Welcome,
Love.
Begin by allowing yourself to settle.
Let the body grow heavier,
Supported fully by the ground beneath you.
Notice how your breath moves softly,
Slowly.
No need to reshape it.
Let it find its own rhythm.
Let your eyes close or soften your gaze,
Feeling your awareness draw inward,
As if following a sound you can just barely hear.
You are entering a space of deep listening.
There is nothing to force here,
Only the quiet work of receiving.
Now begin to imagine yourself standing at the edge of a vast canyon.
The air is dry and still.
The earth beneath your feet is warm.
And the space before you stretches wide and deep.
You call out,
Perhaps with your voice,
Perhaps only in your mind,
And then you wait.
It takes time,
More than you expect,
But eventually you hear it,
The echo.
Not a perfect copy,
Something changed.
Something returned with a new shape.
You listen again.
There is no rush here.
Only you,
The canyon,
And the wisdom of reflection.
Let your breath move gently now,
And feel your body as the canyon,
Vast,
Reverent,
Capable of holding sound and silence.
There are things in you still reverberating.
Words you spoke in survival.
Truths you swallowed in silence.
Dreams that once sang loudly,
Then went quiet from disuse.
And yet they still echo.
You have not lost them.
They are waiting in the stillness.
In the spaces between words.
In the moments when you are finally quiet enough to hear yourself again.
Let your hands come to your heart,
Or to your throat,
Wherever the center of your inner voice lives.
Feel into this question,
Whispered from within.
What part of me is asking to be heard?
You don't have to know the answer now.
Just let the asking echo.
What part of me is asking to be heard?
And let your body respond,
Perhaps with a breath,
A flutter in the chest,
A single tear.
Even a whisper can be a prayer.
Slowly bring your awareness back to your surroundings.
To the feel of the surface beneath you.
To the sound of your own breath.
Feel the space within you echoing with softness.
With truth.
With presence.
Take one final breath in,
Deep and gentle,
And as you exhale,
Whisper,
Even in the silence I am heard.
Even in the stillness,
I am found.
And as you return to your day,
Remember,
You are loved.
You are enough.
You are whole.