Find yourself a comfortable position.
Begin by taking a few deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth.
As you continue to breathe deeply,
Notice any areas of tension in your body and let your breath flow freely into those areas.
Take as long as you need to feel settled and relaxed.
Breathing into each area of the body that draws your attention,
Slowly breathing in through the nose and letting the air flow out through your mouth.
As your body begins to relax,
Bring your awareness to your skin.
Continue breathing deeply and just notice how your skin feels.
This is the edge of your body,
The beginning of the etheric field.
Take a few moments to breathe deeply and just notice how your body feels at the edge of your skin.
As you are ready,
You can bring the awareness just outside the skin,
Just past the edge of your physical body.
You're not traveling very far here,
Just an inch or two at most.
Notice what it feels like to bring your attention to this space just past your skin.
Continue to breathe deeply while you explore this area with your awareness.
It may take you a few tries to notice any difference between the edge of the body,
The skin,
And the space just outside of it.
This is not a space that most of us are used to exploring and it may take you a little practice to get used to feeling into this area.
As you start to feel more comfortable with this space,
You will notice that it feels different from your physical body.
There's a lightness in this space that we don't feel in the physical body.
As you start to feel extremely light,
Like you're floating,
You've probably traveled past the etheric body and into the aura.
We will do this at some point on our journey,
But for today you want to stay in that etheric body.
It feels a little more restrictive than the aura,
But not quite as physically restrictive as the actual physical body.
Again,
This is a distinction that may take time for you to discover.
Be patient with yourself.
As you explore outside the body,
Let your awareness roam all the way around your physical body.
Start with the area just outside your arms and let your awareness begin to roam up along the arms,
The chest,
And upper back.
Around the head,
Slowly letting yourself become acquainted with this space.
From the head you can move back down.
You may find,
Just like in your physical body,
Areas of tension or tightness.
You may pause here to breathe into those areas as you need to.
As you're ready,
You can continue to move the awareness down,
Exploring the area just outside your torso and your hips,
Around each leg and foot.
Eventually you will get a sense of the physical bleeding into this space slightly.
You may feel more relaxed in your physical body as though you've suddenly given it a little more space to relax into.
And that is exactly what is happening here.
We are allowing our body to fill up more of our energetic space.
You may need to repeat this part of the meditation several times before moving on to the next part.
And that is perfectly okay.
Continue to breathe deeply and be patient with yourself.
As you feel comfortable exploring and relaxing into the etheric body that is just around our physical body,
We will move inside the body.
Each organ,
Each cell has its own etheric space.
And we want to explore these spaces now.
Let's choose an organ like the liver,
Located in the center to the right side of your body.
And imagine what the etheric space around the liver feels like.
It's just like the space around the whole body.
But it's exclusively around the liver.
We can move through each internal organ this way,
Exploring the etheric body around the kidneys,
Around the digestive system,
Your stomach,
Your gallbladder,
Your intestines,
Your bladder.
If you are not familiar with anatomy,
That's okay.
Just direct yourself to explore the etheric space inside your belly.
Our awareness has great intelligence.
And it will do the work for you as you breathe and focus.
Once you're feeling comfortable inside the belly,
We will bring our attention to the heart.
The etheric body around the heart is the most important step in this process.
Getting comfortable in this space,
Letting the space expand.
This allows for expansion as well as protection.
And this can be a very difficult step.
Most of us have issues around the heart.
We are too open,
We are leaking energy,
Or we are restrictive.
And most of us have walled up this area.
So this is a time to be extremely gentle with yourself.
First,
Bring your awareness into the physical heart,
The actual organ.
You don't have to know exactly what it looks like anatomically.
You know where it is your awareness can find it,
On the left side of your chest.
And by breathing slowly and deeply into this area.
Notice what comes up for you here.
You may notice the same feelings of tension you felt throughout the rest of the body.
You may notice emotions coming up here.
All of this is completely normal,
Although it can be intense.
Do this work as much as you feel you can from day to day.
You may explore just a little bit each time you do this meditation.
Until you feel more comfortable getting fully into this space.
The first time you may just be getting acquainted with your heart again.
You can introduce yourself and explain that you're there to give the heart the space it needs to expand and protect itself.
Building the walls as we usually do does not provide real protection.
In fact,
It just hurts us to have these artificial energetic barriers.
So breathing into the physical heart is the first step to exploring this area.
As you feel comfortable breathing into this space,
Coming fully into the physical space of the heart.
You may begin to expand just past the physical heart,
Just as we did in the earlier part of this meditation.
Let your awareness explore the space just around the heart.
Again,
This may be difficult.
It may be hard to imagine,
It may be hard to feel this at first,
But keep practicing and you will get there.
As you breathe into the space just around the heart,
Eventually you will feel the heart relax and spread out into this space,
Just as the rest of the body did when we did the same work.
The amazing thing about this is that through this expansion into the etheric space,
We begin to build the strength we were hoping for by putting up our artificial energetic barriers.
You don't need to wall off your heart to protect it.
You need to let it expand into the natural space it's meant to be in,
Which is this etheric space.
The etheric space in the heart generates the etheric energy throughout the rest of the body.
So we will pause to take some deep breaths and really let our awareness come into this space.
As you begin to expand into this etheric space around the heart,
You will have emotions come up and you can use the dissipation and expansion meditation to help release those emotions.
Eventually,
What you will feel is the pure joy of allowing your heart,
The space it needs to breathe to function.
You will feel a beautiful white light in the area of your heart space.
You may feel warmth,
You may see color.
You will know when you are truly in this space by the calmness,
The relaxation,
The joy you feel.
You may revisit this meditation anytime you need to,
To access this state.
Be patient and gentle with yourself.
It may take you some time to get there,
But you will.
Being in the etheric space of the heart allows you to truly connect with the world around you in a new way.
From my beautiful etheric heart space to yours,
Continue this work.
You are worth it.
And with a few more deep breaths,
Letting your awareness come back into the physical body.
Noticing a shift in how you feel from when you first started this journey.
As you come back to yourself,
When you are ready,
You may open your eyes.
