Close your eyes,
Take a big breath in and let it out and at any time during this practice that your body feels supremely uncomfortable,
I ask you to stay put.
If it's pain,
Please move the position.
If it's discomfort,
You're going to observe your relationship to it.
Resist any urge to fidget.
Open your awareness to all of the sounds and the movements around you.
We're not gripping,
We're not holding on to,
Not telling stories,
Not reaching out.
It's an observation of coming and going,
An observation to ourself when things aren't just so for us and especially without judgment.
You maintain this open awareness as you start to observe the sensations in your body and the truth of those sensations,
How nothing is fixed.
The sensations also include whatever you feel and especially really when a thought shows up.
Notice how it feels in your body,
Emotionally,
Energetically,
And start to layer in an observation of the feelings of your breath.
All the while having that sense of proprioception,
The awareness of yourself,
All parts of your being.
Open awareness.
In that space of open awareness,
Noticing how it all blends in.
It's all blended together.
Noticing how your breath blends the outer world with your inner world.
And if you haven't already,
Seek out an anchor of the breath.
One point,
One place where you notice the sensation of the breath that requires some effort and attention to notice.
Notice what the mind can really fixate on to,
Whether it's a sound or an itch or a thought.
And feel what happens in that space.
So before you even pivot off of it,
Allow yourself to have an experience and then exercise your ability to place your mind where you want,
Which is on the anchor of your breath.
And I invite you to visualize a place where you would feel happy.
Your safe place.
It can be anywhere.
It can have any elements,
Whether they make sense or not.
And take your time and feel yourself there.
And visualize the protection around you,
All around you,
The entire space,
Whether it's a bubble,
A shield,
Or a Tibetan wind,
Whatever it is.
It can extend out as far as the space that you want to claim is yours needs to go.
Then invite into your space anyone who you truly admire,
Would even say that you would like to emulate yourself after,
In any context,
Whether it's professional,
Personal,
Doesn't matter.
Just whoever comes through intuitively.
Invite them into your space.
And spend some time as you are with that person,
Reflecting on what it is that you so admire about them,
The characteristics,
The qualities.
Viewing them through the eyes of your heart and your soul as your mentors,
Your hero.
Because of these qualities that you so admire and really feel that.
It could be one person.
It could be many,
Whether they're alive or fictional or deceased.
No limitations.
And now visualize that person or those people looking back at you,
Seeing those same qualities that you so admire about them within you.
That your recognition of those qualities that they carry,
You recognize because they're familiar.
And they see that person or those people looking back at you,
Seeing it in you.
Notice how it makes you feel.
There's no judgments.
Just notice.
Notice what internal dialogue about yourself comes up.
No judgment.
Just notice and feel.
Notice where in your body you feel it.
Reconnect to your mentor and hero.
Once again,
Identifying what it is about them that you so admire.
You can visualize yourself in an embrace or holding hands or just sitting side-by-side together in oneness,
As equals.
And it's okay if you don't feel it yet,
But see it.
And visualize your heroes and mentor exiting your space with love and gratitude to you and sending love and gratitude to them as you're back in your safe space with yourself.
Lingering here.
Knowing that that same space is always with and within you.
Come back to here and now,
Finding the anchor of your breath.
Feeling that safe space within your heart so it doesn't ever go away.
It's always there to call upon.
But notice the anchor of your breath.
Notice all of the feels.
There's no need to identify or label.
Just notice.
And begin to reflect on the many things in life that there is to be grateful for,
Especially the ones that we take for granted.
And when you start to run out of thoughts of things that you're grateful for,
Dig in and find more.
And feel them.
It's not just a thinking process.
Lean into the feeling process.
The things that you're grateful for that feel especially good linger in that feeling when you come across it.
And visualize yourself as your best self doing whatever it is that has an incredibly uplifting charge to it.
And you don't have to identify exactly where you are or what you're doing specifically.
Leave it open.
Find that balance without being fixated.
Finding that feeling.
And whatever it is,
Visualize it as more than you could even imagine in all directions.
Notice if there's any gripping and soften it.
And come back to the feeling.
Linger in the feeling.
And set in your heart whatever it is that comes in your direction that guides you to this place,
Whether you know it,
Understand it,
Whether it's familiar or not,
The answer to it is yes.
That you recognize the feeling associated with it and your answer when it's offered to you is yes.
Thank your heroes and mentors.
Thank your ancestors,
Angels,
And guides.
Thank all of those who have been or are currently in your life to help you heal and grow on your behalf,
Regardless of how you may perceive it or feel it.
And linger for a moment in deep,
Deep gratitude and love for yourself.
Notice the sensations of your breath and that even through your journey,
It's still there with you and for you.
Get a sense of yourself once again sitting here and all of the sensations and open your awareness,
Feeling the blending and the oneness with everyone,
Everything that is within and around you now and of all time.
Take a deep breath in and let it out.
Conclude your practice with any personal prayers,
Dedications,
Affirmations,
Whatever it is.
And take a deep breath in and let it out,
Slowly starting to find some movements,
Opening your eyes.
And I invite you to take some time to journal.
Take out your pen and your journal and just start writing.
