Welcome to the Daily Insight.
My name is Linda Hall and I'm a teacher here on Insight Timer.
Today's meditation will help boost your self-esteem and wellbeing using a combination of practices including mindfulness,
Grounding,
Breath awareness,
Loving-kindness,
Positive visualization and affirmations.
Allow your eyes to comfortably close.
As you do so,
Bring your awareness down to where the weight of your body rests on the surface directly beneath you.
Notice the support beneath you is steady.
Sit back onto the steadiness.
Let it take more of your weight.
Become aware of the sensation of air entering your nostrils and leaving.
Notice the movements your body makes as you breathe.
The expansion of the in-breath.
The release of the out.
Allow everything to be as it is without judging it.
In your own time,
Notice that you're breathing in from the space around you and out into it.
Sense the horizon stretching all the way around you,
Into the distance and beyond.
The height of sky above you.
Notice the spaciousness.
Breathe the spaciousness into you.
Breathe it into places that have got closed off,
Shut down,
Full up or something else.
Breathe the spaciousness into the you inside.
Take as much as you need.
As you do so,
Let your attitude towards yourself soften and become kinder,
Warmer.
Let loving kindness surround you like a nest.
Breathe the loving kindness in and out.
Losing kindness to flow into places within you in need of reassurance,
Comfort,
Healing.
As you do so,
Allow the light of the universe in to strengthen and nourish you.
Set the beautiful radiant light into the deepest parts of you and surround them with healing.
Allow the light and the loving kindness to bathe and surround every part of you.
Know that you are special,
That you are perfect exactly as you are right now,
And say the affirmations,
I love and value myself.
I believe and trust in myself.
You are a child of the universe made of the same stuff as the stars.
Picture all the wonders and exquisite beauty of the natural world around you.
The glorious sunrises and sunsets.
The seasons and cycles of renewal and rebirth.
Know that you are as special and as beautiful as all of this.
You have a unique purpose and a right to be here.
You are capable of great things.
Appreciate yourself for being you.
Let yourself know that you are doing okay.
You are doing really well.
In your own time,
Bring your attention back to the urban flow of your breath.
The weight of your body being supported by the surface directly beneath it.
When you are ready,
You can draw this meditation to a close.
