How many things have you done in the past 6 weeks you never imagined? You have continued to get up even though it may feel like your world turned upside down. How many fears have you set aside? How many new ways to manage and process and eat food have you found? How much have you taught your children – whether traditionally or non traditionally? How have you reinvisioned your professional life? How long have you avoided people who weren’t healthy for you anyway? How have you left – or helped someone else leave – an unsafe situation? How have you found to entertain yourself and others? How have you set forth on a new wellness journey? How have you helped ensure someone else’s physical, mental or spiritual needs have been met?
This is not about the 800 moments you have felt you like you have fallen short. This is about what you have actually done because it truly is amazing, no matter how little it may seem.
For meditation today:
- Find the best comfortable position for you.
- Notice your breath. Concentrate on the exhales, breathing out everything that no longer serves your best self. Draw the pelvic floor up towards the naval, the ribs down towards the naval, and the naval in towards the spine to push each breath out of your lungs. Keep the neck and chest as relaxed as possible. This will engage the diaphragm – the muscle meant for moving the lungs.
- When exhaling is established, turn your attention to the inhale. Envision the back of your lungs pulling all the way down to your heels as the air fills the bottommost parts first. Only once this begins do the back of your ribs expand out to the sides and then the front ribs may expand slights as they are pulled along for the ride. The upper chest, neck and pectoral muscles stay relaxed.
- Turn to your mind. Exhale every thought of failure, letting go of your attachments to what success has meant before this time. Inhale feeling your new accomplishments and ways of being in the world fill your body.
- Continue these exhales and inhales, completing a body scan as you go emptying all thoughts of failure from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes and filling with the joy of all you have actually accomplished.