Our meditation today is on checking in with yourself and learning to meet yourself exactly where you are without moving away from what's showing up by getting caught up in our own judgments,
Analyzing or questioning,
But really learning to tend to our inner life and what's going on and ask ourselves how are we doing?
What do we need?
What's here right now that needs my attention?
So we'll go into our meditation and I invite you to find a comfortable place to sit with your spine long and your eyes closed.
You can start to welcome in some deeper breaths,
Bring in some elements of resourcing or connecting to anchors that help you to stay present.
You might visualize your safe space or your sacred space somewhere you feel held and supported and most free to be yourself.
You might listen to your breath flowing in and out,
Feeling the breath in a certain area of the body,
Moving in and out of your belly and the warmth of the coolness of the breath as it enters and leaves the nostrils.
This first becoming present,
Really turn your attention within yourself and ask yourself this very important question,
What most needs my attention?
What's going on within me?
Just doing a scan of your inner life.
Is there an emotion that's most predominant?
A sensation,
Tension,
Clenching?
Are you noticing a lot of thoughts in the mind?
Just scanning,
Paying attention to yourself.
Just going into whatever feels most predominant and naming what's there.
Maybe you're naming an emotion,
Fear or anxiety.
You're naming a type of thought that you're noticing worry or doubt.
You're naming a sensation,
Tension,
Holding,
Numbness,
Tingling,
Just naming what's there.
Because whatever we name and start to shine our light of awareness onto,
It doesn't control us so much.
We're not so in the grip of it.
So naming is helpful.
Just start to bring a real kind and sincere listening presence to whatever you're noticing within yourself.
Recognizing what's there.
Noticing where you feel it and how it's being expressed through the body.
And you're just practicing now pausing and letting things be exactly as they are.
Letting things be just as they are.
Notice how that shifts your experience.
When you stop resisting.
When you stop analyzing,
Questioning,
Trying to figure it out.
Trying to fix things.
All of that's resistance.
Let that go.
And let it be.
Letting the tension be there.
Letting the emotions be there.
Not fighting the heaviness or the density or the clenching,
The texture in the body.
Just making room for what is.
Making room for your own experience.
By doing this,
You're sending a message to yourself that it's okay,
That you're okay.
And that everything that you're feeling belongs.
There's room for it in your life and it matters.
The transformation happens when we stop resisting.
Because when we stop resisting,
We end the suffering.
Just notice what shifted by letting things be as they are.
By meeting yourself with a real sincere listening presence.
Is there more room?
Can you breathe a little deeper?
Do you feel a little bit more okay as you are?
This simple shift in how we approach ourselves can make a huge difference.
This is how we create a new relationship with ourselves and what's going on.
Really tending to your inner life with kindness and care.
This is the beginning of acceptance and allowance.
To close,
Just place your hands somewhere on your body that feels loving.
That feels like self-compassion.
And take a few more breaths.
Embodying this practice of starting close and starting with the very first step of checking in with yourself and listening.
Thank you for your practice,
For your presence,
For doing this powerful work.
Blessings and namaste.
