Welcome.
Hi,
I'm Orla and in this practice we will create a space to invite up the energy of love in our life,
Character strength of love.
And it's important to know that there's never any pressure to feel anything.
This is simply an invitation,
A gentle exploration that we do with some curiosity and with much kindness to ourselves.
So allow yourself to find a position that's easeful,
Comfortable for you.
And we can prime our body for this practice by bringing to mind someone who is so easy to love in this moment.
It may be an animal or a human.
It may be someone who's in our life at the moment or someone from years and years ago.
Allowing your heart's imagination to scan through your memories to present someone who is so easy to love in this moment,
Very uncomplicated.
And allow yourself to sense the symptoms of love in your body.
When you think of this person,
This animal,
How does your body feel?
So we may sense a warmth in our eyes.
Sometimes there's a quality of a smiling energy around our lips and jaw.
We might sense a brightness in our chest or heart.
We simply might feel more buzzy,
More energy as we contemplate this beloved human or animal.
We really allow ourselves to explore this more deeply in our body now.
Sometimes we sense it as a color or a texture or an image.
Sometimes it feels like a temperature,
Pulsing.
And if you can draw it gently to the area of your heart,
We know that when it builds We know that when it builds a little bit,
This warm loving energy in our heart,
That our heart will circulate it effortlessly through our whole body.
So allowing this energy to be generated,
Become a little more intense in your heart,
And then allow your heart to circulate it so naturally through your whole body.
Allowing yourself to simply breathe as this warm loving energy moves through your whole nervous system,
Your bones,
Your skin.
Even radiates outside your body so that you might feel it against your cheeks all around your body.
Allowing yourself to feel this benevolent energy.
It may feel like delight or joy,
A deep sense of care.
And as you sense this unstoppable loving kindness,
This warm benevolent energy,
It can expand very naturally from around your presence to fill the whole room,
Tucking into every corner so that the entire room is filled with a warm benevolent energy.
The very air shimmers with kindness and holds you just as you are.
Sensing how it feels to allow yourself to be held by this caring benevolent energy.
It may feel like a bubbly effervescent joy.
It may feel like a deep warm love.
It may feel like kindness,
A profound care for everything you're experiencing just as you are.
Unconditional care.
And as we allow ourselves to rest in this wider field of kindness,
It can expand again very naturally.
We allow our heart's imagination to allow this field of kindness to pulse outwards,
Maybe filling our whole community,
Our whole continent,
The whole planet.
The whole solar system.
And then pulsing out as far as our imagination can travel.
So that the whole universe and beyond is held in this vast field of kindness.
Holding all life,
All existence in unconditional care.
And sensing how it feels to allow ourselves to receive that,
To be held in unconditional care.
And we can sense how it feels to offer unconditional care.
We can bring to mind again the being that's so easy to love in this moment.
Allowing ourselves to offer them these kind wishes.
And you can use your own words,
Your phrasing,
So that it feels genuine and authentic for you.
May you be safe.
May you be happy.
May you be free from all harm.
May you meet each moment just as it is.
Seeing this life that we care so much about,
Able to step into an easy moment with freedom and happiness.
And able to step into a difficult moment with a sense of groundedness and peace.
Able to meet each moment.
May you know you are cared for unconditionally.
You are loved without conditions.
And sensing in your body how it feels to offer that.
And we all feel that.
And we allow the energy to kind of fold around so that this vast field that we are within can offer us just the same energy.
And just sensing how it feels to receive,
To offer,
Without there being any difference.
Offering and receiving without any obstacles.
So sensing your own heart,
Your own living presence.
May I be safe.
May I be happy.
May I be free from all harm.
And if it's in any way difficult to offer these wishes to yourself,
You can allow the vast field of unconditional care to simply beam these to you.
So that it shines like gentle sunlight.
Softening,
Nourishing.
May you be safe.
May you be happy.
May you be free from all harm.
And may you be loved.
May you be free from all harm.
May you step into each moment with grace and ease.
May you know you are loved unconditionally.
May you know you are cared for without conditions.
Simply because you are alive.
You are here in this moment.
You are receiving unconditional care.
May you be safe.
May you be happy.
May you be free from all harm.
May love be with you.
May you be loved.
May love flow freely.
And allowing a few moments in silence to allow yourself to receive and offer without distinction.
Simply bathing in this quality of unconditional love.
So that love lights up every cell in your body.
Every particle around you.
Shimmering with love.
May this energy of love support you in your thoughts,
Your feelings,
Your words,
Your actions.
So that you can move through your day in freedom with grace.
May you be loved.
May you be happy in freedom with grace.
Thank you so much for practicing together.
