Guided Practice With Affirmations In A Pet-Friendly Space

Meditation with body scan for relaxation. The practice brings a grounding and experiencing our energy from our roots through our bodies' energy centers to our crown and beyond, using positive affirmations. Experiencing our connectedness with the world around us and our divinity, as we are truly one.

Transcript

Thank you for meditating today. In today's practice, Please feel free to allow your pets to come into your meditation space. If you find that during the meditation, They come up to you asking for some more love or feeling anxious, Just breathe into that space and as you relax, So will they. Let's get started. Find a comfortable seated position, Either sitting up on a bolster or a firm cushion or several folded blankets or if sitting on the floor is difficult, Sit on a chair. Make sure that your spine is straight and your crown of your head is reaching up to the sky. Let's take a breath here. Inhale deeply. Inhale with a sigh. Let's do two more. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. As we sit here, Focusing on our breath, As you breathe in, Think of how the cool air is coming into your lungs and as you exhale, Feel how it's warmer. Let's focus on our breath. Inhale and exhale. And as we sit here, As thoughts come into your mind, Don't pay attention to them. Just let them go. Don't judge them. And focus again on your breath. Inhale and exhale. And now imagine the sky above you opening up and the softest petals of light, Of warm energy fall on you. And they're warm and they're relaxing. And as they touch you, You feel them relax in your head, Relaxing the crown of your head. As the energy flows like soft petals, You relax your face, Your cheeks, Your eyes, The space between your brows. Relax your lips and your chin. Relax your cheeks and your ears. Feel the warm petals of energy, Of light slowly moving down your back. Relax the back of your neck. Relax your shoulder blades. Relax your spine. The energy runs down soft. You can barely feel it, But it's been so relaxing and so warm. Relax your chest, Your belly. Relax your hips and your sacrum. Relax your arms and your forearms. Relax your hands and your fingers. Relax your thighs and your knees. Relax your calves and your shins. Feel the energy, The warm petals of light falling on your feet. Relax your feet and your toes. And as that warm energy bathes you in the soft petals of light, It soaks into your skin and you can relax your joints. Relax your toes and the space between them. Relax the space between your feet and your heels. Relax your ankles. Relax your knees and your hip sockets as you feel the warm petals of energy soaking into your body. And while you hold your spine straight, Pointing forward, Relax the spaces between your vertebrae along your backbone. Relax your sacrum and your lumbar vertebrae. Relax your thoracic spine. Relax your neck. Relax the spaces between all of your ribs. Relax your shoulder joints, Your elbows. Relax the bones in the palms of your hands and your wrists. Relax the space between your fingers. Relax the space between the joints of your fingers. Relax your neck. Relax your chin. Let your tongue fall away and rest comfortably in your mouth. Relax the space behind your eyes, Between your ears. And as the petals of light energy fall on us, Their warmth flows like water flowing into the ground. Imagine your legs become heavy, Sinking into the ground, Into the earth, Having the earth hold your legs. Take a breath and relax some more. Now feel your legs and the root of your tailbone growing roots into the earth, Holding you solidly and securely to the ground. Here you are secure. You are safe and you are well grounded. And even as your body holds firmly to the earth, The crown of your head rises to the sky towards that opening where the light petals fall. Sit here for a moment, Bathed in the warm light, Rooted to the ground, The crown rising to the heavens. And as we inhale, We pull that energy up from the earth through the roots that we've planted, The light energy that has run down our bodies and relaxed us with its warmth and its love. We pull that up through our roots, Through our feet, All around our hips and our tailbone, Strengthening our roots and our foundation. And it's here we breathe into this space and we know we are secure and we are safe. And we say, I am safe. I am secure. And repeat that to yourself. I am safe. I am secure. Now breathe up that energy just a little higher, Up to your sacrum, Into your lower belly. And it's here. We are in our center of our creativity. It's here that we find joy, The energy and the love that we're breathing up. We are safe and secure. And here we energize ourselves and we feel joy and we say, I am happy. Breathe into this space and say, I am happy. And repeat that to yourself as you breathe the energy up through the earth and nourish your creative center. Now breathe in the energy and pull from the roots, Pull the energy up higher. We are safe and secure. We are happy. And we pull the energy up to our solar plexus, To the area around our navel. And we breathe in to the area of this is where we knew who we are. And here in this moment, We are all that we need to be. We don't need to be what anyone else wants us to be. We are good enough. And we are safe, Secure and happy and we are confident. The