Speaker 1: You're not here by accident. Something in you clicked on this,
Speaker 1: stayed a little longer, kept listening because a deeper part
Speaker 1: of you is tired of feeling stuck and is ready
Speaker 1: for a new way. So let me begin by telling
Speaker 1: you something very important. There is nothing wrong with you
Speaker 1: because you haven't moved forward yet. You are not lazy,
Speaker 1: You are not broken, You are not doomed. You have
Speaker 1: simply been carrying too much weight inside. Life may look
Speaker 1: the same on the outside, but the real struggle is
Speaker 1: happening in your own mind and heart. And that, my dear,
Speaker 1: is actually good news because what is inside of you
Speaker 1: can be changed, softened, healed. As you listen today, I
Speaker 1: want you to hold this anchor close. I am willing
Speaker 1: to change. I am safe to move forward. The power
Speaker 1: is within me. Now we will come back to this
Speaker 1: again and again, like a soft drum beat beneath everything
Speaker 1: I say. Many people believe they can't move forward because
Speaker 1: the world has gotten harder. The economy is worse, people
Speaker 1: are more difficult, opportunities are fewer, and yes, circumstances can
Speaker 1: be challenging. But I have seen over and over again
Speaker 1: people in the very same situation having completely different experiences,
Speaker 1: one feeling hopeless and trapped, another feeling creative and alive.
Speaker 1: What's the difference. It's not that one person has more worth.
Speaker 1: It's that one person has made friends with their inner
Speaker 1: world and the other is still at war with it.
Speaker 1: I often say you are not stuck because your life
Speaker 1: is uniquely cursed. You are stuck because four powerful forces
Speaker 1: inside you are pulling you backward when your heart wants
Speaker 1: to go forward to day. We're going to name those
Speaker 1: forces with a lot of love, and then we're going
Speaker 1: to begin to loosen their grip. As we do repeat
Speaker 1: softly inside. I am willing to change. I am safe
Speaker 1: to move forward. The power is within me now. Willingness
Speaker 1: is the key that opens every locked door. I like
Speaker 1: to use this image inside your mind. There can either
Speaker 1: be a small, dark prison or a beautiful palace. The
Speaker 1: prison is built from old fear, old pain, old stories
Speaker 1: about who you are allowed to be. The palace is
Speaker 1: built from self respect, forgiveness, courage, and love. The walls
Speaker 1: outside your job, your family, your past may remain the
Speaker 1: same for a while, but the place you stand in
Speaker 1: inside yourself makes all the difference. When you stand in
Speaker 1: the prison of criticism, resentment, fear, and guilt. Everything feels
Speaker 1: heavy and every step is hard. When you begin to
Speaker 1: move into the palace of possibility, the very same day
Speaker 1: can feel lighter, more open, more hopeful. So our work
Speaker 1: is not to blame you for the prison, but to
Speaker 1: gently remove the bricks one by one until you realize
Speaker 1: the door was never truly locked. And as we do that,
Speaker 1: I want you to keep reminding yourself. I am willing
Speaker 1: to change, I am safe to move forward. The power
Speaker 1: is within me. Now you don't have to do it perfectly.
Speaker 1: You only have to be willing. The first enemy, as
Speaker 1: people like to call it, though I prefer to call
Speaker 1: it a frightened habit is criticism, not the kind of
Speaker 1: constructive feedback that helps you grow, but the harsh, cruel
Speaker 1: voice that says you'll never get it right, you always
Speaker 1: mess things up, what's wrong with you? That voice is
Speaker 1: a form of subtle violence towards yourself. Every time you
Speaker 1: speak to yourself that way, your body contracts, your shoulders tighten,
Speaker 1: your chest closes, your breath becomes shallow. Is it any
Speaker 1: surprise that you don't want to take risks, try new things,
Speaker 1: or move forward? When the person in your own head
Speaker 1: is waiting to punish you for every step. You may
Speaker 1: think you are motivating yourself with criticism, but in truth,
Speaker 1: you are shrinking your world. The way out is not
Speaker 1: to argue with that voice, but to change its tone
Speaker 1: when you make a mistake, instead of you're so stupid,
Speaker 1: try I'm learning. I didn't know better then, but I'm
Speaker 1: willing to do better now. At first, it will feel strange,
Speaker 1: almost fake, because you are used to being unkind to yourself.
