Hi,
Welcome to Peacebeam.
Let's begin.
Step one.
Just start to notice how you feel.
Check in with yourself.
Just for a few seconds.
And maybe start to notice whether your face is frowning,
Whether your jaw is tense,
Are your toes scrunched up in your shoes.
And if you find any tension,
Just let it go.
Step two.
Breathe.
Just bring your focus now to your breath and continue breathing normally.
Just starting to notice the breath moving in and out,
Tuning to your natural rhythm.
And if you're ready,
Just begin to breathe a little more deeply so it's relaxed and easy.
And as you feel some ease start to arrive in your body,
Just imagine that your breath is moving in and out through your heart.
That the rhythm of your heart and the rhythm of your breath are uniting,
Allowing you to relax.
Step three.
Activate.
Our lives are filled with choices.
We consider it a great mark of our civilization,
This ability to make choices,
To have the right to choose.
And it is.
It's an incredible gift.
But we can forget that we do not know what will be an important choice and what won't.
We tend to think that the importance of a choice is maybe related to its physical significance,
How it affects our external world,
Perhaps moving house or ending or beginning a relationship,
Which job to take,
Those kinds of things.
But consider this.
The external choices that are presented to us are the result of the tiny internal choices that we've been making our whole lives.
The ones that we don't think matter,
But that actually determine the weft and the weave of the tapestry that becomes our lived experience.
The choice to smile,
The choice to give a kind word or not.
The choice to hold a kind thought or not.
The choice to follow your truth or to ignore it.
The choice to honor your heart or not.
These are the choices that make our lives and paint the world for us.
So just take a few moments to consider the immense power that you have in every choice that you make.
Step four,
Beam.
Today,
Choose kindness and beauty,
Sweet words and warm glances.
Choose your heart over your mind and let that energy,
The power of those choices,
Wash the world with your light.
Have a beautiful day.