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Thank you. Hello and welcome.
Today's meditation is on connecting with your higher self
and for this meditation and you'll probably want a journal
or some paper and a pen nearby just in case you have some ideas
or thoughts that you want to write down.
There's no way in particular that I think meditation should
be done in terms of posture or eyes closed.
Sighs open things like that, but for today's meditation will be
working very strongly with the idea of the body as a central
axis and conduit for the energy that runs between Earth and the
heavens. So if it's comfortable for you
to take a seated posture, I would suggest that for today's
meditation if sitting is uncomfortable for you, please
feel free to make whatever Arrangements you need to make
and Find some way to provide contact to your tailbone.
So if you're lying down, then you might just bring a pillow
underneath your thighs so that you can have a little bit of
contact towards the base of your spine.
If you're sitting up you can easily use your hands just to
palpate the base of your spine. When I cue your awareness there
same if you're moving around or something like that personally,
I'm sitting with crossed legs and I have a pillow under my
seat and I have the pillow under my seat so that Hips are a
little bit higher than my knees and this helps to maintain an
erect and upright spine as I sit.
So if you're sitting along with me, then please make sure that
you have whatever you need underneath your seat so that you
don't have to roll back on your tailbone.
And also it feels like you have some support to sit upright and
not go into a slump posture fight against a slump posture.
So if you're sitting in a chair with a back on it again, if it's
comfortable for you, you might want to just roll a towel and
take it underneath the the back part of your seat just to
provide a little bit of tilt for your pelvis.
And I find that if I can easily have a little bit of curve in my
low back or my lumbar spine. Then it's easy for me to lift up
right through my chest and my head so please make whatever
adjustments you need get your pen and paper and when you're
ready. We'll again So let's begin by
calling attention to the breath. And I'll invite the first couple
of breaths in to pass in through my nose on the inhale.
And through my mouth on the exhale.
As I breathe in through my nose. I'm noticing the sensation of
breath. The movement of air that passes
into my nostrils and the feeling of breath as it comes into my
skull. I'm noticing how my lungs
receive my breath and Blossom and expand out and I'm feeling
where my breath naturally moves not really trying to force it
into any one place. But noticing which part of my
lungs naturally want to fill and easily fill as I inhale.
As I exhale through my mouth. I'm allowing and gentle sighing
to come out and sometimes I like to let my voice make a tone when
I sigh out and you might enjoy that as well.
And on my exhales, I'm feeling the relaxation of the front wall
of my abdomen. And I'm enjoying the sensation
of a kind of subtle release in my nervous system that the
exhale can initiate. And now we'll start to work a
little bit more intentionally with the breath.
So I'm going to invite us to bring the first part of the
inhale into the belly and then the second part of the inhale
into the chest and this inhale can be a smooth inhale.
So as you inhale, it's kind of like filling a glass with water
and the first part of your breath can move into the
expansion of your tummy and then the second part of your breath
can move into the expansion of your chest and then as you
exhale, just feel free to explore everything out invite
awareness into your body of the three-dimensionality of your
breath the way that your breath can move into your front part of
your belly into your sides and also into your back body.
And I'll invite us to maintain this kind of breathing
throughout the meditation. And so again, the breathing is
gentle there's no place in it that needs to be forced.
There is no need for a full breath to be anything in
particular so full breath one round of breath might be a
really deep inhale into your belly and chest and a full
breath the next inhale might be almost a shallow breath or
breath that feels very Subtle, Please Don't Force breath into
your body. There's no need to feel like
you're inflating a balloon or anything like that.
But as much as possible just try and maintain this rhythm of
breathing that allows your breath to come in through your
nose into your belly into your chest and then to Exhale out
your mouth letting your whole exhale release from your body.
And I'll continue to Q us into our awareness of the breath, but
also continue to Q yourself. So at any point, you can always
just bring attention back to your breath if the guidance of
the meditation ever loses you at any point just keep coming back
to your breath if you get distracted come back to the
breath etcetera. So now as we breathe, let's
start to imagine an aura beginning to emanate out from
the body into kind of a spherical or an egg shape
container around your body. And there may be a color that
you imagine for this Aura. I imagine mine is kind of a
pearlescent like all all colors contained in a glowing
shimmering kind of light. You might have a specific color
that feels really nourishing or protective to you.
