Good morning and welcome to this meditation to start the day outright.
My name is Shauna and I will be guiding you through this next few minutes or moments.
And I invite you to allow yourself to get really comfortable.
So whether you're still laying in bed or you've made your way to sitting,
Allow yourself to find some comfort,
Some ease,
Some softness.
Maybe take a nice deep inhale through the nose,
Filling up the belly,
The chest,
And then let it go with a sigh.
Maybe one more if that feels good,
Inhaling,
Filling up and letting it go with a sigh.
Then as you come to a nice natural,
Authentic,
Easy flowing breath,
I invite you to let go of any stress,
Tightness,
Any kind of wiggles that might be within your body.
Maybe moving them around will help.
Maybe just allowing yourself to get a little heavier.
I invite you to be aware of the sounds in your room,
In the space that you're in.
Nothing to do about them or change,
Simply just being aware of the sounds around you.
Even though your eyes are closed,
Noticing the quality of light.
Maybe it's bright,
Maybe it's a little bit softer.
Noticing the temperature or the textures on your skin,
The clothes or the blanket touching it,
The air.
Then I invite you to go a little bit inward and just be aware of your breath.
Your first moments of breath as you wake up.
What is the quality of your breath like?
Noticing where you feel it in your body the most.
And we're going to do a really easy breathing technique to allow us to energize,
To allow us to move our energy around,
To start our day in a really beautiful way.
So I invite you to imagine that you're breathing into your hips,
Into your pelvis,
The tip of your tailbone.
And as you exhale,
The breath is moving up your spine vertebrae by vertebrae all the way to the top of the head.
Inhaling into the hips,
Spine,
The tip of the spine.
Exhale feel that breath move up your ribs,
Up your back,
Up your vertebrae,
All the way moving out from the top of the head into the hips and up the spine.
Doing this five more times with your own breath here,
Your own time,
Your own rhythm.
Last one,
Nice inhale into the hips,
Pelvis,
The tailbone.
Exhale move it up the spine all the way at the top of the head.
Beautiful.
Take a moment just to allow your breath to come back to its easy,
Natural flowing rhythm.
Really noticing how you feel energetically now.
Then I invite you to just be aware of your body.
So from head to fingertips all the way down to your toes.
Being aware of the feeling of your body.
And if this feels good for you,
I invite you to bring in some gratitude,
Some appreciation for the ways in which your body is there for you.
How it's healing itself in every moment.
How it allows you to experience life in so many different ways through all of the senses,
Touch,
Taste,
Sounds.
How your body allows you to connect to others through just a glance or a smile,
The hugs holding hands.
How you're able to create and express yourself in so many different ways.
Most importantly,
How your body is your true self,
Your soul's protector.
It holds you,
Protects you,
Loves you.
With this beautiful feeling of love and appreciation and kindness towards your body,
I invite you to let go of any sort of thoughts around it and just feel the energy,
The emotions.
Where do you feel this love,
This compassion,
This kindness coming from?
And from this space,
From this loving space,
I invite you to create your intention for today.
And you can do this simply by completing the sentence.
I have everything within me for.
I have everything within me for.
Maybe your intention is love,
Health,
Understanding,
Success,
Joy,
Whatever it might be.
Finish that sentence and either say this complete sentence three times out loud or silently in your mind.
I have everything within me for blank.
Once you've repeated this intention,
I invite you to bring it and rest it on your heart center.
Let it stay there throughout the day.
You can come back to it whenever you like.
If it feels good for you,
I invite you to take another one of those deep inhales to the nose,
Filling up the belly,
The chest,
Exhaling,
Letting it go.
You're welcome to stay here as long as you like.
You can pause or stop the recording now.
Or you can bring some movements into your fingers,
Into your toes,
Deepening the breath a little bit.
Maybe doing a nice big stretch,
Waking up the muscles,
Letting the body have a little bit of space.
Opening the eyes when you feel comfortable.
Just take a moment to look around the room you're in,
Noticing the colors,
The shapes,
Different textures.
Thank you so much for practicing with me this morning.
Have a beautiful day.
