This is another meditation on sensing our innate goodness.
We're born with a basic sense of our goodness.
Neglecting trauma can damage this.
This simple practice can restore the sense of your innate goodness when done repeatedly.
To begin,
Get grounded,
Comfortable,
Get present with your breath,
With your body or your body anchor.
Get present with this moment.
With your foreground attention,
Grounded in your breath would be best,
Or it could be some other sensation in your body.
Take a few deep breaths in and out just to release tension.
Come to a place where you're relaxed and present in your breath.
Okay,
Now imagine yourself as a child,
A young child.
If you can,
It's ideal to do this meditation with a picture of yourself as a young child.
This is a great meditation to do with a picture.
See yourself as a young child.
See your innocence.
Sense your original goodness.
That childlike innocence,
That childlike freshness and goodness.
Sense that within yourself.
It's still there.
It may be covered up with layers of judgment,
Of hurt,
Of pain,
But it's still there.
See if you can see past the layers of hurt and pain to sense that original goodness.
Be with that sense.
As you do this exercise,
Continue to ground yourself in your breath or your other body anchor.
Keep this image of yourself as a young child in mind.
Sensing your innate original goodness.
Now,
Merge your sense of yourself as a child with your sense of yourself now.
Sense deep into the innate core goodness within you.
The innate core of goodness in you.
See if you can sense your core perfection.
See clearly,
If you can,
The life experiences that have damaged the sense of goodness.
Feel compassion for yourself as you would for any innocent young child who was wounded in the way that you have been wounded.
Okay,
And when you're ready,
Come back to this moment.
This is a very brief,
Simple practice.
It's one that you can do,
Really.
You can touch into on and off throughout the day.
It's a great little practice for piercing through the illusion of self-hate,
Encountering the core feeling of being bad or unlovable.
You may find it helpful to carry with you a picture of yourself as a child to look at from time to time when you feel broken or unholy or unworthy or shame or feel bad about yourself in any way.
This is a great practice.
Sort of pierce through all of that and tap into this core innate goodness that we all have.
