I wanted to take this opportunity to be present with ourselves together.
This year served up some tough moments
and some really beautiful moments.
And I found it incredibly important to be present for it all.
I want to take a moment to be with you all right here, right now
for a year-end meditation.
To start turning the page from this totally unprecedented chapter
and to help us all more forward into 2021 with a clear heart,
I'm going to burn some sage and Palo Santo.
This is an indigenous practice that clears negative energy
and is something that people still practice today,
including myself.
We can burn sage and Palo Santo to cleanse a room or space
where something unpleasant happened,
and I think we can all agree 2020 definitely qualifies.
( inhales, exhales )
The beautiful thing about sage and Palo Santo
is Palo Santo holds feminine energy,
and sage holds masculine energy,
so it really helps balance you out.
Okay.
Now let's acknowledge that we,
all of us, are human and we make mistakes.
Yes, I said all of us.
I found that my meditation practice helps ground me
and helps me see myself and the world around me
with a lot more clarity.
The important thing to consider while meditating
is to make it mindful and meaningful.
You need to set an intention.
I mind to take a moment to set mine.
And I want all of you out there to do the same.
When you've set yours, please say it out loud
or in your head.
Close your eyes,
and listen to your breath.
Is it shallow?
I feel like I've been shallow breathing for this entire year.
But it's time to finally take that deep breath.
And I want you to feel it all the way in your toes.
We are in a moment of transformation.
A shift of the weight of this year is in motion.
Allow yourself to visualize the sun appearing,
and allowing it to melt away the layers of fear.
As a collective,
let's thaw out the freeze
we've all been feeling in 2020.
It's safe to let love and hope cover your heart.
It's a time of rebirth.
Resetting.
To regain our heart's connection to hope.
Breathe deeply into your heart's center
and feel the space opening.
Allow the light
and the feeling of freedom and trust
to enter the collective consciousness
that 2021 is going to be a year
of great new beginnings.
We did it. We made it through 2020.
2021 is a beautiful opportunity for anything,
including picking ourselves back up again.
It may not be different from 2020 right out the gate,
and it certainly won't be perfect,
but honestly, perfect is boring.
You get to choose how you see anything.
Everything.
And I'm choosing to find the good.
The good in my flaws,
the good in my failures,
the good in myself,
in my breath,
in all of it,
in all of you.
So I just want to thank you
for letting me spend a couple of minutes with you all
this New Year's Eve to breathe,
to set intentions,
to reflect, and to look ahead.
You made it, we made it.
Happy New Year.
Namaste, bitches.