Daoist 5 Body Compassion Meditation
Note: This meditation was written, in theory, for our Body Compassion service. In the end, we did not choose to use this piece, but I still wanted to preserve it here. This meditation is based on the Daoist Five system of QiGong. Guided Meditation: Take a deep breath in, allowing yourself to settle into your body. Feel the support beneath you, the steady presence of the earth holding you. With each inhale, you welcome in awareness. With each exhale, you release tension and soften into yourself. Breathing into our lungs, we invite the energy of metal, the color white. Feel its strength, its integrity, its clarity. Metal is present in the bones of our earth, in the stones that endure, in the breath that sustains us. As you inhale, feel your lungs flex, expand, and contract, like a bellows filling you with life-giving air. We invoke the beautiful grief being held within us, the grief that reminds us of what we love. As you exhale, release any stagnant air, any heaviness weighi...
