Holding Meditation in the Sacred Feminine for the Critical Voice Inside You

Find a quiet space. Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Breathe gently into the space between your thoughts or breaths until your mind and body quiet down. Become aware of your heart and your love. Just breathe until your mind and body become still and your heart and mind open.

Allow yourself to be aware of some way in your life that you are hard on yourself—some way in which you criticize yourself or demand too much of yourself.  Notice if your self-judgment rises just being present with the thought.

Now imagine this self-criticism and demand is coming from a child. The child has has come to believe that she/he is not good enough, and so the child is trying to prove that she/he is worthy. Wrap that child in your spiritual arms. Of course they are good enough. After all, we are here to learn and explore, not to have it all figured. Keep holding that child in your love, until you can feel that warm, caring love growing and expanding inside of you. When you can feel the child softening in your loving acceptance, acknowledge that precious child as you.

When you feel full, breathe deeply, exhaling through your mouth, bringing yourself into the awareness of this moment and your surroundings. Wiggle your fingers and toes. Gently open your eyes. Live in loving acceptance of you.

Enjoy what it is like to live with a quieter critical voice and greater loving acceptance.