Good morning and welcome to The Artist's Morning.
My name is Darius and our practice today will be on the theme of unconditional love.
Before we get started I want to say something.
It's entirely possible that you do not believe in unconditional love.
And I want to say that's totally okay.
As with all of my meditations,
We are playing,
We are exploring.
Everything is an invitation.
Each day is different and you get to feel into what you are open to today,
This morning.
Whatever you decide and whatever comes up for you,
It's my belief that it's here in service of your highest self.
With that,
Let's begin our meditation.
If your eyes are still open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now as we go inwards together.
Noticing what's alive inside you.
Slowly beginning to take deeper breaths.
Noticing the rising and falling of your chest now.
Taking a moment to get present with your heart.
How is your heart this morning?
I'm just going to take it nice and slow here and allow you to land.
How is your heart this morning?
Is there something your heart is caring?
Is there something your heart wants to share with you?
Is there a part of your heart that is hidden?
Is there a part of your heart that is excited?
With every new inhale,
I want you to imagine your heart and your heart space are becoming more and more alive.
If your heart were represented by a color,
What color would your heart be now?
Taking a nice deep breath here,
Breathing in,
Holding at the top and letting it all go.
Bravo dear artist.
Sometimes the mere act of listening to our hearts,
Of feeling what's alive in our hearts,
Can require bravery.
What I'd like to do in this meditation with your permission is to bring loving kindness,
The energy and frequency of loving kindness,
To all parts of your heart,
To all parts of you.
Now you have full permission to resist,
Deny,
And close yourself off to this love.
I get it,
Sometimes receiving love can be hard.
But if you're open to it,
The love is here.
I want you to imagine a golden ray of light,
Like a star,
Like a sun from the sky.
It's beaming down and it not only looks glorious,
But it feels glorious.
The warmth,
The love,
The support,
Feels like a hug from someone you love.
It's here.
It's not going anywhere.
It's available to you always.
If you're open to it,
I'd like to invite you to sit up just a little bit taller,
To push your shoulders back just a little bit more,
And open yourself and your heart to receiving the unconditional love available to you here from this higher source.
What does it feel like in your body?
You are loved.
You are lovable.
All of you.
All of you is worthy of love.
Take a moment to honestly feel how that feels in your body.
Maybe you like the sensation,
Maybe you are open to it,
And you like some more of it.
Maybe resistance shows up for you,
And you notice yourself closing off to the love.
You are worthy of love,
Dear artist.
All of you.
All parts.
Your dreams are worthy of love.
Your fear is worthy of love.
Your mistakes are worthy of love.
Are there parts of your heart,
Parts of yourself,
That perhaps never sit in the sun,
This glorious sun?
Are there parts that would like to come out of the shadow and feel,
Feel this glorious warmth and love and support from a higher self,
From universe,
From God,
Whatever you would like to call it?
Is there any part of you,
Any shadow part,
Any part that maybe you are embarrassed of,
Ashamed of?
Are there any of those parts that you would like to bring into the sun now?
I'd like to invite you to do exactly that.
Take a moment here to land in the silence once again.
Sometimes the mere act of receiving kindness and love can be challenging.
You can resist all you want,
That's okay.
This love is infinite.
This love is unconditional.
And what that means is this love exists without the condition of you believing in it.
It's here,
It will always be here,
No matter what you do or what you believe.
It requires nothing of you to be worthy of love.
I'm going to say that one more time.
There is nothing required of you to be worthy of love.
With this last song,
I'm going to stay quiet and just let you explore what's here,
What's real,
What's trying to communicate with you.
I'm going to say that one more time.
There is nothing required of you to be worthy of love.
I'm going to stay quiet and just let you explore what's here,
What's trying to communicate with you.
I'm going to stay quiet and just let you explore what's here,
What's trying to communicate with you.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo,
Dear creator.
Wherever you went,
Wherever you felt or did not feel,
I am grateful that you and I and us,
We got this time together and that we got this time with our hearts.
For those of you joining us live at the artist's morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and invite you to do some private personal journaling.
You're catching us on a replay.
You can do the same.
One possible journaling prompt you might want to explore is what are your beliefs about unconditional love?
It's an interesting question to explore.
Maybe you believe in it,
Maybe you don't,
Maybe somewhere in the middle.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and we'll see you next time.
