In this guided meditation, you are invited to connect with a soothing quality or state, to breathe in a way that feels soothing (or calm), and to also connect with kind, wise qualities inside of you.
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I recently had the opportunity to hear Celeigh Cardinal sing in person. There were many touching moments: lyrics speaking of beauty and grief, funny moments, and this song, when the audience felt a collective ‘wow.’
The YouTube video below shows a different live performance from the one I attended. The song is on Celeigh Cardinal’s album, Boundless Possibilities (2024). Brennan Cameron is on keyboard.
Thank you, Celeigh, for sharing your gifts, and thank you also to Brennan.
We are always in relationship. We are in relationship with the world around us, with other people, and with what we experience inside ourselves. One relationship we can be curious about is the relationship we have with our own emotions.
Some emotions may be easier for us to experience than others. For one person, anger might feel harder to acknowledge or be with than sadness. For someone else, the reverse might be true. Even joy, contentment, or a feeling of relaxation can sometimes be difficult to experience. What feels easier or harder is specific to each person, and it is something that can change over time.
In this meditation, you are invited to practise offering loving-kindness toward a sensation or emotion that feels easier for you to experience, and then toward one that feels more difficult. You don’t have to choose a sensation or emotion that feels like the hardest one.
This meditation also gives you an opportunity to practise offering kind wishes toward yourself.
More →Wanting to be outside yesterday as part of the day and also desiring to make something, I recorded this meditation while sitting by a lake. Listening later, I heard the words but also found myself getting lost in the soothing sounds of the crickets and the movement of water.
Movement.
Movement is something I often seem to have conversations about. Moving between this and that. Between pain and beauty. Between activity and rest. Between effort, courage, and taking a break. Movement as essential.
From the meditation:
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