We Are Stronger Together - Go Within And Think Global

Good morning and welcome to the Orlando Center for Spiritual Living Sunday Meditation.

Alright,

I invite you to get comfortable in your seat,

Do any shifting that you need to do,

Get any wiggles out and just let your body know we are getting ready to go within.

Becoming aware of our breath,

Noticing how that rejuvenates our body.

So let's take in a deep breath together through the nose and we'll hold it for a moment.

Noticing the sensation in our bodies,

On our skin,

When we hold our breath it's a shift in our physiology.

It's good to notice,

Just observe.

And as you exhale,

Feel the tension pull away from your body.

This next breath in,

Let's visualize a cleansing,

Healing light entering the body as the breath,

Filling every cell with that light.

So breathe in,

Allow that breath to be held and that light to circulate throughout your entire body,

Bringing us perfectly into this moment,

Clearing away any thoughts.

As you exhale this time,

Imagine any of your concerns,

Fears or monkey mind thoughts leaving with your breath.

Leaving a clean slate behind,

Fresh body,

Fresh mind.

Let's breathe in a third and symbolically final breath and hold.

This time we're going to picture that cleansing breath sweeping away any tension,

Worries,

Fears in our emotional body.

So as we exhale,

If you're comfortable meditating with your eyes closed,

If they're not already,

Go ahead and allow your eyes to gently close now.

Otherwise just allow your eyes to go into what position you like to meditate in.

We're going to use this breath as an anchor to keep us in this present moment.

Starting at the top of our head,

At the very crown,

Going to imagine as if there's a picture of warm water that's pouring over us that looks like that golden light energy.

It's pouring over and soothing,

Massaging every single cell,

Bringing a warming sensation,

Relaxing our forehead,

Our scalp,

Our ears,

Our cheekbones,

Through our jaw,

Through our upper neck,

Just continuing to envelop our entire body.

That energy just cascades over,

Relaxing our shoulders and our back,

Our arms,

As we feel that energy go out through our fingertips,

Relaxing every cell and fiber along the way.

And it continues to fill and pour around through our chest and our upper back,

Our waist,

Our stomach,

Down through our hips.

It's flushing away all tension,

Ligament pressures,

Leaving the body in a perfect relaxed state of being.

It continues down through our glutes,

Our hamstrings,

Our quads,

Through our knees.

This white light is entering as our breath and it is filling all the cells of our body with perfect equilibrium and state of being,

Out through our calves,

Through our ankles,

Continuing on through the tops of our feet,

The bottoms,

And out through the toes.

So now there's this flow of cascading energy pouring over the top of us through all of our physical being.

It's also through our mental being,

Leaving thoughts of content and well-being,

Leaving us in the perfect state of mind for this moment.

Right now,

Opening up to this deeper energies,

To this deeper consciousness at the center of our being,

We are reminded that for right now,

In this moment,

Everything is okay.

Anything that may seem otherwise,

We can deal with that when we have to,

But right now,

We are strictly present in this moment.

So we continue to use our breath as our anchor.

So each breath in brings more of that presence and light to our current state of being.

And each breath out continues to relax our body more and more deeply,

Becoming lighter and lighter.

So as we open up to create this image of going within,

I want to start by sensing a part of your body.

I like to use my hands.

Some people like to use their feet.

Some people don't have those options.

Maybe they use their nose or their ears.

Picking some extremity.

Without moving our body,

Without touching it,

How do we know that that is there?

Sensing that energetic body within.

Perhaps we feel the pulse of our blood flowing through that spot.

Perhaps we feel a tingling or a vibration.

We're connecting to that life force energy within.

Once we start to sense that,

We can notice the difference between the subtle energetic field and then the physical matter that's containing it.

Once you feel that,

To expand.

If you were using your hands,

Let it expand to your arms and into your shoulders and chest.

And sensing that more deeply.

I use this image of coming in from behind my body.

I am reaching in as if putting on my physical body like a suit or a costume that I might wear.

Noticing how my imagination seems to have plenty of space within this physical body.

I am literally going within.

So as we do this,

We can bring our awareness down to a pinpoint.

Where we can feel that physical body all around us with plenty of ample space all around us.

If our physical body is a wide open hangar or cavern.

Maybe the openness of a large clearing in the middle of a forest.

Space around this pinpoint of awareness is endless.

As we feel our awareness inside our body and separate from our body,

We start to connect to the idea that we are bigger than this.

So we can,

From there,

Really feeling into this energetic body.

With our imagination,

We are unlimited in size.

So we can instantly take this awareness and expand it to where now our imaginary body is holding our physical body within it.

Imagining our arms wrapping around,

Comforting,

Holding this physical vessel that we use to navigate this world.

We can expand it rapidly to where we are holding the building.

Space that you are in,

Whatever area you are occupying,

You can hold that now within your energetic arms.

Expand it even further out to take in your neighborhood,

Your city.

The whole region.

And then expanding further out,

Instantaneously becoming large enough to hold the entire globe within our arms.

Opening up within.

We are going to explore the idea of how we are stronger,

More able,

When we connect with our community.

Opening up and holding this idea of humanity within our energetic arms.

Realizing how we each have our own unique gifts,

Qualities,

And traits.

Bringing to mind someone that maybe is having a hard time in life right now.

And how as we extend a smile and a thought of well-being,

Lend a listening ear that we can help hold that space for another.

And how that takes off some of the burden.

And now we can in our imagination see how somebody else has been there for us at some point in our life when we needed somebody to listen to us.

Somebody just to acknowledge us.

Has there ever been a moment in life where someone else has come to bring comfort?

Maybe even just a smile in public that calmed,

Brought a little relief to a difficult state of being.

Noticing how the human race is social,

Communal beings.

That we can go so much further when we go together than if we go it alone.

To opening up to this idea that as we move into this new way of being on this planet,

We bring in energy,

A sense of cooperation,

Kindness,

Compassion,

Equity.

Knowing that as we lift up one,

We lift up the all.

So in this moment,

Let's soften our resistance to those that we disagree with while fortifying our sense of supporting those that need our support.

Recognizing this higher power,

This deeper energy within each of us.

This life force that connects one another with each other.

So right now we can activate this to be a continual flow from the center of our being out into the world,

Paving the way before us so as that we come into contact with others,

Our energy speaks for itself,

Our vibration,

Our auric field.

That through setting this intention right now,

That we create more peace and harmony in our own individual lives and with intention and our state of being,

We bring more of that to those around us.

So this is now activated and this energy continually flows through us and the more that we remember to send that with intention,

That the more energy continues to pour through us in this infinite loop.

So setting this intention,

I invite you to offer yourself thanks and gratitude for taking this time for yourself and offer the thanks and gratitude from myself to you.

Thank you for taking this time and this willingness to give your energy to this collective consciousness of which we are all a part of.

So as you're ready,

We'll bring our awareness back into our physical bodies,

Back into the space around us and with a deep breath in and a deep release,

Whenever you're ready,

Go ahead and open your eyes.

Thank you and namaste.