Hi and welcome back to day 4 where we're going to focus on Rituals of Emotional Clarity.
Yesterday we cultivated the vibrant mental gardens we wish to steward through conscious intention and fertile visualisation.
We saw how our focus energy and mindsets directly act as nutrients impacting whether seeds of desires blossom into full manifestation or wither away.
Today we will bring that same mindful awareness within,
But now we'll explore the fluid ever-changing emotional landscapes constantly ebbing and flowing through us.
For too long in the spiritual or wellness spaces there's been a tendency to stuff down,
Bypass or outright reject the negative emotional energies that naturally arise.
We overly attach a good feeling,
Positive,
High vibe all the time.
Our ancestors' teachings show that sacred wisdom in fully honouring the entire spectrum of our emotional truth as they show up,
From our blissful ecstatic peaks all the way to the deepest crevices of grief,
Anger,
Fear and despair.
Committing to alchemising all of that arises within us through embodied breathwork,
Sounding and ritual is the only way to truly metabolise those stored experiences.
Integrate the lessons they bear and emerge a light on the other side,
Unburdened yet enriched.
After all,
If we neglect to process what calls to be felt inside us,
It inevitably manifests as density in our mental and physical planes until we face it directly.
This can show up as illnesses and affect a weakened immune system and in some cases cancer.
So today we go inward and we get radically honest with our feeling world as an act of healing and liberation.
Let's settle in to this ritual of emotional clarity meditation.
Begin by getting into a comfortable seated position or you can lay down if that feels better for this emotional exploration.
Start by taking a few slow deep breaths,
Allowing your belly to fully rise and fall with each cycle of air.
As you find your inhale and exhale rhythm,
As you find your inhale and exhale rhythm,
Bring to mind an emotion that feels present within you right now.
It may be subtle or obvious,
Easy or intense,
There's no judgement,
Simply notice with pure awareness whatever is alive in your feeling realm.
Once you pinpoint the emotion,
Consciously locate where it is residing in your physical form.
Is it a tightness in the chest area?
A sense of heaviness in the gut?
A burning sensation anywhere?
Get curious about the bodily manifestation of this energy.
Now as you breathe fully into that space,
Imagine drawing the emotion up from its location through the inhale breath.
See it taking shape,
As a swirling colourful presence travelling up through your torso and into your heart centre.
On the exhale,
Consciously give voice to this energy by making any sounds,
Tones or words that want to release from you.
Let the emotional vibration naturally move your vocal expression without holding back.
Continue this cycle of breathing in the physical realm,
Without holding back.
Continue this cycle of breathing in the feeling through visualisation and breathing it out through sounded experiences.
You may notice different shapes,
Hues or textures arising as each layer gets welcomed,
Embraced and alchemised.
If intense charges,
Like rage,
Terror or profound grief surface,
Lean deeply into the breath and sounds.
Move your body with the impulses that show up,
Like shaking,
Rocking or pounding the earth.
This embodied catharsis clears room for stale energies to purify and transmute.
As you commit to this purging process,
You'll likely feel an increasing sense of peace,
Joy,
Freedom and lightness dawning within the spaces you're creating.
A natural realignment with neutral presence.
Continue oscillating between this dynamic breath-sound process and the silent witness until you feel fully clear,
Renewed and recalibrated on all levels.
From this spacious equilibrium,
Reflect on what you're now ready to create from this awakened state of being.
When you feel complete,
Gently open your eyes while carrying this fresh emotional clarity into the present moment.
As we open up our eyes again after that deep release where I'm reminded of the activists and artists that came before us who showed us the power of poetry,
Music and movement for channeling emotions into purposeful impact.
So as you transition out of this space,
Consider what creative outlet has been calling you lately as it may be a way to express and embody any energy still moving through you.
Perhaps it's time to resurrect a forgotten passion for dance,
Sculpture,
Painting or the written word.
Tapping into our emotions doesn't have to be a cerebral over-analytical process.
It's meant to be felt fully in the container of the body,
Witnessing of all vulnerability and expressed outwardly into a sacred alchemy of art.
Yes,
It sounds like I'm over-proclaiming the arts but truly,
Once you embrace and embody your true creative potential,
You will see this too.
For that's how we transform our whole being while staying in flow.
Tomorrow we conclude this journey by integrating all levels into the art of living as a truly holistic,
Embodied spiritual force in the world.
I'll see you tomorrow.
As you begin contemplating tomorrow's final immersion into living as a fully embodied,
Spiritual activated force in the world,
Quite the mouthful,
What area of your life most longs to be littered,
Enlivened and unleashed from emotional excavation you have experienced so far?
What resonates most from this final integration around embodying your highest potential?
Journal on this tonight and be ready to share if inspired tomorrow as we complete this journey together.
