
Talk And Meditation For Peace And Harmony
This Guided Soul Recovery meditation and short talk was recorded live in June 2025 during a livestream with our community. It's an offering of peace in a turbulent world—a reminder that we always have the power to choose love over fear, and to return to the sanctuary of our hearts. Settle in, breathe deeply, and allow yourself to be held in light.
Transcript
I invite you to settle into your body,
Find a comfortable place to sit or lay down and just start by stilling your mind,
Maybe noticing if you have any place that feels tense or tight and just breathing into that before we start.
Before we start,
I want you to actually just in this stillness with your eyes closed,
I want you to notice the texture of the energy around you.
Gently and quietly notice and be present with exactly what is around you.
This is not about us trying to reach or strive for something that isn't the truth of who we are,
This is actually about us connecting more deeply to that connection to something greater still and our higher selves.
Just notice the energy,
Just witness it,
We're not trying to fix it or change it,
We're just recognizing it.
Notice how it feels in your body,
How does it respond and react to your body,
Do you feel comfortable with it,
Does it feel like something that you want to attract to yourself or is it something that you want to push away.
Then I invite you to spend a moment with this energy and recognize if it's energy that does not feel comfortable for you that you can send it away,
To be transmuted back into Mother Earth so that you are surrounding yourself with more pure open energy.
I'm going to start by taking some deep breaths,
Just do whatever pattern works well for you,
I like to breathe really deeply into my belly with an out-breath of my mouth,
Grounding and centering into this moment,
Those deep belly breaths,
Allowing your out-breath to be longer,
Slower than your in-breath,
Grounding and centering into this present moment right here,
Right now.
Feeling your body,
Allowing yourself to come into this present moment,
So often when we try to turn into the inner sanctuary of our heart we're busy minded,
Busy bodied,
So you can start by using your five senses to bring you into this present moment here,
Noticing any sounds that you may hear no matter how small they are,
How quiet,
Maybe any smells that you might smell,
Tastes,
Move to your body and notice how your body feels,
Held in your seat or laying down,
Even noticing your clothes touching your skin,
The texture and the temperature of the air,
Coming back to your breath,
And as your mind begins to wander which it will,
We always come back to the breath,
Our mind is just doing what the mind does,
Thinking,
But as we offer ourselves this practice more often there's more space in between those thoughts,
There's more ability to stay present in this moment here and now.
Divine Spirit,
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you for this opportunity to turn into the inner sanctuary of our heart.
It's a place where we connect not only to the stillness that is within,
But the place where we connect to our higher self,
Where we connect to something even greater still.
It's a place where we open to compassion and grace and peace and love.
It's also a place where there's an opening for us to see from a new perception,
To recognize that there are so many complex and complicated situations happening within our lives and around us,
And then in this inner sanctuary we can indeed step away,
Tune in,
And in your next breath I invite you to move your breath into your heart space,
Envisioning as if it's a white pure light that comes in with your breath and moves into your heart space,
Opening your heart,
Feeling the healing,
Restoring energy that comes in this place.
Notice anything that might feel tight or blocked and just allow it to be cleansed and cleared with this breath,
With this light.
See if you can expand this space with your breath,
Visualizing this white beautiful clear light expanding your heart.
Our heart is where we connect to that innate wisdom that is our soul's presence and our spirit dancing and mixing together.
It's safe here.
It's kind here.
It's open here.
And if anything begins to come where it feels like there wants to be some restriction or some protection,
Just breathe into it.
Notice it.
Your in-breath this incredible white light opening your heart space and your out-breath the release of letting go.
And in your next in-breath I invite you to expand that light that's in your heart and allow it to begin to move throughout your entire body,
Visualizing that incredible white light,
The light of consciousness,
Of awareness,
Of awakening,
Bursting out of your heart space and beginning to open and pour into the rest of your body,
Filling your body with this glorious white light.
Envision it moving into every cell,
Every organ,
Every part of your body,
Just allowing it to rush through,
Opening,
Cleansing,
Clearing.
As you move down to your feet,
I encourage you to envision that your feet are firmly planted on the ground,
Or if your body is laying down,
Your body is firmly in the ground.
And allow yourself to root into the firm foundation of the earth.
I like to envision that I have roots going down,
Moving down into the soil and into the crystals and to the incredible beauty that is more than we can understand,
This complex nature of energy,
Plants,
Animals,
Soil,
Stone,
Crystals.
There's a healing and a wisdom that comes from this foundation,
Allowing yourself to feel this vibrancy that's coming from that incredible gift of life that is our earth.
Allowing that beautiful white,
Bright light that you've brought in through your breath to expanding in your body to now move up into your head,
The crown chakra,
But then above you,
I encourage you to visualize and open to a portal of light,
A portal and a pillar of light that is above you coming from the heavens,
Coming from the universe.
