Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Morning Meditation - Everything is Connected

Episode Date: August 21, 2023

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Wake Me Up is made possible thanks to the generous help of our advertisers and premium supporters. If you'd like to support Wake Me Up, listen ad-free, and get access to the entire catalog plus bonus episodes, then follow the link in the show notes to sign up for Wake Me Up premium. Now before our episode begins, here's a quick word from our sponsors. Hey there, good morning. Welcome to Wake Me Up. We're back today for a meditation on the interconnectedness of all things. Together, we'll do a visualization that will bring you into a deep state of relaxation and connection. You'll come out of this meditation feeling at peace with yourself and others, as you not only realize, but feel how connected everything truly is.

So let's get started. go ahead and find a comfortable position that you would like to meditate in. And if you're in bed, maybe that means rolling over and sitting up. But truthfully, you can do this in any position you enjoy. And once you've found that comfortable position, just take a deep breath in, filling all the way up, hold at the top, and then exhale, release, and slowly close your eyes. Let's take a few more breaths just like that. So inhale, filling all the way up, hold, and then exhale, release.

Try and let that exhale be longer than your inhale. Once more, inhale, hold, and exhale. And now you can allow your breath to return to your own natural rhythm. As you continue softening down, allowing everything else going on, to just fade away, relaxing the muscles of the face. Feeling that tension, fade away. Dropping your jaw and releasing the tongue from the roof of the mouth. And finally, relaxing your shoulders.

And you can just follow your breath here as it slowly draws you deeper and deeper within. Now begin to imagine yourself standing in a vast, serene, You feel the sun warm on your skin. You feel a gentle breeze and hear it rustling the leaves on the trees that surround you. You feel the earth beneath your feet. And as you stand here in this meadow, you do exactly as you're doing right now. Bring your awareness to your breath.

You inhale deeply, taking in air from the outside. from the outside. And as you exhale, imagine a soft, radiant light expanding from your body. With each breath you take, that light begins to expand farther and farther out. And just like your breath,

this light is formed by you, by taking what's around you, inside yourself, transforming it and returning it, back to the outside. And as you keep breathing at your own relaxing pace, this light continues extending outwards, spreading across the trees and the flowers

and the animals in this meadow as it touches each element of nature. Feel that unity and connection between you and it. You are not separate from your surroundings. In fact, your existences are intricately intertwined. They are integral to each other. Each element is acting and reacting to the others around it. And that includes you.

And as you continue with these deep, natural breaths, your light extends even further. Connecting with the people you know and love, see the light stretching out to them, binding you together in a web of love and understanding. Feel the warmth in this connection. Feel the ties created through shared experiences. And as your light continues to expand, see it reaching beyond your personal circle. Embracing strangers, neighbors, and even those you may have.

have disagreements with. In each connection, you can feel a sense of compassion and empathy. There is a bridge of understanding, of commonality, and unity. And just as before, with each breath, your light continues to expand, farther and farther until it encompasses the entire planet. And once it does, you can feel yourself connected to every corner of the earth. Every being, every culture, every ecosystem. You are an integral part of this tapestry, this web of existence. And though your words and your actions may have very small effects on someone or something on the other side of the earth, That connection absolutely exists.

As you bask in this expansive light of connection, take a moment to feel the love that flows through it. It's a love that transcends language, thought, time, and space. A love that unites us all in our shared journey through existence. And this love is encapsulated and the light emanated from you right now. Just as you have a light, so too does everything else. Every person, every plant and animal, every drop of water. Close up, these lights may seem different.

But as you zoom out, you see how they are all one light. Individual rays from a single source. Let this connection, this collective energy, fueling. you, breathing it into every cell of your body. This intelligence that lives inside of you is always working to heal you, grow you, take care of you. So soak in one more moment, feeling this beautiful connection with the world around you. It's about time to wrap up. So begin to bring yourself back. Notice whatever's supporting you, whether that's a chair, or the floor or something else.

Notice the air on your skin. Take one final deep breath in. The deepest one you've taken yet. And as you exhale, slowly open your eyes. Just take a second to collect yourself and come out of that. Well, my friend, I hope you enjoyed that meditation.

Know that this sense of connection and love is always within you. Always ready to be accessed whenever you need it. It doesn't require you to learn anything new. More often than not, it requires you to forget what life usually teaches us, that we are completely separate individual beings. You are an integral part of the universe, a thread in the tapestry of life. You shine a beautiful light, the same light that fills everything around you.

So don't be afraid to shine it. That's all for this episode. I hope to see you back here soon on Wake Me Up. And until then, go out and have a fantastic day.