Speaker 1: Keep going, Put your hand on your heart and say,
Speaker 1: I love and approve of myself exactly as I am.
Speaker 1: You are not excusing every behavior. You are creating a
Speaker 1: safe place inside where growth becomes possible. A flower does
Speaker 1: not bloom under a hammer, It blooms under sunlight and water.
Speaker 1: Let your words become that sunlight. The second force that
Speaker 1: holds you back is resentment. All those old hurts you
Speaker 1: carry like heavy stones in your pockets. Someone betrayed you,
Speaker 1: someone left, someone didn't see your worth, someone took advantage
Speaker 1: of your kindness. And every time you replay the story
Speaker 1: in your mind, the same chemicals flood your body, the
Speaker 1: same anger rises, the same sadness returns. Resentment is like
Speaker 1: drinking poison and hoping the other person will collapse. The
Speaker 1: truth is, most of the time they have moved on,
Speaker 1: you are the one still chained to the old scene.
Speaker 1: When you are full of resentment, it becomes very difficult
Speaker 1: to move forward because part of you is facing backwards,
Speaker 1: staring at the door that closed. I will never ask
Speaker 1: you to pretend that what happened was Okay, it may
Speaker 1: not have been, but I will gently invite you to
Speaker 1: ask yourself, do I want to live here forever? Forgiveness,
Speaker 1: my dear, is not about declaring them innocent. It is
Speaker 1: about declaring yourself free. When you are ready, even a little,
Speaker 1: you can begin to say, I release the past, I
Speaker 1: set myself free. You don't have to feel it fully
Speaker 1: at first. Just let the words start to move cobwebs
Speaker 1: in your heart. Each time you choose release instead of replay,
Speaker 1: you lighten your load and create space for new experiences
Speaker 1: to come in. The third silent captor is fear. Fear
Speaker 1: of failure, fear of success, fear of being seen, fear
Speaker 1: of being abandoned, fear of making the wrong choice. Fear
Speaker 1: loves to dress up as logic. It will give you
Speaker 1: a thousand reasons why now is not the right time,
Speaker 1: why you are not ready, why it's safer to stay
Speaker 1: exactly where you are. But if you listen closely, you
Speaker 1: will hear that fear has one main strategy. It drags
Speaker 1: you out of the present moment and throws you into
Speaker 1: a world of frightening imagination. Suddenly you are living in
Speaker 1: a future disaster that hasn't happened, or reliving an old
Speaker 1: wound as if it were happening again. No wonder you
Speaker 1: feel paralyzed. The antidote is not to bully yourself into
Speaker 1: being fearless. The antidote is to gently bring yourself back
Speaker 1: to now. When you feel your heart race, your thoughts spiraling,
Speaker 1: I want you to pause and take one slow, conscious breath.
Speaker 1: Feel the air enter your nose, your chest, your belly,
Speaker 1: feel it leave slowly, and say to yourself, I am
Speaker 1: safe in this moment. All is well, Not all of
Speaker 1: life is perfect, not I will never hurt again, Just
Speaker 1: in this breath, I am safe. Each time you do this,
Speaker 1: you are teaching your nervous system that it does not
Speaker 1: have to stay in constant alarm. And the more often
Speaker 1: you stand in the present, the easier it becomes. To
Speaker 1: take a small step forward. The fourth weight that keeps
Speaker 1: you from moving is guilt. Guilt whispers you don't deserve
Speaker 1: good things after what you did, after what you failed
Speaker 1: to do, after the mistakes you made. Some people carry
Speaker 1: guilt not only for their own choice, but for things
Speaker 1: that were never really under their control. Their parents' feelings,
Speaker 1: a partner's pain, decisions they had to make with limited knowledge.
