The Holding Meditation for Self-Compassion
Finding this meditation came to me in one of those synchronistic ways when I was going through a time period of asking how I could allow more self-compassion for myself in my life and how to let more love flow into my being.
During this time, I happened to come across this meditation in a book (title mentioned below) which is basically self energy-work for feeling and holding love in the heart space and expanding it throughout the body and energetic field.
It's been a transformational meditation for me; since I started practising this meditation regularly, I've been able to understand better what the frequency of love feels like within my body and energetically. I've also increased capacity to hold more love and light force by regularly practising this meditation.
I've also been able to hold my emotions with love for myself, improving my capacity for self-love and acceptance, which is something I have always struggled with, but now coming much easier to me than it did before (but of course, it's an ongoing process!).
THE HOLDING MEDITATION:
1.) Make sure you are in a quiet space for this meditation, where you can rest and reflect undisturbed. Sit comfortably and breathe into the space. As you focus on the space, you become the space.
2.) Notice the space between your breaths. Notice the space between your thoughts.
3.) Open your heart to the memory of any moment when you have felt love. Feel that love throughout your whole being, and let the awareness drop into your energetic womb. Your energetic womb is directly connected to the expansive, limitless space of the primordial womb of all life, cool and restful and dark - a womb of possibilities. In this loving space you can rest.
4.) Allow yourself to become aware of an emotion or place in your body that is tense of feeling constrictive and hold it in your love with compassion for its existence.
This constriction is a fear longing to be acknowledged and understood, so it can finally rest. So Hold it in your deep, loving understanding. Observe it with kind regard. Let your heart open to embrace this fear in compassion.
(Note; If you find it difficult to feel self-compassion, imagine your fear or pain is an injured child or animal and Hold until you feel that compassion inside of you).
5.) Feel how much you can feel inside your body, where the feeling is and how it can expand to fill the edges of your being, all the way to your aura, your energetic field.
I like to experiment with expanding this love and compassion as much as possible, and then bring it back into my heart space.
Let this feeling fill the space around you, and picture if someone was in front of you, sending this love and compassion in their direction.
This meditation has gotten me in touch with my heart by awakening this sacred space within; increasing my awareness of it by allowing this powerful force to flow through me.
I discovered this meditation after reading Misa Hopkin's book "Sacred Feminine Awakening: Wisdom from Mary Magdalene on Healing the Self".
I've read a couple more of her books since, and I would recommend every one of her books on the Sacred Feminine Awakening series.
Her books are very insightful on the topics of healing, compassion and the sacred feminine.