Receiving More Love

Good morning and welcome to The Artist's Morning.

My name is Darius and our practice today will be on the theme of love.

More specifically,

Today's practice will be an invitation,

If you are open to it,

To intentionally opening our eyes,

Our ears,

Our hearts to receiving more love.

Let's begin.

If your eyes are open,

I'd like to invite you to gently close them now as we begin to go inwards together,

Taking nice deep breaths,

Giving yourself an opportunity to really arrive,

Arrive in this moment,

Arrive in your body,

In your breath.

One more deep breath here,

Breathing in and letting it go.

I used to believe the world was binary.

There were good days and bad days,

Sad days and happy days.

As I got older,

I realized there's no such thing.

Everything is sort of happening all at once,

Always.

What that means for me is in any moment,

No matter how challenging,

How dark,

How sad,

How angry,

We have the ability to access love.

Love is always here.

Love is always here.

If you are open to receiving more love,

I'd be honored to guide you.

And if on this morning,

In this moment,

The idea of receiving more love does not sound appealing or supportive to you,

I respect that.

You can sort of just take a seat,

Step back and come back to this meditation at any time.

For those that are open to receiving more love,

Let us begin.

Let's take a nice deep breath here,

Noticing the rising and falling of your chest and belly as we breathe in and out,

Bringing new energy in,

Gently letting old stagnant energy out through our exhales.

I'm going to share a few simple affirmations now with you.

You can repeat them.

What's most important is to feel them.

It's not the words,

It's the energy.

It's the sensations in our bodies.

When I say see,

Notice if you can feel energy around your eyes.

When I say hear,

See if you can feel a little tingle around your ears.

When I say feel,

Notice any changes to your heart space.

Let's take a deep breath before we go into the affirmations now.

And there's a little bit of open space here between songs.

Sometimes in the silence,

I can hear my heart the loudest.

Let's take a deep breath as we get ready to go into the affirmations now.

Breathing in and out.

I'm going to share the affirmations with you.

Feel free to repeat them,

To feel them,

To activate them in any way that feels supportive to yourself.

I am open to seeing more love all around me.

Activating your eyes now.

I am open to hearing more love all around me.

Activating your ears now.

I am open to feeling more love all around me.

Activating your heart now.

I am open to being love.

Allowing your being to amplify the love that exists inside you now.

Repeat those same four affirmations affirmations once again.

I am open to seeing more love all around me.

I am open to hearing more love all around me.

I am open to feeling love all around me.

I am open to being love.

I am open to being love.

Each day is different.

Each one of us is slightly different.

Maybe today you are open to receiving more love and maybe today there is a lot of resistance.

Go at your own pace and know you can always come back to this meditation.

I also know that even 1%,

2% more open to receiving love in our lives can make a really big impact.

Sometimes it almost feels like a magic trick.

I am going through a lot on a specific day and I take a few moments to close my eyes and repeat those affirmations and nothing changes.

But somehow everything changes.

When I open my eyes,

When I open my ears,

When I open my heart,

It is as if beauty antennas have been activated.

Love antennas have been activated.

Somehow I am seeing with different eyes and hearing with different ears and feeling with different heart and the world is different.

With this last song,

Take it for a spin,

Feel,

Play,

Resist,

Do what you want to do,

What serves you.

I will meet you at the end.

Bravo dear artist.

Bravo dear creator.

You made it to the end of this meditation and I am so grateful for that.

For those of you that are joining us live at the artist morning,

I am going to put 20 minutes on the clock and allow us to do some private personal journaling.

If you are catching us on a replay,

Of course you can do the same.

Put 20 minutes on your own clock,

Get your journal out and see what is real,

What is here,

What is accessible.

Thank you for meditating with me.

My name is Darius and I will see you next time.