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We are going to
combine breath work and imagery. First I want you to "breath
through your heart" by imagining that the way you take in
air is through the center of your chest. Just breathe in and
out, through the chest, allowing yourself to open up ever so
gently.
A mantle of softness and kindness
envelops you. Let yourself sink deep inside yourself. I want
you to go down, down, down, to that beautiful, secret place
of the most high within you. Everyone knows where it is
inside of them. We all have different ways of visualizing
it. For you it may be a garden. For others it can be a
stream, a river, an ocean - wherever it is that you feel
safe.
And while you are there, as you
sit, you are willing at this very moment to do everything
you can to make love possible. And call forth that within
you that will guide you and bring you to love.
You feel a tap on your shoulder,
and as you turn, there is a luminescent being standing
there. This being looks at you with such kindness and truth
that you cannot avoid contact with it. You feel an absolute
pull toward it. And this being asks for you to give to it
everything that you value. It puts before you a bowl, and it
says, "Please pour everything that you value into this
bowl."
You say, "I have not brought
anything with me."
But the being is asking you for
pride ...attachment ...emotion ... passion ...memories...
guilt... shame. Things you hold within yourself about being
victimized.
Please, pour it all in. Everything.
All your successes, all your failures. Right now. Your work,
your mate, your children, your ideas, your hopes and
ambitions. And you see that the moment they touch the bowl,
they disappear. Because the energy we are pouring into it is
dream stuff. It is unreal... This luminescent being asks,
"Is this all you have?" Have you held back from it? Pour
more.
And now, pour yourself into
the bowl. There is nothing left.
In truth, the being tells us that
we can keep nothing in this life. Everything is neutralized
in the ocean that is love. The drop becomes the ocean. We
become one with everything. Let yourself dissolve into the
bowl and feel that sense of humility wash over you. Humility
is the space for silence. And silence is the space for
love.
Let yourself have this moment. And
wherever it is leading you right now it is good, be it in
tears or in laughter. This is not about a high, but about a
space.
All that exists for you right now
is this moment. If you feel like moving, move. Sway. You
have found the very core of your own presence. You are free.
Take this feeling. And in everything you do and every moment
that you have, today, tonight and tomorrow, this celebration
exists in you. This celebration is who you are. This
celebration is your life.
Namasté(In
India, this is the highest form of respect one can pay to
another human being. Translated, it means: "I honor the
place in you in which the entire universe dwells; I honor
the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light and of
peace.")
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