So as you breathe, can you imagine that there's a growing
and strengthening Aura around you and that this Aura of light
is your pure Essence and it's also a protective container
around you. So anything that occurs within
the meditation any energy that you open or that you open to we
invite in Clarity healing. And guidance for our best
benefit. And we ask that this meditation
serve our healing and serve the elevation of our Consciousness
and serve the highest good for all of existence.
Okay now so from within your aura from within your kind of
protective bubble, imagine yourself in whatever shape
you're in. Imagine your body now.
And imagine the shape of your body imagine the external
container of your skin. the way that you see yourself feel your
inner body relaxing within your skin.
And then from somewhere very deep inside of your body kind of
from a very central place. Can you imagine a kind of anchor
dropping down through the base of your spine?
And that anchor is going to release out and down and it
might extend all the way down into the center of the Earth.
And if you're still imagining yourself contained within your
aura or your bubble now, it might be kind of like a balloon
so that aura Is Anchored in its connecting route all the way
down to the Center of the Earth. And this is where I really want
to invite attention and awareness into the tailbone.
And as much as possible try and relax the muscles around your
pelvic floor and your bum and feel that the root of your seed
is connecting easily into whatever support is underneath
you. And that from the very center of
your body, you can let your awareness travel down through as
many layers as many floors or foundations of building or
layers within the Earth itself to get to the very center of the
earth. Which of course is fire.
We're going to imagine that our bodies are connected right into
the heart of the Earth. And now through this connection
through this anchor you can visualize the Earth's Pure
Energy. It's pure heat coming all the
way up through your route through your connecting stalk
and into the center of your body.
And from the center you're breathing in and out.
So as you inhale into your belly and into your chest, you might
feel that Earth Energy growing and expanding in your body.
And then as you exhale, you might feel how that heat and
energy emanates from inside of your body all the way around you
into this protective aura. As we imagine this connection to
Earth and as we call upon the energy of Earth to come fill our
bodies and to radiate out into our conscious awareness.
Let's also remember that our bodies themselves are very
temporary. There have been billions and
billions and billions of bodies alive on the earth throughout
its entire existence. We can't ever know how many and
each of our bodies will be in existence for such a short
period of time but the Earth's particles its materials have
been forming and reforming forever since the birth of our
Cosmos and the forming of the Earth itself is still in
process. Our Earth is not a stagnant or
inert phenomena. It is a growing living evolving
being. and so as you remind yourself of this truth I'd like
to invite all of us to on our exhales release our Earthly
identities. And so as you breathe in and
Imagine The Fire of the earth coming right into your belly and
into your core. As you exhale and feel that heat
emanate out from within to around you.
Can you imagine everything that you hold as yourself your name
your race your age your gender the ideas about yourself your
job titles your family roles. Can you imagine all of those
Concepts just dissolving? like smoke like vapor Knowing
that the materials of your body will continue in existence far
after your identity has ceased to exist.
That the Consciousness within your cells has been in process
information as long as the Earth has been in process and
information. And that this Consciousness will
continue to evolve even after your individual Consciousness
has changed has moved on from your identity.
As I imagine this I'm imagining some pictures that I've seen of
the Sun. Artists representations of what
the kind of crust of the sun must look like and this way that
the kind of radiant heat from the center of the sun bursts out
and that there are places on the surface that may be slightly
cool and they are starting to form some kind of crust and then
this blast of heat will come through it and it will melt
again. And so I'm imagining that kind
of texture and Essence in my skin in the most external layer
of my being. And as I'm breathing out, I'm
joyfully releasing attachment to my name.
And to all of my ideas about myself to all of the aspects of
me that form this existence this human existence.
I'm imagining my body dissolving into pure light into pure
Radiance again this kind of pearlescent all colors contained
and eminence. And I'm imagining this Eminence
radiating out into the field around me.
Notice if your attention is still at least partially in your
breath, are you still continuing to breathe?
