Peace Even During The Challenges

We use a cleansing breath to release our tension along with stale air, and crown to coccyx breath to energize and connect us to Mother Earth and the Universe. We acknowledge our difficulties. Feel them, hold them. Sit in peace in the storm. We see if we can allow the difficult feelings to be part of us and honour their part in our journey. They are part of us. They may even offer us guidance about where we can change our perspective. Photo by NOAA on Unsplash

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Let's make ourselves comfortable then. Bottom towards the back of the chair, So we're planted in the seat, Feet on the floor if we can, Then we'll take a few breaths as we make our body comfortable, Parking our body so it can be still for a few moments. Our limbs and our joints at ease. When we take a next in breath let's expand our spine a little bit and exhaling we can soften into the chair a little bit and then a few conscious breaths as we bring our attention inwards. So we're going to start with a cleansing breath, The idea being we physically clean out any stale air from the bottom of our lungs but we cause you use it metaphorically as letting go stresses and the dramas up until this point and starting over. So being comfortable without straining our breath when we're ready to exhale we can blow the air out at the bottom of our lungs as much as we can comfortably. We can inhale through the nose into the bottom of the lungs, The sides of the lungs and the upper chest and then let it all go comfortably. Resting, Seeing how that feels. We'll do another one and we'll imagine blowing out stale energy as well as stale air, Things that have just happened that we're going to put down. So blowing them out and then drawing in through our nose fresh energy as well as fresh air. Releasing it all comfortably. And resting, Softening our shoulders if we need to and seeing how that feels. So let's use our crown to cock its breath. When we're ready to inhale our attention can start from our tailbone, Run up the spine to the crown of the head and exhaling the attention runs back down again. Inhale running up the spine, Exhale down. Breath is comfortable, Body's still relaxed. So if your breath wants to be shorter or longer just go with it. Hopefully that's starting to calm the mind with that job to do and the breaths will calm the body, Bringing us into a more relaxed state. If your mind wanders just return over and over if need be. We'll train ourselves with patience and kindness like a puppy. So we'll extend that crown to cock its breath. Now when we exhale can allow the attention to run down into the earth and that can become a tube of light or energy or any other way you want to imagine it connecting you with the earth. Solidity and stability under your feet. Inhaling up through your spine out the top of your head into the infinite space above you connecting you with infinite potential in the universe. I invite you to make that tube of light from the earth through your spine into the space above you into a conduit for energy. You can draw energy in to yourself through that tube through that connection to earth and sky. When our attention running up with the in breath and down with the out breath further increases the energy. Each time we run up and down there's more energy gathering through the power of our attention. This is one of our most powerful tools people that sell things for advertising know this so we can learn to use it with discernment for our best interests and those around us. Being careful where we put our attention. At the moment it's going up and down energizing our spine our bodies nice tall spine so there's room for the breath and the energy to move but not rigid soft shoulders. Releasing that breath resting in the body seeing how it feels seeing how we feel as a whole. So now we've prepared ourselves by feeling more relaxed and centered more energy I'm going to invite you to bring in a problem and maybe more than one. If you need to choose you can quietly ask your inner self what's best for me today what should I work with today a huge problem or a little practice one and there's two ways of working with this depending on the size of the problem it may be that you can hold it in your hands so you might even try cupping your hands now imagining you're holding the problem can we do that with compassion can we be a compassionate being and loving caring being holding this problem the love is not for the problem necessarily we are the compassionate caring beings experiencing this issue and imagine the problem in your hands and imagining it however way that works for you just noticing what your imagination creates for you maybe it doesn't fit in your hands I think it's a big problem the other way that might be helpful the other visualization is yourself in the peaceful center of the storm so the problem the storm is all about you but you you have this peaceful space your energy field it's quiet centered and where the storm touches the edges of your energy it dissipates you can rest in the center confident confident in your own consciousness in your own self but either way whichever visualization is more powerful for you is there a way to acknowledge the way you feel in the face of this problem and so although we were calm and peaceful earlier there are parts of us that may not be calm and peaceful that are fearful angry resentful many other uncomfortable emotions holding those in our hands or noticing them swirling around us in the storm what is it for you what feelings come up in the face of these problems and I invite you in this safe space to acknowledge they're yours I recognize them as part of you and if we can take a step towards that we take a step towards more wholeness because this is part of you but we don't like but part of you nonetheless yes this is mine this frustration is mine as fear is mine along with the confidence and the calm and all the other good things there's some less comfortable things it's all mine it'll be different tomorrow we can learn to allow the good and the bad to reside inside us yes I like this bit draw that towards me no I don't like that bit we push it away instead we can own it all when we do that we honor all of ourselves our journey these things are there because of past experiences often my experience my journey my life we show it the respect that it's do even can we try and understand what it wants to show us the alarm bell is ringing for a reason pausing for a moment and asking our inner self what we may learn from this experience this problem is uncomfortable this alerting signal you listening quietly for the response you you resting with the breath holding both our peace and our non peace I love and I lack of love I joy in our sadness see if we can hold it all and allow it to be just as it is you you I'm noticing how we feel when we do that you good and bad so we'll take a few deeper breaths and that will gradually energize us return us to our regular waking consciousness and we'll gradually move and stretch it's no hurry as we take deeper breaths stretch move our body thank you for practicing with me