A meditation for the mothers.
Take a comfortable seat.
Relax your hands into your lap.
Roll your shoulders down your back and gently close your eyes.
I see you.
I see your struggle.
I see your joy.
I see your sorrow.
I see how each morning your beautiful babies look older and wiser,
Like they've grown a foot in the night.
Like sand slipping through your fingers,
The time seems to pass too quickly.
I see you each afternoon as you're immersed and cleaning the same room for the fifth time today.
You're asked for just one more snack and you feel as if you're the one sinking in quicksand.
I see that motherhood is a culmination of constantly conflicting feelings.
Fear that the years are passing you by and your children are growing up too quickly and an all-encompassing joy experienced as you watch your child achieve a new milestone.
I see how you shriek with overwhelmed exasperation as milk is spilled across the table and you're overcome with laughter and compassion as you see your little one desperately trying to clean it up.
I see how you have to constantly adjust your lens to zoom in on this moment to be present and attentive,
But zoom out and see the bigger picture in order to make life decisions aligned with your values.
For just one moment today,
Mama,
Let that all go.
Let the persistent nagging in your head telling you to do more,
Be more,
Let that part of you relax now.
Soften into your own well-being,
Your own knowledge of the truth within that you can breathe now.
Take this moment to just be.
Take this moment to thank yourself for everything you've done and will continue to do for everyone and then do nothing.
Just for one moment be nothing to anyone.
Just exist.
Feel your existence coursing through your veins.
Feel the powerful presence within that is your given birthright.
You have every right to just be here now.
That is all that is required of you.
Just be.
For a few moments each day remind yourself that all you really have to do in this life is be.
When we take a moment to find our beingness,
All of the unnecessary demands seem to fall away and what is left is the core of our being,
Our true essence.
What you have come here to do,
To love,
To enjoy,
To experience,
To live,
Start your day from this space and you can always come back here,
Back to yourself,
Your true nature.
Because you,
Just by the act of being alive,
Are worthy and perfect and whole.
There is no striving or hustle needed to attain your worth.
Just be every day for a few minutes and you will begin to see the innate value that you possess just by being you.
You are irreplaceable,
Beautiful one.
So take care of yourself today.
Give yourself the love you so desperately desire.
Give yourself the time you never seem to have.
Take time for you first today.
I promise everything will get done.
I promise you are worth it.
I see you.
I see the most beautiful,
Brightly shining rays of light emanating through your smile,
Through your eyes and your heart.
I see you and you're radiant.
Take just one more moment to be with your true self,
Your pure essential nature and when you are ready,
Open your eyes.
