Welcome.
Take a deep breath.
Inhaling through the nose.
Inhaling through the mouth with a big sigh.
Twice more just like that.
Drinking in this moment as you inhale through the nose,
Receiving the breath,
The beauty of what is alive in you.
And exhaling whatever does not serve.
Whatever has been hard.
Whatever wants to go.
Letting your own breath soothe you as you breathe.
The sound of it like a cradle,
Like a lullaby.
Hold in your breath everything that's here without grasping,
Without forcing,
Without trying or efforting.
And as you hold,
Hold with an open palm so that you also release as you hold.
You also allow,
You also make space for what is here to move,
To breathe itself,
To have room to be.
And as you breathe into what is,
Connect also with your desire.
What is longing inside you?
What is yearning inside you?
What is wanting for something,
For someone inside you?
And what is your relationship with this longing,
With this desire?
Are you afraid it won't happen?
That it will always be beyond your grasp,
Outside of reach?
Are you excited knowing that with this eagerness and anticipation,
It is right around the corner,
Coming to fruition in your very seed of desire that you're planting?
Do you feel lack or abundance in relationship to what you want?
Don't make either right or wrong,
Good or bad,
Just notice.
And how can you honor this desire?
Not telling yourself you shouldn't want,
Not telling yourself you should be happy with the enoughness that is yours,
But also not feeling incomplete without the thing you crave.
How can you honor this desire as an experience,
A symptom,
A sign of your aliveness,
A sign that you are growing,
That you are magnetizing things to you and you are being pulled and called and summoned toward other things as well?
What would it be like to rest with this desire,
To dance with this desire,
To appreciate your own desire?
What if this desire were a gift,
A compass leading you,
Leading your path forward,
Leading your next steps,
Letting your next breath be infused with newness,
With a new horizon,
With beauty?
What if your desire is your teacher,
Your leader,
Your guide?
Instead of an inconvenience or an irritation or something that makes you feel hollow or unsatisfied.
What would it be like for your longing,
Your yearning,
Your desire to be delicious instead of painful?
There is something sacred to what you want.
There is something sacred even to the parts of you that are scared of what you want,
Of wanting,
Of not getting.
Those parts have wisdom too.
They teach you how much you want it.
They teach you how important this is to you.
They teach you that you care deeply.
So can you access that tenderness now,
The tenderness of caring about what matters?
Take the next few breaths,
The next few moments to sit with a vision of this life that you are wanting to step into,
Of the one who you get to become through the process of getting to what you want and having what you want.
Who will that make you?
Who do you get to be on that journey?
What must shift?
What must you embrace and stay the same in the way that you deepen it,
Deepening the grooves of who you already are,
Allowing more of you to shine through?
What if there was nothing wrong,
Nothing wrong with where you are,
Nothing wrong with where you want to be?
What if this were perfect?
Where you stand is perfect.
The map is perfect.
The way is perfect.
The obstacles in the way are perfect.
The place that marks the X on the map where you want to end up is perfect.
When it is not the end,
It will become your new beginning.
Once you get there,
You will have a new horizon ahead,
A new mountain to climb.
So can you commit to enjoying each journey,
The ones that unfold with the power of your desire propelled by the love in your heart?
As your yes resounds inside,
You may place one hand on your heart and the other over it and take three more deep cleansing breaths in through the nose,
Out through the mouth,
In through the nose,
Out through the mouth.
And the last one,
Inhaling the arms up to the sky,
Smiling and exhaling like a rainbow or an accordion,
The arms out to your sides,
Opening the space,
Opening your heart,
Opening the willingness of your soul to be here and to see what is possible.