Speaker 1: Guilt is very sneaky because it can look like morality.
Speaker 1: I feel bad, so I must be a good person.
Speaker 1: But what guilt often does is block your blessings. When
Speaker 1: you are deeply identified with guilt, you unconsciously punish yourself.
Speaker 1: You sabotage opportunities, You reject love, You turn down help,
Speaker 1: You forget to apply, finish, or show up. This is
Speaker 1: not because you truly don't want better. It is because
Speaker 1: a part of you has decided you are not allowed
Speaker 1: to have better. The way to loosen guilt is to
Speaker 1: remember that you can't become a better person by endlessly
Speaker 1: beating yourself up. You grow by learning, by making amends
Speaker 1: when appropriate, By choosing differently today, you are allowed to
Speaker 1: begin again. Put your hand gently on your body. Maybe
Speaker 1: your chest may be your stomach and say I forgive myself.
Speaker 1: I deserve good. You might cry when you say it,
Speaker 1: That is all right. Tears are old guilt leaving. You
Speaker 1: are not your past actions. You are the person who
Speaker 1: is choosing right now to be more conscious and more loving.
Speaker 1: So here you are, my dear, standing between two inner worlds,
Speaker 1: the old prison of criticism, resentment, fear and guilt, and
Speaker 1: the new palace of self acceptance, release, presence, and forgiveness.
Speaker 1: It is not a jump you make in one day.
Speaker 1: It is a series of tiny steps, and every step
Speaker 1: begins with a simple willingness. I am willing to change.
Speaker 1: I am safe to move forward. The power is within me. Now.
Speaker 1: Let that be your new way of speaking to yourself.
Speaker 1: When you start to replay the past or freeze before
Speaker 1: the future, you are telling your subconscious we are not
Speaker 1: trapped anymore. We are learning a new way. Now. I
Speaker 1: want to remind you of something that can completely shift
Speaker 1: how you see yourself. Inside you, there is a treasure house, Riza.
Speaker 1: It does not matter how many years you have spent
Speaker 1: criticizing yourself, how long you've been angry, how often you
Speaker 1: felt afraid, or how much guilt you carry beneath all
Speaker 1: of that. There is a radiant, alive, wise part of
Speaker 1: you that has never been damaged. There is love inside you.
Speaker 1: There is joy inside you. There is peace, creativity, and
Speaker 1: quiet strength inside you. These are not qualities you have
Speaker 1: to import from outside, like rare goods, they are already there,
Speaker 1: Like a spring of fresh water under the ground. You
Speaker 1: don't have to build the spring. You only have to
Speaker 1: dig away the rocks. This inner treasure is never more
Speaker 1: than one breath away. That may sound too simple, but
Speaker 1: simplicity is often where the deepest truths live. In the
Speaker 1: very moment you pause and put your attention on your heart,
Speaker 1: you have already moved closer to the treasure. The problem
Speaker 1: is not that you don't have love or wisdom. It
Speaker 1: is that you have been busy listening to the four
Speaker 1: noisy enemies. When you begin to turn your attention inward
Speaker 1: with kindness, those inner gifts wake up. You may suddenly
Speaker 1: feel a little more compassion for yourself. You may hear
Speaker 1: a small, clear idea about your next step. You may
Speaker 1: feel a tiny spark of hope where there was only
Speaker 1: numbness before. This is the treasure beginning to shine through.
Speaker 1: Let us do a little practice together right now, just
Speaker 1: sixty seconds to connect with this inner wealth. If you
Speaker 1: can gently close your eyes, place your hand over your
Speaker 1: heart or wherever feels comforting, take a slow breath in
Speaker 1: and a slow breath out, and silently repeat after me.
Speaker 1: Love is here, Peace is here, Wisdom is here. Don't
Speaker 1: try to force a big feeling. Just let the words settle,
Speaker 1: like snowflakes on warm skin. Another breath in and out.
