Welcome,
My name is Melanie.
Thank you for joining me for these gentle yet powerful affirmations designed to help support you towards more compassion and kindness for yourself during the menopause transition.
As I recite these affirmations there's nothing you need to do,
No special effort required.
Just let yourself settle into a comfortable position and follow along with my words.
If at any time there's anything I say that doesn't work for you,
You can either adapt it so that it does work or just let it go.
So allow yourself to take a couple of slower,
Deeper breaths.
Allow yourself to get really comfortable and let's begin.
During this time of change and transformation,
I give myself permission to go gently with myself.
I give myself permission to gently and lovingly turn inwards towards myself and my inner journey.
In order to turn inwards towards myself,
I give myself permission to let go of busyness wherever I can.
I allow myself to take more time for me.
I give myself permission to cocoon myself away when I need to.
I allow myself to say no whenever I need to.
I give myself permission to let go of any need to caretake others.
I will no longer spend my precious energy trying to keep everyone else happy at the expense of my own well-being.
I give myself permission to let go of perfectionism.
I give myself permission to let go of the need to get things right.
I choose to be easier on myself.
I allow myself to let go of harmful patterns of thinking.
If ever I find myself thinking unkind and unhelpful thoughts,
I know that I can choose not to believe them.
I can choose to replace unkind and harmful thoughts with kinder,
More helpful ones.
While I go through this time of change and transformation,
I give myself permission to let life be slower and simpler.
I give myself permission to rest deeply whenever I can.
And when I can't,
When deep rest seems unavailable to me,
I open to being extremely kind to myself.
I give myself permission to listen deeply to my body and to what it needs.
I give myself permission to do what's right for me.
And it's okay to not always know what's right for me.
I give myself permission to rest in the not knowing.
I trust that things will become clear in time.
I open to the idea that this menopause journey is a process.
I give myself permission to be a perfectly imperfect work in progress.
I open to the possibility that something really good is happening in this process,
Even if I can't always see it.
I open myself to the possibility of trusting this process of change and transformation more and more.
I am willing to open more and more to the possibility that something good is happening.
I open more and more to the place in me that can fully trust this process.
I trust in the wisdom of all my feelings and emotions that arise in me as part of this process.
I trust that feelings simply need to be felt and emotions simply need to be allowed to move.
I will not allow harmful thoughts to attach to my emotions.
I will not make my emotions mean something that they do not mean.
I will be a safe space for my emotions and allow myself to feel them in their purity.
I will not make myself wrong for what I feel.
I open to trusting my feelings and emotions as wise messengers.
I open to welcoming my feelings and emotions with love and kindness.
I am willing to feel all the endings,
All the letting go that is a natural and necessary part of any process of transformation.
I honour all my emotions as sacred,
Even the difficult ones,
Especially the difficult ones.
When I am sitting with difficult or painful emotions,
I will hold myself with the deepest tenderness.
I am willing to feel my feelings as an act of love towards myself.
I know that when I honour my anger,
My grief and my disappointment,
I honour that which matters to me.
I trust that it is good for me to feel and release my emotions.
I am willing to feel all my emotions.
And I am willing to let go as gracefully as possible.
I allow myself to open to the possibility that every ending will,
In time,
Bring a new beginning.
And I trust that something important is happening in this time between the endings and the new beginnings.
I trust in the magic that is happening here in the void.
I trust in this time of growth.
I choose to remember my strength and my resilience.
And I am willing to keep looking for the things that bring me joy.
I choose to open my arms and heart to the things that nourish me and bring me joy,
As part of my rigorous practice of self-care.
And I open myself to the possibility of joy and bliss finding me,
Even when I'm not doing anything.
I open to receiving all the help and support that is available to me.
I am willing to ask for help and support when I need it.
I open myself to receiving support from the people around me.
I open myself to receiving support from places and in ways I haven't even imagined yet.
I allow my menopause process to open me to trust.
I allow my menopause process to open me to wisdom.
I allow my menopause process to open me to love.
I choose to believe that my menopause process serves me and serves the world.
I choose to believe that my menopause process serves the highest good.
I open to the possibility of emerging from my menopause process stronger,
Wiser and with a bigger heart.
I allow myself to be changed by my menopause process.
I allow my menopause process to open my body,
My mind and my heart to love.
I allow my menopause process to open me to love.
