Hello, and welcome to our next lecture entitled doing your own work. So this is kind of a disclaimer lecture. So I need to give you a little heads up that if you're interested in doing this work, and again, bless you if you feel called to do this, but if you are, there's some things that go along with that. And so what happens if you decide to get into leading meditations and helping other people in that area, that it will bring up your own issues. So you will be presented with your own opportunities for healing. And so this is called growth.

And so if you actually decide to step in and do this for other people, you're going to have to do it yourself. And that is an act of courage. So to be effective, as a meditation leader, you need to be able to walk the talk. And there's a phrase that goes with that in the world of healing, and it simply states healer, heal thyself. So what you're trying to do with people in their lives, you're trying to get to take them up to the next level of healing or health or relaxation in their lives. And so in order to do that, you must be willing to go there first in your own life.

This reminds me, this reminds me of a story of a woman I knew who was a healer. And she got invited to sort of a prestigious retreat. And she was very excited to be invited, invited to go. However, when she learned the theme of the retreat, she kind of really balked hard because the theme of the retreat was on intimate relationships. And that was kind of one of her lifelong struggles with this was creating and maintaining intimate relationships. And she knew that if she took on this retreat, that she was going to have to deal with those issues herself.

So. So just keep in the back of your mind that as you get into doing this kind of work, there's a really deep need for self love. And so essentially, when you work with people, that's where you're really trying to get them to They can actually love the core of their being. And so meditation and leading meditation, like what we're learning to do here is an act of love. And it's an act of service. And so it's a very sacred task to help people heal or to relax, or even to create what they desire in their lives.

And so you may be taking your audience into their greatest pain and some of their deepest fear. And when I worked in a cancer unit, I was certainly doing that. And you also may connect your audience to the true essence of who they are. So this is both those things that healing and connecting to your essence are essentially very profound and very deep and nothing short of sacred. However, to be the greatest conduit to facilitate those kinds of meditations, you must love yourself first. And that is an act of courage or at least attempt to engage In the process of loving yourself, so, you know that can be very challenging for all of us.

But it's actually something that's very essential in order for you to be the best meditation leader that you can be. And so when you do that, what will happen is that will open you up and allow healing energy to flow through you. And in so doing, you'll be able to help other people heal some of their deepest concerns and deepest fears like surrounding self esteem, unworthiness or unloved ability. And in that process, you may help them or yourself open up to higher energies. And that's something that we'll discuss a little later in this course. So let's get in actually to leading our first meditation.

So the first one we're going to do is going to be very simple and very basic. And it's essentially a meditation just using the breath. And so remember that as we get into this, learning to do any type of meditation you want to do, there's a lot of different techniques. We're going to be learning In this class, is that in order to lead them effectively, it's very important to experience them first. So you can be in the audience's perspective, as you begin to lead these meditations. And the one breath we're going to do is very simple.

It's going to take a couple minutes to learn. But it's one of those deeply profound exercises that can take a lifetime to master. So what I encourage you to do as we get into experiencing the sample meditation is that, take it after we're done, take a look at the the outline summary. And there will be a script in there that you can actually read to practice with. So thanks again for this coming to this lecture. And let's go into the sample meditation and get started on leading meditation.

So I'll see you there