Hello my friend.
Let's take some time today to ground into our body and our wisdom,
Feeling our indelible strength that comes from loving-kindness,
Compassion for ourselves and for others.
We'll be using the imagery of a tree to find that strength and loving-kindness today.
Arrive here in this present moment,
Sensing your life source,
Your breath,
As you breathe in and out.
Allow your body to feel its place on the earth,
Through your feet,
Your legs,
Your spine.
I invite you to envision a great tree,
Maybe one you know or have seen in your travels,
One that you can imagine is the most beautiful tree in your mind's eye.
Imagine standing by this tree,
Under or next to it.
Feel its strength,
Powerful trunk,
Its story surviving many storms,
Wind,
Fire,
Brittle weather of all seasons.
And as you feel the presence of this tree before you,
Sense that you can be like this tree,
Feeling your own roots going deep into the earth.
You too,
A roots travel deep into the earth from which you came,
Breaking through soil and rock,
The crust of the earth,
Moving past aquifers and down into the warmth,
The core of the planet.
Sense what it feels like to be steady and rooted,
Learning from this tree.
Allow your heart to be supported by this deep grounding.
See your own history in the many twists and turns of your trunk and in the roots hidden below the surface.
These roots having found their way through the soil and moving around obstacles and rock,
Surviving drought and flood.
Bringing attention now to your body,
Scan for energies that may be arising in you.
It could be worry or anxiety,
Agitation,
The feeling of contraction.
Release those energies and allow them to drain back into Mother Earth,
Who's big enough to hold it all.
Instead,
Feel the loving support of the earth,
Comes with no judgment,
No expectations,
Just pure sustaining care and life force energy.
Feel yourself filled with the timeless,
Steady,
Ancient,
Calm energy.
Bringing awareness into your breath,
Allowing your breath to be long and steady.
Move your attention up through your roots with every inhale,
Allowing your breath to travel up into your torso.
Find your center of gravity where you feel balanced,
Standing on this earth.
Feel how your trunk feels supported by your roots.
Feel the flow of energy from your grounded roots up into your core.
Using your breath to anchor you in this body,
In this moment.
Soften and open around the heart space,
Allowing kindness in.
And I invite you to slowly open your bodily awareness upward,
Sensing that rooted strength moving up through the legs,
Up along your spine.
And imagine your energy connecting you to the universe through the top of your head,
As if reaching to the sun's replenishing energy.
Elongate your spine and neck.
Release your shoulders and soften around your heart space.
Still remaining grounded to your roots.
Feel as if your branches are able to extend outward into the vast sky,
Free,
Strong,
And able to move with the winds of time.
Sense an ever-adapting expansiveness,
Full of life,
Energy,
And renewal.
Feel what possibility is there for you.
Where do you want your branches to go?
What would you like to reach towards?
And what energy sources feed you?
And for just a moment,
Sense that there may be other trees that surround you in your forest or your field.
And these trees provide you with a source of positive energy,
Community,
Connectedness,
And loving support.
Open yourself to receiving this connected energy through your roots,
Through your branches,
Through the air that surrounds you.
And now,
Sensing a feeling of connectedness,
Of inner resilience,
Notice if there is anything that you are ready to release.
The dead leaves,
The heavy dead branches.
And allow a gentle letting go,
Without judgment and without fear,
Without attaching to any storyline.
Just a gentle letting go.
Breathing in,
You feel strong,
And breathing out,
You're letting go.
Like wind blowing through the branches,
It does not affect the tree's indelible strength,
And adds to its resilience.
You too have that same strength and resilience,
Right here,
Grounded where you are sitting.
And now I invite you to bring your attention to your whole self,
This body right here,
All of it.
You are now rooted in the earth,
Steady and calm,
Through all the storms of time.
You are now connected to the forest that surrounds you,
And you are reaching up to the vastness of the sky,
Trusting the life force that moves through you,
Surrounds you,
And is forever available to you.
You have everything you need,
Right in this moment,
In this body.
Feel into this strength,
And let yourself set an intention to carry this energy with you as you go through your days.
Feel it come to you as courage,
As healthy boundaries,
As feeling connected,
And remembering our shared humanity.
Give yourself permission to tend to your own heart,
And be open to the hearts of others,
With loving kindness and compassion.
Nothing is lacking,
And you have everything you need.
You are surrounded by life force energy,
And you are loved.
