Music Welcome to the first session in the Heartbreak Series.
Let's begin with step one.
Notice how you feel.
Take a moment to tune into yourself and feel whatever emotions are rising in you.
Are you holding any tension in your body that you can let go of even just a bit?
Wherever you feel a tightness in your body,
Any points of tension,
Allow those areas to be as they are,
Just with a little less resistance and a little more relaxation.
Bring your attention to your feet.
Are they tense or relaxed?
Slowly,
Scan up through the rest of your body,
Softening each area as you go.
Step two.
Bring your attention to your breath.
Continue breathing normally,
Just start to notice the breath coming in and out.
Begin to gently extend your breath,
Allowing it to be easy,
Relaxing into it.
Imagine your breath arriving in your body through your nose or mouth and flowing deep into your heart.
Keep visualizing your breath flowing in and out of your heart.
Just stay here for a few minutes,
Breathing.
Step three.
Activate.
You will survive this.
Heartbreak is an experience of grief.
When in the throes of heartbreak,
The kind that drags you down into bleak pits of despair,
Something soothing and philosophical is not always what is required.
In fact,
What you need to know,
Especially in the early stages of a broken heart,
Is that what you are experiencing is real pain,
A pain that can feel very physical,
Like being torn apart or having your heart dragged down through your body by a metal weight.
In moments like these,
It is important to remember that you are human and having one of the most painful experiences a human can have.
What you are going through may not feel survivable at this moment,
But take heart,
It is,
And you will survive this.
If you were to look around a crowded room,
You would be unlikely to see a single person who hadn't spent time in this agonizing emptiness,
Wrestling their own demons and feeling stripped of hope.
Yet here these people are,
Still breathing,
Surviving.
The thing you must hold onto,
Especially at the darkest stages of healing a broken heart,
Is that the pain alone is survivable.
You will emerge from this,
No doubt changed by the experience,
But with a newfound empathy and depth that you will carry in your heart,
Bones and tissue,
As a memory from this time.
A time that threatened to swallow you whole,
But a time when your body would not give up on you.
Notice how your body,
With a stubborn loyalty,
Continues on,
One painful breath,
One bruised heartbeat at a time,
Until eventually the new dawn of a new day will arrive.
Step 4 Peace Beam This is the time to direct unconditional love to yourself and others,
To intend unlimited goodness,
First for yourself and then for all living beings.
Even in times of great pain,
Your capacity for goodness is your greatest strength.
This presence of goodness is always with you,
You can never be without it.
Have a beautiful day.
