Thank you to Rumi for this beautiful poem,
The Guest House.
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning,
A new arrival.
A joy,
A depression,
A meanness.
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all,
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
Still,
Treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought,
The shame,
The malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
And now just beginning to tune into your breath,
Feeling the sensation of your breath move in,
Feeling your body,
And exhaling feeling it move out of your body.
What does the sensation feel like when it enters?
Does it travel in mostly to the chest or to the stomach or to a combination of both?
How does your body move on each inhale and each exhale?
Can you sense a pause between the inhale and the exhale?
Allowing your awareness to slowly drift down into your heart,
Feeling into what is present there with awareness and inviting in the light of the great central sun above,
The light that surrounds us all,
Allow it to simply flow down from the top of your head,
Flowing into the crown and flowing warmly and gently down into your heart.
And feel a ball of warm,
Loving light begin to form within your radiant heart.
As you breathe in,
Feel it slowly start to expand,
Feel it filling up your heart and then sending it out to the nearby organs,
Tissues,
Cells and it slowly begins to radiate and spread this love and warm light all the way down to the tips of your toes,
The tips of your fingers,
The edges of your ears,
Soothing the face if there are any frowns in the face or any tension in the jaw or the eyebrows,
Feel it relax and feel this relaxation move down through the shoulders,
Soothing,
Releasing,
Filling up every area,
Every pore,
Every cell,
Every microfiber of your glorious being.
Feel yourself becoming filled to the point of overflow full of light,
Full of love.
And if this is hard to feel in this moment,
Ask the universe to pour it into you and throughout you,
Just simply setting the intention and knowing that you are worthy of receiving this.
You may even ask yourself,
Is this something I wish to experience?
And if the answer is yes,
Even a quiet whisper of a yes,
That's all the universe needs to begin to fill you up,
To love you and remind you of the wholeness that you are.
Feeling to mind a time when you felt so full of joy,
So much so you thought you might just explode from happiness and joy.
Allow this feeling to wash over you and relish in it,
Allowing a smile to pour across your face.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Letting it flow in and out in pure radiance and light.
Recognizing yourself as this light,
As this joy.
This light is you and you are the light.
And if the mind happens to send other thoughts,
Just say,
Thank you for doing your job.
And I know that I am the light and the love,
Just as you are the light and the love.
It is from this expansive,
Joyful,
Loving space of light that we recognize ourself coming into human form.
The human form is our guest house,
Our place of learning,
Our place of experience.
And from this place of light from within our guest house,
We begin to look outside of the guest house and see people standing around,
Some looking sad,
Some looking distraught,
Some looking doubtful or fearful or judgmental.
And we realize that these people are aspects of ourselves that we have shut out.
But as the light,
All we know is love and compassion for these parts of ourselves.
And so from this place of inner knowing ourselves as light,
We go to the door of our guest house from within our minds.
We open the door and allow one aspect of ourselves to come in.
And we say,
Hello,
I see you.
I love you.
See yourself embracing that aspect of yourself.
What does this aspect of yourself look like?
See that aspect of yourself that was in doubt or fear or judgment.
See the light begin to fill yourself up,
Integrating the wisdom of that experience,
Knowing that you are pulling yourself back in to the love and the light that you are.
See yourself as the light.
Begin to pour through this other version of yourself as that emotion begins to release,
Dissolve and drift out of sight,
Cleansed,
Healed,
Purified in the light of your light and your love that flows from within and all around you.
Allow whatever arises to arise and say hello,
Welcome into this guest house.
I've been waiting to love you.
I've been waiting to share this light with you.
And if you need more time,
Know that I am always here waiting,
Always here ready to love you.
Breathing in and breathing out.
As you breathe in,
Feel this embrace of yourself as light with this other aspect of yourself that is being healed.
Breathe in deeply and embrace yourself with so much love and compassion.
For this human journey has ups and downs,
But we can begin to ascend in light and love and trust and we do so by slowly opening up our hearts to receive more and more pieces of ourselves with love.
Standing in light and radiance.
Trusting and knowing that we are worthy of calling every aspect of ourselves back to ourselves.
We even welcome the parts of ourselves that denied these parts of ourselves.
We say hello.
I see you.
I love you.
Come into my guesthouse.
Feeling your heart expand,
The light within your heart begin to open and expand.
Creating more space for more and more of you to return.
Being nourishment and love within.
And we even begin to welcome those parts of ourselves that wanted to fix these parts of ourselves we had been denying.
And from the light and love that we are we open the door and we say hello,
Welcome.
My heart is open to you.
And you have done as best as you can and that was all I needed you to do.
So thank you and I love you.
My guesthouse is always open to every part of myself that is ready to be loved and healed back into the infinite light and love that I am.
I am worthy of filling my guesthouse with every aspect of myself and returning back into the light within my heart.
For this light within my heart knows no limitation,
No bounds,
No barriers.
Even if thoughts consume me at times I can return gently into my heart and ask my heart to love me back into wholeness,
Ask divine source to love me back into wholeness.
For I am worthy of returning to love,
Of embodying the love that I am.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Inhaling light from 360 degrees all around you,
From above,
Below,
And every angle all around,
Breathing light into every cell and exhaling,
Sending light and love 360 degrees around you into every inch of your auric field.
Knowing you can always return to this space of love and infinite light.
All you need to do is ask and set the intention.
And so it is.
