Hello and welcome to this simple practice of clearing space.
For those times when you want to enter a deeper rest,
A deeper peace,
And you want to connect with what's going on for you underneath the surface.
I invite you to gently come to stillness.
To find a comfortable upright position.
And to slowly let yourself arrive into this moment.
Receiving the grace to be present.
You may want to close your eyes and notice your breath following the inhale and the exhale.
So this simple practice is to clear space of anything that arrives.
So as you sit quietly,
You will begin to notice the arrival of thoughts,
Distractions,
The arrival of things that you're carrying and dealing with in life at this time.
Whatever comes,
I invite you to take it and place it down.
As you do that,
You may want to use your hands to imagine taking it from your head and placing it down next to you.
Or you may just want to imagine that process.
Whatever arrives,
You're taking it and placing it down gently next to you.
I'm going to give you a few moments for this process.
Continue until there is a slowing,
A diminishing of what's arriving.
Continue until you feel as if everything has been placed down.
And if you need to pause this recording in order to do that,
Please do so.
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As you feel ready,
Imagine the pile of everything you've placed down next to you.
Know that it is gently and lovingly held and seen.
If you are using this clearing space practice as a way to enter a silent practice,
I invite you to simply surrender everything in your pile as a prayer,
As a way of letting go,
Knowing that everything that is there is surrendered into love,
Is seen and responded to.
Either once you've returned from your silent practice or now,
You may also want to imagine turning towards everything that you have let go of,
Taking a step back from the pile of things beside you and observing that pile.
And a few moments observing without interacting or judging or criticizing and allow one or two things to capture your attention.
Noticing what out of all that you've placed down wants your loving attention.
What needs attending to in your life and what simply would welcome the opportunity to be surrendered.
Spend a few moments in this place of observation and noticing.
And then giving yourself the time to be attentive to those things that captured your attention that you noticed.
I invite you to be attentive to them in a loving,
Kind and generous way.
What do those things need?
What do you need in response to them?
How can you gently tend to these places within?
To these parts of your life that are traveling with you at this time.
I invite you to continue to notice,
To be with and to invite divine love to accompany you in this process.
You may want to end this part of the practice by surrendering those things once more.
Delivering them into loving care,
Knowing that they matter,
That they're seen and held.
The answers will come if answers are needed.
That the path will continue to unfold.
And that in time these things will change and give way to something new.
May grace accompany you in this process.
May wisdom be your guide.
May divine love envelop and embrace you as you tend gently to those things in your life.
And may you enjoy the spaciousness that this clearing space practice brings.
You may simply want to rest in that spacious,
Still place and stay a while to receive what you need.
Blessings and love to you.
Amen.
