This Little Light of Mine - Guided Meditations

With the loving support and guidance of many mentors, others on a journey of growth and healing, and by using the 'Letting Go' technique of Dr. David Hawkins, I'm learning that I can experience new ways of being at ease in my own body.

I'm learning that I can be with my feelings without running, numbing, shaming, blaming, performing, shopping, endless scrolling or avoiding.

When we learn to 'let go' we can experience a sudden release of an inner pressure that may feel like the dropping of a weight.

Letting go is accompanied by a sudden feeling of relief and lightness. This may bring on increased happiness, feeling free, or being more at ease in your own body.

Letting go is a natural mechanism of our mind. When we use this technique to be with our feelings we build more love, empathy, and compassion for ourselves and for the world around us.

When we don't let go of feelings, but instead try to run, numb, or think our way around our feelings we trap the energy of our feelings inside of us. It is the accumulated pressure of feelings that causes thoughts. One feeling can create literally 1000s of thoughts over a period of time. This trapped energy of our feelings is what creates dis-ease in our bodies.

When letting go it is important to ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts. Thoughts in and of themselves are painless, but not the feelings that underlie them.

The purpose of this meditation is to assist you in becoming aware of a feeling, to help you stay with the feeling, to focus on letting out the energy behind the feeling, and to guide you through the resistance that keeps feelings going. It's when we resist fully feeling our feelings that they persist.

For any number of a reasons many of our wounded inner children were taught that it was not okay for us to just BE.⁠⠀

⁠If you're anything like me I learned that I needed to hustle for approval and that I could only matter and have significance if I was DOING something.⁠⠀

⁠I learned to be a humanDOING.⁠⠀

One way to learn about the power of being is through a very simple form of mindless meditation.

This meditation to touch the power of your being uses a technique that I learned in recovery from complex trauma called coherent breathing.

Coherent breathing, or deep breathing, helps to calm the body through its effect on your autonomic nervous system. This technique slows your normal breathing from around 8 to 16 breaths per minute to around five breaths per minute.

When you use your breath as medicine you can hack your nervous system and help take your bodies out of fight/flight/freeze/please and activates your rest and digest

When you can get your breathing to leave a stressed state, the rest of the parts of your autonomic nervous system will follow suit, creating a chain reaction that can help to reduce stress, anxiety, and related problems.

This allows you to touch the power of your being.

Find a comfortable place and position where you can be free of any and all interruptions for the next twenty minutes.

You are loved.

James

I've been struggling this week to move past a certain situation. I've used my voice, shared my feelings and my truth and guess what? Nothing changed. I still don't feel heard and all weekend I've been carrying anger around inside of me.

Are you anything like me? Do you have times where you hold onto anger, times where you let other people, situations or circumstances steal your peace and your joy?

As a young boy I learned that forgiveness was about turning the other cheek, being the bigger person and letting things go... but there is still a little boy inside of me that wants to scream "but that's NO FAIR"

As I recover, heal and grow I'm working to learn that forgiveness is a gift from God and it's a gift that brings peace and freedom.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it doesn't make what I deem "unfair" go away and it doesn't erase the pain or trauma. It doesn't change the things on an earthly or material level.

Forgiveness provides freedom, peace and release on a much more important level. It provides freedom on a spiritual level.

During my morning reading today the topic of forgiveness "magically" came up... the words spoke truth into me. I adapted those words and turned them into this meditation to help me learn to forgive.

My hope is that these words may also speak to you and help you learn to forgive and allow more love into your life.

You are loved.

James

www.ThisLittleLightOfMine.CA

Adapted from ACIM workbook lesson 122

This is the Inner Infant Meditation from John Bradshaw's book Homecoming - Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child.

This is an incredible book with many helpful and powerful exercises and meditations. This specific affirmations and meditation for reclaiming your toddler self can be found on pages 168-170

I hope this recorded meditation helps in your journey of healing.

Welcome home... you are loved.

James

Music (“Blue”) by Peder B. Helland, licensed by Soothing Relaxation.

This is the Inner Infant Meditation from John Bradshaw's book Homecoming - Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child.

This is an incredible book with many helpful and powerful exercises and meditations. This specific affirmations and meditation for reclaiming your toddler self can be found on pages 152-154

I hope this recorded meditation helps in your journey of healing.

You are loved..

James

Music (“Blue”) by Peder B. Helland, licensed by Soothing Relaxation.

This is the Inner Infant Meditation from John Bradshaw's book Homecoming - Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child.

This is an incredible book with many helpful and powerful exercises and meditations. This specific affirmations and meditation for reclaiming your toddler self can be found on pages 135-138

I hope this recorded meditation helps in your journey of healing.

You are loved.

James

Music (“Blue”) by Peder B. Helland, licensed by Soothing Relaxation.

This is the Inner Infant Meditation from John Bradshaw's book Homecoming - Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child.

This is an incredible book with many helpful and powerful exercises and meditations. This specific affirmations and meditation for reclaiming your toddler self can be found on pages 117-120.

I hope this recorded meditation helps in your journey of healing.

You are loved.

James

Music (“Blue”) by Peder B. Helland, licensed by Soothing Relaxation.

Sometimes we just need a break. We're overwhelmed, stressed, full of anger and resentments and we just need to hit pause and leave the world behind.

You can take a vacation, you can have a staycation, but have you ever tried an INNERcation? a journey inward to give you the recharge that you're looking for

Higher Self INNERcation is a journey inward that will give you recharge that you're looking for.

In this guided mediation you journey inward to give yourself the rest, relaxation and reminder of who you really are and who you have always been.

(18:22)

You don't need any belongings, money, maps, or snacks for this journey... just find your favourite comfortable spot to sit or lay down and let Higher Self INNERcation take you within for an uplifting soul nourishing journey.

You are loved.

James

With all the fear and panic spreading across our world I found the words of one of my morning readings so beautiful, calming and true.

As I recover, heal and grow I need to continually bring my thoughts back to God. I need to surrender all external factors, know that I am not in control and that this too shall pass.

I adapted my morning reading from ACIM into this meditation that will help remind you of who you really are... remind you of your truth.

You are worthy. You are safe.. You are needed. You are loved. 

I know this because I too rest in God

with love

James

www.ThisLittleLightOfMine.CA

Adapted from ACIM workbook lesson 109  

This is the Inner Infant Meditation from John Bradshaw's book Homecoming - Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child.

This is an incredible book with many helpful and powerful exercises and meditations. This specific meditation can be found on pages 93-97.

I hope this recorded meditation helps in your journey of healing.

You are loved.

James

Music (“Blue”) by Peder B. Helland, licensed by Soothing Relaxation.