Natural Drives

For this meditation, sit up, with a straight spine. The intention is to restore naturals drives - or energy centres, or chakras - to their intended function.

Focus your attention one each energy centre one by one, from the ground up. Feel the energy there, the pulse, listen to the sensations and message without judgement, and set things right with your natural drives.

The meditation below is an example of dialogue with each energy centre. Let your experience of your energy centres guide you through your personal version.

Location of the energy centres

Instincts: pelvic floor (root)
Desires: navil (sacral)
Impetus: solar plexus
Heart: thorax
Voice: throat
Mind: third eye
Spirit: top of the head (crown)

Meditation

Dear instincts,

Thank you for your million year experience of survival that keeps me alive and safe, grounded in reality, aware of my surroundings.
Thank you telling me how to adapt and respond to my environment.

Forgive me for keeping you on alert unnecessarily and draining you, for preventing you from giving me a sense of safety, and for those times I ignored you when you told me something was off.

I am willing to feel safe even if I don't know, even if I don't get the reassurance or comfort I hope for, and to trust my ability to respond.

Dear desires,

Thank you your readiness to enjoy life, for keeping my drives balanced and nurturing, for giving me a sense of personal power, and taste for what makes life pleasant and sacred.

Forgive me for judging you and shutting you down, overloading you with excesses of all kinds, or depriving you, resenting the flux of emotions and being oblivious to the balance you seek.

I am willing to seek pleasure within the bounds of love and nurture.

Dear impetus,

Thank you for your eagerness to take action, to pursue desires and participate in the world, for your willingness to create, experiment, explore and learn.

Forgive me for being so over bearing, pulling you in many directions, holding you to absurd standards and burdening you with unnecessary pressure. Forgive me for broadly taking the fun away from taking action.

I am willing to walk joyfully towards those things in life I value and enjoy.

Dear heart,

Thank you your openness to love all those whose heart you see, for inviting me to love without needs or expectations, and to accept love without obligation.
Thank you for letting those I love feel loved beyond time and space.

Forgive me for asking you to be selective, to meet love with distrust, for being reluctant to disclose or demonstrate my feelings.

I am willing to let love flow.

Dear voice,

Thank you for your skill at connecting me with others, allowing me to express myself freely and authentically, for letting in only those truths I can swallow, for sending vibrations that connect me to the world.

Forgive me for policing you, hiding you, asking you to pretend.

I am willing to show & tell those who will listen who I am.

Dear mind,

Thank you for showing me the truth and working so hard at breaking through illusions, fears and ignorance.
Thank you for being an ally and a safe place when all else fails. Thank you for being a student, a teacher, an observer, and for putting words and wisdom to my experience.

Forgive me for expecting you to regulate the whole of me, to understand and know everything, for demanding from you a sense of safety, controlled desires, steady motivation, discerning love and effective communication.

I am willing to relinquish control and observe, to be a student and a teacher of the life experience.

Dear spirit,

Thank you for connecting me to the Universe, for affording me this life experience. Thank you for letting me know I belong to and further the creation, for procuring me Awe.

Forgive me for doubting, second guessing you, and receiving my experience as a let down or betrayal when I do not make sense of it.

I am willing to experience the whole of life, the darkness as well as the light, as part of the human experience.