A Prayer Of Apology To Mother Earth

Sit back or lay down, close your eyes, listen and receive. Now is the time to surrender to love, it is a time for forgiveness. May we walk gently and recognize that it is a privilege to be alive. May this prayer and meditation serve your heart.

*Gratitude to Marina Raye for sharing her music track “Awakening Dream” from the album Liquid Silk.

Transcript

Hello friends,

This is Padma Gordon and I want to welcome you to living from the heart.

And I would like to share something with you that came through recently during this time of the pandemic during this time when we are being asked to look deeply inside and to reevaluate who we are and how we've been living as humans on the planet.

And really as I see it,

This is a time for deep cleansing,

Letting go of old ways that are no longer serving.

So I want to offer you this prayer,

This meditation.

A prayer of apology to Mother Earth.

The sun is setting and I am on a windy mountaintop in the open space behind our house.

Since very few cars are on the road these days,

The air is clear and I can see the entire San Francisco Bay.

Music plays through my earbuds.

A spontaneous prayer of apology comes flooding forth and my body begins to dance.

A cold wind blows as warm tears roll down my cheeks.

My chest heaves and I sob with a mixture of grief and gratitude.

The spring hells of California are speckled with purple,

Pink and yellow flowers.

They take my breath away.

My heart breaks open.

I'm shedding layers of emotion like a snake shedding her skin.

My tender heart feels the pain of what humanity has done to the earth and consequently to ourselves.

I offer this as a prayer of apology and as a call to action.

So I invite you now sweet friends to close your eyes.

Make yourself comfortable.

Either sitting or lying down.

Do what's right for you and listen.

Take a few generous breaths.

That's right.

And let yourself sink in.

Feel the touch of your breath on the inside.

Feel the touch of the air on your skin.

Take a moment to feel how you are held and how we are here together in community.

I'm here holding the space and we are here in meditation dropping into our hearts opening to this prayer together.

So let yourself settle down.

Drop inside.

I'm going to read to you and perhaps you can let the words be nourishment like a soft rain on a summer day touching you gently.

Feeding you.

Healing.

Inspiring.

Remember we are here together meditating across the world together.

It's beautiful.

What grace that we get to be together like this.

So rest.

Rest sweet friend and listen.

Now is the time to surrender to love.

To step in.

To allow yourself to show up in ways that you never have before.

Because dear friends this is the moment for us to rise up as agents of love.

This is the moment for us to be generous,

Sing,

Dance and express ourselves without reservation.

Take no prisoners.

Your voice is needed.

Yes,

Your voice is needed.

Your soul needs to breathe.

Now is the time to pray and pray often.

To enter into the sacredness of what this messenger COVID-19 is telling us.

It is time to surrender all of your self-judgment and doubt.

To relinquish all pretense and stand tall as your own beautiful self.

It is a time for forgiveness.

Take a breath.

Make space.

Make space.

Can you forgive yourself for all the moments you have forsaken yourself,

Bitten your tongue rather than spoken up in the face of injustice?

For the times you have casually walked by the homeless person in soiled clothes,

Sleeping on the sidewalk.

Or instantly deleted the solicitations for help that arrive daily in your inbox.

Can you forgive the parent who harmed or neglected you?

Can you forgive the lover who has carelessly trespassed on your vulnerable heart without so much as a backward glance?

I have.

Breathe.

Open.

Make room.

Make room,

Friends.

Make room.

Let us forgive generously for our withholds block access to love.

And love is what will shepherd us through this moment and whatever will come.

Our human family has disrespected Mother Earth in ways that are unfathomable.

She is talking to us and talking loudly.

Let us listen with a soft ear and grieve the ways in which we have raped and pillaged her and the ways we have taken her abundant gifts for granted.

Just breathe.

Make room to be present with all of this,

However it touches you.

We are here together.

You are not alone.

So let us prostrate ourselves to Mother Earth and beg for forgiveness.

Let us humbly apologize with every cell and fiber of our being.

How much worse does it need to get before we act,

Before we honor everything as sacred?

Everything.

As sacred.

Each blade of grass and every resplendent ray of sun shining through the majestic clouds set upon the backdrop of this incredible vastness which we call our world.

Breathe.

Pause.

Open your heart.

Every breath opens your heart to love.

Every breath.

May we walk gently and recognize that it is a privilege to be alive.

Yes,

It is a privilege to be alive.

Feel it in your cells.

The aliveness of life coursing through you,

Through me,

Through us.

