Reawaken Yourself To Love & Joy - 11 Minute Daily Insight

This practice is about expressing and naming what you most love. It can be useful for reminding that you matter most to you in this moment and in your life. It will leave you centered and nourished by the heart.

Transcript

Hi,

My name is Sarah Blondin and welcome to today's daily insight.

Today's practice is really about expressing and naming what you most love.

It will begin with a short talk and end with a guided meditation and it can be really useful for reminding you of what matters most to you in this life.

I wish you a restorative practice.

In hope to find solace and healing for all that was ailing her,

A woman seeks help from a wise elder.

She sits on her knees in front of the wise man and spills before him her angst and stories of woe.

She speaks of how afraid she is of the world warming,

Of her children's unruly behaviors.

She speaks of her fear of the unknown and what the opaque future may hold.

She tells him of the anger that erupts sometimes seemingly out of nowhere,

How her body aches and how at times her heart feels like it is a stranger to her.

He listens to her stories and great pains with his eyes deeply fastened on hers.

There's a long pause as the woman waits for the wise elder's response and finally he speaks.

Ah yes,

He says,

But tell me beloved,

What do you love?

We speak most often of our dread,

Our worry,

Our criticism and our judgments.

We are fed fear through the media and then we open our mouths only to regurgitate that same fear.

We are caught circling,

Passing on and handing the baton of our turmoil.

I've noticed recently how little we are speaking of what is joyous to us and instead recycling the herd of the world simply because we have forgotten to feed ourselves with love.

We have forgotten how to sit in the raw and present moment to wake the heart inside of us.

To really remember that though life is full of that which is hard and heartbreaking,

We are each held together by a love that knows no bounds.

We are here to grow and know love.

So why do we speak more often of what hurts than of what heals and sustains us through this hurt?

Today as we open inwardly,

We are going to open each place of love that we carry inside ourselves.

We are going to unwrap the gifts of our life.

For small creatures such as we,

The vastness is only bearable through love,

Carl Sagan.

So I'd like you to close your eyes now and let your breath become your focus and allow it to slowly lift from you your day and your doing.

Breathing slowly in and breathing slowly out.

Look for the quiet between your thoughts,

For the peace at the borders and let yourself gently slink into that peace.

I'm really bringing your attention into your heart space as I speak these next words.

I love the morning.

The minutes before the day opens,

When the sky is the shade of bruised blue,

When the sun is but a halo creeping just above the horizon.

I love the taste of hot coffee,

One small bit of cream and one small bit of sugar.

I love white lilies,

Purple tulips still tight in their bud.

I love cold rivers with sandy bottoms.

I love the prairie sky and its infinite horizon.

I love when streams look like starlight.

I love the feeling of warm water and soap running over a porcelain dish.

I love clay between my fingers,

Holding the tiny cotton t-shirts of my boys.

I love the heaving chest of my dog fast asleep,

The peace and equanimity that rises off the breath of animals.

I love when some ancient belonging wakes inside of me and I can hear nothing but my acceptance ringing in the air around me when I feel I belong just for being.

I love when I love you is said,

Not just in passing but caught pupil to pupil,

Iris to iris.

Said and heard in the bone and belly,

More potent than any medicine or brew when it feeds the body with light.

I love to love and be loved.

The most important thing of all is that somewhere inside of me is this gift,

This ever evolving,

Ever opening capacity to love.

I am going to give you a few minutes now to say aloud to the room you are in,

To the space that is cradling you now,

To your own being.

Tell me what,

Dear one,

Do you love?

Now tell me what do you feel?

Is there warmth anywhere in your body?

A sort of flood of energy anywhere?

Or maybe you can feel a sort of relief or belonging,

A sense of home maybe.

Notice how your body feels and responds to your recounting of love,

Feeling the medicinal quality of this simple act.

In remembering what we love and speaking more of this than anything else,

We create a space where grace and mercy can reach us,

Where we remember we are here above all else to love.

Feeling now the love glowing like a sun within your chest,

Holding this light with purpose and reverence.

Be wise,

Dearest one,

As you go on with your day,

It is so easy to forget to stay awake to your choice.

Use your voice as a tool to speak of what is good and right,

Of what you most love.

Feel the earth coming back underneath you,

Your toes and fingers,

Your arms and your legs,

Opening your eyes wide and wise to the world in front of you.

Thank you for joining me in this practice,

Sending Love.

Reviews

I just love your serene, beautiful and calming words and voice. Thank you

This made a big difference to my morning. Thank you so much for this practice 🌸

Sarah, thank you so much.
I truly feel better with each of your meditations.🪷

Anything from Sarah always has the power to lift me up❣️🫶🏻

I needed to hear this so I feel like I focused sometimes on the negative and this reminded me that there’s so much to be grateful for🩷

Dear one, thank you for this beautiful moving practice. It's one of the things I love.

You showed me my light. It still shines in the darkness.

Today I will record all of the things I love in this world ♡

That was such a beautiful practice. It centered me perfectly to start my day.

Beautiful - simple and deep. Thank you for guiding us to focus on what we love. ❤

I just love your meditations and they always move me and inspire me. Thank you 😊

Wow. Sarah is such a poet. Amazing compelling imagery.

Wow! I love this woman and I’m so grateful to my sister for introducing me to her 💛

Beautiful. 😻
I felt a warmth in my belly, a lightness in my heart and a smile on my lips from recalling my loves. Thank you 🙏🏼

Voice is so soothing. I especially love the mention of how we regurgitate all the fear and negativity we find ourselves surrounded by. So true.

I loved this meditation. Turmoil immersion has never been so disproportionate. My diary has space for three things I'm grateful for each week, but switching the internal narrative to love is more enriching.

Absolutely beautiful! So poetic and moving, thank you!!!

I love you …. Your words are true and honest. Thank you !!!

Best meditation I’ve ever done. Thank you Sarah. You’ve enriched my life for many years

Thank you Sarah for this and all of your amazing meditations 💫
I will use this excellent reminder to catch my complaining mind today and replace it with a gratitude and loving thought ❤️