Continue with these visualizations and just again
bring a little bit of felt sense awareness into your tailbone
know that you're still attached towards the Earth.
And then let's imagine that the head or the crown area of our
auras is starting to open. And the energy that we've been
cultivating drawing up from the earth this kind of growing
Eminence and Radiance pushing outward and inward starts to get
directed up towards the crown. So still breathing still feeling
your inhales come into your belly come into your chest.
As you inhale imagining drawing upwards from The Source the
center of the Earth. As you exhale through your mouth
still feeling your belly relax and imagining that your exhales
are a 360 degree Eminence radiating all the way around
you. And that Eminence is starting to
thrust upwards. Be compelled upwards towards
sky. If it feels challenging to bring
awareness into your head and into your crown, you can really
lightly use your fingertips to touch kind of the center of your
forehead a little bit between your eyebrows and above the base
of your nose. And at the same time use the
other hand to bring a very soft touch to the back of the head.
And then you can move your hands to either side of your skull
right on the top of the skull. And to the left and the right
sides really lightly touch the top of the skull.
And then this should be enough just to bring a little bit of a
felt sense palpation and awareness into the skull.
You can probably release your hands and you may be able to now
have a continuation of that felt sense that brings attention into
your head and you're welcome to keep your hands there for a
longer keep coming back to that touch in any point.
So as we feel the Crown opening and this movement now of our own
energy starting to be directed up and out towards the heavens.
Let's also imagine what we know that our earth is contained in
the sphere of its own atmosphere.
And that beyond the The Winds of the Earth's atmosphere.
There lies in Infinity of space. And we know that the universe is
constantly expanding and we know that most of it is a total
mystery. We know that there are energetic
patterns within the universe and that these patterns are
relationship and cohesion of some kind.
That our solar system is also radiating around a greater force
just as the Earth radiates around the central force of our
sun the sun radiates around the central force of the galactic
center. And there may be thousands and
billions of other universes through the black hole at the
center of our galaxy. Let's consider now that our
Consciousness whatever the spark of life is that animates our
bodies that brings awareness into them is an unexplainable
energy and energetic phenomena. Perhaps called a spirit perhaps
called a soul for now. Let's call it our higher selves.
And let's consider that this energy is timeless.
It has always existed and will always exist.
Our higher selves as part of a larger consciousness of our
universe and the untold Universe has that our birthing and dying
and forming and swirling. That our higher selves are also
in a state of evolution. And let's call in connection.
So from the crown from the head imagine that your Consciousness
is opening. And you can actively call in
connection with your higher self.
And it may feel interesting or necessary to say something out
loud. For me as I feel into my crown,
I want to speak out loud that I'm inviting connection now with
my higher self. With the Eternal wisdom that is
contained within me. Some bodily Sensations, I notice
as I start to open to this invitation. a feeling of moving
up and though I can still feel my body.
There is also a sense that I'm lifting out of my body.
I'm noticing a rush of heat through my body.
I'm noticing that my breath feels more and more effortless.
When you feel ready consider directing a question to your
higher self. There may be a really important
question that you've been holding or sitting with and that
might be the question that you choose to speak.
If you need to think about it too hard, then let it go and
just use the question that all suggest instead.
So whatever you offer try and stay in this kind of embodied
awareness rather than getting too far into your head or into
language. And if you don't have a question
of your own that's easily coming then let's simply ask to our
higher selves. What do I need to know?
And for the next couple of minutes, I'll be quiet and
you'll just hear the bowls and continue to to be in your
meditation. So all of the imagery that we've
been working with your breath this feeling of opening through
your crown and just asking your higher self.
What do I need to know for asking your higher self the
question that you're holding? And then get your pen and paper
and just write whatever occurs to you.
Don't try and mediate it. Don't try and edit it.
Don't doubt it as you're writing.
It just write down whatever occurs to you will take about 5
minutes. So if you'd like to take more
time with this writing and connecting than just pause the
recording and take as much time as you need.
If you're ready to come back then put your pen and paper
down. And come back to your
meditation. And just as we imagined an
anchor from the center of our bodies connecting down to the
Center of the Earth. Let's now imagine a tether from
the center of our bodies moving up and out to connection with
what we imagine is our higher selves.
