Let's begin today by taking a few centering breaths.
Deep breath in and just gently exhaling,
Feeling your energy settling into the support beneath you.
Another deep breath in and as you exhale beginning to imagine yourself in a beautiful place in nature.
Just allowing this place to inform all your senses,
Seeing the color and the beauty all around you.
Hearing the sounds of nature,
Maybe even animals,
Maybe the wind,
Maybe there's water.
Really listening to what this sacred space has to tell you.
Taking a big breath in and smelling the freshness,
The earthiness,
Maybe there's flowers.
Just allowing the natural sense to gently tickle your senses.
Imagining yourself reaching out or reaching down and touching the different textures and feeling the many many sensations.
Maybe there's even a taste that this brings to you.
This beautiful sanctuary like a drop of elixir from the gods.
Imagining the sun in this space and bringing your face up to it with eyes closed to protect your beautiful eyes.
But just beaming yourself to the sun and feeling the sun beaming yourself back to you.
Feeling the warmth of it touching your cheeks and your shoulders and your heart.
Feeling that beautiful radiance giving life and energy to you,
To the planet,
To all beings.
Feeling the brilliance of the brightness of the sun.
Recognizing that the sun is life-giving and also it is a reflection of who we are.
We are that bright light.
We are that life-giving force.
That is the radiance of our being.
So just standing here taking in the fullness,
The allness of what it is to stand and feel warmed by the sun.
To stand in the reflection of the brilliance of your own radiance and breathe it in.
And then in your mind's eye imagining yourself turning around a half turn 180 degrees so that the sun is now at your back.
And in your mind's eye looking down opening your eyes and seeing the shadow that forms with this brilliance behind you.
And with tender kindness extending love into the place of your shadow.
This is the place where we get to dance and we get to explore and discover ourselves.
This is the place where we will put things that were too much at the time,
Too big at the time,
To think about,
To process,
To understand.
And we place them here into the shadow.
And they live and we forget and we get busy.
And for this moment just appreciating that radiant light.
That presence of life behind you is with you always.
Every moment that we look into our shadow,
The light is what causes it.
It doesn't exist without the light.
Without that love,
Without that life-giving presence that is always with us.
Even in the depths of our shadow.
The two are so interconnected that one cannot exist without the other.
And for whatever is in your shadow in this moment that is within your awareness,
Send love and then acknowledge what lives within your shadow.
With a simple phrase,
I see you,
I see you.
And knowing that that light,
That radiance behind you is with you always.
Know that whatever lies within the shadow is here to be healed and that the light is always with you.
To bring whatever is out of the shadow and into the light,
To transmute it fully and completely.
And so sending a one last blessing into that place,
Into that shadowy place,
Where lies your growth opportunities,
Where lies your expanded awareness of you and all around you.
All that you do and all that you relate with.
And in your mind's eye,
Turning once again back to the sunlight,
Bringing your face up to it,
Closing your eyes,
Protecting your beautiful eyes.
Asking in that warmth,
In that glory,
In that light that reflects who you are.
You are that powerful,
You are that brilliant.
And so today,
Carrying with you the knowing that the light and the shadow live together.
They are each their own unique blessing.
You are whole.
There is a perfection about you in every way,
In the light and in the shadow.
You are that love,
You are that light,
You are that radiance.
And so today,
Just allowing your light to shine and sending some of that love and that light into that place of the shadow to recognize it too is here to support you,
To help you grow,
To help you thrive.
It is here as your master teacher to bring you into your best and most powerful expression in this moment and in every moment.
And so you are the light and you get to take that and shine it into all the situations that you are about to step into.
Remembering the truth of your being and reflecting that truth into every other being that you encounter.
Because today is a blessing and you are a blessing.
One more deep breath in,
Exhaling.
And when you're ready,
You can gently link open your eyes.
