Meditation for a New Year

Join your heartfelt prayers with those of all of humanity on a New Year.

This meditation helps us to fully acknowledge what we have been through in this past year, and assists us to attune to our deepest heart's desire and to send that out to the world as a prayer that joins with all other heartfelt prayers.   

This was recorded a while back but is still relevant today.

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Transcription of Meditation

Welcome everyone to the World Blessings Guided Meditation for entering a new year.  A lot of people are leaving behind the year of 2016 and entering the year 2017 with fear, anxiety, uncertainty. Some people are feeling despair, depression, some people are feeling hope, excitement. There's a real mix because of the intensity of what all of us are living through on the planet right now, all in different ways.

I was given this meditation as a gift from those that are guiding us to help us to anchor in another reality that we all carry within ourselves, that we may or may not be able to actually feel at any given time.

This will be a brief meditation and you can listen quietly even if you are waiting on a bus or traveling, or just sitting down in a chair for a few moments.  You can repeat this as often as needed because it's not just for this this time of transitioning to the new year. This meditation really has to do with entering the unknown and anchoring in trust. 

Take a moment now to sit quietly with your feet on the floor if you can, and notice your breathing.   Allow your consciousness to begin to quiet if that's possible, I know, because sometimes it's hard to let go of all the mental activity.

Allow yourself to become aware of your breathing, which happens very effortlessly as part of nature.  Allow your consciousness now to begin to drift downwards very gently and slowly like a feather that's coming to land on the ground very gently, very lightly, bringing your consciousness down. 

Now, breathing into your heart, really feeling the miracle of life in your body. Breathing, relaxing, moving more deeply into yourself and to your inner knowing. Your inner knowing is something that can be felt at times, but even when you're not conscious of it, that inner knowing is guiding you because you are a soul, we are all souls. We all are being guided. 

So, just breathing into your heart. Now, moving more deeply into yourself. Allowing your breath to move down into your abdomen and your lower abdomen, to your hara, the area of your abdomen right below the naval that has your life force and life energy.  Breathing deeply into your hara, and now allowing your breath to move down your legs to the bottoms of your feet. 

Feeling yourself slowing down, moving deeper into yourself. Feeling now the bottoms of your feet, and imagining that the bottoms of your feet are extending roots, the roots of your life force down into the earth anchoring you very deeply in the beautiful consciousness of the earth.  Anchoring you deeply in the sustenance, in the nurturance that exists for you and for all of us. Just breathing, relaxing, going more deeply now. Finding a deep place of rest. 

Deep, peace, and rest. Breathing, and relaxing, feeling the earth supporting you. Feeling the vitality of the earth that is all around you. Even if you live in a city, the vitality and vibrancy of the earth is everywhere. It's underneath your feet, it's in the sky, it's in the trees. 

So now, beloved ones, feel your heart. Just notice what's there, what are you carrying in your heart? You might be feeling emotions, there might be disappointments, or excitement, or perhaps it feels tight there. Just notice what's in your heart.

Allow yourself to acknowledge this present moment with all of the limitations and challenges that you may have, with all of the blessings and gifts that you may have. With all of what you've been through in the last year, allow yourself to acknowledge, acknowledge the pain, acknowledge the blessing, acknowledge the gifts, seeing it all, feeling it all.

Breathing deeply, giving yourself permission to be full of yourself, not pushing away anything, seeing in truth. Breathing deeply, becoming more relaxed now, and just noticing if there are certain emotions or thoughts that feel like you can't bear them, you can't look at them, just holding that with love knowing that those are feelings, just holding everything with love and peace. Breathing more deeply now. 

Now dearest ones, allow yourself, still being with your heart, to feel your longing, to feel what it is that you most hope for, what you most long for. Feel that in your heart, in your body, in whatever part of you carries this deepest longing that is part of your soul and that is part of your purpose.  

Often, the purpose for which we are here on the earth is connected to the longings that we carry in our hearts. Feel the longing in your heart and allow it to become stronger. Allow yourself to accept the longing and allow it to be there. Allow that longing in your heart to expand your heart. Allowing yourself to be aware of any limitations you might put on that longing. Perhaps it's too much to feel, just notice those feelings and allow yourself to go deeper. 

Feeling the vibrancy of your soul and your soul's longing which expresses itself in your heart and in those things that are most dear to you, that are most sacred to you. Breathing, allowing that longing to get stronger and brighter. Allowing that longing to express itself. And now, dearest ones, allow that longing to become a prayer. It can be a prayer in words, it can be a prayer silently, a prayer from your heart that you offer up to the divine. It could be for yourself, for the earth, for all beings. Whatever that prayer is, allow it to express and expand from your heart outward into the world and into the new year that is ahead of us. 

Allow yourself, beloved ones, to receive the beauty and magnificence of your own heart, of your own soul, of your own longing. Which is your unique song, to give here on the earth to all of life. Allow yourself to share your prayer deeply, say it out loud, say it inside of you, breathe, and be glad for this gift and this opportunity to share and express your love and your prayer for the new year. Allow this longing and this prayer to expand out from your heart now and to join with all other hearts that are holding prayers on this New Year, in the evening of the New Year, in the day of the New Year. 

Allow yourself to breathe, to share your heart, and to allow the love and light inside of you to expand. Now, as that love and light in your heart is expanding and as the prayer extends itself beyond your own heart and body to the heart and the body of the earth, and to the hearts and bodies of all of humanity, allow yourself to receive the blessing that comes back from your prayers.

Allow yourself to receive the light. Allow yourself to be nourished. Allow yourself to have a space inside of you to receive the answer to your prayers according to divine timing, according to divine will. Allowing yourself to breathe in the new, to breathe out what has passed, to breathe in accepting all, even those things that are difficult to accept. Breathing out, letting go of all that is no longer needed. 

And then allow your consciousness now to come to a quiet place in your heart. And take some time to relax and be with the sacredness of your heart and your prayers. Take some time to be with the gift of life that is given to us at this time. Allow yourself now to take as much time as you need to transition back to a waking consciousness, bringing with you all of the wisdom and love and light that you have received from your own inner being and from those that are guiding you.

I send you so much love, and blessings, and all goodness for the New Year.