Welcome to this peace meditation.
I invite you to close your eyes,
Place your hand on your heart and gently breathe in.
Feel the breath entering through your nose,
Into your chest,
Past your heart,
Into your belly.
Feel your belly expanding.
And just when you feel you're completely filled up with air,
Take one more little sip of air and hold.
And now release and slowly breathe out through your mouth with a slight sigh.
Let's do it again.
Feel the air entering your nose,
Flowing all the way down into your chest,
Past your heart,
All the way down into your belly.
Feel it expanding.
Take one more sip of air,
Hold and gently breathe out with a sigh.
One more time.
Breathe in.
One more sip,
Hold.
Breathe out.
Let's do it one more time in silence.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
I'd like you to imagine standing at the shore of an ocean.
You're looking out over the waters to the horizon.
Your gaze is wide.
The blue of the sky melts into the blue of the ocean before you.
They are one.
Taste the saltiness of the sea on your lips.
Feel the freshness in your lungs.
Your emotions settle into calmness.
Gentle waves are lapping on the beach.
Feel the soft sand under your feet.
The sun is gently warming you.
As you look to the horizon,
You sense a movement under the waves.
You hear an exhale and see a tall plume ascending.
It's a whale.
And its breath creates a beautiful rainbow as the water droplets meet the sunlight.
Feel the awe in you as you witness this beautiful being emerging from the deep sea before you.
For a moment,
You get a glimpse of its eye,
Dark,
Deep and kind.
And you feel invited to listen as it dives back in.
The gentle rhythm of the waves is cradling you and you become one with the sea.
And deep down,
You perceive a song.
It's a song of the whales.
They have come to sing for peace.
Their gentle hearts know of the troubles of humankind.
They sing for us,
For the ocean.
For all beings.
They are here to show us how to live in peace.
How to hold harmony.
How to be part of the web of life where all things belong together.
No matter how different they may be.
From the smallest to the biggest.
From the strongest to the most fragile.
They know how to weave themselves in.
They know about heartbreak.
About sorrow.
They know about community.
Staying together.
Holding the circle for each other.
They know that life can be rough.
That there can be tragedies.
But they trust into the flow of life.
Into being part of the great family of life on earth.
And whatever sacrifice this may entail.
Listen to the whales.
Allow your heart to be filled with peace.
Resonate with the harmony.
And feel into the ocean of peace.
Of your own heart.
Connecting to the ocean of all our hearts.
We are all in this ocean.
We are all one.
May the frequency of love touch you.
Inspire you.
Console you.
And remind you that there is peace deep within you.
In the depth of your heart's ocean there is love.
And the wisdom of this love unfolds in the silence of peace.
We have the power to radiate peace into the world right now.
By holding silence with grace,
With love.
In that silence the noise of the world,
The pains,
The chaos,
The hustle,
Just drop.
It's a silence that speaks more than words.
A silence in which we feel into our interconnectedness.
Let our hearts be the abodes of love.
Let them be filled with silence.
And with the peaceful song of the whales.
Let it resonate through every cell of your being.
May you carry this song in your heart.
May you bring it into the world.
With each word,
Thought or deed.
May all beings be at peace.
May all beings be free.
Blessed be.
