Take a comfortable seat.
Sit up nice and tall,
Then softly close your eyes.
Turn your attention inward.
We know there is no greater offering than the gift of our fullest presence.
This is our highest contribution and what we can offer to every moment of our lives.
The way we access this presence is through our choosing to align internally.
And the first quality that always guides us back to this place of inner alignment is compassion.
Fold your hands in prayer in front of your heart and gently bow your head to your heart.
Through this practice,
We will turn the resonance of compassion to its highest setting within.
We will amplify this compassion by bringing our fullest attention to it.
Smile in towards yourself as the gesture of reverence.
We are so blessed to know these softer parts of ourselves.
Very gently lift your chin,
Release your hands,
Yet keep your eyes softly closed.
Turn the palms of your hands to face up on your legs and let your thumbs and index fingers lightly touch.
Welcome your breathing here.
Gently breathe in through your nose and out through your nose.
Keep your mouth softly closed and let all of the muscles of your face relax.
Allow your breathing to be the guide supporting you in landing within the space of your heart.
Continue to let everything settle down internally as you lovingly begin to set up your inner spaces.
A few moments here.
Now let's breathe together.
Inhale deeply and as you exhale,
Let your exhalations become just a little longer than your inhalations.
Again,
Inhale deeply,
Exhaling even longer.
Continue to breathe in this way,
Sourcing longer exhalations as the way to empty the breath more fully from your lungs.
Exhale breath just like this.
Through these longer exhalations,
Can you already sense a gentle release occurring within you?
Now adding another component to your breathing.
As you continue with longer exhales,
Include the action of drawing your navel in towards your spine.
Yet do so very gently,
Longer exhalations and navel to spine.
Notice how this subtle adjustment gives way for your exhalations to lengthen even more.
Stay with longer exhalations and navel to spine for a few more rounds.
Nice long deep full breaths here.
Longer exhales also help us to release any lower vibrational energy that we are either consciously or subconsciously holding deep within ourselves,
Yielding a softening which holds the key to our opening,
Where we create space and remember our divinity once again.
Now let your body breathe on its own.
Gentle,
Easeful breathing.
Enjoy the great pleasure and gift of these next few breaths.
Now take a moment here to reflect on that which is the embodiment of compassion for you.
This could be a person in your life who brings a beautiful presence every time you are with them.
Or perhaps this is someone you admire.
Perhaps this is Mother Earth where you are in awe of her benevolence.
The energy that emanates through this compassion is kind,
Open-hearted,
And does not judge.
When you are within the presence of this energy,
There is only unconditional love where you know that you are so loved for you.
This compassion creates the conditions for your feeling safe to soften and open so easily.
Welcome this supportive,
Compassionate presence into the here and now moment.
It is here that we allow ourselves to know what it means to soften internally as a felt sense.
And again,
It is through softening that we open and awaken to our true essence,
Bringing forth the most beautiful version of ourselves once again.
Bring your left hand to gently rest on your Sacred Heart and imagine that you had an inner dial of compassion here.
Just as if we would use the knob on our stereo dial to turn the volume up,
We can do the same within ourselves.
This is how we usher ourselves into a softer,
Gentler,
More relaxed state of being.
Through your inner vision,
See yourself turning the inner dial of compassion to the on setting.
And as you do so,
You start to see this compassion emerging from your Sacred Heart where it flows like water both into and through all parts of you.
This compassion is soft,
Allowing and so very spacious.
This compassion's color is pink.
It is the most beautiful shade of pink.
These pink compassion waters permeate throughout every physical cell of you,
Flooding every fiber of your being and every dimension of you as well.
Cleansing,
Healing,
Purifying compassion,
Pouring throughout all of your inner spaces and outer spaces now.
This vast pink ocean of love is so spacious and so very wise.
And this inner ocean holds all.
It is because of its vastness that this compassion brings such a tremendously supportive feeling,
Transforming all of our pain back to love,
Yielding a deep,
Deep healing.
These compassion waters become so vast and so spacious and so allowing where you now become this beautiful ocean of compassion where your heart is so wide open and you have so much love to give all around you.
You are this ocean of compassion.
Very gently release your hand down and let both palms face up on your legs once again.
Witness here how all tension and all resistance are now dissipating.
A few more moments here to receive the gift of your own loving presence.
As we expand our inner spaces,
We easily remember that it is here within ourselves that our true beauty lives always.
And just as we set the tone within our homes,
Where in the evening we may light a candle or dim the lights,
We can do the same within ourselves.
This is how we create a beautiful inner tone and texture.
Take a moment here to notice what feels different for you.
Perhaps this is in the way you are holding your body.
Maybe you feel lighter,
Freer,
Softer.
As we acknowledge these subtle openings,
This opens the door to welcome an even deeper release.
May we hold space for this release to continue to occur as our day unfolds.
Now bring both hands to gently rest on your Sacred Heart and set your inner dial once again to the highest settings of the following qualities.
Compassion,
Spaciousness,
Gratitude,
Sense and elevated presence that is very palpable.
All of this work yielding a deeper connection to both ourselves and all around us,
Transforming ordinary moments into extraordinary moments.
It is through these profound openings that we can now extend this generosity towards another in need.
We may think that if we are moving through a difficult time that we are unable to support another.
Yet,
As we expand in these ways,
We understand that this in fact is the best time to help.
For it is in the giving that we receive yielding a freedom.
And this is why we're here,
To help others.
Fully allowing yourself to inhabit the whole space of your heart in its entirety,
Take a few moments here to consider who will be blessed from the inner workings of your practice today.
Keeping your left palm resting on your heart,
Now turn your right palm to face outwards,
Where you now send an offering from your heart to this person's heart now.
Fold your hands in prayer in front of your heart and gently bow your head to your heart,
Smiling.
Just as Mother Earth holds all of her dwellers,
This compassion ocean holds all.
Where the more love we offer ourselves,
The more love we have to extend out into everyone and everything in our lives.
And lastly to knowing that no matter what happens in our day,
We are the ones who always have the great privilege of choosing our inner state.
Thank you for taking the time to grow this love from deep within yourself.
To the gift of this practice,
We humbly bow.
I bow to you.
Thank you so much.
Namaste.
