You are allowed.
No one said this to us.
Fear came,
Upset boomed,
Things broke,
We broke,
We hurt,
And we yelled in anguish to the world around us.
When we felt our deepest heartache,
No one said we were allowed to simply feel all of it.
Instead we were taught to hide,
Deny,
And abandon ourselves.
To condemn the pain instead of comfort it.
We ignored our feelings and hampered our bodies inborn process of healing.
No one knew any better.
But now we know that our bodies are here to speak to us.
In our upset our bodies are asking for loving attention,
Not abandonment.
So let's work on allowing our feeling intelligence its rightful place in our body.
Let us give ourselves permission to thaw our frozen emotions and seeming fragility.
Let us give vulnerability a throne and a voice.
Let's give ourselves back to ourselves,
Listening to our needs and finding freedom by honoring our brilliant and intricate system of sensitivity.
I'd like you to close your eyes,
Coming to feel your body breathing,
To feel your aliveness.
Look for the gentle current of grace running through your body and allow yourself to enter this grace.
Allow yourself to become one with this grace.
Feeling more and more available and receptive to your spirit,
To your heart,
To yourself.
Can you remember,
Dear one,
When you stopped allowing yourself to feel?
Can you remember when you began coping instead of living?
Can you remember,
Dear one,
What caused you to leave the seat of your heart?
Who told you you are not allowed,
Sweet one?
Please know this was an accident.
All of this denying who we really are was an accident.
Go back to yourself as you were when you were young,
As you were when you were just a new sprout of life,
And reach out your hand to this tremendously vital and vibrant child that is you.
That is you before you forgot.
That is you before you left home.
You do not have to leave the self behind,
Dear one.
Reach out your hand and bring yourself home.
You are allowed to see,
To feel,
To express,
To wonder,
To relish,
To live in abandon.
You are allowed to be who you were born to be,
To be as you were born.
Place both hands over your heart and begin opening to yourself in this moment.
Open to these words.
I am allowing the great currents of my feeling sensitivities to be a part of me,
Not a part from me.
I am allowing the great wisdom of my brokenness and feelings of disconnect to help guide and instruct me to embrace my tender heart.
I will not fear the fear within or the wounds and memories of hurt.
I will allow them their place and their voice.
When pain comes,
I will listen.
I will make space to be the ear my wounds are most in need of.
I will listen so that my distress has room to leave through the door of my presence.
I am allowed to be in all of the ways I need without shame or embarrassment.
This is how I free myself from recycling my hurt.
When we let go of our resistance and shame and begin a dialogue with our feelings,
We strengthen the muscle of our heart and develop a strong spine of compassion.
In shifting our perspective to one of allowance and acceptance,
We gradually begin fostering peace and love on the inside.
It then leaks out into the world and those around us.
This is the power of inner acceptance.
Please remember,
Dear one,
To bend to the needs of expression and feeling that knock at the door of your heart.
When something surfaces that demands your attention,
Take your hand to your heart.
Gently bow your head toward it.
Let all come as it asks.
We need not fight against ourselves.
We need only to allow and set free.
To be allowed,
No matter our kicking and screaming.
This is how we long to be loved.
So this,
Dear one,
Is how we learn to love first our own beings.
