Let's take a sec just to drop in.
Comfortable,
Make any adjustments.
Land in your space.
Get seated if you want to sit,
Lie down if you feel so cold.
Again there's no right or wrong with this today,
Just trusting yourself to know that you need,
To know that you know what you need in this moment.
Making any final adjustments.
Here now taking deep breath in and just letting go on your exhale as you breathe out.
You're in the privacy of your own space so just sighing it out,
Letting it go,
Needs to be audible,
Let it be audible.
Letting it go as you breathe all the way down.
As you start to drop the stuff,
Taking a moment now to acknowledge yourself.
For showing up for today's practice,
For showing up for today's satsang,
Showing up for yourself.
And just taking a moment to tune in with what that means for you,
For showing up for yourself.
You've hopefully been doing a few of these meditations now and just how your relationship with self has been evolving.
Just through the simple affirmation of you acknowledging you showing up for yourself in this way,
Can you feel your roots deepening,
Your ability to count on yourself,
Trust yourself.
In by listening to the sounds that are occurring furthest away from you in the present moment.
See if you can stretch your listening.
You might be hearing birds,
You'll be hearing cityscape,
You might be hearing silence,
Nature could be wildlife,
Be your neighbors.
One of the sounds that you hear in the present moment,
Carrying furthest away from you.
I invite you not to label the sound,
Rather pay attention to the texture,
The sound itself.
Noticing the sounds,
Allowing the sounds to behave as sonar,
Informing you of your presence.
Here in the present moment,
Coming to the awareness,
As you're landing and you're listening,
You are in fact landing,
Connecting deeply to your awareness.
As you continue to give more and all of yourself over to your listening,
See if you can focus your listening.
See if you can go from listening to the sounds that are furthest away to listening to the sounds in your immediate space and environment.
The room that you're in,
The space just immediately around you.
See if you can focus your awareness.
Naturally,
There's the sound of my voice.
There might be pets,
Loved ones,
Friends,
Family,
No judgment.
It's an incredible skill to be able to tune your awareness.
From here now,
I invite you to contract your awareness,
Focus your awareness even further.
If you can go from listening to the sounds in your immediate environment to listening to the kinesthetic sensations of your body's breathing,
Noticing the rise and the fall as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Inviting you to trace your breath all the way into your body as you breathe in.
Finally,
Wherever it is you're breathing into,
As you trace your breath breathing in,
Noticing the softening that occurs in your body with each breath,
Naturally as you breathe all the way in,
Continuing to stay anchored,
Connected to your breath.
Knowing each inhale to expand you and each and every exhale to soften you,
Your edges,
Each and everything that you're holding.
Soften and soften with each exhale.
Breathing all the way in and softening all the way out.
Again,
There's no right or wrong desire and destination.
Just being present with yourself.
Back to your breath,
Allowing yourself to soften with each exhale just as much as you can today.
And softening on your way out.
Continue to breathe and soften.
Invite you to come into your heart space.
Just below the center of your chest.
It's almost like there's an energetic shelf there on which your heart space rests.
Just turn them into your energetic center,
Remembering to soften.
This awareness of your heart space,
I invite you now to face down your spine,
All the way down past your sacrum to an imaginary tail.
Goes all the way down to the earth center.
And as you soften,
See if you can connect in deep to the center of the earth.
Again,
As you soften and breathe out,
Find yourself energetically through your tail,
Deeper connecting into this connection.
As you continue to soften,
See what else is now being invited to be dropped.
To return.
Mother Earth has this incredible ability to take what no longer serves.
Make it whole,
Make it new again.
The thing that you're holding,
Anything that's gripping,
More structure than it needs in your system,
Turning that through this connection down to the earth.
As you continue the energetic exchange with the earth,
Noticing the safety within which you can give,
Let go,
Connect.
So much reverence.
Our incredible mother,
Bliss us.
As you soften,
Breathing in.
You know,
If you wish to stay connected,
You're more than welcome to to come back.
And that feels more whole to you to come back into your heart center,
Rising back up into that place.
Taking stock,
Feeling into this softer you.
Noticing the profundity of the strength that it takes to allow yourself to be this soft.
You may even feel slightly uncomfortable.
Or it may feel like you finally come home.
Noticing the paradox of strength in softness and the way you show up for you.
Invite you into our collective intention.
Strengthening of the softness.
The integrity to allow.
Your moment's here for the strength that it takes to soften.
All the edges in the world that we see at the moment,
These hard boundaries.
Where friction and conflict emerge.
Noticing the work you've put into yourself today.
Now you've softened the edges.
Supporting yourself,
Support the planet.
Offering the work forward as a prayer.
Just this moment in time.
Such work.
Softening of the edges.
Tenderness,
Dissolving the hardness.
Newfound softness.
This rekindled self.
Taking a moment to tune in.
With your higher power,
Source,
God,
Creation,
Christ consciousness,
Allah,
Guru.
Give your thanks as you connect in.
Giving your thanks for the structure that if you don't believe in any of that,
That's also equally as fine.
Taking a moment to acknowledge yourself.
Showing up for today's practice.
For showing up for yourself.
Noticing what that means to you.
To be showing up for you in this way.
Feeling that deep in your heart space.
Gentleness within which you have your own.
Thanking yourself for showing up for today's practice.
When you're ready,
You're bringing your hands together in front of your heart space.
Some warmth and friction.
Together as you rub your palms together.
Ring your eyes with warm hands.
Opening your eyes behind cupped hands and lowering your hands to come back into space.
When you're ready.
