Lunar New Year Meditation

Enjoy this guided Lunar New Year guided meditation on the Jade Dragon. Nitya Griffith offers a mystical, inspiring meditation about 2024 with journal prompts. So, pull up your meditation cushion and bring a pen and journal to deep dive into setting your intentions for the year ahead.

Transcript

Welcome friends.

Thank you for joining me for this beautiful meditation at such an auspicious time of our year when we are transitioning from one lunar new year to the next.

We have ended as of January 25th big Leo full moon when we said goodbye to the year of the rabbit and began a journey transitioning towards the year of the dragon.

Welcome.

Find yourself seated comfortably in a place where you won't be disturbed.

Let's close eyes and join me if you like for the sound vibration ohm three times.

Shanti shanti shanti ohm.

Feeling into the breath.

Let's begin rubbing hands together and as you're rubbing your hands together you can continue to keep the eyes closed.

Taking three slow breaths now.

Beautiful hmm.

Now bringing hands to prayer position at your heart.

We're gonna do crystal breaths.

We're gonna breathe those prayer hands up the midline over the head and then make a diamond shape with your fingers so the fingertips are touching.

Making a triangle shape with your hands.

Exhaling down to prayer position again at the heart.

Breathe back up the midline.

Create that diamond shape.

Exhale bring it down.

I like to use power breaths here.

Imagining the dragon coming in with a roar.

Breathing up.

Power breath out.

Inhale up.

Power breath out.

Make those power breaths as audible as you like.

As needed as you like.

Keep going.

You're doing great and as the eyes are closed imagine that you are charging up a crystal in your heart.

Continue with these breaths.

You're doing wonderful and begin to notice we're slowing it down.

Slow it down.

Very good.

Beautiful and as you are now coming back to prayer hands through your mind's eye notice the heart space.

If you sense a warmth here maybe a color vibrating through and feel the energy that you have now created here in your heart.

Now you can rest hands comfortably and again notice check your posture.

You're not slumped but also that you aren't in a static rigid space either.

Somewhere in between.

Continue to follow the rhythm of the of the breath focused on the heart space and as you are here in your heart the dragon comes in on February 4th.

We will celebrate on the Lunar New Year on the new moon February 10th and we will be in this energy until February 4th 2025.

The dragon is a natural leader.

How do you lead?

How do you use authority in your life?

Are you a dictator?

Are you a collaborator?

Are you an innovator?

All of this speaks of dragon.

The dragon is the only Chinese zodiac animal that is not of this world and it very much mirrors Pluto and Aquarius.

This energy of connecting to other worlds to allowing yourself through meditation and through more mindful conscious loving living that you raise your vibration to this greater time for being a human on this earth.

Some may call it the new human.

How are you polishing your sweet soul self to be in this higher vibration place?

Are you living from your heart more and more in all of your interactions?

How do you inspire wonder?

Confidence?

How are you attracting attention?

Even if you have the smallest spotlight,

Where is it shining on you and what you do?

All of this is so important that we begin to live more mindfully.

If you are a magnet like the dragon,

What do you attract?

What do you repel?

What are you radiating out?

And know that you can shape shift and change any and all of it.

This is all in your power and control.

And that in itself is very dragon like.

Let's take a deep breath in.

Sigh it out.

Deep breath in.

Sigh it out.

Are you living a vibrant life?

Are you engaging in everything with enthusiasm?

Are you in a buffet?

Dropping in to savor and taste all that's being offered.

Do you sense in yourself a freedom?

An optimism?

Energy?

A good fortune that just is saying yes to this year?

And yes to yourself?

How do you bring passion,

Imagination,

Optimism,

Motivation,

Vibrancy and energy into yourself and this life,

This work,

Your relationships,

Everything to drop the dissatisfied,

The excessive doing too much,

Thinking too much,

Expecting too much.

The opinions,

The intolerance,

The ego,

The overpowering and oppressive.

To let that shadow of the dragon be asleep so that we might see the most positive,

Potent aspects of this energy riding in.

So that you can fly above and really transcend where you have been.

It's all about the choices that you make from the moment you wake up.

Let's take another deep breath in and exhale slowly.

Ah.

As you're following your breath,

Let's take a pause of silence here.

Beautiful.

Hmm.

So I'm gonna give you some journal prompts to support you in your journey for 2024.

First,

Journal prompt.

How do you lead?

How do you lead?

How are you a leader?

What comes up when that word is said?

Unique to your own life.

Maybe it relates to your work.

Maybe it's about how you are in your home,

In your marriage or your partnership with your children.

How are you leading in your life?

How are you a leader?

Okay.

How are you bringing enthusiasm,

Positivity,

Passion into your life?

Enthusiasm,

Positivity.

How are you bringing those qualities into your life?

Recognizing that we are all magnets.

So what we focus on expands.

So what ultimately are you focused on?

Are you focused on being positive,

Enthusiastic,

Passionate?

And then you can add to that journal prompt,

If not,

Why?

Right?

What are those blocks?

How can you navigate around them?

And who put them there?

How can you see the best in every day?

If this is a year forecasting good fortune,

That begs the question,

What do you already see in your life that is abundant,

That you can offer more gratitude towards?

And that's the final journal prompt.

How do you see yourself as abundant?

And as you write each thing down that you are abundant in,

Health,

Money,

Job,

Children,

Friends,

All the things that you specifically in your life are feeling abundant.

Because wealth is everything,

Right?

It's not just money.

So when you look at all of that,

As you make that list,

Say thank you.

And instead of focusing your conversations on what is not working,

Even in your friendships and your conversations with people when they start to go down a spiral of doom and gloom and negativity and complaining,

Gently offer the simple question,

What is working?

What is good?

Because the more that we change our conversations,

Both internally with ourselves and with others,

To being more positive,

Radiant and vibrant,

The more that we are in this now higher vibration living.

And it feels just like the dragon.

Freedom.

Yeah,

Beautiful freedom.

So I hope these journal prompts are helpful.

Feel free to listen to this again.

And again through the year.

Let's come back to closing our eyes,

Putting your pen down and your book aside and let's do our crystal breaths again.

I want you to really nail this practice down so that you can do this in your day.

Great to sit at a traffic light and do,

Just keep your eyes open.

Great to do when you need to feel empowered.

So hands at the heart,

Breathe up,

Make the diamond shape over the head.

Exhale,

Bring it down to the heart.

Prayer hands again.

Breathing back up.

Exhale,

Bring it down.

Inhale,

Breathe it up.

Exhale,

Breathe it down.

Let's do a couple more.

Feel that crystal in your heart,

So activated.

Last one.

And sit here with your eyes closed and feel into that energy.

The magic,

The magnetism,

The enigma of the dragon energy of 2024 embody that.

May you lead with loving kindness.

May you soar to great heights.

May you experience abundance in all aspects of your life.

May you find renewed passion,

Enthusiasm,

Gratitude and joy in every aspect of your life.

Focusing always on what is working and letting the rest figuring itself out.

Liberating yourself to be your best self.

Blessings,

My friend.

Taking a deep breath in for Om.

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti om.

Great peace.

Be well.

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