For today's meditation,
If you could find a rock to hold,
This may be something that you already have in your house.
If not,
You could take a look outside.
So once you've found a rock to hold,
Settle yourself either inside or outside,
If you're outside possibly sitting on the earth.
And if you're inside,
Perhaps bringing into your imagination one of your favorite nature places.
Conjuring up the details of that place maybe that you visited before in nature,
The beauty,
The aliveness,
The relaxation that that place in nature brings you.
If you're outside,
Just making sure that you feel settled and safe.
There's not too much distraction around you.
Another come to a seated or laying down or even standing if you prefer holding your rock in your hands.
Then tune into the weight,
The density,
And the heaviness of that rock in your hands.
And allow the rest of your body to mirror that quality of being drawn down to the earth.
Conjuring your weight completely.
As you do that,
You may notice a yield in quality.
As you release your weight down,
You may start to feel an equal and opposite force or pressure,
Support coming up to meet you.
So there's this quality of you and the earth meeting,
Contacting,
And pressing into one another.
The earth coming up to meet you.
You may begin to notice any other qualities of the rock that you're holding.
Possibly the temperature.
The shape.
The texture.
The weight.
As you sense into the qualities of the rock you're holding,
Offering your presence to the rock.
You may begin to imagine or perceive that the rock is also offering its presence to you.
Its qualities.
Its physical properties.
Some would say its consciousness offering its beingness to you.
Just as you're holding the rock,
You're touching the rock.
You also feel that the rock is touching you.
Receiving the impressions of the touch of this rock in your hands.
Perhaps the impressions of this rock touching you translates deeper into your body as a quality of being,
Possibly stillness.
Slowing down.
Releasing to the earth.
A sense of your mineral dense bones.
Simply resonating with the minerals of this rock and of the minerals layered within the air.
Just as you offer your presence to the earth beneath you,
You also feel the earth beneath you offering you her presence.
My teacher calls gravity a spiritual force of belonging.
When we are in touch with gravity,
With the contact of our body to the earth,
It gives us an immediate sense of belonging here right now.
This contact and pull of gravity gives me a sense of belonging here right now when I tune into it.
And right here in my body,
Right here on the earth.
You can begin to imagine this rock or this spot of earth beneath you.
Just sensing or feeling you and your unique vibration and imprint.
The earth beneath you and the rock in your hands,
Sensing and feeling you,
Your unique energy signature in this moment.
Maybe the pulsing,
The vibrating,
The streaming,
Expanding and contracting.
All of the dynamic patterns,
The fluidity of your aliveness witnessed by the earth.
Notice the quality of your breath,
If it's changed at all,
Slowed down or deepened.
And even begin to sense that you're breathing with the earth in relationship to the earth or the ground beneath you.
Just like a plant with a two directional force of energy rooting down into the earth but also drawing nutrients and nourishment up from the earth.
As you breathe,
You may notice a quality of releasing and rooting.
Inhale possibly a drawing up of nourishing golden energy,
Earthy green nutrients,
Earthy chocolatey nutrients,
Receiving and giving back,
Receiving and letting go.
You being absorbed into the ground and the earth and the earth equally absorbing and softening into you.
Feeling and touching the ground beneath you,
Pressing down and feeling the ground touching and pressing into you.
Where can you let go just a little bit more?
Resting in the support beneath you.
Earth has this beautiful benevolent yin quality of compassion,
Gentleness and support.
This mama earth quality of being able to hold you and accept whatever you're with in this moment.
She offers her acceptance and love for anything that you're holding,
That you're ready to release becomes her food,
Her nourishment,
To compost and transform.
As you allow her to feel,
Accept,
Hold whatever it is that you're with right now.
And really allow that unconditional love that she offers through every cell and tissue of your body as you allow yourself to be with and release to the earth,
To her whatever it is that feels like too much to hold.
I'm just imagining her mama earth there with open loving arms receiving you in it all.
Watering and nourishing her with your capacity to feel,
To really feel received,
Complete acceptance.
Trusting that you can soften into her embrace and she will love you even more for it.
Let go.
Be held.
So just listening in to your body and what you need right now to complete this session.
Maybe to lay on the earth with your belly and your heart down.
Honoring this connection and offering gratitude for this relationship.
This reciprocal respect and love.
However you'd like to honor this relationship and this practice for today.
Your eyes are still closed or have been closed you can begin to open them slowly.
Allowing them to rest on the nature around you whatever it is maybe even just a cloud or a tree top absorbing through your eyes like sponges.
The nourishment and benevolence of nature.
Thank you so much for sharing this practice with me today.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Wishing you a wonderful day.