Speaker 1: Love is here, Peace is here, Wisdom is here. You
Speaker 1: don't have to go anywhere to find them. You don't
Speaker 1: have to earn them. They are in you right now,
Speaker 1: waiting to be noticed one more time with a little
Speaker 1: more tenderness. Love is here, Peace is here, Wisdom is here.
Speaker 1: And now add I am willing to chat. I am
Speaker 1: safe to move forward. The power is within me. Now
Speaker 1: Feel how those words open a small door inside my dear.
Speaker 1: The real reason you haven't moved forward is not that
Speaker 1: you are weak or cursed or behind. It is that
Speaker 1: you've been trying to walk with chains around your ankles
Speaker 1: and a heavy bag on your back. To day, we
Speaker 1: have begun to notice those chains criticism, resentment, fear, guilt,
Speaker 1: and we have also begun to remember the keys you
Speaker 1: carry inside love, peace, wisdom, willingness. You are already changing
Speaker 1: simply by listening with an open heart. You are already
Speaker 1: moving forward simply by being willing to see things differently.
Speaker 1: Be gentle with yourself as you practice when you forget,
Speaker 1: come back to your breath, come back to your heart,
Speaker 1: come back to your new affirmation. I am willing to change.
Speaker 1: I am safe to move forward. The power is within me. Now.
Speaker 1: Now that we've talked about the treasures inside you, my dear,
Speaker 1: I want to pull the curtain back a little and
Speaker 1: share something from my own journey. Not to dwell on pain,
Speaker 1: not to dramatize the past, but to show you something
Speaker 1: very important. People can change, lives can transform, Patterns can
Speaker 1: be released. I did not wake up one morning as
Speaker 1: Louise Hay with all the answers. I was once a
Speaker 1: frightened little girl, then a wounded young woman who carried
Speaker 1: years of abuse, shame, and deep resentment inside my body.
Speaker 1: For a long time, I did not know what to
Speaker 1: do with all that pain, so I turned it against
Speaker 1: myself and my life. My health, my relationships reflected that
Speaker 1: inner war. There came a time when my body began
Speaker 1: to speak very loudly through a serious diagnosis. I will
Speaker 1: not go into all the details here because this is
Speaker 1: not about the drama of my story. What matters is
Speaker 1: that I stood at a cross roads. I could see
Speaker 1: myself as a helpless victim of both the past and
Speaker 1: the illness, or I could ask a different question, what
Speaker 1: is my body trying to tell me? In my belief system,
Speaker 1: I saw that years of unexpressed anger, self hatred, and
Speaker 1: resentment had been sitting inside me like a heavy toxic cloud.
Speaker 1: I began to consider that my body might be showing
Speaker 1: me not just a problem, but also a doorway. So
Speaker 1: I chose gently and imperfectly to walk through that doorway.
Speaker 1: I want to be very clear with you, my dear,
Speaker 1: when I talk about the connection between emotions and the body,
Speaker 1: I am sharing from my personal experience and my own
Speaker 1: spiritual framework. This is not a substitute for medical care.
Speaker 1: You deserve proper medical attention, loving support, and all the
Speaker 1: resources this modern world can offer. If anything I say
Speaker 1: inspires you, let it work alongside your health care, not
Speaker 1: instead of it. You are worth a full, loving, holistic
Speaker 1: approach body, mind and spirit together. In my own journey,
Speaker 1: I notice that deep, long held resentment often sat in
Speaker 1: the background of serious conditions. For me, I saw a
Speaker 1: link between my old bitterness and my physical symptoms, as
Speaker 1: though the body was saying, we cannot carry this rage
Speaker 1: and hurt forever. I began to see illness as a
Speaker 1: wake up call, an invitation to look at what I
Speaker 1: had refused to heal emotionally, not punishment, not proof that
Speaker 1: I was bad, but a signal what the mind refuses
Speaker 1: to release the body often carries. When I started to
Speaker 1: release my resentment, to forgive, to soften, my body responded again.
