Women's Moon Wisdom Podcast Intro - Rebecca Rankin (00:01):
Stories, teachings and guidance. Welcome to the Women's Moon Wisdom podcast with your host, Rebecca Rankin.
Rebecca Rankin (00:19):
Welcome to the Women's Moon Wisdom podcast. I'm Rebecca Rankin. And I just want to say a big thank you for listening. In today's episode, I'm gonna share a guided meditation that honestly can be done whenever. At the time of this episode coming out, it's a Full Moon, and I thought it would be fun to incorporate this guided meditation into this full moon energy. So for those who are cycling and leaning into cyclical living, this can be a great one to use during your Inner Full Moon phase or your ovulatory phase. So roughly the halfway point in your cycle. Alternatively, if you're working with the lunar phases, this can be a great one to work with during the full moon of the actual lunar cycle. And like I mentioned, whenever you feel called. , you can lean into this meditation, nothing wrong about that. In a brief note about cyclical living. Cyclical living offers you this great chance to find moments, to connect with your intention.
Rebecca Rankin (01:23):
It allows you to find time to get clear of what is working in your life and what isn't. It's also about leaning into your hormonal strengths during each phase of your cycle, right? So you can work with those energies and not against it. Cyclical living, it can help you make more mindful choices each day in regards to like your workflow or your social engagements. Living in alignment with your cycle through cyclical living can just help you make better choices around what you eat and how you exercise, and even give you some grace around the mindset as your biochemistry shifts throughout the month. So during our ovulatory phase or our inner full moon phase, it can be the peak of energy, our mood and libido. Or if you aren't currently cycling, even working with the energy of the actual full moon in the lunar phases, while the energy might be more subtle than the embodied feeling of just cycling hormones, it can offer you guidance too.
Rebecca Rankin (02:24):
And you may feel like that same peak and outward energy, or at least be like wondering why you can't sleep at night. And if any of this cyclical living sounds interesting to you. I just wanna say you can check out in the show notes, my resources for getting started with cyclical living and living in sync with your cycle. With cyclical living, it offers us this opportunity to tap into our true nature and be in touch with the aspect of ourselves that is cyclical. Even understanding the hormonal shifts and how that affects how we process our emotions, how it affects our productivity, its effect on mindset, cognition, focus, desire, motivation, all those things. It's a big piece in understanding our own human nature. And when we align with our true nature, like during our ovulatory phase, or our inner full moon phase, we can feel like a beacon of light, right?
Rebecca Rankin (03:19):
Like this beacon of light sharing with the world from a place of peace of grace and love when we are in alignment with our true self, right? We can shine our light outward to inspire others. And also to be inspired. In this guided meditation, you will connect with your inner fire. The part of you that sparks creativity, motivation, compassion, love, like all those attributes that are actually heightened during your ovulatory phase. You'll connect with the light of your heart. And as you visualize this, this fire of your heart, you'll use it to offer up any negative qualities to be cleansed and transformed by the fire of your heart. So enjoy.
Music (04:05):
Rebecca Rankin (04:20):
Make your way to a place where you won't be disturbed. Come into a comfortable seated position. You can take this practice sitting in a chair or on the floor, allow yourself to settle in. Feel free to close your eyes, or just have a nice soft gaze. Take a moment here to notice your body breathing. Letting yourself just arrive here. Noticing your body breathing.
Rebecca Rankin (05:13):
And as you feel your body breathing, send your awareness to your heart center. Sending your awareness to the center of your chest, the place where your heart lies and send your breathing to that area. Feel your body breathe in and out from the place where your heart is. Breathing from your heart center. Noticing just your body, breathing from your heart center. Noticing your breath here in, and out. Breathing from your heart center. And as you feel this area of your body breathing, visualize within your mind a flame. Visualize a flame deep within your heart space. Notice the color, the size of the flame and visualize that within your heart space. Focusing on this flame and notice your breath within your heart space with this flame. Focus on this flame and watch how as you exhale, the flame becomes brighter.
Rebecca Rankin (07:11):
Noticing as you inhale and with each exhale, the flame grows even brighter. Inhaling and allowing your exhale to allow the flame to become even brighter. Continue to fan the light of the flame brighter, using your exhaling breath to continue to fan this light. See that light of the flame grow brighter with each exhale visualizing within your heart space. Noticing as you exhale, how the light of the flame grows brighter. Continue fanning the light of the flame within your heart space. Continue to fan that flame brighter for at least another five exhalations, noticing the flame grow brighter, noticing the light of the flame as it begins to glow even brighter within your heart. Then as you inhale, imagine that you're breathing in positive qualities, such as love, bliss, contentment, into your heart space. Hold the energy of these positive feelings within your heart. And as you exhale and the flame grows brighter, feel that you are offering up any negative qualities to be cleansed and transformed by the fire of your heart. So with each inhale, you're drawing in positive qualities, love, harmony - holding those qualities within your heart and with each exhale and the flame brightens, you feel that you're offering negative qualities like tension, stress to be cleansed and transformed by the fire of your heart. Inhaling positive qualities, harmony contentment, into your heart space, holding those positive feelings. In each exhaling, offering any negative qualities, stress, worries - to be cleanse and transformed by the fire of your heart.
Rebecca Rankin (10:17):
Continue for as long as you like fanning the flame, sending any negative qualities, offering it to the flame, to be cleansed and transformed by the fire of your heart. Pulling in positive qualities with your inhale - love, contentment. And as you exhale, sending any negative qualities to be transformed by the fire of your heart. Taking your time. When you do feel that it's time and you're ready to finish, placing your hands together in the prayer mudra, bowing your head and humility and honoring the purity of your own heart. And when you're ready, fluttering, open your eyes and noticing how you feel.
New Speaker (11:23):
