🌟 Breathe Into Your Power & Shine🌟 A Meditation for Self-Confidence

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Take a journey into your inner landscape with this transformative guided meditation focused on reconnecting with your authentic power. Beginning with mindful breath awareness, this practice leads you to visualize your breath as golden light energy gathering in your solar plexus – your personal power center.

Many of us unconsciously dim our light, hiding our gifts and talents from the world. Through gentle guidance, this meditation helps you identify where you might be "playing small" in your life, where self-doubt has crept in, and where anxiety might be physically stored in your body. As you direct healing breath energy to these areas, you'll experience a profound release of tension and a renewed sense of possibility.

"You are a powerful and beautiful being who came here not to dim your sweet soul," reminds the guide as you're led through a series of empowering affirmations: "I am powerful, I am connected, I am strong" and "I am ready." These words aren't just positive thinking – they're reminders of your essential nature and the gifts you were born to share.

The meditation culminates with an invitation to be your own lighthouse – a guiding beacon not just for others but for yourself. In a world that often encourages conformity, this practice gives you permission to shine your unique light unapologetically. Whether you're facing challenges, seeking direction, or simply wanting to reconnect with your authentic self, this meditation offers a sanctuary of self-discovery and empowerment. Take these ten minutes to remember who you truly are. The world needs your light – are you ready to let it shine?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, today we're going to do a guiding
light meditation, so just goahead and find yourself
somewhere comfortable to sit orlie down and with a straight
back, holding your body inawareness.
I just want you to connect withyour breath.

(00:22):
Your breath is your life forceenergy.
I just want you to connect withyour breath.
Your breath is your life forceenergy.
It's the life force energy thatholds you steady and strong.
Your breath is your friend,your ally, the one who can guide

(00:59):
you to feeling calm, safe,secure and confident.
Breathe, really truly connect.
Feel the prana, the life forceenergy traveling into your body,
re-energizing, healing andnourishing, drawing that breath

(01:34):
all the way down into your belly.
Allow the energy to gather likea golden ball of light right in
your stomach, breathing andenjoying the warming sensation.
Feel it as it develops andgrows.
Now turn inwards to connectwith yourself, inwards to

(02:07):
connect with yourself.
I invite you to recognize areasof your body that feel fluid,
strong and in flow, and maybeother areas that feel more tight
, out of alignment, where stressor anxiety might be stored, and

(02:40):
take this breath, your lifeforce energy, into these tight
areas is.
Allow the light and energy ofthe breath to release anxiety,
to let go of self-doubt, to stopgripping and grasping and

(03:01):
clutching.
Feel yourself release, as thislight and energy and beautiful
breath fill these areas.
Notice as you feel a sense ofself-confidence, empowerment and

(03:23):
energy filling your body.
You are a powerful and beautifulbeing who came here not to dim
your sweet soul, gifts andtalents with the world.

(03:49):
You are a unique andmagnificent being.
This is your permission.
You are allowed to be you.
Take a moment now to considerwhere you might be playing small

(04:21):
in your life.
Where are you dimming yourlight, hiding your magnificence,
not living into your potential?
Where might you be steppinginto the background to be

(04:46):
unnoticed?
Life is short.
Now is all we have and now isyour time to step forward.
My friend, the world needs you,all of you and all your

(05:13):
authentic beauty.
It's time to share your truth.
We all came into this worlduntouched and undisturbed, with

(05:36):
opinion.
You were a beautiful baby,filled with hope, opportunity
and a purpose, connected andpart of the universe and of
universal energy.

(06:00):
It's time to step into yourpower, to connect with joy, to
connect with your dreams, youraspirations and goals, without
apology.
You deserve to shine your lightso brightly that others can be

(06:25):
guided.
Why not be the lighthouse foryourself as well as others, a
beacon of light.
Are you ready to allow yourselfto follow this guiding light

(06:49):
within On your next breath in?
I want you to breathe in.
I am powerful, I am connected,I am strong.

(07:13):
And release Breathing in.
I am ready.
I am ready.
I am ready.
Release, release, draw yourawareness again with that breath

(07:40):
, draw it down to your tummy, toyour power center, create that
energy that you need and acceptthe support of your breath to
allow you to connect with thatguiding light.

(08:05):
It's time to follow the pathunapologetically.
We need you to be you.
You are absolutely enough.
Feel your body filled withenergy and or the surface where

(08:47):
you might be, feeling the rhythmof your breath, noticing what
has shifted and what feelsdifferent, gently beginning to

(09:07):
come back to where you are,stretching, yawning, feeling
alert, connected, confident andready.
When you're ready, gently openyour eyes, guiding yourself back

(09:47):
to the here and now.
Take a look around you as if,for the first time, ready to be
you, you, incredible human.
You are the light.
Be the light.

(10:09):
Shine on my friend Namaste.