Speaker 1: This was my experience, not a universal rule, but it
Speaker 1: gave me hope, and it gave me direction. One of
Speaker 1: the most powerful steps I took was to look at
Speaker 1: the people I hated the most and see them as
Speaker 1: they once were, small, frightened children. That does not excuse
Speaker 1: anything they did. It does not make their behavior right,
Speaker 1: but it helped me to understand that hurting people often
Speaker 1: come from her, that the violence they gave me was
Speaker 1: a continuation of violence they had received. They did the
Speaker 1: best they could with the awareness they had, and now
Speaker 1: I choose to do better. When I could see their brokenness,
Speaker 1: I no longer wanted to drink poison on their behalf.
Speaker 1: I wanted to put the cup down. I wanted to
Speaker 1: give myself a different future. Forgiveness for me was not
Speaker 1: a grand ceremony. It was a daily decision. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: sounded like I refuse to let your behavior define my
Speaker 1: life anymore. Sometimes it sounded like I release you in
Speaker 1: love and I set myself free. Sometimes it was nothing
Speaker 1: more than a tired little whisper I'm willing to forgive,
Speaker 1: even if I don't know how yet. But each time
Speaker 1: I chose even a little willingness, I felt the chains loosen,
Speaker 1: my energy began to return. My body felt less like
Speaker 1: a battlefield and more like a home. Alongside this inner work,
Speaker 1: I also began what I call a full spectrum detox,
Speaker 1: not a harsh, punishing regime, but a loving clearing on
Speaker 1: all levels. I nourished my body with better food, more water,
Speaker 1: gentle movement. I nourished my mind by watching my thoughts,
Speaker 1: gently interrupting the old loops of I'm worthless, I'm doomed,
Speaker 1: it's hopeless, and replacing them with new ones. I nourished
Speaker 1: my heart with affirmation spoken out loud in the mirror,
Speaker 1: with as much tenderness as I could manage. The core
Speaker 1: of it all was simple. I am willing to change
Speaker 1: my thinking. I am willing to speak to myself with love.
Speaker 1: Different choices in food helped my body, Different choices in
Speaker 1: thought helped my life. So when I say to you
Speaker 1: now I am willing to change, I am safe to
Speaker 1: move forward. The power is within me. Now. I am
Speaker 1: not giving you a pretty phrase. I am handing you
Speaker 1: the very key I once used. You are not powerless,
Speaker 1: you are not stuck forever. You too, can put down resentment,
Speaker 1: invite forgiveness, detox your mind, and speak gently to your body.
Speaker 1: And you can do it while still working with doctors,
Speaker 1: therapists and all forms of support. You deserve the whole
Speaker 1: spectrum of healing. Now, let's talk about something that worries
Speaker 1: many people, aging, especially for women. Our culture often treats
Speaker 1: aging like a sentence, as if after a certain age,
Speaker 1: you are automatically less beautiful, less valuable, less visible. I
Speaker 1: see aging differently. To me, Aging is not a curse.
Speaker 1: It is a story we tell ourselves. If your inner
Speaker 1: story says I am getting old and useless, your body
Speaker 1: and your energy will follow that script. If your inner
Speaker 1: story says I am growing wiser, deeper, more myself, your
Speaker 1: body and your energy can respond to that too. I
Speaker 1: have met people in their twenties who were already old
Speaker 1: in their bitterness, and people in their seventies who were bright, curious,
Speaker 1: and full of life. So I invite you to ask,
Speaker 1: what story am I telling myself about my age? Are
Speaker 1: you telling yourself that you are too late, too old,
Speaker 1: past your prime? Or can you begin to say, I
Speaker 1: bless my age, I bless my body. I am willing
Speaker 1: to feel vibrant at every stage of life. You may
Speaker 1: not believe it fully yet, but remember willingness is enough
Speaker 1: to begin. Your cells respond to the way you speak
Speaker 1: about them. Your life responds to the way you speak
Speaker 1: about your future. Let aging be a journey into deeper
Speaker 1: self respect, not a long apology for existing. For many women,
Speaker 1: the issue is not only aging, but how they are
Speaker 1: treated in relationships, at home, at work. I want to
Speaker 1: speak to your heart here. Your value does not come
Speaker 1: from another person's approval. Your worth is not issued by
Speaker 1: a partner, a parent, or a paycheck. When you forget this,
Speaker 1: you may accept unkindness, neglect, or abuse because you secretly
Speaker 1: believe that is all you deserve. You might tell yourself,
Speaker 1: if I were better, they would treat me better. But
Speaker 1: the truth is the other way around. When you treat
Speaker 1: yourself better, you begin to see who truly belongs in
Speaker 1: your life and who does not. Self respect, my dear,
Speaker 1: is not arrogance. It is simply knowing that you are
Speaker 1: a precious being and acting accordingly. I will not stay
Speaker 1: where I am not respected. I will not shrink to
Speaker 1: fit someone else's fear. When you speak to yourself this way,
Speaker 1: you raise the standard for how others may speak to you.
