Love, Space + Gratitude For Your Heart

Good morning,

And welcome to the artist's morning.

My name's Darius,

And I am truly so grateful that you and I get this time together.

Let's begin our practice today.

If your eyes are open,

I'd like to invite you to gently close them now.

And let's start by just giving yourself a little bit of space to arrive,

Landing in your seat,

Finding your breath,

Gently calling in any parts of you that are in the past thinking about what already happened.

Let's bring them in.

Let's bring them into your center,

Into this moment.

And let's do the same with any part of you that's in the future,

Thinking about what's going to happen or what could happen.

Let's lovingly bring those parts back home,

Back to your center.

Let's take a breath here together,

Breathing in.

And hold that breath at the top,

And just listen,

And let it go.

For me,

The top of my breath is a place with clarity,

A place with deep presence.

I like listening to what's there,

And sometimes it's nothing,

It's stillness,

It's quiet.

And sometimes it's chaos.

A gentle reminder that all of you,

All your parts,

Your calm,

Soothing parts,

Your loud,

Chaotic parts,

Your deeply introverted parts,

Your extroverted parts,

All your parts are welcome here.

And if it's available to you,

Let's take another deep breath here,

The deepest we've taken all day.

Breathing in,

Holding at the top for a moment,

And letting it all go.

And in this place,

Where we're breathing deeper,

Where we're giving permission for ourselves to be exactly as we are,

What's here?

How do you feel here?

How is your heart here?

How are you here?

It's a simple question and can be an incredibly emotional question.

How are you truly?

How is your life going?

You don't need to share this answer with anyone,

But in this private,

Personal safe space of just you and you,

What comes up when I ask that question?

How are you truly?

Now maybe it's easy for you to feel and express,

And maybe your heart gets guarded.

Maybe resistance shows up.

Maybe you feel you need to stifle or limit whatever you're feeling.

Maybe your heart is wide open,

Full permission.

Remember you're safe here.

This is just for you and you.

I'm going to ask the question again and start to attune,

Start to notice if there are any limits.

Maybe you feel really good right now,

And then suddenly there's a limit to how good you can feel.

Eight out of 10 max,

You're not allowed to go above that.

Maybe you don't feel good right now.

Maybe you're in pain,

Physical,

Emotional,

And you limit it,

Or you amplify it more than you actually feel.

Take a deep breath here,

Breathing in,

And if you're open to it,

Here's the question again,

How are you doing?

How is your heart this morning?

Now that we took a little bit of time to check in with our hearts,

We have a better sense of how our hearts are doing.

With this next song,

If you're open to it,

We're just going to blast our hearts with gratitude and love,

And you don't need to do anything,

Because in this space,

There is a radiant beam of light from the sky coming down your head,

Down your throat,

Into your heart,

And as it hits your heart,

It's the most amazing sensation.

It's like a million little angels are dancing and playing and celebrating your beautiful heart.

Maybe you can feel it,

And maybe it's really subtle and you can't sense it,

But I promise you it's there.

In this place,

Your heart is growing,

Your heart is healing,

Your heart is getting stronger and stronger.

Are you open to it?

If so,

All you need to do is gently imagine your heart space opening up to receive this beam of light and this million tiny,

Teeny angels now.

Bravo dear artist,

Bravo dear creator,

You made it to this point.

We have one more song left today,

And I'm going to stay mostly quiet for this song.

And the angels,

These beautiful,

Teeny tiny angels are working their way through your body in the most loving,

Most healing,

Most expansive way possible,

And with your permission,

They will go anywhere that could use a little extra love right now,

A little extra healing.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you and the angels dance.

And let's take a deep breath here together to bring our meditation to an end,

Breathing in and letting it go,

Giving ourselves a moment to come back to our bodies and just noticing if anything feels different from the beginning of our meditation.

Maybe it feels exactly the same and maybe it does not.

Thank you for meditating with me.

For those that are joining live at the artist morning,

I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and share a journaling prompt for us today.

And of course,

If you're catching us on a replay,

Perhaps on insight timer,

You can do the same.

Put some time on your clock,

Get your journal out,

And let's do some private personal journaling and just explore what's here and ready to be expressed through you.

Thank you once again for meditating with me.

My name's Darius and I will see you next time.