At the moment, I'm seeing my higher self similar to how I'm
seeing my aura. So it's a kind of shimmery ball
of light. You might see your higher self
as a body as a being of some kind whatever you're imagining.
That's fine for now might change some point.
Remember that our higher selves are capable of everything. and
anything so let's imagine that tether.
And then let's imagine once more this Aura around us.
So I'm seeing the container of my own Aura around me and the
container feels somewhat soft. It doesn't feel like a hard
container. But it also feels like it has a
clear boundary to it as well. This is my space my own energy.
And from my own energy. I'm connecting down to the
source of energy at the Earth and I'm connecting up to the
source of Consciousness my higher self.
And then let's offer gratitude. And so we can offer gratitude
through the anchors into the Earth.
And offer gratitude for the abundance on this Earth realm
and all the lessons that we learned through our bodies.
And the exquisite beauty of this planet.
We can offer gratitude to our higher selves.
Offering gratitude simply for existing. offering gratitude for
wisdom and if there was any connection at all, even if
you're not sure if it was a connection even if you doubt it.
Just off her gratitude for at least the idea of connection.
And let's offer prayers for strengthening our connections.
Can breathe into intention to strengthen our connection to the
Earth our connection as embodied beings to this Earth plane.
Our intention to connect more fully with our higher selves
And any desires we have for those connections. desires to be
of service to the Earth to other beings on Earth To the healing
of the traumas in the suffering on Earth. to the evolution of
Consciousness on Earth breathing into our desires for
strengthening connection with our higher selves.
We're becoming more and more aligned and attuned to our
Highest Potential and our highest purpose. as spiritual
sacred beings living in Earthly bodies offering any other
prayers or gratitudes or intentions.
That you might have to your higher self to the Earth to any
other beings that you might feel are around you.
And then in a very simple way, let's just thank these
connections or opening as much as they may have even if it was
just a tiny but through our imaginations.
During this meditation. Thank you.
And we trust that this practice of meditating of feeling into
these connections of imagining into these connections that
there is value even in the practice.
And then if your eyes have been closed as you're ready allow
your eyes to open and as your eyes start to take in visual
information. Can you stay in attendance to
this sensation of anchor to the Earth and tether to your higher
self? Can you stay in attendance to
your own breath? And to the Eminence and the
radiance of your energy within and around you.
Thank you for practicing this meditation with me.
I hope it's been interesting to you.
I want to say that this kind of meditation for me feels very
much like a practice most of the time sometimes.
I have really profound and expansive insights and
Sensations that come in and other times.
It's simply calming and pleasant and sometimes it feels
frustrating and obtuse. So anywhere along that spectrum
that you experience is great, the more that you practice with
this kind of awareness the more you'll find your own way with
it. Please feel free to adapt
anything that I offer towards visualizations or language or
embodiments that are more relevant and useful for you.
I believe that we can connect to our higher intelligence and
Consciousness that we We do have spirits that our higher selves
are actually real these Earthly bodies and identities that we
have are in some ways experiences of forgetting the
true intelligence and energies that we are but that also in
these Earthly bodies and experiences.
We learn and have capacity to affect.
Experiences as well as our own and the Earth's experience.
And in this way, we are in states of evolution and the
connection between our higher selves and our Earthly bodies is
part of a constantly evolving Consciousness.
So I hope that you have felt some of that and that you've
enjoyed this meditation. Thank you so much for practicing
with me again if you're interested in In learning more
about what has inspired this meditation, please listen to
embodied astrology the podcast the episode for Sagittarius
season in 2019. That's titled heart of Sky a
dark rift. I talked in that episode about
the essence of Sagittarius as the birthplace of Consciousness
and the ways that we can access some of these ideas within
ourselves through an astrological lens.
Once again, thank you so much for practicing with me.
If you've enjoyed this meditation, please share it.
I'm wishing you all the best in your life and all of your
adventures much love. Bye for now.
Once again, thank you so much for practicing with me.
If you've enjoyed this meditation, please share it.
I'm wishing you all the best in your life and all of your
adventures much love. Bye for now.