Welcome back to another Soul Fitness Meditation.
Wherever you're listening,
Throughout all four corners of the globe,
This meditation will prepare ourselves for a day of oneness and connection,
Closeness,
Warmth and love called Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur is a day that has been abandoned by so many as a day of fear,
Suffering,
A day of fasting,
A day of denial.
But the truth is that Yom Kippur is the sweetest day.
Yom Kippur is the sweetest day,
A day of embrace,
The most precious day,
The most beloved day.
It's a day of unburdening,
It's a day of letting go,
It's a day of cleaning out the dark and decaying moments of mistrust and small-mindedness.
It's a day of deconstructing the barriers,
Fences and doors that we've shut in our spiritual lives and mending,
Repairing and drawing closer to those we love and to our Creator.
And so join me in a breathing and visualization meditation as we prepare ourselves for a day not of atonement but a day of at-one-ment.
Breathe in deeply through your nose,
Hold for a few seconds and then breathing out.
Breathing in once more through your nose,
Feel your ribcage expand,
Your shoulders lift as you breathe in and then breathe out again,
Feeling your shoulders drop,
Your ribcage.
Once again breathe in,
Feel your lungs with air,
Your shoulders get lifted up high,
Hold for a few seconds and then breathing out.
Already feeling karma,
Already feeling the moment there's nowhere to run to,
There's no we have to get to,
There's no past right now,
No future,
We just have this one moment where we are together.
Breathing in again through your nose,
Noticing the cool air coming in,
Fill yourself with air and then as you breathe out just push away all the toxins.
We're gonna try some box breathing now to help get our body calm,
To get ourselves in the best headspace,
To clean ourselves out.
Yom Kippur is a day of cleansing,
So you want me to breathe in your nose for four,
Hold for four and breathe out for four and then breathe in again for four,
Hold for four and breathe out for four.
So join me,
So breathe in for four,
Hold for four and then breathe out for four.
Wait for four,
In for four,
Hold for four and then breathe out through your nose for four.
Wait for four,
Breathe in for four,
Hold for four and then breathe out for four.
Beautiful,
Feeling yourself getting cleaner,
More light,
Your blood pressure going down,
Your heart rate going down.
Breathe in again,
Noticing your breath coming in,
Four,
Hold for four and then breathe out again for four,
Taking away all the toxins.
Stay in this moment,
Notice your body sitting against the chair,
Feet against the floor,
Raise yourself feeling calm in the moment.
Continue breathing in through your nose,
Holding and then breathing out through your nose.
As you join me on this visualization,
Visualization is a visualization of becoming clean.
Yom Kippur is the most wonderful opportunity to understand and know that all the spiritual negativity,
The bad words,
The barriers we built up between ourselves and our Creator,
Ourselves and each other,
Can disappear in a moment if we only will it.
In Yom Kippur we say regarding all the negative spiritual activity,
We say the words,
Velo shave lanu,
Which means it wasn't really worth it.
It wasn't worth it in the end to say those words of gossip about a friend behind their back.
It wasn't worth it.
Did it really make us feel good?
It wasn't worth it in the end to say those hurtful words or to walk away and someone needed us.
Was it really worth it?
In Yom Kippur we can fall in love with at one moment.
So I want you to imagine that you have surrounding you now an encasing which is dark and encasing which is dirty and encasing which is soiled,
Encasing bandages,
Whatever you want to use,
Something which is covering you right now,
Which is dirty,
Which is soiled.
And I want you to visualize just unwrapping slowly slowly each layer of those bandages which are dirty,
Taking them off one by one,
Peeling them away,
Start peeling away those layers which are layers that we have put up over the past year.
These are layers that we may have been putting up our whole lives.
Peel them away,
Take them down,
Unburden yourself,
Unburden yourself from every minute and hour that you carry around.
The bag of hurt and pain and embarrassment and shame just unpeel,
Unpeel,
Take it down.
I'm being held back with the actions that took me far far away from where I want to be.
I jumped on a ship to a destination that I never wanted to arrive at.
Yom Kippur says come home.
Yom Kippur says just take a step back,
Open the door and come home to me.
Unpeel those barriers,
Keep unpeeling those layers as you start to notice the light inside,
The pure light of connection inside.
I'm hearing the echoes of each bad word I've said cause pain and hurt to the others I love and to the ones I'd like to love more.
But now I'm unpeeling,
I'm asking them for forgiveness,
I'm asking them if we can be once again connected and whole.
Unpeel those layers,
Take them down and you'll feel the light inside now as you take away those barriers.
The barriers,
I'm taking down the barriers and a warm light engulfs me.
A light that was always there.
I'll bathe in this light of closeness,
I'll bathe in this light of love as you take away the final layer.
As you take away the final layer and embrace that holy feeling of connection and light of at one-ment.
Yom Kippur is such a precious gift.
It's a day of clarity when we can say,
Lo Shavei Lanu,
It wasn't worth it,
It wasn't worth it.
I'm looking for a life of connection and wholesomeness.
I'm looking for a life where I can be real.
I'm looking for a life where I can feel that closeness and warmth of connection to my Creator without anything impeding.
And Yom Kippur tells me that whatever I did in the past 12 months,
If I come with a sincere heart,
With a real heart and say,
I'm home,
I want to be back home,
Let me back home and the door is opened and you are bathing,
You are bathing in that pure light of connection.
So stay in this place,
Stay in it as long as you can.
Take a big deep breath in and breathe out again.
Whenever you're ready,
You can gently open your eyes and come back into the room.
I'm wishing you Yom Kippur of At-One-Mount.
