Cultivating Self Love

It is the imagined place where the whole meditation happens. After you open your third eye, you see your own light body glowing, and other souls gathered around you for this group immersion. A glowing lotus sits at the center, and you return to this space whenever you like.

First, roots grow from your root chakra deep into the earth, and her nurturing energy flows back up through your body like being rocked in a mother's arms. Then energy from the lotus enters through the opening at your crown. Both meet in your heart space, where they clear away heavy feelings.

You aren't asked to fix them. You breathe into the heart space, name what's there (pain, sadness, love, joy, grief) and ask what lesson it holds and what it wants you to know. Then you wrap the feeling in a cocoon of light and lift it out to the lotus, where other souls are sending their own cocoons.

It pairs words with your breath. You breathe in with phrases like I am worthy of love and joy, I am whole and complete, or I am deserving of all the good things in life. On each exhale you say I am enough. The inhale draws in what you've stored, and the exhale releases what no longer serves you.

Midway through, you look at the soul beside you and say I love you, then to the one opposite you say you are beautiful. You also tell others they are worthy of happiness. Sending love out helps your own light grow brighter too, and it comes back to you.

You send it outward in widening rings: first to your loved ones, then your community, your country and finally the earth herself. Each time you wrap them in a gentle cocoon of light, accepting them no matter who they are, and you receive that love back into yourself.