling guilty,
Ashamed,
Unworthy.
Again just watching each thought and experience without judgment.
Continue to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Maybe your hands are over your heart space,
You're feeling guarded,
Alone,
Rejected.
Our hands are these beautiful vessels for life force energy.
We can assist our body in healing just by placing the hands intentionally over an area of the body that needs love.
Deep breath into those hands,
Wherever they are.
Even if they are simply on mother earth,
Grounding you into this moment.
We're going to practice a letting go now.
Placing the hands on either side of your body and turn the palms facing upward.
This is a posture of surrender.
Open body,
Open heart.
Come and fill me.
We say to the divine spirit.
We breathe in that universal love and we let it in.
As I'm recording this,
It's just past the Pentecost Sunday.
If you're not Christian or don't follow religion,
This is the story of after Jesus died and resurrected and his Holy Spirit came upon all of the people.
What a gorgeous story even if you don't see it as Jesus.
But the Holy Spirit,
The God mind,
Access to infinite wisdom and unconditional love at any moment in time is yours.
But we must receive it.
We must open our hands and our hearts and our minds and let it in.
Let that grace,
That freedom,
That forgiveness,
Let it in.
See,
It's not some external being that needs to forgive you.
The human mind sort of constructed that out of this guilt complex and this relationship that we only had access to through our imperfect parents and others.
But you haven't done anything wrong.
You don't need somebody to forgive you.
You need to forgive you.
You need to receive as you did before.
Right?
Because we punish ourselves sometimes.
When we feel that we're not worthy or deserving,
We close the doors on opportunities.
We sabotage.
We put up walls.
Right?
We block out the pain but we also block out the joy.
Inhale.
Breathe in the Holy Spirit.
The divine God mind that is a part of you.
Think of it as your higher self if you want.
And this higher you is not mad at you at all.
It wants the best for you.
It knows what's best for you.
And so we let go of our illusion of control with this simple practice of opening our palms up.
Letting go of the shame.
Fixing our eyes on the light and letting it in.
You can let love in.
You can let the light in.
Feeling a shift now.
Maybe you feel a buzzing in your fingertips.
The body is full of that life force energy now.
The body breathes you.
The spirit fills you now.
Every inch.
Every cell.
You can feel your pulse,
Your heart beating.
Carrying little vessels of oxygen.
To every organ.
Maybe extra goes to that place in the body that needed some love today.
May it be transformed.
Mmmmm.
Till you overflow.
And overflow.
Blessings pour over you and your life.
There's nothing to fear in this moment.
No shame or fear.
Has no authority.
Shamefully from your body now.
Won't you be robbed in a holy light.
Let angels surround you now.
Take a few moments of silence here to reflect.
Often times we finish a guided meditation and we jump up and move throughout our day.
I invite you to stay here in the silence for a few more minutes.
Still observing without judgment.
Maybe the flow of thoughts is more divinely guided now.
Maybe not.
We need not take anything as absolute truth here.
But just sitting in the stillness.
Notice if the body wants to speak to you.
If the heart wants to speak to you now.
You can place the hands back onto the heart.
Maybe finding your way on your right or left side in a fetal position.
Focus on the breath.
Stay here as long as you'd like.
Anytime you feel dragged down or burdened by racing thoughts or the ego mind.
Come back to this place of stillness and remember that you have access to infinite divine wisdom.
To the God mind.
You just have to tune in.
Sometimes it takes a little time if we haven't tuned in in a while.
But with practice you'll get quicker at recognizing that voice of wisdom.
Thank you so much for meditating with me today.
Namaste.
