From Shame Piñata,
I'm Colleen Thomas.
This is Daily Magic for Peace.
Today we will light a candle for hope.
Welcome to the circle.
So today all you need if you have one is a candle.
This can be an actual physical candle that you light with a lighter or a match.
This could be an electric candle that you light with a little battery or this could be a candle in your mind's eye.
As we begin today,
I invite you to take your seat in the circle and find your grounding.
Find the earth beneath you.
Find your unique connection to the earth in this moment.
Feeling down into the earth,
Welcoming the connection,
Noticing how far you are right now from the crust of the earth.
Feel what the earth has to say to you in this moment.
Just find your connection with the earth.
And let's work with this earth energy for another moment and bring it up into the heart space.
So seeing it rise up into the first chakra at the base of the spine,
Filling into that first chakra,
Filling into the second chakra at the belly,
And the third chakra at the solar plexus,
And right on up into your heart.
Let's see if this feels like something you'd like to do with us.
Letting that earth energy fill into your heart and maybe then expand forward and backward as if your chakra is opening and is moving this earth energy through.
Maybe allowing this earth energy to help clean out your heart chakra.
And if you feel called,
Go ahead and let that earth energy move up your additional chakras at your throat and your third eye,
Between your eyebrows and in the top of your head,
And up out of the building you might be in and up into the universe,
Connecting the earth to the sky right through your body.
You can allow your chakras to feel that earth energy moving through them.
And you might also play with bringing down some energy from the sky.
Just bring down that beautiful energy from above and allow it to kind of counterbalance that earth energy so that the energy from the sky is coming back down and going into the earth.
So you're running earth and sky energy through your body.
Through your chakras.
Just feel into what that feels like to do that right now.
Today,
Just feel into it.
And now that we're filled with earth energy and with light,
I invite you to grab your candle and maybe place,
This is a little trick you can do if you'd like to,
You can place the candle on your right hand or hold it with your right hand and place your left hand on your heart.
What you can do is you can bring energy from your heart into your left hand and you can send it to the candle in your right hand.
So your heart energy is flowing into your left hand and then through your body and down your right arm into the candle.
So you're filling the candle with energy from your heart,
Which we have just filled with earth and sky energy.
And you can actually run that earth and sky energy right into that candle as well.
Sometimes when we send our energy,
It feels like we're sending it,
It's so hard,
But it should never be that way.
It should always be letting it flow and connecting with the above and the below helps us to not expend our own energy to just be in the flow that is always around us.
So now allowing this heart energy and the above and below to flow into this candle.
This candle is what we're going to focus on today.
We're going to light this candle for hope.
Hope is such an incredible force.
Hope motivates humans in a way that nothing else does.
Think of things that maybe you have done in your life or you've noticed other people did when they had hope.
Maybe think of a moment when you decided you needed to let go of hope or when you no longer had hope what happened.
Hope I think is very connected with our hearts.
And our hearts are very connected with our will and our ability to keep supporting something,
Keep working for something,
Keep waiting for something.
And I invite you to get ready to light your candle.
If it's not a candle,
Get ready to light your candle if it's not already lit.
And as you see that light flickering,
Imagine that this is our prayer today.
This is our magic.
This is what we are sending out into the universe and around the world.
We are sending hope.
See it in that flame and see it lighting up the space you're in,
Even if it's just in your mind's eye.
See it lighting up around you,
The space around you.
Can you see it reflecting on the walls near you or anything near you?
See it filling a building you're in.
See it filling the neighborhood you're in.
And then the town or city.
And then the state or province.
And then just going out around the boundaries of the country you're in right now and the geographic landform you're on right now until it just goes around the entire world.
This little candle sending hope fueled by your heart energy and earth and sky and all of our other candles around the world doing this at the same time.
Going out around the world,
Sending hope.
And let's send a special amount of hope to the people in Ukraine who are continuing to fight for their lives and fight for their culture.
They need all the hope right now.
So sending that out,
Seeing that happen.
And now as always,
Just letting it go.
Letting it go exactly where it needs to go.
Letting it go and trusting it has gone.
May we all have the hope we need in the moments that we need it.
And when we don't have it,
May we be open to receiving it from the world around us.
May it be so.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Your presence,
Your energy,
And your heart make all the difference in healing our world.
We are so grateful for you.
Thank you for being with us.
Remember to breathe today.
Breathe and expand.
And I hope you join us again next time.
Please consider inviting a friend.
