Sit comfortably and softly close your eyes.
Fold your hands in prayer in front of your heart and gently bow your head to your heart.
We know that whenever we expand our breathing,
We make space.
This influences the way we are both with ourselves and all around us.
We also know that this isn't a personal experience.
We're all in this together and we're all connected to each other.
Our inner world shapes our outer world and as we remember this,
We return back to our inner light.
Very gently lift your chin,
Release your hands down,
Yet keep your eyes softly closed.
As a gesture of reverence,
Softly smile,
Then lift your left hand up to gently rest on your heart.
As you do so,
You recognize your heart's power.
Notice your heart's placement within the body.
Remember your heart's significance.
Feel with your hand the rise and fall of your chest while you breathe.
A few gentle breaths here.
As you breathe,
Sense an automatic connection to your heart where you are once again gently landing here.
Again,
Through soft breathing.
Very gently release your hand down.
Now as you inhale,
Allow your breath to ascend internally.
And as you exhale,
Allow your breath to descend internally.
Inhale,
Let your breath lengthen.
Exhale,
Let your breath widen and expand.
Inhale deeply.
Exhale expansively.
Beginning to inhabit the whole space of your heart more fully here.
Once more just like that.
Inhale long.
Exhale wide.
Allowing the gentlest,
Most pristine current of your breathing to fill the space of your heart here.
Just a few more seconds.
Going a step further in this process,
Now as you inhale,
Feel your breath as it lifts all the way up into the center of your brain.
And as you exhale,
Feel your breath as it softly exits out through your nose.
Again,
Inhale,
Your breath ascends all the way up into the center of your brain.
Exhale,
Your breath descends and gently flows out through your nose.
Repeat this twice more.
This exercise is simple,
Yet very powerful.
Staying softly attentive the whole time.
Sense the subtle energy of you freely moving throughout your whole form.
Allowing your body here to take on the perfect pace of breath that's just right for you in this moment.
Gentle,
Easeful breathing.
Again,
Staying soft,
Yet present.
Bring your attention now to the nape of your neck.
Visualize a small,
Yet potent point of light here.
Now bring your attention to both shoulder tips.
Healing presence point of light at both shoulder tips.
Now both elbows.
A small point of light at both elbows.
Both wrists.
Points of iridescent light.
The tips of both thumbs,
Index fingers,
Middle fingers,
Ring fingers,
Pinky fingers.
Healing light to all fingertips.
To the center of your throat.
A small,
Yet very strong light.
There is a healing light at the center of your throat.
Now your lower body.
Both hips.
Two points of light.
Across your hips,
There is an even distribution of light.
Both knees.
Points of bright light.
Both ankles.
Light points.
Tips of big toes,
Second toes,
Middle toes,
Fourth toes,
Baby toes.
Light,
Light,
Light,
Light,
Light.
All the way back up to the center of your brain.
Staciousness,
Radiance,
Iridescence.
Now to your sacred heart.
There is a beautiful radiant light within your sacred heart.
Front of your heart,
Serenity,
Tranquility.
So much light.
Back of your heart,
Light filled presence.
Let the light of your heart expand in all directions.
Above you,
Below you,
All around you.
Expanding and filling all of your inner spaces.
And every aspect of your being.
Light filled awareness.
You are this radiant light.
Rest in presence,
In stillness,
Simply being and breathing.
Body fully at ease and at peace.
Mind is open,
Present,
Soft.
Our presence of being is so important.
This can affect another's contracted state,
Supporting them in how they choose to proceed.
Take a few moments here to casually scan your body from the soles of your feet all the way up to the crown of your head.
And as you do so,
Notice if there is another opportunity to allow even greater release.
Eyes soft,
Face soft.
Stationed within your true essence,
Envision a world where we're all living from our hearts.
Where there's less sadness and instead more kindness and understanding.
To welcome peace.
And this peace is what we are all wanting.
Can you feel your heart softening and opening even more?
And perhaps the vantage point from which you are glancing may also have shifted as well.
It is through this greater awareness that you remember rather than your heart being held by your body.
Instead,
It is your heart that holds all.
Our heart is our inner universe.
Vast,
Spacious,
Infinite,
Galactical.
And within our hearts lives the resonance of compassion.
And through this compassion,
We allow all of what's difficult to be returned back to love.
Turn the palms of your hands to face up on your legs.
Simply receiving for just a few more seconds here.
Resting once again in stillness and in quiet.
Letting this beautiful quiet pervade your whole space and field.
The beauty in all of this work is that it allows for us to reconnect to the divine within.
Our divinity nurtures,
Soothes and heals us.
Making nothing wrong.
Simply true.
And this truth brings us freedom.
Such an honor it is to be here now.
For this entire journey,
We are so grateful.
Hold your hands in prayer and gently bow your head once again honoring your radiant heart.
Grounded,
Luminous and filled with light.
For the opportunity to be this light for all around us.
To all the ways in which we allow ourselves to create space for our inner light to lead.
I bow to you,
Sending many blessings and lama se.
