Hello,
Hello you beautiful souls and welcome.
Take a moment to settle into your space gently.
There is nowhere else you need to be right now.
Nothing you need to prove,
Nothing you need to perform.
Today's meditation is an invitation to soften the pressure to become more acceptable before allowing yourself to be seen.
So often we learn to carefully edit ourselves in order to feel safe.
We hide emotions,
Sensitivity,
Needs,
Truth,
And over time we forget what it feels like to simply exist without managing how we are perceived.
For the next few moments allow yourself to rest from the effort.
Taking a slow breath in,
Allowing the oxygen to meet you,
Your cells,
Your body,
Your energy,
Your being,
And exhaling out.
Releasing,
Releasing tension,
Worry,
Stress,
Misalignment,
The voices of others in the back of your mind.
And notice your body.
Notice the places that may tighten when you think about being fully seen.
Your head,
Your jaw,
Your throat,
Your chest or stomach.
Just notice.
No fixing.
Allowing the oxygen from your breath to meet these places a little softer,
A little more lovingly.
Your body may have learned that visibility was unsafe,
That being noticed could lead to rejection,
Criticism,
Misunderstanding.
Abandonment or pressure.
And if this is true for you,
It makes sense why part of you learned to hide.
You were never meant to spend your entire life shrinking yourself into comfort for others.
You are allowed to exist beyond performance and outside of the box of someone else's limited understanding of you.
Beyond the pretending that you are always okay.
Beyond carrying strength that exhausts you.
Beyond carefully curating yourself to remain lovable.
Take a breath.
Allow yourself to be here.
There is a version of you beneath survival,
Beneath the masking,
Beneath over explaining,
Beneath hyper-awareness of how others perceive you.
Allow that version of you to meet with you here today.
That version of you deserves love too.
You do not need to become less,
You do not need to become less emotional,
Less sensitive,
Less expressive,
Less human to deserve connection.
Your authenticity is not a flaw to overcome.
Notice,
Sense,
Feel,
See,
Or imagine that now a soft crystalline light starts to pour in from above you,
Surrounding you gently.
Notice the tingles that may appear,
The color that you may notice,
The temperature,
Notice how it meets your body,
Your being,
Your energy.
It is not exposing you harshly,
But illuminating you lovingly.
Feel yourself witnessed without judgment.
No performance required,
No spiritual perfection,
No emotional perfection required.
Remembering to breathe and connect.
Allow more,
More presence,
More truth.
And just being.
Take another slow breath in and exhaling when it feels comfortable.
You are allowed to be seen as you are.
Still growing,
Still healing,
Still human,
Still worthy.
And as you return to your day,
May you carry this with you.
You do not have to earn the right to exist authentically.
And perhaps the people meant for your life will not connect most deeply with your perfection,
But with your truth.
You no longer have to hide to deserve love.
Thank you for being here.
