Thank you for choosing yourself to tend to your own body despite any heaviness,
Any chaos,
Any noise.
Here you are.
Here you are.
This choice to connect,
To come in,
To say yes to all the sensations.
Thank you for being you.
Thank you for choosing yourself.
Please start to find a comfortable place to be.
That could be laying down,
That could be seated,
That could be with blankets covering your head to escape,
To dim the lights,
To come into your own cocoon.
You're welcomed here.
Please now offer a breath all the way in and all the way out.
Receive another long,
Slow,
Sweet,
Deep breath down into the depths of your body.
These next several breaths beginning to tenderize the darkness where light hasn't glimmered in some time.
This particular carved intention of breath to cast spells of listening and love to the parts that ache or have been hidden away.
Breathe in and breathe out.
That's all you have to do right now,
Sweet one.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Begin now by whispering the gentle words,
Every bit of me is welcomed in this moment.
I am willing to soften my grip as I am safe.
I am safe.
Inhale your sweet message into the cobwebbed corners and exhale blowing them out.
Inhale.
Release it out.
Inhale again,
Feeling the breath penetrate your entire body.
Exhale with a little bit of force.
Again.
Push it through.
Again in through the nose and sigh it out,
Helping the breath along by pressing it out,
Squeezing the navel back towards the spine.
And one last time,
Deep,
Deep,
Deep breath in and let it move out.
Sink back now.
Untether the mind.
Arrive deep into the body.
Let your body connect with the earth beneath you.
This support reaching up,
Lending her open arms to cradle your worried mind and worn out body.
Feel the curve of your whole self melt down as if there is nowhere else you need to be.
Held,
Held as you are in all you are.
Remind yourself,
I am safe.
It's okay to soften.
It's okay to surrender into this moment.
It's okay to loosen the grip.
Breathe here.
Be here.
When the sensations arise that may cause grip or control or worry.
Here I am.
Let it go.
Let it go just for this moment.
Let it go.
Let the used body have this spaciousness.
The body,
The heart,
The mind ebbs and flows.
It ebbs and flows.
You are not stuck here.
You will ebb and you will flow.
You will see the light again,
Sweet one.
The little crack through the door to remind you of your aliveness will return in its own time.
But for now offer the body down heavy,
Heavy land,
Nowhere else to be.
Nothing to do,
No need to fix,
No need to change.
Feel the current of breath,
This tide of energy in and out.
Allow the breath to be what sustains you in this moment.
Untether the mind.
Loosen the grip.
If it feels okay,
Please offer one or both hands to your chest,
To your heart.
If the noise has been loud for some time,
Remind the body to let go.
Remind yourself of your own presence.
Compassion for this body,
This experience,
For the full spectrum of being.
When days,
When weeks,
When months feel hard,
Filled with turmoil,
Uncertainty,
Chaotic nature.
Offer tenderness.
Here I am.
I'm allowed to have this moment.
I'm allowed to bathe in my own spaciousness.
To let the world outside fade away.
So medicinal and so necessary to lovingly come in and to feel it all.
The unknown.
The worried parts.
The scared parts.
The disconnected parts.
They're all a part of this human experience and they are all welcomed right here.
Breathe,
Breathe,
Sweet one.
Breathe.
And what if the openness and willingness to allow,
To allow the feelings to be here as they are,
Be what opens that door to let in a little sliver of light.
No need to rush or try.
All the way as it meets the corners of the body.
Exhale to let it go.
Inhale.
And exhale.
You return here as often as you need.
Often as you want.
To commune with your own self.
Remember your own presence.
And to offer that gentleness,
Compassion.
Ebb and flow,
Ebb and flow.
Thank you for choosing you.
You're doing enough as you are.
