Welcome to this meditation on the fertile void for celebrating and harnessing the energy of the winter solstice or to connect deeper within during any season of life where the light is scarce and the potency of darkness is upon you.
Allow your body to just relax and come into this moment.
Notice where your body is touching the ground or the floor or the couch or the bed beneath you.
If you're laying down or sitting up,
Noticing what parts of your body are connected to the earth.
Let's take a couple rounds of deep breath to get connected into the body.
Breathing and as you breathe in,
Imagine that the breath is going to the quietest darkest place in your body.
This place that holds an internal state of inner peace for you.
Breathe into that space.
Perhaps it is somewhere buried deep in your chest or in your stomach or in your womb space or somewhere else.
But breathe into that dark space.
And as you exhale,
Just imagine everything leaving your body that doesn't serve you and say the word release in your mind.
Continuing the cycle of breath as you inhale into the darkest corner of your body and exhale release.
Continuing to stay connected to the breath as we move through connecting to this inner place of deep rest,
Deep hibernation,
And a deep state of being.
Start to feel the quiet stillness flowing up through your body from the ground beneath you.
Whatever part of you is connected to the earth,
You are now infused with the quiet stillness from the earth.
The season of winter,
This deep dark phase that the earth is now in in this moment.
It's sharing that energy with you,
Infusing it into your body and mirroring it back to you.
The stillness,
That energy flowing up from the earth,
Makes you feel the feelings of warmth and you imagine sitting inside a warm cozy cabin with the fireplace crackling and burning,
Keeping you toasty warm.
And as you gaze at the window,
You see snowflakes gently falling.
The state of nothing needing to happen.
The snowflakes do not rush their way down to earth the same way the sun does not rush to rise and the flowers in spring do not rush to bloom.
Nature takes its time and yet everything gets done.
And as you are part of nature,
You take your time.
The magic happens in the slowness.
There is no rush.
You simply get to be just like that snowflake gently falling from the sky,
Knowing that it will reach its goal eventually.
But in this moment now,
You just get to be.
Feel yourself absorbed by this quiet softness of the earth,
Like this darkness is wrapping you up in a warm protective blanket.
And although the feeling or term or concept of darkness in the past may have felt like a negative or a scary place to be,
You feel deeply protected,
Held,
And safe.
This darkness is breathing in endings into your life,
Into your being.
In order for the rebirth to occur,
The death must first arrive.
And through this death,
You are releasing anything that is no longer serving you from your life and from your being,
So that you can restart with a fresh slate.
The same way the blanket of snow covers the earth in darkness to create a reset,
The same is true for you.
As you continue breathing,
Imagine that these snowflakes around you are turning into little clouds of daydreams floating around you.
This incubation of dreams and relaxation and clarity that is coming through to you now,
Dancing around you,
Playing around you,
And the potential of all that may be is trickling through to you now.
Without you needing to do anything,
You simply get to be.
Take a deep breath into this feeling,
Knowing that you can come back to this feeling or to this meditation at any point that you feel called to do so.
Taking with you whatever resonated into your day,
Into this week,
And into this upcoming phase of winter,
This potent portal of the winter solstice.
When you are ready,
Take one final breath,
Infusing all of this into your life now.
And when you're ready,
You can come back into this room and open your eyes.
Welcome back.