Together.

Let us tend to one another with kindness and compassion as we share our vulnerable hearts and our gifts.

My friends,

Your gifts have been laying in wait for eons and it is time to let them out.

Shine your light into the world.

Shine your light into the world.

Can you sense your light right now?

The light of love flickering in your heart.

Feel its warmth.

Bask in your own radiance.

Enjoy.

Take heart.

You have nothing to lose.

We are living in the unknown.

It is a brand new time.

This is a shakedown.

The level of what we have known is being repatterned as we slow down,

Interrupting our frenetic pace to be with ourselves and those we love in person or through the blessing of the technologies we have created.

Just feel.

Right now,

You are taking the time to be with yourself and to be here together.

In our sacred community of meditators,

Which stretches across the world.

Breathe it in.

You are not alone.

We are in this together.

Please know this.

Breathe these words in.

You are not alone,

My friend.

We are in this passage together.

In my experience,

The opportunity for intimacy is even more palpable than usual.

Let's not fall back into the usual.

It wasn't working.

It wasn't working.

Let's just jump into the icy cold water of this moment with both feet.

Or better yet,

Do a swan dive.

Take a deep breath.

Dive into emptiness.

Discover yourself.

Let yourself be seen.

This is our time.

If we had not needed such an intense wake-up call,

We wouldn't have gotten shaken so hard by life.

This virus is a catalyst to our own self-esteem.

And with reverence,

Many are sick and many are dying.

There is much to feel and love holds it all.

Take a deep breath.

There is much to feel and love holds it all.

Take heart.

Walk on the waves of feeling.

They will pass and you will be cleansed and awaken ever more fully.

Align with your heart.

Walk on our planet in radical integrity.

Radical integrity.

It is time to release the reins of control and let love lead.

Let love lead.

Breathe and make space to let love lead.

Let us grieve the error of our ways and make a real shift.

Let us be steady in our hearts.

Embody love.

We got ourselves into this by mistakenly thinking that we were up to the task of being in charge and clearly this has not been the case.

Let us humbly recognize that the accumulation of houses,

Fancy cars,

Expensive clothing and gadgetry does not bring with it true happiness.

I know you know this and have simply forgotten.

I have too.

Now is the time to remember why we came here.

My prayer is that we will wake up and live in right relationship to Mother Earth and all of her creatures.

And that this moment will deliver us into the fact that everything is sacred.

Everything is sacred.

This breath is sacred.

Every moment we share here together in meditation is sacred.

We are changing the world through meditation.

This sacred practice in which we are engaging together.

Thank you.

Thank you for showing up and being present.

You are not alone.

I am here with you.

And we are here together.

As a global community.

As a sacred global community.

Blessings to you.

Stay safe and healthy.

You are loved.

You are loved.

You are loved.

Reviews

Beautiful meditation about honoring the sacred within us and around us. Thank you.

very very nice. comforting. thank you

One Earth. One soul. One spirit. With deep gratitude for your honest and timely meditation. Very thought provoking and heartfelt. Words of truth. Thank you.

Thank you for pùtting into words what I have been feeling.

So deep and profound. Thank you for this quietly powerful experience. Bookmarked and downloaded. I see you and the light within you. Be well. 🤲🏻❤️🤲🏻

Thank you so much for this beautiful prayer. Everything you said resonates deeply in my heart. Stay safe dear friend, love and blessings 💙 x

After a heartbreaking day of witnessing humanity's toll on nature in my own neighborhood, this meditation was just what I needed to end the day with a sense of gratitude to nature and feeling of connection with like-minded souls. Thank you!!

So beautiful...amazing! Thank you Padma😊🙏❤️

Beautiful, thank you. Bookmarked for future plays

I have never give a review, but Thank you! You've mirrored my soul with your words. Namaste, blessed be, mitakue oyasin.

What a powerful, meaningful prayer for Mother Earth....she has been waiting and waiting for us to shine our sacred love to her. Padma, you have encompassed a deep yearning within all of humanity to show up for her, ask for forgiveness, and know that we do not stand alone! Thank you, Padma, this was so beautiful!

Wow! What wonder!! Thanks so much! 😊. I will come back to this.

Thank you, dear Padma. May this time on our blessed Planet be an opportunity to come together as One and heal. Many blessings.🙏

Padma, thank you. This beautiful meditation gave words to the yearnings that have been whispering in my heart. All is sacred. Sending love and blessings back to you and to all who share in this meditation.