Welcome.
Take a moment to arrive.
To feel the weight of your body supported.
To allow the surface beneath you to hold you completely.
There's nothing you need to fix.
Nothing you need to do.
Just this moment.
Let your attention soften toward the breath.
Noticing air moving in and out.
A simple rhythm that has been happening all along.
You might notice sounds around you or sensations in the body.
Let them be.
Everything belongs here.
You do not have to push anything away.
As you settle,
Let this be a gentle homecoming.
A quiet return to yourself.
Notice if your mind begins to comment or analyze.
That's okay.
That movement of thought is natural,
Like ripples on the water.
You don't need to stop your thoughts.
You don't need to replace them with better ones.
Just notice that they come and go effortlessly.
Each time you remember,
Come back to the breath.
Back to these words.
Back to presence.
From a three principles understanding,
How we feel about ourselves is never fixed.
It moves with thought in the moment,
As naturally as clouds move through the sky.
Sometimes the sky of the mind feels heavy or overcast.
Sometimes clear and bright.
But the sky itself,
Who you truly are,
Is never damaged by weather.
Notice this for yourself.
There may be feelings here.
Tension,
Calm,
Restlessness,
Peace.
Whatever you sense is simply energy moving through.
It does not define you.
Let your breath remind you of what is constant.
The rise and fall.
The coming and going.
Life breathing itself through you.
You might sense a gentle quiet beginning to emerge underneath the noise.
A calm that asks for nothing.
A peace that doesn't need to be earned.
This presence is not something you create.
It was always here.
Waiting beneath the layers of doing,
Analyzing,
Driving.
Even your moments of self-doubt have always been innocent.
They were simply times when thought looked real and personal.
But the truth of you,
The awareness behind it all,
Has never been touched.
Let yourself rest in that.
The feeling of being aware.
Of being alive.
Of being here.
If thoughts drift in about the past.
About how you think you should be.
Let them move like leaves floating downstream.
You don't have to follow them.
You can just let them go.
Come back again to the breath.
To the body.
To this moment.
Here,
Beneath all the judgment and comparison,
There is love.
Not the kind that has to be built or proven.
But the quiet,
Unconditional love that exists simply because you do.
You may sense it now.
A soft warmth in the chest.
A loosening in the shoulders.
A feeling of gentleness that asks nothing from you.
This is what it feels like to be yourself.
To rest in who you already are.
Self-love is not something to achieve.
It is not a state to hold on to.
It is the natural condition that returns when you stop believing the noise of thought.
Take a final breath in.
And a slow,
Easy breath out.
Let that breath remind you of what is always constant.
Presence.
Love.
And life itself.
As you move back into your day,
Carry this simple truth with you.
You do not need to become anything more to be enough.
You already are.
You are the love that you've been looking for.
And you are already home.