loving energy we breathe in gives us the confidence to know. And we say, I am confident. I am who I am. And now we breathe in and we pull the energy up through our roots, Through our pelvic bones, Up through our belly, Up into our heart. And as you breathe in, Feel your heart center glow brightly. The love from the earth, From the energy that's rained down from the heavens and we are drawing it up through our body and we are nourishing our heart. And as your heart glows, Feel it open. Feel it open to love, To loving and being loved. You are safe and secure. You are happy. You are confident and you are loved. Say to yourself, I love you. It's only in loving ourselves can we love others. When your heart is open and imagine your heart growing bigger and think of someone that you love and send the energy from your heart, Draw it up through your roots, Expand your chest and send that love to someone that you imagine, Someone that needs it, Someone you know. Say to a stranger that's suffering, Send them that love and then open your heart and receive love back from them because as you send love, You will receive it back. And as you breathe in, You know that your love is limitless and you draw that energy up from the earth and in your next breath, You bring your energy up to your throat and here you know you bring the energy to speak the truth, Your truth, All that is true and speak it with kindness. You give words of love, Words that help others find their confidence, Words that bring joy and happiness and words that help others find their security, Their safety and their stability. The energy that you have allows you to bring this to the world and you speak with integrity and say to yourself, I speak with integrity, I speak with truth and kindness, I speak with love. And as you breathe in, Draw more energy up from the earth. As the energy rises, The petals of light still fall gently upon you, Soft and loving, Encasing you in a warm glow and you lift the energy up on the inside up to your third eye, Behind your eyes and here you see that you know your mind is clear and as you look inwardly, You can also look outwardly, See yourself in this room, Sitting on your mat or your cushion, See yourself in this space and you know that at this very moment, You are safe and secure. You have the power of your own happiness. You know who you are and you are confident. Your heart is open to giving love and receiving love. You speak with integrity and truth and kindness and you know that the knowledge that you need is here. And on your next breath, Breathe, Lift the energy up through your body, Through your roots, Through your hips and your sacrum, Your pelvis, Up through your belly, Up through your lungs and your heart center, Through your throat, Through your third eye and open the crown of your head and see the energy come through higher and as you draw it up through your body and lift it up to the heavens, It unites with the divine. It unites with that space in the heavens that opened up and as the petals flow down, Your energy flows up in an endless cycle of life and energy and in connecting with the infinite energy above, We see that we're connected with the world and with the energy of all beings and we share this energy and we are not separate people sitting on our own cushions and our mat. We see that we are one. We are part of the oneness and breathe into this space and feel the energy. And we see that we are in our space on our mat in our room and we look at that space and now imagine taking that space and bringing it inside you and holding the space of the room in you even as you are part of it and united with energy through the universe. Hold that space in you. And now imagine your energy growing even larger and think of your town, All the trees, The buildings, The boundaries, The waters, All that's living and bring all of that energy and imagine carrying that and fitting it inside you. Here's room and now spread your energy wider. As you connect above and you're grounded to the earth below, Spread your energy and surround the world. Imagine your loving energy, Your security, Your safety, Your happiness, The energy of your confidence and your love, Your integrity and your truth, Your knowledge and your divinity. Imagine your energy spreading around the world and then now place that inside you and you will see that you are one with the universe. And while you hold the world inside you safely, Securely, Lovingly, Imagine you soar high into the universe and it is here we are all connected and we see and we know and it is this place that you can always return to protecting the world that you know, Joined with the infinite light and energy and divine that is all of us. And as you exhale, Begin to bring your awareness back into your body. Close off the energy and maintain what you found inside your skin, Inside of who you are, Filling each cell alive and vibrant. Bring your roots back from the earth and hold all of the warmth and the love and the energy that you've absorbed inside you. And as we end our practice and go back into our lives, We say, I am safe and I am secure. I am happy. I am confident. My heart is open to loving and being loved. I speak truthfully and with integrity. I know I can see and I've experienced and I understand the divine that's within me sees the divine that's in you. Namaste.