Ukraine - Sending Love & Light To People In Ukraine

Join in sending loving-kindness to the people of Ukraine, wrapping all in a blanket of love and light.
May the people of Ukraine feel a deep sense of happiness, well-being, and peace. May the people of Ukraine feel safe and protected. May the people of Ukraine live with comfort and ease. May the people of Ukraine be held in loving kindness. We'll also send loving-kindness to the soldiers of Russia, remembering that "hurt people, hurt people." May all beings everywhere be held in loving kindness.

Transcript

Hi there,

This is Vanessa Loader,

And today's meditation will be wrapping the people of the Ukraine in love and light.

So as you're ready and available,

Allow your eyes to gently close.

Begin to tune in to the rise and fall of your chest or belly as you bring in this precious oxygen into your lungs with each inhale and exhale.

As you inhale,

You can visualize or imagine there's a peaceful,

Calm energy coming into your body.

Ah,

You might even want to audibly exhale,

And with your exhale,

Imagine that you're letting go of any tension or worry or stress that you've been holding on to.

Asking all aspects of your consciousness to arrive in this present moment.

If you'd like,

You can repeat the following words,

Replacing my name with your name.

I,

Vanessa Loader,

Align with the light of love,

Wisdom,

And truth.

And I align with my higher self.

Using all aspects of my consciousness to come into this now moment,

This present moment,

As I set a clear intention to send love and light to people in other parts of the world.

Begin by really connecting with your heart center.

You can place one or both hands on your heart.

You can visualize or imagine that you're actually breathing in and out of your heart center.

PhD Kelly McGonigal,

Who teaches at Stanford,

Talks about imagining or visualizing your nostrils on the outside of your heart,

Which sounds really silly,

But if you try it,

It can actually work quite well to help you breathe in and out of your heart center.

In a class I was recently teaching,

One of the participants said she actually imagined an animal nose on her heart,

And I thought that was so cool.

So you might even try that,

Like a big bear nose or a dog nose or whatever works for you.

Begin breathing in and out of that nose into the heart center,

Bringing forth an energy of playfulness and love and presence.

So just taking a few breaths in and out of your heart center.

Don't forget to breathe into the back and the sides of your heart as well.

You could get really crazy and put nostrils on all sides of your heart,

The front and the back and the left and the right.

Or if that whole image doesn't work for you,

You can also visualize or imagine a little white light in the center of your heart,

Like a pilot light that's getting bigger and brighter with each inhale.

So as you inhale,

This white light fills your whole heart space.

And as you continue to stay connected with your heart center,

We're going to take a few minutes to send loving kindness to the people in the Ukraine right now and to wrap them in a blanket of love and light.

So take a moment and visualize or imagine people in the Ukraine,

Or you might even imagine the outline of the whole country in your mind's eye.

Imagine filling the whole country with this beautiful golden light,

Wrapping the whole country in a blanket of golden light,

Imagining or sensing any way you can that you can beam love from your heart straight into the hearts of some of the people in that country.

And as you do this,

As you send them love and light,

You can repeat these loving kindness phrases,

Imagining that you're sending these well wishes to all of the people in the Ukraine at this time.

May you have a deep sense of happiness,

Well-being,

And peace.

May you feel safe and protected.

You can imagine putting a golden blanket around their shoulders,

Wrapping them in a blanket of love and light to help them feel safe and protected.

May you be healthy and strong.

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May you live with loving kindness.

And as you say this last phrase,

You can visualize or imagine all of the people of the Ukraine floating up,

Up,

Up,

Up,

Up out of their bodies into the sky until each individual lands on a big white fluffy cloud.

And that cloud is like magic because it can hold their weight,

Carry them with ease and love.

So as you imagine saying to them,

May you be held in loving kindness,

You can visualize or imagine them floating up,

Up,

Up,

And then just gently resting on a cloud,

Feeling held in loving kindness.

They might even choose to wrap that cloud around themselves in a blanket of love and light.

May you be held in loving kindness.

They float up,

Up,

Up into the sky and rest on this cloud,

Leaving behind any problems or worries or fears.

Just taking a few moments to rest gently on this cloud,

Being held in loving kindness.

If you'd like,

You can visualize or imagine the whole country of the Ukraine seeing the outline of the country,

That whole country now being held in loving kindness,

Wrapping it in a blanket of love and light.

