Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: You are listening to exploring Satir's legacy, the Virginia Satir podcast. I am your host, Michael Argumanis Harden, and together we will embark on the journey of self discovery, empowerment, and meaningful connection.
Let's dive in.
Welcome, friends. I have planned a special treat for us today as I take us through the breath of life, one of Virginia Satir's meditations published in guided Meditations and inspirations by Virginia Satir, edited by John Banman in 2020, this meditation invites us to connect with the essence of our being, to breathe in the gift of life, and to embrace the present moment with gratitude and awareness. Virginia Satir used guided meditations as a way of helping groups of people become centered and in touch with the physical, cognitive, and intuitive parts of who they are. Her purpose was to help people grow and fully experience their life energy, access their internal resources, and nurture a connection with the universe or their creator. Before we begin, I must offer a word of caution. Please do not listen to this podcast while driving or engaging in any other activity that requires your full attention.
These meditations are meant to be experienced in a safe and comfortable environment where you can fully immerse yourself in the practice without any distraction. So find a quiet space where you can sit or lay down. Ready your eyes to close, and prepare yourself to be fully present in this moment. As we embark on this journey inward, may you find peace, clarity, and renewal in Virginia's tear's timeless wisdom.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Let your beautiful eyes close.
Just let yourself be in touch for a moment with what it feels like to go from where your eyes are open to where your eyes are closed.
Sometimes this means we are not seeing, but now it simply means that we facilitate the ability to be inside.
We can recognize and experience communication between our thoughts and usefulness. Now let yourself be in touch with your breathing again. Become aware that you can accept your breath easily.
It can be a passive experience, but once inside, you are the one who controls the effect of your breath on how you relax your body and how you give energy to your breath.
It is no longer a passive experience, but an active one.
You allow the breath to go in the body, prepared through relaxation, through a mind that is willing to direct your breath all over your body. You are someone who knows that breath can move in all parts of our body.
Our fullest kind of breathing is from the abdomen.
We join now awareness with knowledge and that manifests itself in an experience of feeling, our body fully nurtured by our own breath. Check the relaxation of your body, which creates the receptivity of your breath check on it. And if you feel a little tight places anywhere, let them loosen.
It's the loosed places that will make it possible for that part to be nourished by your breath.
Now let your breath cognitively put together that the taking of a breath into the relaxed body creates a new strength.
Whenever in the future that you feel weak, the way you could help yourself is to be consciously aware of your breathing, making the body consciously relaxed.
Strength will follow.
The strength may be a physical face.
It will certainly have a psychological face.
Enjoy what you have at this moment and how you can enlarge and expand what you have through your breath.
Feel at the moment your relationship to your leadership of your own power.
Now to go to the next place.
Giving yourself a message of appreciation at this point in your life with all that you've been recognize that you have been learning over the years.
Perhaps at this moment, the feeling of consciously giving you a message of appreciation is one in which has voices arguing against it, such as, how could you have done that? When your thoughts are not always pure, those are old voices. Perhaps at this time you're aware that you're open to equal to getting messages of value and appreciation from you, the owner of this self.
Now let yourself go to a place deep inside where you can keep your resources. Those resources are our guides to what we take in.
They are perceptions, how to see, how to hear, how to touch, how to feel, how to think, how to choose.
These seem to be the questions and the expectations.
We have these resources in wonderful, wonderful ways.
We will look at different uses of them.
Let us focus on this choice at this moment.
We have used all of these resources millions of times. And even with all these times that we've used them, they may not at this moment provide for us a way that we can use them for what we want. We can learn it now.
Another very important thing is that our psychological closet needs cleaning, restructuring and reordering daily.
However, it will flow much better when we look at what we have and notice that which we no longer need and let it go with a blessing.
Let it go with a wonderful psychological goodwill.
No one will ever want to use what we are giving away, but the energy contained in it could be helpful for someone we no longer need. That something, whatever is that once was present now is no longer fitting.
We notice that we are willing to give it away because it no longer fits. Not because we hate it, or because we love it, but simply because it just doesn't fit anymore.
We may notice there's room beside that which fits us well, that we haven't been using in new and wonderful ways.
The room that is left by that which is departed, which we have now sorted out, becomes available for us to develop new things, new ways of looking and using what we know. It becomes new ways of spotting that which is present but may not yet be manifest.
We give ourselves permission to continue this practice of letting go of that which no longer fits, to honor that which we have that fits well.
We are finding new ways to develop that, to add that which we need, but which we yet do not have.
Let us linger on this for a moment, letting go of things which no longer fit, honoring those things we have which fit well, and giving ourselves permission to add that which we yet do not have. At this moment, we know that our resources are there for us to use because it will be only through new insights, new sounds, new touches, new feelings, new thoughts, new actions that will be given what we need for the future.
Knowing how we sustain our energy, we are receptors of energy through the center of the earth. This gives us the ability to be cognitive, to talk intellectually, and to talk concepts. The energy from the heavens allow us to use our imagination, our intuition, our inspiration. This gives us the basis upon which we go into new ground. We sense it, we intuit it, and we try it out.
This energy, together with energy of cognition, forms a bridge of two vast reservoirs of resources for our use, that which comes intellectually and that which comes intuitively.
Those two together, as they contribute and blend, add a third power to ourselves, which allows us to move from the inside to the outside. For those who are ready, who have the receptors available to that which we are extending.
In those cases, it will always be easy. For those who are not yet ready, we may have to help them get ready. We may also not be in the right time for that. It may not be ready to open itself.
We could then just let our light shine and give ourselves permission to actively wait.
We wait without pushing, to go where the reception is clear, without risking where we do not yet know.
We take that risk to try, but then mostly to see in what stage is the body. We can leave our love behind and move on, giving ourselves permission to come back another day.
At this point, let yourself become aware that we have opened up a new part that will help us refine and refocus to benefit ourselves.
Now breathe in comfortably. Let yourself come fully here.
Open your beautiful eyes. And if any sounds or movement wants to come out, let that happen.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: As we conclude this episode of the Virginia Satir podcast, I want to leave you with a reminder that the journey of self discovery and transformation is ongoing.
Virginia Satir's wisdom continues to inspire us to nurture healthier relationships, foster open communication, and embrace personal growth. Remember, you hold the power to create positive change in your life and the lives of those around you. Well, that's it for today's episode. See you next week. Thanks for listening to the Virginia Satir podcast. Be sure to, like, subscribe and give us a review wherever you listen to the podcast and share this with a friend. Also, for more information on Virginia Satir, you can go to satir global.com or liveconnectedtherapy.com. Until next time, be kind to yourself and to others. You are a miracle.
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