Start to become aware of your breath,
Just noticing where your inhale and your exhale occur in your body.
Not changing it,
Just observing it,
Accepting it,
And begin to feel the edges of your sacred vessel,
All the parts of your skin,
From the soles of your feet to the space behind your ears,
Your forehead,
Your toes,
Your hips,
Calling back into your body the thoughts and attention and energy that might have gotten scattered over the course of the day.
And notice in your belly if this attention and conscious slowing down is leading your inhales to drop deeper,
Closer to your tummy,
Closer to your belly button,
Out of your chest.
And feel if there's any parts of your body where there is tension,
If there's any clenching in your jaw,
Shoulders,
Back,
In your legs,
Anywhere.
And let your inhale bring some fresh energy to those places.
And let yourself go within,
Feeling from the inside out what it is to be in your body.
And if you can imagine zooming in kind of like a microscope within one of your cells,
Seeing all the structures,
The nucleus,
The mitochondria,
The cell membrane,
All the way deeper,
Deeper below even the level of the proteins to your DNA,
The beautiful sacred spiral which carries the memory of all those who have gone before you.
And if you can imagine that DNA within you,
And whether you're visualizing it or hearing it or imagining what it would feel like,
Take a moment to thank your DNA.
Thank the ancestors in your body for making it possible for you to be alive,
For all of the miracles and the sacrifices,
Known and unknown,
That people made,
That people did,
For you to be alive right now.
And if you can see parts of your DNA shimmering and glowing as that attention gives it life.
Just as we know from physics that the act of observing changes,
Changes light from a wave to a particle.
And notice that the act of gratitude awakens and shimmers and changes the energy in that gorgeous strand of your DNA.
And become aware of the earth energy below your feet,
How the earth is holding you in a perfect hug,
Not too tight,
Not too loose,
Just enough so that you are rooted on this earth,
But you still have space to jump and leap and dance.
You don't fly off into space.
And call in that earth energy to your DNA,
Letting that alchemical,
Rooting,
Grounding power of earth pour into your DNA,
Giving stability and nourishment.
And the next element that we will invoke is the element of wood.
In Chinese medicine we invoke all of the energies of flowers and plants and trees and growing things.
And so where your genealogy,
Your lineage needs growth and thriving and the creative energy of wood,
Let that sweet green energy awaken in your DNA.
And on Mother Earth we have the element of water.
Water is life.
We do not know of any life in this universe without water.
And on Mother Earth we have this life-giving substance.
And let that cool,
Beautiful water energy bless your DNA,
Washing away all that needs to be cleansed and bringing coolness,
Bringing the sweet coolness that your lineage needs.
And you can feel and see,
Sense the water and the earth and the wood energies blessing the DNA in all your cells.
And as a balancing force comes the metal element,
The beautiful power of iron and stone,
The transforming element of metal awakens and cleanses in your DNA all that might need to be cut away or might need to change form as metal will shift and shape with the influence of fire.
And the element fire comes in just enough.
The hearth fire,
The element fire that keeps the cottage warm through the long winter,
The fire that makes it possible for us to have light in the night time,
The fire that cooks our food.
It warms and heals and soothes and it also burns away anything in your lineage,
Anything in your genome that needs to be transformed into air to blow away to the realm of the ancestors.
And last but not least,
Feel on the crown of your head your connection to the heavenly realms,
To the Sun and Moon,
All the planets and stars,
And let that cosmic celestial energy come to your genome reminding your DNA that you are made of stars,
Reminding all of the ancestors in your lineage of your divinity.
And let that genetic transformation be soothing,
Let any and all maladaptive coping mechanisms,
Traumas,
Pain,
Suffering be transformed by the water,
Earth,
Fire,
Metal,
Wood,
And cosmic energies.
And so slowly zoom out from the perspective of the genes within you to the cells,
To the tissues,
Organs,
And finally to your beautiful body.
And feel again where your body connects to the earth.
Pay attention to your breath.
Give maybe three breaths more and gently come back to this space.
