Thank You, I Love You- A Self-Love Meditation

Feet/Legs:

You who have carried me

Who are brave in what you have walked toward and away from

Who move

Who dance

Who travel

You who ground me exactly where I am

You who absorbs impact

Who continues on when continuing feels impossible

Thank you. I love you.

Belly/ groin/ lower back

You who rolls and tucks and squishes and jiggles

Unafraid of movement

Who sends my laugh forward

Who has learned to ask for pleasure

Home of my deepest knowing

Whose womb has nurtured beautiful things

Absorber of blows

Keeper of breath

You the fiercely tender

You the ever expanding

Thank you. I love you.

Hands-

You the ones who remember

Who have comforted and held

Who have sown and pruned

Who make and shape

You have learned what to hold loosely

Who have been brave enough to hang on

Who have been brave enough to let go

You who make good things

Thank you. I love you.

Chest/Heart Space

You who contains the tides of me

Who has pulled me towards calling and community

Who has opened over and over

You who braids life into my blood

Who continues to beat

Who aches and flutters and skips and quickens

Who loves with everything

You who has healed

You who is healing

Thank you. I love you.

Arms/Shoulders/Back

You who have lifted and mothered and tended

Oh, the weight you have carried

You who reaches over and over

Who hugs and holds and shields

Who raises fists to protest injustice

You, reparenting the youngest parts of us

Who have held so much

Who hold me

Thank you. I love you.

Mouth/Voice-

You whose tongue shapes syllables

Who has kissed

Who has tasted

You who gives voice and words

Who has whispered and shouted and cried out for justice

You who has learned to tell the truth

Thank you. I love you.

Brain/Mind/Consciousness-

You who writes stories to protect me

Who holds habits and memories

Who puzzles and ponders

You who are vast enough to hold logic and mystery

Who has only ever wanted to keep me safe

Thank you. I love you.

Skin-

You who I have picked and torn at

Who is marked and dimpled and so many different colors

You who senses

Who absorbs

Who feels

Who sends forth constellations of freckles and birthmarks

Whose hair does not need taming

You who has proven over and over that we contain multitudes

You who stretch to hold them

Thank you. I love you.

Body,

Sweet body

My body

In you I live and move and have my being

In you my soul touches the world around me

I do not curse your wanting

I do not wish you small

I see you and accept you

I bless your fire

I honor your longing

I call every part of you good

I call what comes from you good

You my first friend

You my first home

Thank you. I love you.