Let's find a comfy spot for our body.
Parking our body.
Our legs,
Heavy stable base,
The top part of our body lengthening and extending a little.
Shoulders softening.
And taking one or two deeper breaths.
As we bring our attention inwards.
Putting aside the demands of the external world to focus on our internal world.
Let's soften our body.
Even if we're sitting,
We can relax most of our muscles.
And keep just enough muscle tension to hold that spine tall,
Without being rigid.
So,
If we're sitting balancing our head on top of our spine,
Let's soften our forehead,
Our scalp.
Allowing our expression to melt.
Our neck,
Spacious and comfortable.
Our arms are soft and heavy somewhere they can be comfortable.
Shoulders sinking down away from our ears.
Our chest and our upper back,
Tall and alert,
But we may be able to soften a little.
Stomach area,
Mid back,
Spacious and comfortable.
Belly,
Lower back,
Tall and straight and yet still a little bit relaxed.
A bit of both.
Our lower body,
Soft and heavy,
Stable base.
Connecting us to the earth.
Feeling the earth beneath you.
Long,
Smooth breaths.
Let's keep our attention with the breath as best we can.
So,
The breath is going to be our first focus.
Releasing control of the breath and allowing it to flow.
I'd like our breath to be comfortable and relaxed,
Our body comfortable and relaxed.
And then deepening the breath ever so slightly,
Drawing a little more breath and a little more breath into the base of the lungs.
So those breaths become a little slower and deeper,
Easily and gently.
And then with that slow,
Easy breath,
We're going to imagine the breath and the prana with the breath flowing back and forth through our heart centre.
With the centre of our being,
The breath flowing back and forth.
And I'm going to leave us in silence for a few minutes,
But please remember,
When your mind wanders,
We notice as soon as we can and come back to the breath without any criticism or self-judgment.
We're going to move the point of our focus now to our eyebrow centre.
Imagining the breath and the prana that flows with it,
Flowing back and forth through our eyebrow centre,
Through our entire head for a couple of minutes,
Refocusing as we need to.
And for our last point of focus,
We're going to use the very centre of our head.
So if you imagine drawing a line between the tops of your ears,
Your eyebrow centre and to the back of your head and your central channel,
Where those lines cross,
It's the very centre of your head.
It's the third ventricle or the cave of Brahma in the yoga tradition,
The Vedic tradition.
It's a little space in the centre of your head.
Let's imagine the breath and prana,
That energy flowing in from all directions with your in-breath to the centre of your head and out again with the out-breath.
So we imagine energy flowing in to the centre of our head with our in-breath out again with our out-breath.
Focusing as best we can,
Refocusing when we need to.
Breath is comfortable.
A couple of minutes there.
Please don't allow the breath to be strained.
Let's release our focus.
Rest for a few breaths.
Comfortable body.
Present moment.
See if we can enjoy this moment,
Our meditative state.
Nothing to do,
Nowhere else to go.
I invite you to bring your hands to your heart centre.
I want to show you how you are,
How you appear from the perspective of divinity,
From the perspective of the light,
The love and the truth,
And the cosmos,
Great mystery,
God,
Whatever you want to call it.
I invite you first to recall that although in our everyday life we see ourselves as separate,
We are not separate from anything.
So recall our oneness with the earth,
The plants,
The animals,
The waters,
The air,
The fire,
Recall our oneness with all the other people,
To recall our oneness with the angelic family,
Ascended masters,
And with the highest vibration that we can even conceive of.
There is no separation.
That's hard to place yourself in that perspective.
Imagine how it would feel to be one with all that is.
From the perspective of divinity,
There is no good and bad.
It's a human thing.
Father Mother God sends us to play on the earth as a loving parent sends their children out to play.
And he doesn't,
She doesn't mind whether the children play tag or pretend when they go out to play.
So Father Mother God doesn't mind what we do on earth.
We come here for experience,
To feel.
In the non-physical realms there is knowledge,
But until we come to earth there is no experience.
So divinity does not judge us as we judge ourselves and each other.
So I invite you to look into your past and to accept all of it.
And if that is hard to do,
Imagine looking into your past and accepting all of it.
There were times when we did great things and times when we did great things and times when we did mean things,
Stupid things,
All sorts of stuff we perhaps would choose not to repeat.
And we release our judgement and so forgive ourselves.
And we recognise the bits of our past that we don't like are useful to inform our future,
Which bits we might choose to revisit,
To behave in that way again or not.
And value even those bits we don't like.
Embracing our entire being as best we can.
I invite you to say silently to yourself,
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
To feel how it feels.
To embrace our entire being.
To forgive our judgement of what we perceive of as mistakes.
To offer unconditional love to ourselves.
In the past,
Humans could not even imagine a deity that loved us unconditionally.
But now,
Can we offer that love without condition to ourselves?
Taking a few more restful breaths in the energy that we have created.
Energy of love and forgiveness,
Of wholeness.
And so,
Let us slowly begin our transition back to the external world.
But there's no hurry.
Taking one or two deeper breaths.
And slowly beginning to mobilise our body.
Gradually becoming more aware of the external world.
And coming back to it when you're ready.
Thank you for practising with me.
