Darkness And Light Meditation

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08:44

Darkness And Light Meditation

by Elizabeth Pyjov

Rated

5

Type

guided

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

Plays

32

We are realizing that our inner lightness actually grows from the strength we gain by processing our darkness, and by anchoring ourselves in high self-worth, we can remain stable through any emotional storm.

Meditation Self Worth Emotional Resilience Inner Strength Emotional Acceptance Breath Awareness Universal Connection Timelessness Darkness And Light Exploration Self Worth Foundation Timeless Experience Inner Strength Cultivation

Meet your Teacher

Elizabeth Pyjov

New York, NY, USA

Meet your Teacher

Elizabeth Pyjov

New York, NY, USA

Transcript

Begin with a deep breath in and a full cleansing breath out Settle into your seat We will do a practice of darkness and light Welcoming light welcoming darkness and time and timelessness Put your hands on the heart Feel the heart Acknowledge that you will have every kind of feeling and experience You will feel light you will feel your own darkness You are eternal So things are always changing You can bring in the guesthouse quality knowing that everything will always be changing anyway and The darkness is a thing to be experienced. It's interesting Just like the light is interesting There's resource in darkness So feel into your enormous capacity for darkness And feel into your enormous capacity for light You get lightness you get inner lightness from strength You get strength from processing darkness You will go through different periods of different kinds of emotions From despair anger sadness to joy laughter Excitement pleasure relief. Hope Every path leads to light Light leads to light and the dark leads to light You cannot make anyone's darkness go away It's not possible. You can offer loving presence kindness warmth and relieve some suffering But every human being will come in contact with their own darkness And you cannot remove your own darkness nor should you The most important thing is to keep a foundation of high self-worth a Sense of your own worth keeps you stable in darkness You can release the hands down but still feel the heart Feel that you are endlessly valuable to the universe You are a miracle The whole cosmos is inside you It is worth serving your body Serving your heart Serving your spirit With Low self-worth when you're experiencing darkness you assume it's saying something negative about you It's not You can experience darkness and not do anything self-destructive and not blame The darkness is never a problem Only if we react to it negatively Every single being has darkness inside We're all timeless and we experience everything Welcoming all your feelings all your emotions all your states This sense of timelessness and the whole cosmos inside you Gives you a sense of mightiness of strength of your own divinity And now tune into the breath Be with the breath fully When you are fully in the moment you experience timelessness You feel the breath and now feel it more deeply Sensing it When you're in the moment you are timeless and When you feel you're timeless You have a depth of respect for yourself You Honoring everything Honoring accepting being with everything inside you and everything outside you It's an honor to experience so many shades so many states so many emotions Everything adds to your depth adds to your strength And That strength helps you be in the light be in beauty Be enjoy more fully because you're not afraid of the dark Getting to know your own dark Being at ease with it you're at ease with the whole world Which is a pendulum of all things Feel into your own goodness Feel into your own good intentions Feel into your timelessness you exist in endless space and endless time You're here to be large enough to contain everything And to be kind to every being Every person Every emotion every state on this earth and perhaps beyond Let the shoulders release Let the chest release Let the mouth release release the tongue And say I welcome everything I am strong enough for everything Take a last deep breath in of this meditation Take a deep breath out releasing fully And thank yourself for everything within you and thank yourself for practicing today and You feel ready open your eyes and coming back to this beautiful white and darkness outside you