Guiding Love Meditation

October 26, 2020

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With Michele Grand, LMT

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00:00Hello good morning everybody.
00:01Thank you so much for joining Michelle
00:04Graham licensed massage therapist.
00:06I work at Smilow Cancer Hospital and it's my
00:09honor and privilege to be with you today.
00:12We're going to do a little opening
00:14relaxation work leading into our guided
00:16meditation and today our guided meditation
00:19is going to be about noticing our helpers,
00:21our loved ones that may have passed
00:24that are still with us and guiding
00:28us and offering us love.
00:30So as we begin as always,
00:33just allow your body to settle.
00:35Give yourself a moment and find
00:39a comfortable position that
00:41allows your spine to be long.
00:44But with the natural curve in your low back.
00:49You can close your eyes or keep
00:52them open the soft gaze downward
00:54just a few feet in front of you.
00:59Allow your belly and shoulders to relax.
01:06Take a full breath in.
01:10Had a long breath out.
01:17As we begin, will work on opening our
01:22awareness to whatever arises at the moment.
01:26Thoughts, sensations, feelings in sounds.
01:32Still allow them to come and go.
01:38Cultivate an open awareness by practicing
01:42meeting just whatever comes to you,
01:45trying not to focus on or place
01:48more or less weight on anyone thing.
01:58Just allow yourself to take a breath in.
02:03Gotta breath out.
02:10If you feel yourself following a thought
02:13or feeling labeling it can be helpful.
02:18Labels can include simple words
02:22like thinking, work. Or excitement.
02:29And whenever you realize that you may
02:31have gotten caught up in your thoughts.
02:36Just come back to rest in this simple,
02:40clear awareness of what is here right now.
02:50Just continue to breathe in.
02:54Hang out.
03:00A shorter breath in.
03:04Anna longer print out.
03:12And just continue to maintain.
03:15Your comfort and your presence.
03:19In where you sit right now.
03:26And just settle into the energy of your mind.
03:37And now that you've arrived in
03:40a place of presence and calm.
03:43Invite in your helpers.
03:48Bring to mind anyone who has
03:50ever helped you in your life.
03:57And as you remember,
03:59each one invite them to sit
04:03in the Sky ahead of you.
04:06And see them there looking
04:09down and smiling upon where
04:12you are right here.
04:14Anne right now.
04:17Remember all the way back to your
04:21mother and father perhaps? Well,
04:24your family, those who helped raise you.
04:29What call, who it was?
04:32Who taught you the most basic
04:35survival skills in life?
04:37Who taught you? To eat.
04:41How to brush your teeth.
04:44How to tie your shoes.
04:48Recall all the traditional
04:50teachers and helpers in your life.
04:54Remembering who taught you how to read?
04:58How to critically think?
05:01Who taught you how to
05:03ask questions or wonder?
05:09And then also invite in those who
05:13occupy non traditional roles.
05:16Someone you know who helped you by
05:19simply being an example. Or a listener.
05:25Or someone who is an inspiration.
05:31And then maybe there have
05:33been helpers in your life who
05:36appeared in challenging ways.
05:38Forceful, even laughable.
05:40Perhaps an if you'd like to invite
05:44them to to sit up there with the
05:47others smiling down upon you.
05:53Invited anyone else who deserves a
05:56place of honor. Anyone whose life
06:00has changed the course of yours.
06:03Anyone who has contributed to Who You are.
06:11And once they are all up there,
06:14feel their presence.
06:17See them smiling upon you,
06:19proud of you, and loving you.
06:23Feel their support and their
06:26love and their care for you.
06:34Visualize that love and
06:37support and care as Rays of
06:41light shining down on you.
06:44Allow it to seep into your body.
06:48And feel its warmth.
06:53Feel the warmth of that light both within
06:57you an like a blanket surrounding you.
07:01And allow for your body to be held
07:05by all that love and kindness.
07:09And recognize where it is
07:12that you are here meditating.
07:15Continuing to grow.
07:18Continuing to learn.
07:21And walking the path of self improvement.
07:30Recognize how precious and how
07:32special and how where that is.
07:35And recognize how each one of your helpers
07:39has somehow contributed to your arrival
07:43right here in this place and time.
07:52As you feel their warmth
07:55shining down upon you.
07:57Remember that you are never alone.
08:02And that these helpers in some sense,
08:05are always with you.
08:09Feel their warmth in
08:12your heart in particular.
08:14And generate a deep sense of
08:18gratitude for each of your helpers.
08:22Of all the light that shining down upon you.
08:27Of all the light that seeping into your body.
08:32Anne, your heart?
08:35Send some of that light back out to
08:39your helpers from your heart to theirs.
08:47And just take a moment and in
08:50your own way, in your own words,
08:53in your own thoughts. Thank your helpers.
09:03And as you think them,
09:06send them light from your heart.
09:09Smiling back upon them.
09:12As they smiled down on you.
09:19And then take a moment and visualize
09:22each and everyone of your helpers.
09:25And all the light surrounding them.
09:33And take that light and dissolve it
09:36into one bright, shining ball of gold.
09:40A Globe of pure light vibrating and glowing.
09:50Feel that light slowly descend from the
09:53Sky above you to the center of your heart.
10:00Feel its warmth, the warmth of
10:03your countless helpers within you.
10:12And stay connected to that warmth
10:15as you slowly open your eyes.
10:21And remember all of your helpers
10:24in that light within your heart.
10:26As you move about your day.
10:35Take a deep breath in through your nose.
10:41I had a long exhale through your mouth.
10:46Take your arms and spread them to
10:49both sides and we each stretch
10:52with clear your wish surrounds.
10:54Take your arms and make circles.
10:57Take your wrists and make circles
11:01with your hands. Stretch.
11:05And bring your arms above your head.
11:10Bend down. In Superpose.
11:16And open your eyes if they're closed.
11:19Just take a moment to give
11:21yourself some gratitude for
11:23taking the time out of your day.
11:26Your busy day to just ground to
11:30remember how important you are
11:32with all that swirls around you.
11:35Being pulled sometimes
11:36in different directions,
11:37just know how important you are.
11:40All the helpers that you have around you,
11:43all the people and places that have guided
11:47you to where you are in this present moment.
11:51There with you at all times in a,
11:53in a light, in a positive light
11:56and in the guiding motion.
11:59Hugs to you.
12:00Hugs to yourself.
12:01Always remember made along time
12:03sun shine upon you and all
12:06love surround you pure light
12:08within you guide your way on.
12:12Thank you all, just a reminder
12:14we're not going to have.