If you are here,
There is no doubt you have been through a lot.
Life has taken a turn or two or fifteen.
Life in a body can be beautiful and it can also be harrowing and raw and so different than what you had imagined.
Any challenges can shake us to the core,
Changing expectations of who we are or thought we would be in this body.
Today we come together to separate the experience of what you are going through in your body and who you are at a soul level with gratitude and surrender.
Closing your eyes,
Rest your attention on your breath.
Deep breaths in and out,
In and out.
Then rest your attention on your third eye point,
Your mind's eye,
Breathing at your own pace.
Your soft awareness on this focal point,
Welcoming all of you to this moment,
Showing up exactly as you are.
This wondrous body you have lived in your whole life has done such amazing things.
From your first breath that signaled transition from the womb to the world,
To the millions of synapses that are firing in your body every day to make the most simple processes happen.
The things that your body has done to get you to this moment are miraculous.
Your DNA has adjusted over your ancestors many lifetimes for you to be here at this moment.
Having a body also comes with immense challenges to fall or break a bone,
To be sick,
Or the physical effects of heartbreak or loss.
We are dropping into this moment to feel all of that right now,
The gifts and the challenges,
The grief and the gratitude,
The tenderness and the exhaustion,
Welcoming it all to this moment.
Dear one,
I know you are smart because that brain has done so many fantastic functions over the years.
You've learned so much,
You've formed friendships,
You've built relationships,
You've made thousands of choices that have brought you to learn all of the lessons you've learned.
Interesting or useful,
You have made it to this moment and have learned from the forks in the road.
But your brain and your body are not who you are,
They are your shell.
You have done such amazing things in this shell and now it has been unwell or tired or aching.
But it's not who you are.
You are not a shell.
Your spirit,
Your love,
Your timeless nature and true essence are all innate to your being.
You are not your shell.
So it's okay.
I invite you to cast off your shell for this moment.
You are a smart and loving and beautiful soul.
You have permission to be in the current moment because you are not your shell.
You are love and light and a cosmic force to be reckoned with.
You are larger than a shell could ever be.
Allow your inner light,
Your inner luminance to keep growing and growing beyond this shell.
Allow the light in your heart to keep expanding beyond your shell in this current time and space.
Allow it to keep growing and expanding as far as you would like.
Growing and growing into the world,
The cosmos,
The multiverse.
This is you.
This is who you are.
You are so much bigger than you know,
So much bigger than your body,
Than your shell.
You are big and brilliant and radiant.
Allowing this radiant to emanate and shine for you.
You are light.
You are pure love.
Allowing this radiance to be.
Allowing yourself to soar in this radiance.
Allowing yourself to rise in this radiance.
As we start to conclude our time together in this way,
I want to invite this moment to leave an imprint on you,
So you may come back to this moment at any time.
Seeing the Earth as if from above,
It is your choice to come back into the earthly realm or to stay in the ethers of love.
If it is your choice to return to the earthly plane,
Follow your gaze and imagine the Earth.
Seeing the Earth come closer and closer.
As you see your country come into focus,
As you move closer,
You see your town come into focus,
And then you see your home come into focus.
Then,
In your home,
You see your body,
Or a slightly energetically different version of your body come into focus.
You bless this body with the imprint of your new knowing and merge with that body,
Knowing that you are so much bigger than that body.
As you merge with this updated or imprinted body,
Feel free to wiggle your toes or take a few deep breaths to ground.
After you ground,
Slowly open your eyes and give gratitude to one aspect of this moment.
It has been a gift to guide you through this experience.
Thank you.
