Welcome to this beautiful new day.
I invite you to just bring your awareness inwards as we begin to cultivate the attitude of gratitude.
Finding comfort in your position,
Either lying down or seated upright.
Gently close the eyes as you bring your awareness inwards.
And begin to deepen breath.
Imagine the breath like a wave in the ocean moving through your body.
Connect it to the infinite consciousness moving through you.
Begin to notice the length of your breath.
How it rises and falls.
Notice if it is shallow or deep.
If there is a pause after the in and out breath.
Inviting the witness consciousness to arrive without judging or criticizing.
And see if there is room to expand this breath that gives you life.
As you inhale the belly expands and moves up to the ribs and all the way up into the chest.
And floats back down.
On your next few breaths give gratitude for what is gifting you life in this moment.
For if it wasn't moving through you there would be no life.
And remembering that all beings are sharing the same air.
Some closer some further we all breathe in the same air.
And as we exhale we give this carbon dioxide to the trees.
And as we inhale we breathe in the oxygen that the trees give us.
Feeling this reciprocity and this connection to all of creation to the nature.
As when we are by the ocean the ocean air brings us negative ions into the body.
Let us give thanks to the sacred waters within us and around us.
To the blood in our own inner ocean connecting to the streams,
Rivers and seas.
Water is life.
Water is sacred.
As we are all sacred.
Unique to our own.
Breathe in the gratitude of your own uniqueness.
Like a rare gem found on the top of a mountain so precious you are.
As you continue to breathe long,
Deep and relaxed shift your awareness into what is supporting you at this moment.
Underneath the surface is the earth.
The strength and power and resilience of Mother Earth holds us in every moment we are in this body.
She sows the seeds so we have food to eat.
She holds every structure and every being.
She is alive.
Breathe in the gratitude for Mother Earth and all that she gives you with.
Breathe in her nourishment,
Her strength and her beauty.
As wherever you are she is underneath you.
She has an innate wisdom to allow the seeds to sow.
As you also have an innate wisdom when you go deep within and listen to your heart and the calling of your heart.
Breathe in what makes your heart alive.
What makes your heart expand and feel the attitude of gratitude going into the center of your heart.
Might be a person,
An animal,
An experience.
Keeping the breath long and deep,
Emanating in and out of the heart.
Breathing in and out of the heart.
Giving this gratitude and this heart feeling out to a person or a place that needs love at this time.
And send it out through a light like that of the sun.
See and feel them receiving this love.
And let that go and allow yourself to feel the connection to the light of the sun.
Emanating into each breath like particles of light into your own body.
And feeling the radiance amplify with each in and out breath.
Feeling the healing qualities of this light coming in.
And upon each exhale,
Feel that light emanating out into the world and all around you.
Just before we conclude,
Offer a gratitude for your being.
And repeat a positive affirmation about yourself that is riding this wave of light.
It could be I love and accept myself just the way I am.
I love and approve of myself.
I am beautiful,
I am worthy.
What do you need to hear in this moment to really honor the sacredness of your being?
And repeat that with a few deep breaths.
Slowly let that go.
And may it be from the sense of your heart that you see yourself and others throughout the day in all that you do.
Many blessings on this beautiful day.
Namaste.