Speaker 1: And yes, sometimes that means relationships will change. Some people
Speaker 1: will rise to meet your new boundaries, others will fall away.
Speaker 1: This can be painful, but it is also profoundly healing.
Speaker 1: You are trading a life of quiet self betrayal for
Speaker 1: a life of honest self love. Boundaries in my work
Speaker 1: are one of the purest forms of self love. A
Speaker 1: boundary is not an attack. It is simply a line
Speaker 1: that says, here is where I end and you begin.
Speaker 1: When I respect myself, life learns to respect me. A
Speaker 1: soft boundary can sound like I hear you, and I
Speaker 1: won't allow myself to be spoken to that way, or
Speaker 1: I care about you and I also need rest tonight
Speaker 1: or no, that doesn't work for me. You don't have
Speaker 1: to scream. You don't have to explain your worth. You
Speaker 1: only have to honor it as you do. The universe
Speaker 1: often rearranges people in situations to match your new vibration. Now,
Speaker 1: I would like to leave you with some affirmations you
Speaker 1: can use in different areas of your life, health, relationships, creativity,
Speaker 1: and finances. Think of them as little seeds you can plant.
Speaker 1: Remember the way you use the matters. Don't bark them
Speaker 1: at yourself like orders. Speak them as you would to
Speaker 1: a beloved child. You are comforting. Look into your own
Speaker 1: eyes in the mirror. If you can, let your tone
Speaker 1: be gentle, your body soft, your breath slow. For health,
Speaker 1: you might stand in front of the mirror, place your
Speaker 1: hands somewhere on your body, and say, I am vibrant,
Speaker 1: radiant health. Even if you are working with illness. Right now,
Speaker 1: you are speaking to the part of you that knows
Speaker 1: how to move toward balance. If your mind protests, you
Speaker 1: can soften it with I am willing to move toward vibrant,
Speaker 1: radiant health. Willingness opens the door for relationships, particularly when
Speaker 1: you feel lonely or unloved. You can place your hand
Speaker 1: on your heart and say I am love and I
Speaker 1: am loved. Then add I release loneliness by coming home
Speaker 1: to myself. Feel what it is like to be on
Speaker 1: your own side, to enjoy your own company, to treat
Speaker 1: yourself with the kindness you long for from others. When
Speaker 1: you may make yourself your own safe place, your outer
Speaker 1: relationships begin to shift to match this inner climate. People
Speaker 1: who cannot meet you at this level of respect may
Speaker 1: drift away. Those who can will be drawn closer. For creativity,
Speaker 1: when you feel blocked or small, try this. Sit down
Speaker 1: with a piece of paper or in your creative space
Speaker 1: and say I allow the creative energy of the universe
Speaker 1: to flow through me. You don't have to force genius,
Speaker 1: you don't have to strain. You are simply opening a channel.
