I love you. Beginnings.

 Meditation for Beginnings.

Sit with spine comfortably erect, in a cross-legged posture. 

Rest your hands, palms up on your thighs or in your lap.

Drop your shoulders and relax your whole body.

Bring your attention to your breathing. 

Inhale deeply and as you exhale, relax into it. 

Feel your body fully relaxed as you calmly settle down and focus on one thing you want to do that is not currently part of your life.

Be specific and imagine what it would look like, feel like. It may be meditating or exercising daily,

or learning something new or doing something creative - writing, singing, dancing, painting, - or simply being more patient with those you love. 

Pick something that has meaning for you.

See yourself beginning this activity. Imagine the state of mind, body and emotion ideally required to begin. How do you want to be feeling mentally, emotionally, and physically when you start? 

Imagine yourself as you ideally want to be to begin.

Stay with this for a few breaths.

Now, be aware of how you are feeling mentally, emotionally, and physically at this moment. 

Feel the gap, if you can, between where you want to be and where you are. 

Let your attention follow your inhalation and exhalation, take a few moments to to feel, without judgement, the gap between where you are and where you want to be- or think you should be- to begin.

Now, imagine yourself beginning to do what you want to do, starting from the place you are right now.

See yourself doing it- meditating, exercising, being more patient, learning something, doing something creative- just the way you are. 

Do not pull away from the way you are feeling. Let yourself relax into how things are and imagine doing what you want to do, perhaps not as perfectly, not as ideally as you first imagined it, but doing it anyway. Let go with each exhalation; let yourself feel exactly how you are feeling. 

Give yourself permission to begin from here.