Welcome to your session today.
Today's guided reflective writing session is deeply rooted in sadness.
The intention is that you will allow yourself the opportunity to grow really vulnerable with yourself.
To sit with this notion of just being sad,
Of feeling sadness.
In its many iterations,
Sadness is heavy.
So let's begin by closing the windows of our eyes,
Placing our hands over hearts,
Taking a deep breath in through the nose and sending that breath all the way down to your feet,
Allowing yourself an opportunity to grow quiet and still.
Breathing in and breathing out and bringing to mind sadness.
If at any time emotions pop up to the surface that you aren't quite expecting to find,
Know that that's okay and today I encourage you to embrace them.
Look at them,
See them and feel them as they come to the surface.
Sadness.
Where is it in your body?
As your hands are there over your heart maybe pressing into your chest.
Where do you feel sadness?
What color is it?
Are you fighting to allow yourself to feel this sadness?
Breathing in and breathing out,
Deeply down into your body,
Giving yourself a moment to get grounded before sitting with three journal prompts today.
Be gentle with yourself.
If at any time you need to pause the recording or come back to it on a different day altogether,
That's okay.
That's okay.
You're held with an incredible amount of love and compassion,
Gentle understanding.
Adness is something that we all feel yet something that we all push away because it's hard.
It feels uncomfortable.
It's sad.
But when we lean into it and we embrace it for the beautiful emotion that it is,
There's so much growth that can happen.
Taking a couple more breaths here.
And when you feel ready,
Allowing the windows of your eyes to come back open,
Gathering up your journal,
Your pen.
And here is journal prompt number one.
My sadness is deeply rooted in.
If you were to look at your sadness like a tree,
Where are the roots?
Where do they go?
What is sadness attached to?
Keep going.
You you you you you And here is your second journal prompter today What does my sadness teach me?
We know that our emotions are just emotions And we're conditioned to believe that feelings are not facts But if we take a moment to actually reflect on and consider What our emotions are telling us?
What does your sadness teach you?
You you you you you you you And finally,
How can being vulnerable shift my perspective?
We live in a society that tells us to push away anything that feels uncomfortable,
Partially because we have to sit in that individual discomfort,
And also because it might make someone else have to sit in an uncomfortable seat for a period of time.
How can being vulnerable for really shifting into a state of emotional awareness and allowing yourself to feel something like sadness shift your perspective?
How can being vulnerable shift your perspective?
How can being vulnerable shift your perspective?
How can being vulnerable shift your perspective?
How can being vulnerable shift your perspective?
Now,
I'd like to end our session today with a time race,
A kind of another song that dependent on our lives.
I hope that you make the most of your day,
I promise,
It will help you today.
So first of all Norway will we continue our session today by returning to that space of vulnerability,
Closing the windows of our eyes,
Hands over heart today.
Sadness is difficult.
It's big.
It doesn't feel good.
It can send us into this downward thought spiral,
Make us question our worth,
The meaning of things.
But when we open ourselves up to a space of vulnerability,
Of validating,
I feel sad,
We grow as individuals and in this collective awareness we grow.
Sadness isn't a bad thing.
It's not something to turn away from,
But something to embrace with open arms,
To allow the release that comes with tears,
To allow the healing that comes in the process of breaking apart.
If anything bubbled to the surface today,
I encourage you to write it down.
Breathe life into it by putting your words down on a page,
Reading it over,
Reflecting and giving yourself permission to grow in this beautiful vulnerability.
Lean in to the sadness.
There is healing here.
You you
