From Chez Pinata,
I'm Colleen Thomas.
This is daily magic for peace.
Today we will send prayers to enhance the good in humanity.
Welcome to the circle.
So today all you need is a green candle.
It's totally fine to imagine a green candle unless you actually have one,
Which would be really cool.
If you have a green candle or whatever you have,
Bring it to the circle and let's get started.
As we arrive together in circle,
I invite you to join me in taking a breath.
I'd like to do four,
Seven,
Eight breathing with you today,
And I'd like to do it with a modification I just recently learned.
Four,
Seven,
Eight breathing means you breathe in for four,
You hold for seven,
And you breathe out for eight.
It stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system because of that long exhale.
The modification I learned is to keep the tongue on the roof of the mouth throughout the entire exercise.
This makes the exhale through the mouth a little bit awkward because the tongue is right there,
But it actually is quite powerful.
So if you'd like,
Please join me.
So place that tongue on the roof of your mouth.
I won't do it since I'm going to be talking to you.
So you're going to breathe in through your nose for four,
Hold for seven,
And out through your mouth for eight.
And you keep that tongue on the roof of your mouth the whole time.
So give it a try.
We're going to breathe in two,
Three,
Four,
Hold two,
Three,
Four,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
And then out through the mouth two,
Three,
Four,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
Eight.
Good.
Now again,
In two,
Three,
Four,
Hold two,
Three,
Four,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
And out two,
Three,
Four,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
Eight.
Okay,
Another one.
In two,
Three,
Four,
Hold two,
Three,
Four,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
And out two,
Three,
Four,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
Eight.
So now I'm curious if that felt a little more powerful to you than when we used to do it without the tongue on the roof of the mouth.
To me,
It's been like night and day.
So I'd like to transition with you now and switch gears and connect with our heart.
The invitation is to connect with your heart center,
Your heart chakra.
Notice how is your heart right now.
Your beautiful heart,
This unique heart that is yours.
If you bring someone to mind who you love,
It could be an animal,
It could be a person,
Imagine them floating into view,
Looking into your eyes,
Maybe allowing your heart to open and connect with them,
Feeling what it's like when your heart opens.
What does it feel like when your heart expands like this?
And we're going to use this heart energy as we move into our magic today.
So if you would,
Go ahead and grab your green candle and light it.
I have an electric one,
So I'm going to turn mine on and connect with it.
This is our tool,
Our helper today.
It's a beautiful candle and if you don't have a candle,
Feel free to imagine a really pretty green candle.
Allow yourself to be very present with the flame.
See the activity of the flame,
The motion,
The response to the room,
The air.
So this candle we're looking at symbolizes humanity and the green aspect of the candle represents the heart of humanity because the heart chakra is green.
So in your hand or in your mind's eye,
You're holding the beating heart of all humanity around the world.
How does this feel?
To me,
It feels a bit daunting actually.
But the magic we're going to do today is to bring some of that beautiful luscious heart energy we just woke up through looking in the eyes of this person we really love and we're going to share it with humanity's heart.
We're going to send our love from our heart,
This green,
Beautiful heart chakra energy.
We're going to let that envelop.
So just imagine that.
Allow the energy from your heart chakra to extend around this candle and by doing so,
We're going to imagine that it is actually in the magical realms going out and touching the heart of all humanity.
So this heart of all humanity is a very positive thing.
So even if you have a negative view of humanity,
Know that you are connecting with a positive part of humanity right now.
You're connecting with a beating heart that we share as humans in this world,
Which is incredibly powerful.
You're aligning your good,
Your heart,
Your love with all humanity and connecting and strengthening the good in humanity.
Humanity's ability to connect with love,
Which as we know is the antidote to fear and to hate,
Love,
Safety,
Trust,
All the good things that come with love.
Letting the love in you wake up the love in humanity.
Just allowing this process to happen.
Noticing how your body is responding to the sharing.
Notice if your hands are getting warm.
Is the candle flickering?
Can you feel the magic happening?
Just let this magic happen.
This feels so luscious to me.
I would love to stay here all day,
But we do need to transition and to do that,
I'm going to ask you to join me in three breaths.
The first breath,
Let's breathe in our love and breathe it out one last time into humanity.
Here we go,
Breathing in and releasing.
There it goes out to humanity.
The second breath,
Let's just behold this amazing connection between our heart and the heart of humanity.
And the third breath,
Let's let this breath gently disconnect us from this practice,
From this magic.
Breathing in.
Thank you for this practice and breathing out.
Releasing out our love to humanity.
Despite challenges and fears,
May the heart of humanity ever grow more loving.
May it be so.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Your presence,
Your energy and your heart make all the difference in healing our world.
Remember to breathe today.
Breathe and expand.
And I hope you join us again next time.
Please consider inviting a friend.