Speaker 1: Creativity is not about being special. It is about letting
Speaker 1: life express through you in whatever way feels true. Cooking, painting, writing, gardening, parenting,
Speaker 1: problem solving. Let your mind stop judging and let your
Speaker 1: heart play. For finances, when fear about money starts to
Speaker 1: grip you, instead of repeating there's never enough, I'm always behind,
Speaker 1: it will never work, you can gently introduce a new
Speaker 1: pattern my income is constantly increasing, I accept all possibilities. Again,
Speaker 1: if your mind shouts that's not true, you don't have
Speaker 1: to argue. You can say, I am willing to believe
Speaker 1: that my income can constantly increase. I am willing to
Speaker 1: accept new possibilities. You are not denying your current reality.
Speaker 1: You are expanding what is possible in your future. The
Speaker 1: most important part of using affirmations in the way I
Speaker 1: teach is how you bring them into your body. Say
Speaker 1: them out loud when you can say them in the mirror,
Speaker 1: looking into your own eyes. Say them slowly, like a lullaby,
Speaker 1: not like a drill sergeant. If your mind resists, don't panic.
Speaker 1: Resistance is just an old habit trying to stay alive
Speaker 1: when that happens. Lean on one of my favorite bridges,
Speaker 1: I am willing to believe. For example, I am willing
Speaker 1: to believe that I can change. I am willing to
Speaker 1: believe that I am safe to move forward. I am
Speaker 1: willing to believe that the power is within me. Now,
Speaker 1: over time, with repetition and kindness, these phrases stop feeling
Speaker 1: like strangers and start feeling like home. The old sentences
Speaker 1: I'm no good, I can't it's too late. I'm stuck.
Speaker 1: Begin to lose their power because you are no longer
Speaker 1: feeding them. You are feeding a different garden now. So,
Speaker 1: my dear, as we close this part of our time together,
Speaker 1: I want you to remember you have been given an
Speaker 1: incredible gift, the ability to choose a new thought, a
Speaker 1: new story, a new direction at any moment. Your past
Speaker 1: does not have to chain your future. Your pain does
Speaker 1: not have to define your identity. The criticism, resentment, fear,
Speaker 1: and guilt that once held you back can be gently
Speaker 1: replaced with self respect, forgiveness, presence, and love. As we
Speaker 1: come to the close of this gentle time together, I
Speaker 1: want you to lift your eyes with me for a moment,
Speaker 1: from your own heart to the heart of the whole planet.
Speaker 1: You are not a small, powerless speck wandering through a
Speaker 1: hostile universe. You are a radiant point of light in
Speaker 1: a vast, living field of love. When you heal, your
Speaker 1: healing does not stop at the edge of your skin.
Speaker 1: It travels, it ripples, it blesses. So I invite you,
Speaker 1: my dear, to take five minutes each day for a simple,
Speaker 1: beautiful practice. Sit quietly, place your hand on your heart. First,
Speaker 1: feel your own breath, your own body, your own willingness
Speaker 1: to change, And then in your mind's eye, see people
Speaker 1: all around the world doing the same people you will
Speaker 1: never meet, people in different countries, different cultures, different languages,
Speaker 1: all longing for the same things. Safety, love, peace, a
Speaker 1: chance to start again. Now, imagine all of us standing
Speaker 1: together in a great circle, hand in hand. See a
Speaker 1: soft golden light moving from your heart to the person
Speaker 1: next to you, then to the next, and the next,
Speaker 1: until the entire circle is glowing. Let that circle expand
Speaker 1: until it gently wraps around the whole earth. This is
Speaker 1: your love circle meditation. In those few minutes, you are
Speaker 1: adding real loving energy to a world that needs it.
Speaker 1: And as we stand in that circle together, let us affirm,
Speaker 1: slowly and tenderly. I am willing to change. I release criticism, resentment, fear,
Speaker 1: and guilt. I move forward in love once more, with
Speaker 1: even more softness. I am willing to change. I release criticism, resentment,
Speaker 1: fear and guilt. I move forward in love, and one
Speaker 1: last time is a blessing for yourself and the world.
Speaker 1: I am willing to change. I release criticism, resentment, fear,
Speaker 1: and guilt. I move forward in love. You are part
Speaker 1: of the healing of this planet, my dear