Hey guys.
It's Bex here.
Welcome to another video in my series, "You Have Four Minutes for Meditation."
Today's meditation is all about body confidence through acceptance.
I have the unique experience of being pregnant right now, so my body is changing every single
day in miraculous, and sometimes weird, ways.
But I think most of us can relate to our bodies changing and not expecting what's happening.
Things can be weird.
Things can be disturbing.
Sometimes things are really good, but oftentimes it knocks us off our axis.
So I'd like to offer you a meditation that will encourage you to accept your body as
it is today and help you gain more confidence when it comes to your external appearance.
As with all my meditations, this one is only four minutes long, so get in a quiet spot
and let's begin.
I'd like you to start by finding your easy seat, and this is any quiet place where you
feel comfortable -- your bed, your coach, the floor, wherever it is where you can get
away from distraction and spend just four minutes on yourself.
You can sit with your legs crossed, one foot in front of the other, or in half lotus or
lotus -- whatever works for you.
Hands can be downturned on your knees or upturned to receive the energy around you.
You're sitting up nice and tall by first inhaling your shoulders up to your ears...and then
rolling your shoulder blades down your spine.
The crown of your head is pointed toward the heavens, and your chin is parallel to the
floor.
If something feels not so comfortable here, go ahead and adjust yourself.
It's okay.
We don't want any pain when we're trying to accept our bodies and our physical selves.
Pay attention to your breath.
Listen to the sound of the air as it enters your nostrils.
Feel it pass through your throat into your lungs.
Allow your belly to become soft and full with the air.
As you exhale, maybe you might want to pull in your belly just a bit.
Bring the air up through your chest, and out again through your nose or your mouth.
If you're ever struggling with your breath, don't force it.
If your nose is stuffy, breathe through your mouth.
How you breathe is less important than that you're breathing.
We are souls having a human experience.
Never allow that statement to separate you from your physical self to make you feel that
your body is less important than it is.
We are having a human experience on purpose.
We are here to indulge and revel in our physical bodies to experience the senses that have
been gifted to us: sight, hearing, touch, and taste.
Our physical bodies allow us to experience things also on an emotional and spiritual
level.
Our senses work in service of our soul.
We are souls having a human experience, so allow us to be excited and ecstatic about
being in our physical bodies.
Every sight, sound, touch and taste is in service of this experience.
Our bodies allow us to feel these things.
We have been gifted our miraculous bodies.
We must show gratitude and thanks for this gift.
Allow each thought to be a thank you note sent to the gifter, to the universe, to God.
Never insult, degrade, denounce, or deny the beautiful physicality of your wonderful and
miraculous body.
Thank you for this gift.
My words are a thank you note.
My loving thoughts are a thank you note.
I move in gratitude.
I eat in gratitude.
I send love and thanks for this gift as it is today.
I'm excited.
I'm ecstatic about this human experience.
My body works in service to me as a friend, not a slave nor a possession, not an object
to be abused -- a friend, a miraculous entity, separate from my soul, but working in combination,
in consort, in partnership to allow me to have a wonderful, exciting and ecstatic human
experience.
Allow yourself just one more great, big loving breath through your nose and your chest.
Allow it to soften your belly, and then exhale belly, chest, nose or mouth.
Your next inhale will allow you to open your eyes...and we're here together, having this
wonderful human experience.
Body love is about body acceptance.
We have to accept our bodies as they are now to make them great in the future and to make
them even better.
So whether you're on a weight loss journey or you want to get stronger or you're into
fitness -- whatever you're doing to make yourself better -- remember, the better starts with
the happiness today now as it is.
Those words, thoughts, and actions are actually thank you notes to the gifter: "Thank you
for this miraculous gift."
I hope you liked this meditation.
I want to see you again in another one, but I need your requests, so leave them below
in the comments.
I love you always, and I'll see you again soon.
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