The soul gives us the greatest desires of our hearts and the ego attaches to our desires,
Makes our desires important,
Makes us important.
Coming from a place of soul,
We have faith,
No expectation.
When we are coming from our ego,
We have expectation and often fear our expectations won't be met.
Get yourself comfortable lying down or sitting with a straight spine.
Take a deep breath in and exhale as we come out of the mind and into a place where we meet our ego and our soul.
Following your breath deeply in,
Exhaling out,
Surrender your body to the earth.
Imagine the earth below you begins to come alive,
Cosmic colors of light and energy chords.
As you deeply breathe in,
You pull this medicine,
This energy up from the earth into your body.
You exhale,
Sending out any thought or feeling that doesn't serve.
Deeply pulling in,
Exhaling and letting go.
Deeply pulling in and exhaling and letting go.
Imagine yourself awakening in a clearing in the forest,
A place we have been to many times before.
As you watch your landscape begin to grow around you,
Giant trees,
Different colored leaves,
The grass comes up from the earth,
Brightly colored plants.
You feel the breeze,
You see the Sun or moon or maybe both above you.
As you come home to your heart center,
Fully supported by spirit in the other realm and call on a helping spirit animal to meet you.
It makes its way beside you,
Here to join you on this journey within.
As you stand with your feet planted in the earth,
Your eyes closed,
Palms down facing out,
Mountain pose.
Begin to summon up the energy of your soul.
That might be the energy of desire,
Love,
Excitement,
Joy,
Presence,
Just being.
Begin to feel it in the tips of your fingers,
Making its way up your arms and your belly and your legs and your neck and chest.
Feel your soul first.
What does it feel like?
Now see the light of your soul in your body.
What color is it?
Take a really big deep breath in,
Exhale and I want you to send that soul out in front of you so you can see it in all of its beauty,
In all of its light.
And maybe it stays this glowing orb of light or maybe it shape-shifts into physical form,
Animal form.
Just stand a moment in awe of how much love is in the soul,
How much ease and peace.
Now bring your attention and awareness back to your body,
Back to the tips of your fingers,
Back to your toes,
Your chest,
Your back and neck,
The space between your ears.
Now call on your ego first by feeling it in your body.
The ego is not all bad or wrong.
It has a way of driving us,
Of moving us forward,
But the ego's job is to attach to things,
To make everything of grand importance.
It has a different agenda for our life.
Feel what your ego is like in your body and then begin to see it as a color and as a light.
And before we send it out of the body,
I want you to look at your soul again.
Look at this beautiful light that exists,
This divinity,
This life force energy that lives inside of you that is free.
And you take a deep breath in,
You exhale and you send your ego out to join your soul.
Notice the dance.
How does your soul and ego interact?
Which light feels brighter?
Which energy feels more powerful right now in your life?
The ego loves the soul,
Thrives off the soul,
But the soul doesn't need the ego to thrive.
Now on the count of three,
You're gonna breathe your soul into your body and leave the ego alone.
One,
Two,
Three.
Now watch.
What is the ego without the soul?
Does it lie flat without purpose or point?
Does it hang in midair without life?
You have the power of your attention.
You will always live with the ego and the soul,
But the ego and soul have two different agendas.
Now on the count of three,
You will breathe your ego back into your body.
Two,
Three.
And as you stand in your clearing in your field,
I want you to call forward a challenge that is most top of mind or heart for you.
A person,
A relationship,
A feeling,
An anxiety,
A stressor.
And we call them in,
That in,
To the field.
Now I want you to imagine dancing with this from a place of soul.
How does your soul feel about this person,
The situation,
This fear,
Anxiety,
This challenge?
Then you can take a deep breath in and exhale and send that soul back out if you want to do that dance.
See how they're interacting.
Now the ego's turn.
How is your ego interacting with this situation?
Deep breath in,
Exhale,
Send that ego out.
What's the ego's agenda?
Notice the difference between their energies,
The way they attach or cling versus letting something be.
Notice how are you choosing to show up?
It's much easier to show up with attachment and fear,
That fight-or-flight,
That response that just comes so naturally.
It takes practice to show up from the soul.
We can ask ourselves,
What would we do differently if we are coming from a place of the soul?
Knowing we have this ability to move in between,
Knowing that the ego is always up close,
Into the micro.
And the soul expands us into the macro,
So we can see and remember the bigger picture of our life.
And as you move through the rest of your day,
The rest of your week,
Pay attention to your soul.
Give it a voice,
Give it a color,
Give it a light.
And remember,
When you feel trapped by the ego's attachment and agenda,
You can invite your soul.
We learn to do this dance through practice,
And sometimes that practice is easier done in the other realm.
So remember,
At any time,
You can return to this place to tune into your soul and your ego,
Into your challenge,
To bring yourself from the micro to the macro,
And to remember who you really are.
Taking one last deep breath in,
Exhale letting go,
Coming back into your body,
Back into the space,
Opening your eyes when you're ready.
