Hello and thank you for joining me for this meditation to help open us up to energy.
In his book,
The Untethered Soul,
Michael Singer writes,
If you're always inspired and filled with energy,
Then every minute of every day is an exciting experience.
And of course,
He's talking about the energy of enthusiasm and joy and happiness and love.
But often in our chaotic worlds,
It can be very easy to close ourselves off to that.
Sometimes we may become upset at our partner,
Maybe they did something,
Or our boss criticized our work,
Or sometimes we don't even know what causes it.
What causes us to close down?
It could have been just a fleeting glimpse of something or a smell or a sound.
But if we can work on intentionally staying open,
Even when our mind starts to try to close us down,
When we can work on intentionally staying open and letting ourselves feel our true feelings,
We're able to process them and we're able to move through them better so that in the future,
We can stay open with love and joy and enthusiasm.
So take a moment here to close those eyes,
Begin to get comfortable in your spot.
We wanna rest here with those sits bones rooting into the earth and the crown lifting towards the sky.
When you're ready,
Begin to close down the eyes and draw the awareness inward to the breath,
Just feeling it start to flow in and out,
Starting to get behind those thoughts.
And if you're getting distracted,
If one of those thoughts is starting to pull you away,
It's okay,
Just take a step back.
Know that you don't have to follow them.
You don't need to attach to them.
You are right here right now and I am with you.
So as we breathe here,
As we rest,
Begin to picture a white light just above you.
And intuitively,
I want you to just know in your soul that that light is the light of love and joy,
Of enthusiasm.
And as you rest here,
Let's open ourselves up.
We'll start with the physical.
Bring your shoulders up,
Back and down.
Bring your chest or your heart forward a bit.
Allow your palms to rest facing up and allow your feet to root you down.
And now with the mind,
Let all of those sticky thoughts clear away.
Attention is with the breath.
And begin to picture now that we're in this state,
This open state.
Begin to picture that light pouring over you.
Begin to picture that light pouring through you.
And allow yourself to fill up with that light.
You are open and ready to receive this light of joy and love and enthusiasm.
This light is washing through you and over you.
Allow yourself to rest here.
Feel this light make its way into all of the cracks and crevices.
Feel this light break through any darkness,
Any heaviness.
Just picturing yourself breathing in and basking in this light of love and joy.
Feel this light washing over your body.
Feel it running off your fingertips and toes.
And in your mind's eye,
See that light starting to spread.
Allowing yourself to be spacious and open as this light fills the room you're in.
Being spacious and open as the light makes its way out,
Starts to fill the town around you,
Your community.
Washing this openness,
This energy of enthusiasm,
Love and joy over your neighbors,
Over your friends and family.
See this light spread out,
This energy,
This light of enthusiasm and love is washing over your country and over our delicate planet.
All beings are bathed in this energy,
This openness of enthusiasm,
Joy and love.
And let yourself rest here in this state of openness.
This openness to this energy that you are sharing with everyone and let yourself bask here in this energy.
Beautiful job.
And as you go through your day today,
If you start to feel yourself closing off,
If you start to feel the shoulders come up or a tightness in the chest or some stress,
Just see if you can allow yourself to intentionally open.
See if you can allow this light to pour over you as you remain open to this energy.
And when you're ready,
Just begin to flutter the eyes open.
Maybe give yourself a stretch or two.
Take a deep breath and go out into your day with this renewed energy and openness.
