Sadness.
Sorrow.
Anger.
Fear.
Grief.
Shame.
These are all experiences we endeavour to release from our body.
We are sometimes blindsided from the fact that the experience of these is what it truly means to be human.
To be conscious and alive.
And present to these temples that we have permanent residence in.
I am still learning to dance this dance of life.
To play with each of these states.
To hold each of their hands as they dance around me.
Spin me on my axis and pull me towards new ways of awakening.
I'm still learning to know each one as if it was my best friend.
To befriend them when they arise and allow them to leave when they are done with me.
To always create an open space for them somewhere in my body.
Somewhere amongst what feels like such an already full space.
I listen to the great sages guiding us to detach from these feelings and emotional states.
But I cannot deny the fact that I am just not ready.
And that on days my emotions have a kind of resonance to them that I feel I need.
A resonance and a feeling of being home.
Of being human.
They want my attention.
They keep calling me in the duality of their directions.
They keep piercing through me on days I do not see them coming.
Forcing me to understand them.
Their needs.
Their calling.
Forcing me to love them.
For far too long I have been wishing away the hold that my emotional states have on me.
I have been longing only for the higher feelings of peace and joy and love.
The things society refers to as high vibrations these days.
I have wished away sadness and anger and fear and guilt and shame more times than you can even imagine.
I have battled so hard with these emotions that it has left me feeling debilitated and weak.
I have failed to understand why they come.
Why they are of equal purity and guidance than these higher vibrations of love and peace are.
I have missed the art of this dance.
Forgotten or never quite understood my role in it.
When I experience the force of nature of these emotions I create a conversation with them.
This naturally detaches me from identifying as them.
I therefore become their caretaker.
Their listener.
Their supporter.
I actually invite them into my space and offer them the care they seek.
And this is something I would like to do with you today.
So taking a comfortable position.
Either lying down or sitting up straight.
I invite you to close your eyes and take a few breaths inwards.
Just to root yourself into your internal world.
Into simplicity.
And into silence.
I would like to request for you in this moment to open to yourself.
To reveal your true self.
The absolute fullness of you in this moment.
With all the emotional states you are holding in your body.
Let your borders of your body dissolve as your internal worlds come to life.
From whichever part of you they arise from.
Let the emotions you keep firmly pressed down become light and rise up out of you in full view.
Letting all your emotions rest and float two feet above you.
Watching the colours they emit.
The density they hold.
The stories they tell.
And the longing they seek.
I want you to feel and see the deep longing that resides at the base of each of these emotions.
The calling.
The desperate seeking and needing of love.
I want you to observe the way each emotion moves above you.
Do they pull?
Do they tug?
Do they chaotically dance?
Are they trying to flee?
Do they know where they can find safety and love?
I would like you now to speak a few loving words towards them.
Repeating them within you.
If you cannot think of any words I invite you to speak these with me.
I am safe in my body to feel all my feelings.
I am safe in my body to feel all my feelings.
I am safe in my body to feel all of my feelings.
You have choice and agency in whether you invite emotions into your space.
You have agency to take time to understand them.
To listen to what they are desperately trying to tell you.
To learn that they do not come as your enemy.
They actually have no control over themselves and they do not wish to burden you so deeply.
They simply want to be heard so that you can help them take action.
Action towards love.
Towards understanding,
Compassion and acceptance.
If we take time to listen to them,
To honour their voices and the places they have come from,
We would not wish them away so easily.
We all begin to understand that they hold the callings for us to love ourselves fuller.
Fuller than we did before these emotions arrived.
So I ask you as your feelings float above you,
As you watch and observe them,
Can you hear your anger screaming in grief for how you have been treated?
Can you hear it's screams calling and longing to protect you?
Wanting so desperately to guard you from every hurtful thing you have ever experienced.
Can you hear the fight and might your anger has inside of it?
Just for you.
In love in nature for you.
Can you hear how much it cares for your happiness?
Loves you and wants to take loving action for your goodness.
Right on the other end of anger is action.
And can you hear your grief and sorrow?
Can you feel how deeply they long to be held?
How much they long to hear words of reassurance?
How much they long to know that they are seen fully,
Heard deeply,
Understood wholeheartedly?
Can you see how they would feel better if just for a moment they had space to just be?
To take their time to heal.
They have experienced something in this world that have left them feeling sad and feeling sorrowful.
Can you hear your grief and sorrow calling to be held?
Cared for and loved right here in this moment.
And the blame and shame.
These weighted emotions that barely move as they are anchored deep into what feels like the thickest sand.
Can you hear their whimper of a cry asking for forgiveness and understanding?
Can you hear your shame asking for compassion?
Willing for love to set it free and release that anchor that binds it down.
Are you able to understand the story behind your blame and shame?
To understand their fullness?
Their aches and pains are their longing to do better and learn wiser.
So can you offer them release and respiration and a hand to hold?
As they choose to evolve and grow out of you.
And if it is fear that lays it's hands on you,
And if it is fear that lays above you,
That calls upon you with it's tight grip.
Can you surrender just for a moment for it's reason for being here?
Can you see that it is the bridge between you and your wildest dreams?
Your desire for freedom and liberation.
Can you see that every single time it calls,
It is reminding you that your desires are true and real.
And they are calling you loudly from the other side.
Fear only sits as your catalyst for courage to take the steps towards your greatest act of self love.
You must listen,
For right beneath the rumbling of fear is the ushering of you towards your deepest dreams.
It is in the act of observing them and understanding why they come,
That we actually do detach from being them and allowing them to flood our nervous systems and bodies.
We then treat them as if they are but a teacher or student in this great dance of life.
This is a step towards healing the desire to always want love and joy and bliss.
Rather than doing this,
We vow to invite all emotions with welcoming arms.
When we embark on this journey of befriending our emotions,
We will eventually get to a state of being,
Where emotions,
No matter how high or low,
Good or bad,
All emotions can pass like a brush of gentle wind to our face.
And we will be untouched by their pull.
Untouched by their great highs and fearful lows.
As we ground them into the stability of acceptance.
And allow them to either love us whole,
Or accept them as a teaching to love them whole.
I thank you all for joining me on this journey and I send you love.