Feel it coming and opening up this pillar of light above you and moving into your body and connecting with this light that you had already brought in through breath.
This healing energy,
This connection to something even greater still,
The connection to the all.
Allow that light to completely envelop you.
I see it almost as if it's a flashlight from the universe shining above me,
Wide,
Bright,
Brilliant.
And as you're surrounded by this incredible energy,
I invite you to open your heart,
To open your heart to the knowing that is within you already.
There's a knowing,
There's a connection to your soul,
There's a connection to the all that is without pain,
Without strife,
Without worry.
It is the essence of who you are in this small space,
Listening to your still,
Quiet voice within.
And even if it's fleeting,
It is the presence and the awareness and the knowing that you have access to it,
Even if it's just moments at a time.
Because this is your inner peace and the inner sanctuary of your heart.
And Soul Recovery,
We've learned so deeply and truly that we're powerless over everything outside of ourself,
But it does not mean that we personally are powerless over our sovereignty.
It means that we are releasing and letting go what is ours to be responsible for,
To fix,
To change.
That's the karma,
The lifetimes of,
The challenges of,
The world around us,
Of those souls.
We are in union with them all at the same time.
So although we may be powerless,
We are not releasing it as something other or having judgment.
We're moving into the recognition that as we put our focus on ourselves and our own peace and our own healing,
We are actually radiating in peace and love and light out into the world.
The clear awakened mind of one offers hope and love and light to more than you can understand.
Our choice to always see through the perception of love,
Kindness,
Of compassion,
Shifts and changes everything around us.
It starts with one voice in our own home,
How we interact with ourselves first and foremost,
And then with the others in our home.
And as we carry this incredible opportunity to be in our fullness,
We carry it out into the world.
Choosing not to see them as others,
But to see us all as one.
Releasing the need to judge and be in fear,
And always choosing light and love.
And sometimes the light and love comes with clear boundaries,
With the awareness that we must let others and situations go.
But we attune that it's always coming from this place of lightness,
This incredible gift,
Surrounded by this pillar of light.
If you can feel just for a moment that clarity of knowing that all is well.
Like a hurricane,
There is always the eye of the storm.
We are moving to this knowing that we can indeed choose to be in the eye of that storm that is often swirling around us,
In our personal lives and in the world.
And if we get caught off guard,
If we get whipped into the ravages of the wind,
Of the rain,
Remember that this too shall pass.
And to step into that spiritual space,
Into the inner sanctuary of your heart that does provide you with protection and guidance and grace to be able to weather those storms.
And we too shall weather this storm.
We are in a time of grand awakening.
Your being present here now means that you are aware of this and you are open to the shifts and changes that are happening within you.
You feel the energy that is happening with all of us as a society and as a people and as a world.
And this change in consciousness is indeed moving in ways that we will look back on and be curious,
Be in wonder that we were part of it here on purpose.
Releasing and letting go of the fears and the wounds and the pains that we have felt not only from this lifetime but from others.
There's a shift that is happening now that is greater than ever before.
And when you are called to stand in the light,
You are aware of the value of these releases.
That what is being revealed is coming to being healed.
And from this sovereign state of self-healing,
Self-reflection for our responsibility,
Taking responsibility for our own well-being,
We can indeed hand over what we try to hold on to so tightly with ourselves,
With our family,
With the world.
And remember and recognize that we are handing it over to source,
To spirit,
To the universe,
To something greater still,
To higher power,
To God,
To whatever you call it.
The name and the voice is unique to you because you are a unique expression of spirit itself.
And when we remember that we are not separate from but one with source and all that is,
Only are in the eye of the storm but the storm dissipates and releases for us.
It does not mean that we are letting go of what others are experiencing.
It means we are seeing it from this new perception.
This awareness that we do indeed choose how we will see it and shifting from fear to love.
And in this space of our awakened heart,
In this space where we are surrounded by this light,
We remember that we are energy.
Everything around us is energy.
We become mindful of maintaining this energy in our own being and the reflections in which we are sharing that out to the world.
We become mindful of the energy that's coming towards us and if we will choose it.
Not rejecting it,
Not pushing it away as if there is something to judge but allowing ourselves to stay in that sovereignty where we don't need to take on what is not ours to carry.
One of the greatest acts that we can do is to choose love in all that we are,
In every way that we show up,
In every action that we take,
Even actions that are strong,
Even actions that are about being out in the world.
We must be out in the world.
We must be part of the change but the change does not come from anger.
The change comes from connecting more deeply to the light.
Or in that place we actually release and let go of the energies that are trying to keep us constricted,
Keep us in our fear,
Keep us in bondage of our old beliefs.
I feel so strongly the guidance that we are all being called to step out even further in the truth of who we are and who we came here to be.
