Reflect on your inner strength with this guided meditation, by much-loved IYTA Yoga teacher, Margaret North
One aspect of personal power would be our ability to choose a personal positive feeling when a negative one might be emerging. For instance, personal (spiritual) power enables us to move from frustration to patience, from boredom to vitality, from hurt to understanding, from grief to gratitude…
Let us now go into our inner place of peace …
Let us take plenty of time to do that, ensuring that every limb is supported and completely relaxed and our thoughts are slowing, slowing, s-l-o-w-i-n-g…
PAUSE
Let us focus on our spiritual heart, wherever we perceive that to be …
That is the infinitesimal atma wherein resides all our spiritual strength, all our fortitude, compassion, sweetness, love … every one of our abundant and inherent personal positivity and strengths.
It may be at this time that we have the need of one particular strength or positivity, then let us see the seed of that residing in our atma…
It may be that we can identify no particular need, then let us see unbounded wisdom and positivity residing as a seed in our atma…
When we have a firm awareness of the source of our strength …. let’s take our time, let’s feel it … identify it … become truly aware of it …
When we are truly aware of that spiritual strength let us watch … slowly … slowly … as that tiny seed grows and spreads throughout our body. We keep focused … we keep it slow …
Then, filled with that positive force, let us see that positive force spreading out into our aura … take time … let’s take plenty of time …
We can now feel ourselves imbued with our positivity and our strength. It is within us, suffusing us, surrounding us, spreading out into our world …
We know it is the only way to be. We feel so strong, we lift ourselves taller, feel the lightness in our being … and inwardly we have changed. We have brought what is always within us to the surface, to be used for positive change.
We are strong.
(atma: Sanskrit word that means inner self, spirit or soul.)
- Margaret has been practising yoga for 50 years and, since her IYTA graduation in 1979, teaching hatha yoga as her major occupation for 40 years. She established the Kuring-gai Yoga School in 1979 which, since 2005, has been owned and led by Liz Kraefft and where she continues to teach. A deep study of yoga philosophies and meditation for some decades has brought her much inner peace. She conducts meditation groups in Mosman.