Hello and welcome.
My name is Nat and I am very grateful to be here with you today.
My intention is to guide you through a connected gaze experience.
This is a tool that I enjoy using when I feel disconnected from my true self,
When there is an inner dialogue so mean and so loud that roars within my head that I feel overwhelmed and frustrated and sad.
And so it is in these moments that I acknowledge I have the awareness of the self-talk and I choose,
I choose to pause and to see if I can change,
If I can change the way I speak about myself,
If I can change the way I see myself and if I can rise up and out of the darkness that I have spiraled into.
At the root of everything we do,
It is an effort to see things differently.
Find yourself in front of your reflection.
Perhaps it's a mirror or a pane of glass,
A window.
But just be sure that you can connect with your own gaze.
You can see you.
Give yourself this first moment to get all of the fidgets out.
You can wiggle,
You can shake,
You can flutter your lips,
You can move freely,
You can sigh,
You can yawn.
Whatever needs you,
Will you take it?
And then once you feel just a little more settled in your body,
Perhaps you can begin to scan it.
From the tips of the toes,
Feel very grounded through the feet,
Rooted in place.
And then scan up the legs.
Begin to allow the tension from your day or your week to melt away.
The knees are soft,
The hips are soft.
Go ahead,
Allow the belly to move freely as it needs.
With each and every in-breath,
It expands.
And the out-breath,
It contracts.
The ribs,
The same thing.
The chest.
Feel the ebb,
The swell,
The movement the breath brings into your body.
Notice if the back is strong yet soft.
The shoulders heavy,
Pulling away from the ears.
The brow,
Go ahead,
Unfurl it.
The jaw,
The ears,
Even the nose,
Soft in its place.
And then begin to notice your breath.
Start to make it feel fuller and deeper and longer.
Giving yourself permission here,
Through the use of the breath,
To slow down,
To arrive.
Eventually,
As you scan up the body,
Arrive at your eyes,
Looking back at you,
And intentionally soften the corners.
Allow your periphery to get a little fuzzy.
Allow the rest of the room or wherever you are to simply begin to melt away.
Keep breathing into this sensation of dropping down and in.
Continue to hold your gaze with warmth and affection.
And then begin to open to the experience of noticing.
An awareness of what stories come up.
A listening of what the voice inside your head is saying.
The narrator of your experience in this human life.
What does it tell you?
What is it saying?
And what you are saying,
Is it serving you?
How can you begin to see yourself through a different lens?
How can you begin to see yourself differently?
Shifting away from what isn't working and instead focusing on all that is.
All that is working.
On all that feels good.
And all that is what is remarkable about you.
What language can you use?
What language can you choose?
To shift from negative self-talk,
To not just say something,
But more importantly,
To hear something that is positive,
That is empowering,
And that is uplifting.
Can you be gentle with yourself?
Can you be compassionate with yourself?
Letting the whispers,
The ones that all too often get drowned out by the familiar roar,
Get a little louder and rise up within you,
Like a wave,
Like a swell.
Where do you feel it in your body?
Notice.
Feel.
Let it in.
And as that shift starts to get bigger and take hold,
Notice.
Notice the falling away of the old stories,
Of the old patterns,
Of the old ways of being.
Over and over again,
Breath by breath,
Inch by inch,
Moment by moment.
Connect with you.
Glorious,
Wonderful,
Remarkable,
Irreplaceable you.
Calm and connected and curious and creative you.
Joyous,
Unstoppable,
Patient,
Courageous you.
See you.
Let her in.
Let him be seen.
Let them be felt.
I'll leave you here for a moment,
One minute.
Find you in your gaze.
Connect in and see.
Feel.
Witness how miraculous you are.
What do you see?
What do you hear?
Is it serving you?
See you.
Hear you.
Feel you.
When you feel complete,
Bring a little bit of movement back into your body.
See if you can lengthen the breath.
Feel it big and expansive within you.
And then reach the arms all the way up.
Maybe interlace the fingertips at the top,
Pressing the palms up to the sky.
Begin to stretch side to side.
And then slowly release the arms,
Wrap them around your body,
And give yourself a big,
Glorious,
Warm hug.
Thank you for taking the time to see you,
To connect with you,
To hear you.
I so appreciate and am forever grateful for our time together.
Have a wonderful,
Wonderful rest of your week.