To be completely unbound and uninhibited.
To be released fully and deeply from what we used to think was the way that it was.
We must not force others to think or feel or believe anything other than who they are.
This is not about convincing or pushing.
It's about our own experience of opening,
Releasing,
Accepting,
Forgiving.
So that as we stand and look in the eyes of anyone,
Ourselves in the mirror,
Our family,
Our neighbors,
Our friends,
Our co-workers,
Onto strangers,
Onto those that we will never look directly in the eyes,
We can imagine and envision that we are always looking through the eyes of love and seeing the eyes of love reflected back.
And it may seem hard to do.
It may feel like we don't want to open ourselves up that much.
But this is a time to recognize that we can stop protecting in ways that we protected in the past and recognize we are always safe,
That our souls,
Our personal experience is what we choose and how we choose to see it,
That no one can harm us.
And from this place there is such strength,
Such power to connect in the light,
To connect in this force that remembers that there is only love.
And as we witness what happens on the earthly planes,
In the dense dimensions,
It is happening,
It is real,
It is not to be diminished.
But it's to be considered in ways that open us up instead of shutting us down,
Where we have such compassion for everyone involved because we recognize that anything that's done out of harm is done out of pain and fear.
And as we open even more deeply and fully into this space of witnessing and recognizing the wholeness in everything and everyone,
We know that those energies diminish.
And there's too much awakening happening,
Too much love being expressed,
Too much tenderness and compassion that isn't seen on the news or in our media because the anger and the fear is what sells and keeps us compelled and keeps us trapped.
And in this sovereignty of state we're releasing all those trappings.
We're making decisions to stop watching,
Stop listening,
To choose very carefully what we bring into our field of consciousness so that we may more easily and readily walk out into the world choosing to see and speak and act in every situation,
No matter what we are doing,
Even when we are standing up as we should,
But always through the voice and the eyes of love and compassion.
Gandhi led an entire nation to freedom through choosing love.
Jesus came and reminded us to step away from judgment of class,
Of rules,
And that there was an opening for all to be healed,
To be loved,
To be seen,
And a reminder that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Do not fear,
Ask and you shall receive.
The great masters and teachers have been offering us this guidance,
But now we are open to hear it in ways that we never could before.
To understand it the depths of our souls because our souls are remembering our wholeness,
Our liveness,
Our awakening.
And it is indeed shifting and changing the status quo.
And if we release all judgment for both good and bad,
And as the oracle card that I pulled at the beginning of the meditation,
The reminder that it's okay to drift and trust and allow the flow.
As a collective,
As those who are awakening and choosing love,
Stand more firmly and fully in this sea of love together.
We are indeed moving and shifting the timelines.
We're moving and shifting things in ways that are more energetic.
They're ways that we can't understand and they may not look like we'd like them to look tomorrow,
Or next month,
Or next year.
But if we hold this space of compassion and light as we stay grounded to the earth and connected to the heavens,
Allowing this pillar of light to open in us,
For us to radiate this light.
The Bible is filled with examples of light.
Let your light shine.
We are indeed shifting and changing everything around us,
Offering healing and hope.
Prayer and meditation work because we are one consciousness.
We connect to a collective and we open to an energy that is above fear and pain.
Breathe into that heart space.
This is where your wisdom lies.
When we are in our heart and not in our head,
We are connected to our spirit and our soul.
When we are in our head,
We are connected to our ego.
To our intellect.
To the parts of us that think that we have to be in control and figure it all out.
The transmission that's being offered is to stand fully in this light.
To trust what is coming to you that you are beginning to gather into your mind,
Into your heart,
Into your soul.
To trust the knowings that have been within you always,
So that when you hear words or songs or spiritual teachings that resonate with you,
You trust and know that they are being brought to you on purpose.
In that space,
You begin to ask questions about what is next for you.
You begin to listen more intently to the still small voice within you that is always whispering,
Always guiding you,
Always giving you more information.
And in that space,
You connect to your spirit guides.
You connect to your higher self.
You connect to a matrix that is so much more than what we have understood in the past,
But we are beginning to understand now.
The transmission is to trust this path.
To release fear and open fully and deeply into the light,
Into love,
Into compassion for each other.
To ask for forgiveness,
To offer grace,
Where there is a desire to attack.
And to see from this new perception how you can be in the world,
But not of the world.
On a large scale,
And also within your own life.
The guidance is that this awakening will begin to rattle parts of your life that are shifting and changing,
And you will begin to see and understand in ways that have never been how you've been before.
And will mean that you see everything from a new perception.
But you're being offered everything that you need in every moment of every day.
Whispers of guidance,
Whispers of strength,
Whispers of knowing.
Will give you what you need to understand to bring you into resonance with the truth of who you are.
