Hello,
My name is Rebecca Galla-Jones and I'm joining you today from Atlanta,
Georgia.
And I'd like to invite you as we start to get together and gather to find a comfortable way to be receptive,
Right?
And so that might be lying down,
You could stand up supported by a wall.
You might have a seated position,
Whether that's in a chair or seated on the floor.
So in order for us to adapt good routines,
We have to throw out all of the rigor behind it.
Many people think that in order to meditate,
That they have to have a quiet mind and a dedicated room or a spot in their home.
And while those things are lovely,
They are not necessary.
So one of the concepts I'd like to throw out there for us to explore a little bit together today is dealing with disappointment because my goodness,
Haven't we had so much of that over the past few years,
Right?
So what do you do with disappointment?
Where does it go?
Does it live in your body and finds its way into your head?
Then it finds its way,
It bleeds out because disappointment is one of those things that if we feel that something hasn't happened in one area of our life,
Then we start picking almost like a scab at other areas of our lives.
We might feel frustrated about a project,
An idea,
A relationship,
Not really kind of vibing or thriving.
And then we start to look for this idea of,
Well,
It's just the way it goes in my life because this isn't working over here and this isn't working over there,
Right?
So if we let this concept of disappointment be something that we don't have to like it,
We get a level of acceptance around and we use it as a catalyst or a way to help nudge us maybe into a different way of doing said thing,
Right?
So find that place,
That place that you're seated or you're standing or,
And dig in a little bit more,
Like really drop into it just a little bit more.
And then let your eyes close.
And so what we're going to do,
I'm going to guide you for a moment,
Just about the releasing of this idea of the disappointment.
And then I'm going to leave you with some solitude and then I'm going to come back again and bring us back together and out of the meditation.
So when I said that word disappointment,
It probably brought something to mind for you,
Something in particular.
So just call that to mind again,
Right?
And it doesn't have to be anything that is even current.
Maybe it's something that happened a while ago,
Right?
And yet it's still there.
It's still there,
Right?
You're disappointed that you were passed over for a promotion.
You're disappointed in the fact that you had hoped for something to happen in a relationship and someone to solidify it or to give you a special type of gift,
For example,
And they did not.
Maybe you're disappointed because plans have been canceled on a repeated basis,
Or maybe you're even disappointed in yourself in one way or another.
And that's okay,
Right?
And so just allow that to kind of come into your mind for a moment,
That idea of disappointment.
And then I want you to start to breathe.
Like use your breath to start to release some of that energy because the sensation of disappointment is something that gets trapped.
And so we want to pull the air in,
Take a big inhale breath through your nose and sigh it out through your mouth.
And do that again.
Sigh it in through your nose,
Sigh it out through your mouth.
And one more breathing.
And sigh it out.
Now if you're familiar with breathing in through your nose and out through your nose,
You can start to employ that technique.
Pull the air in through your nose and it kind of pulls over the back of the throat and then press it out.
I'll do it one more time for you.
Pull it in and press it out.
Now you can continue with either one of those styles of breathing,
Whether it's in through the nose and out through the mouth or in through the nose and out through the nose.
That ujjayi breath,
Right?
And that breath is often thought of as the victorious breath,
Becoming sort of a victor over the imbalances.
We're trying to regulate some of the energy so that things are not so heavy.
So sit with your breath for a moment.
Try to repeat the action of continually pulling it in and pressing it out and pulling it in and pressing it out and pulling it in and pressing it out.
I'm going to leave you with that for just a few moments.
Continue on with that steady breath and let it help you gather more and release more.
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Now,
Very slowly,
You may release the breath.
You'll continue to breathe at a normal steady pace,
Just a regular daily breath that you take.
And so what we're doing when we put that focus on that thing that we feel that sense of disappointment around is then we let it go.
We release it.
We liberate ourself from that.
It's not that it isn't important and it's not that it wasn't impactful.
It's just that sitting with it is far more harmful,
If you will,
Or takes away the possibility of expanding.
It makes us shrink.
So when we allow disappointment to settle in too much,
It stops us from expanding and it stops us from thriving.
So as you move through your day,
Maybe you think about that.
Maybe it comes up several other times or other disappointments as they arrive and you notice them and you see them.
And then maybe you're able to pass through them a little bit more quickly or with more ease and certainly with a little bit more grace.
So thanks for tuning in today and I look forward to being with you again soon.
Again,
My name is Rebecca Galla-Jones and take it one breath at a time.
