Welcome to this practice designed to bring you from your head into your heart,
So that you can connect with your inner strength,
Wisdom and capacity to make a difference in the world.
My name is Fleur Chambers and as always it's my pleasure to spend this time with you.
So settling in,
Closing down your eyes if you like,
And as you arrive,
Just reminding yourself that you deserve this small slice of time,
That the world will still be there at the end of this practice,
But you will feel more aligned,
Inspired and confident.
Sure,
We meditate for ourselves,
But also for those we love and the wider community.
Awareness landing on your breath,
It's gentle rhythm guiding you home to your body and the intelligence of this moment,
Just like sand moving down an hourglass.
With each breath,
Awareness moving down from your mind into your body.
With every soft exhale,
Arriving a little deeper.
Together,
Let's use our breath to remind us of our deeply grounded nature,
To guide us back to the place of inner strength that lives beyond the noise and the busyness of our everyday lives.
As you in,
Feeling your belly fill with oxygen and life force.
And as you breathe out,
Imagining that the air is travelling down your legs,
Out the soles of your feet and into the earth below.
Breathing in,
Belly swirling with life force.
Breathing out,
Air travelling down your legs deep into the earth beneath you.
Continuing to breathe in this way on your own now.
With each exhale,
Your hips,
Pelvis,
Legs,
Feet and ten toes all feeling heavy.
Lower body surrendering into this feeling of deep groundedness,
Like the trunk of an old and wise tree.
Your out-breath creating these energetic roots into the earth beneath you,
Tethering you.
Perhaps you can visualise these roots moving into the earth,
Weaving their way through nutrient-dense soil,
Salt,
Rock,
Minerals,
Metal and crystals.
Perhaps it's more of a feeling,
And from this place of deep connection to the earth,
Allowing one value that represents your deep grounded nature,
Your inner strength to come to mind and heart.
Just one value.
No need to overthink this,
Trust whichever value has emerged.
Repeating this value a few times silently in your mind,
Breathing it in,
Allowing it to weave its way through your body.
How does that feel?
Awareness now landing on your in-breath as it arrives into your chest and your lungs.
With each in-breath,
Really feeling the fresh oxygen fill your lungs.
Perhaps you feel drawn to sitting a little taller,
Or to gently readjusting your posture,
Sensing into a lightness,
An experience of spaciousness in the top half of your body.
Using the tree metaphor once more,
Imagining that the top half of your body are the branches,
The leaves,
The buds,
Flowers and even the birds perched on the branches.
With each spacious inhale,
Feeling into the sense of freedom and lightness held within your chest,
Your heart,
Your shoulders,
Arms,
Hands,
All the way to your 10 fingers.
With each in-breath,
Connecting with your inherent lightness,
Your ability to grow,
Shift and transform.
And now imagining that a gentle breeze arrives,
Weaving its way through your branches,
Sweeping across your leaves,
Caressing your flowers.
This breeze carries with it an invitation to let go of all that is making you heavy,
All that stands between you and your inherent lightness.
Allowing the breeze to carry away the self-criticism,
The harsh inner judgment.
Allowing the breeze to carry away the fear of not being good enough,
Skilled enough,
Worthy or ready.
Carrying away the concern for what others think or will think of you,
Until all pretense is gone,
All burden softened.
And all that's left is your essence.
And from this light and spacious place,
Allowing another value to emerge.
Trusting in what you hear,
Repeating this value a few times silently in your mind,
Breathing it in,
Allowing it to find home in your body.
Here in this moment,
Reminding yourself that just like an old tree,
You are grounded and light.
You contain wisdom and truth,
And flexibility and flow.
Breathing deep into your true nature,
Breathing deep into your heart,
And planting these two values like seeds in the garden of your heart.
And as you breathe into your heart space,
Imagining that the center of your chest is filling with the color green.
A beautiful deep forest green.
On the inhale,
This green light or energy is filling your chest.
And on the exhale,
It's traveling across your shoulders,
Down your arms into your hands.
On the inhale,
Forest green light filling your chest.
On the exhale,
This color and energy moving down your arms until it meets your hands.
The energy from your heart radiates in this same way,
Like a flowing river beginning in your chest,
Moving down your arms until it arrives at each fingertip.
So trust that as you stay with this visualization of green light,
You are strengthening your sense of purpose and capacity to live in wholehearted,
Inspired and aligned ways.
Breathing in green light,
Breathing out green light down your arms,
Into your hands and fingers.
Feeling into any sensations within your hands,
Perhaps tuning into an experience of warmth,
Vibration or energy.
And asking yourself,
If my hands are an energetic extension of my heart,
What will I do with these precious hands today?
How will I use these hands of mine to live more purposefully,
To step into my power and my capacity to make a difference?
Trusting in any guidance that you receive.
Breathing in and out of your nose.
This is the breath of integration.
It will allow all you have experienced,
Felt and uncovered during this meditation to land within your mind,
Body and heart.
Offering your body any gentle movement it desires.
Opening your eyes.
May you move through today,
Aware of your values and inspired to use them to guide your actions.