You are being called to stand more fully in the truth of who you are.
I just got this big rush of energy,
Because they want me to share with you that this is not about the dark times.
This is actually about the coming of the light.
It's not about being Pollyanna and trying to get past it without the complexities and the challenge that we walk through.
It's about being present with what is in a way that is new and empowered.
It's about understanding that you are part of this awakening of this change.
And having joy and happiness and levity in your life is important.
It's actually essential.
They're saying to take care of yourself,
To notice the things that you love,
The things that give you spark,
That light you up.
And to pay attention to those things,
Because we've given too much attention to what feels hard or what we've been wanting to change or fix.
And they're encouraging you to truly see you and your life in a new way.
To hold your experience in a new way.
To pay attention to those times when you need rest.
To pay attention to those times when your heart hurts.
To reach out to those that you can trust.
Not from the place where you're commiserating,
But from the place where you're sharing tenderly,
Deeply,
The human experience.
From this awakened space.
And this remembering who you are,
Is around you remembering that you are here to share the light and the love.
That you must be light and love to share it.
And we are not fixing others,
We are only sharing our light and love.
That is our work to do.
They're showing me a vision of our planet encircled by this incredible white light.
It's almost like a bubble.
A bubble of compassion and grace and peace and hope.
A bubble of connection,
Of compassion.
And the offering that the vibrations are those that encompass all of those beautiful truths of who we are.
And that energy opens us up to even more.
The ability to transmute and heal what has been hard and painful.
And to recognize that within yourself you are in your own bubble of energy.
To treat it with such reverence,
Grace.
To be mindful on a regular basis of what that energy is around you.
And to cleanse and clear all that is not yours.
We must recharge ourselves.
We must recharge our energy.
We must recharge our spiritual center.
And we do that by attending to ourselves.
And allowing ourselves to be in the stillness,
In the quiet,
In the peace.
The inner sanctuary of our heart.
I invite you to come back to your breath and just recognize how the breath is life.
Deep belly breaths.
As you come back into the space,
Back into this room,
Back into the world as it is,
We bring with us the light and the love and the awareness and the openness of heart.
That we understand that our channel,
Our pillar of light,
Is connecting to a matrix that is so much more.
We are all fueling each other.
We are all recharging each other as we take this time to connect to this inner light within ourselves.
And to attach it,
To connect it to the source that is everything.
And a couple deep breaths and then I invite you to open your eyes.
You know,
One of the things for me is that when I'm in a meditative state,
It feels so beautiful.
And I feel so connected.
And then you go out in the world and it's hard.
And it's not about dismissing the pain and the suffering.
It's about letting go of the pain.
Because that's what is the beauty of being here in these bodies is that we get to feel everything.
My hope is that in Soul Recovery,
I provided you more information about how to feel it from your heart and not from your head.
Because your heart is where all your wisdom is.
It's where the healing is.
It's where the learning is,
The expansion,
The ability to be in very complex situations.
And so when I feel the energy of not only the Recover Your Soul community,
But I feel the energy of the world,
I want to take it on.
Because that's the kind of person I am.
I love everybody so much.
But the spiritual journey has actually given me a place to release that feeling that I'm supposed to do it,
And the awareness that we can do it.
That we can do it,
Either as a country,
Or if you're in a family that's having the complications,
Or it's just you.
You can do it.
You're so much stronger than you give yourself credit for.
So I wanted to come into this place that you feel this love.
But more than that,
That we recognize it is the expansion.
It is the one of everything.
We are indeed one with everything.
And to not be afraid.
Love is so much stronger than fear.
And light is so much stronger than fear.
Always overcomes darkness.
So I encourage you today,
As the next couple days,
Or weeks,
Or months,
Or years,
Or whatever happens in our lives,
As it will be,
To envision yourselves in the eye of the storm.
And then envision your connection to Spirit that dissipates the storm,
And brings out the sun rays of your own life.
And the last they're telling me to tell you,
It's okay to be happy.
It's actually important that you're happy.
They really want me to say that in the meditation too.
Sometimes we feel like our own happiness in the midst of other people who are struggling is a lot.
But it's actually one of the greatest gifts that you can give to demonstrate peace and happiness in the midst of chaos and pain.
And to choose yourself always.
Not choosing yourself in a selfish way,
But taking responsibility for your own happiness and your own well-being.
That's one of the greatest demonstrations we can ever give.
Until next time,
Namaste.
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MICHAEL
December 2, 2025
I am so grateful for stumbling upon you recently. Thank you 🙏🏼
Dayna
August 24, 2025
If you’re reading this and wondering if you want to dedicate 48 minutes of your day to this meditation, let this be your sign that you will not be disappointed 🙏🏽 Thanks Rachel for another beautiful offering. I listened during my walk at the beach & felt so held.
