So finding a comfortable place where you can feel that your body is solid and stable.
If you feel comfortable gently closing your eyes and letting yourself notice your breath flowing into your nose and into your body and limbs.
When you're ready you're releasing the exhale gently.
Next inhale taking in a little bit more oxygen,
A little bit more energy,
Letting it fill you,
Feeling it coming in here.
And releasing.
With your next inhale,
You're letting your attention go all the way down your feet.
Letting your breath and attention rest there.
Whatever allows you to feel a good sense of groundedness.
Some people feel a heaviness into their feet.
Some people like to imagine roots climbing out from your toes and your heel into the ground.
Some days I imagine that my feet are magnets,
Magnetized and attracted to the earth.
Whatever allows you to feel that strong pull of connection is delightful.
And if nothing comes to mind that is okay too.
With your next inhale recalling all of your energy,
All of your awareness,
All of your emotion.
How it feels to be as fully present and as fully in your body and your feeling as you are right now.
Ready you want to release with a gentle exhale.
Everything that is not yours,
Everything that you're ready to let go of,
Everything that does not belong to you,
You're releasing from your energy,
From your experience,
And from your emotions.
It helps to take another deep breath and make an audible exhale that you can hear so that you can feel the release.
I invite you to do that.
And with your next inhale,
You're going to visualize whatever way is easy for you.
Not everyone visualizes in their mind.
So you can feel if that's what works for you,
Picturing your mind.
There's a path leading to some type of safe and warm and finding cave that's in a hill that's in a mountainside that is just beyond this path.
And again,
This is a place where you may not consciously ever remember having gone,
You know,
Deeply comforted and safe.
Along the outside of the cave.
There are things that as you see them,
You feel a knowingness in you.
You may see your name on the outside of the cave,
You may see emblems or symbols or pictures or carvings that are meaningful and special to you.
And,
Or you may simply feel and notice the beauty of it in the sense of being drawn to this cave.
So as you approach,
You're welcome to visualize that you're putting your hand on the outside of the wall,
Knowing that you placing your hand there does several things that allows you to feel the connection,
Knowing you can leave whenever you wish.
You can return to this place whenever you wish.
And it allows you to acknowledge that transition as you cross over the threshold.
Then this cave is a place that is called the Hall of Proclaim.
This hall is a place whereby as you walk within,
You will have a feeling or a knowing or visuals or sounds or other experiences that reinforce and remind you and renew and refresh you to what you are acclaimed to be,
What you are acclaimed to do,
Those things that are your true inherent gifts.
The Hall of Acclaim is a place of acknowledgement of all that you have done that is genuine to you that has had a positive effect for you that has had a positive effect for those around you.
Which gives you a feeling as much as it gives you sensory or visual details,
You are returning to an awareness of how similar in a trophy hall or prize chest or award ceremony where people are recognized.
The Hall of Acclaim is individualized,
Personalized and custom for you.
Everything that is reflecting to you,
Your inherent,
Genuine gifts,
Inclinations,
Talents,
Beauties,
Aspirations.
For some people,
A part of the Hall of Acclaim will be a section where there is a mirror.
So if you discover a mirror,
You're welcome to look at the mirror and you may or may not look in the mirror how you look in your everyday physical life.
You may see posters on the walls or trophies or newspaper clippings or museum-type presentations.
For some people,
There will be an inviting chair where you're allowed to sit and listen to the encouragement and the words of others saying the things that they love about you,
Saying the things that they respect about you.
It might also be written in a book that is filled with pages upon pages of knowledge where you touched another person's heart,
You brought another person to tears of joy,
You made a difference in another person's life.
If you look up when you're in the Hall of Acclaim,
There's that lofty feeling that one gets from looking at treetops in the forest or cathedral ceilings,
That sense of exaltation,
That sense of all of the things that you have done to lift others up.
And this Hall of Acclaim is filled with every moment of acknowledgement of what you have done and how it is valuable and there are so few places where you have visited in which issues and emotions of comparison and jealousy or not enough or striving do not occur.
And this is one of those few places where this Hall of Acclaim is entirely and totally devoted to appreciating with the deepest gratitude every moment that you have brought to this life.
And we're given a few minutes to explore and be in this space in the way that you are called to.
Feel it within your body to enjoy it.
And then,
If you want to be there longer,
To pause this and continue experiencing it,
To listen to this as you go to sleep or take a long bath or a long walk or a long drive so that you can experience it.
For those who are not pausing,
You're going to be feeling yourself you're going to be feeling yourself returning slowly to the present moment.
All of your attention and awareness is drawn back to where your body is in space right now.
You might notice how your fingers feel,
How your toes,
You can roll your shoulders,
Wiggle your nose or your toes.
And then the next few breaths,
You can open your eyes and return to where you were.
Feel free to take out a journal or notebook or sketchbook and write your reflections of your experience.