In one class I was recently teaching,

A woman shared that she's been seeing a lot of sunflowers in her meditations and she had been thinking about the Ukraine a lot and she didn't know until she recently learned that sunflowers are actually one of the national flowers of the Ukraine.

So if you'd like,

You can even visualize or imagine now in your heart center,

There's a bud of a sunflower and as you inhale,

That sunflower blooms and it opens more and more and more until your whole heart is filled with this beautiful,

Bright yellow sunflower,

This beaming golden sunflower in full bloom just fills your heart space.

And as we send well wishes again to people in the Ukraine,

You can visualize or imagine that in each of their heart centers,

There's a sunflower that's opening and blooming and blossoming.

May you have a deep sense of happiness,

Well-being and peace and the sunflowers are getting bigger and brighter.

May you feel safe and protected.

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

Maybe you're even beaming love from the sunflower in your heart into the sunflower in their hearts shining with this golden yellow energy.

May you live with comfort and ease.

And may you be held in loving kindness.

Sometimes now I like to visualize or imagine a giant sunflower over the whole country of the Ukraine shining,

Raining down this golden light,

Filling through the tops of the head,

Going pouring down into the bodies of all the people in the country,

Filling them with loving kindness.

And it's not just people in the Ukraine who might be suffering right now.

Recently I've also been thinking of the Russian soldiers,

Some of whom might be young boys feeling scared,

Not knowing what to do,

Feeling conflicted.

Or even if they're enjoying their roles,

There's an expression that hurt people hurt people.

And so these people as well are deserving of loving kindness.

There's some version of pain that they also might be feeling at this time.

So seeing if you can send some version of forgiveness and loving kindness,

Having compassion for some of the Russian soldiers and wishing them well as well.

For me it helps to imagine them as scared young boys doing what someone's telling them to do in order to feel safe or to get a sense of approval and belonging.

So visualizing or imagining the Russian soldiers,

And for some of you this might be triggering or challenging,

I invite you to just notice what comes up for you and see if you can open your heart just a little bit and send loving kindness to these people.

As you imagine the Russian soldiers saying,

May you too have a deep sense of happiness,

Well-being and peace.

Knowing that if people have peace in their hearts,

They don't cause war.

So wishing this for them,

May you too feel safe and protected.

May you too be healthy and strong,

Strong enough to find the peace that is in your heart.

May you too be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May you too live with comfort and ease.

And may you too be held in loving kindness.

Visualizing or imagining now all the Russian soldiers floating up,

Up,

Up into the sky.

I like to imagine them abandoning all of their military equipment and vehicles,

Leaving their guns,

Leaving their military vehicles on the ground as they float up,

Up,

Up into the sky.

They leave their bodies and they just rest on a cloud being wrapped in a blanket of love and light.

May you too be held in loving kindness and sending these well wishes to all beings everywhere.

Yourself,

Everyone in your community and everyone on the whole planet,

People and the animals and all sentient beings,

Visualizing or imagining all beings everywhere.

As you say in your own mind,

May all beings everywhere have a deep sense of happiness,

Well-being and peace.

May all beings everywhere be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May all beings everywhere live with comfort and ease.

And may all beings everywhere be held in loving kindness.

You can visualize or imagine all beings on the earth floating up,

Up,

Up into the sky,

Leaving behind their problems,

Their worries,

Their fears,

Resting,

Floating on a cloud,

Being wrapped in a blanket of love and light.

Maybe you even see this as a cocoon,

As all connected,

A giant cloud,

A blanket of love and light surrounding the earth,

Holding all beings everywhere.

May you be held in loving kindness.

Seeing all of our hearts connected in love and light.

And so it is.

You

Reviews

That was perfect Vanessa. Do think a lot about these poor people. Thank you.
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It was lovely. I plant sunflowers where l live. It started before the war in Ukraine. This summer our garden is going to be with filled with yellow.

Thanks for this! Sending love to the Ukraine. I struggled with the part about sending love to the Russian soldiers. I know they are only doing another's wish, but I just zoned out at that part haha. Awesome meditation 😊

Thank you for sharing this meditation. It felt healing to focus on the heart center and to send loving kindness to those enduring this war.