Live YouTube guided meditation by Ashok Gupta ("Acceptance and Surrender for Chronic Illness") that leads listeners through breath work, visualization of a compassionate higher-love figure, progressive muscle release, and affirmations to transform pain and resistance into acceptance, surrender, and greater peace. The session closes with reorientation and an invitation to a follow-up Q&A and more information at guptaprogram.com.
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Well, hello and a warm welcome back for our live meditation here on Facebook, the Acceptance and Surrender for chronic illnesses. So I'm going to switch my camera off so we get the best quality, and then we can begin. Okay, so let's begin. This is the Acceptance and Surrender meditation. And this meditation is designed to transmute your pain and suffering into peace and healing. So let's just close our eyes and let's take a slow, deep breath in. And breathe out. Let's take another slow, deep breath in. And breathe out. And let's keep our eyes closed for the remainder of the session. To help us surrender. Let's become aware of your representation of a higher love that might be a figure from your religion or spirituality or someone you feel loved by or a pet or a beautiful nature scene. That beautiful nature scene. And imagine that representation in front of you, smiling gently at you with eyes of compassion. They are an ocean of love that can easily absorb any fear or resistance that you were holding onto in the past. So let's connect in whatever way feels like a higher love to you. Take a slow, deep breath in. And as you breathe out slowly with a smile, feel a sense of loving, compassion and connection with this representation of love. A feeling that you're being taken care of. Now, let's become aware of our symptoms and the condition that you're experiencing. Let's tune in to the condition. And now become aware of the feeling of resistance to your symptoms, your lack of acceptance. Notice how you are holding your body tight against the experience. Notice any tightness in your muscles. Now imagine we're going to let go of that tension. So feel that resistance to what's happening in your life or this condition. Feel it fully. And now let's deliberately tense up a bit more. So just tense up your body a bit more. Take a slow, deep breath in. And now release and let go. And breathe out and surrender with a smile to your representation of love. Feeling that sense of trust that you're being taken care of, smiling in that knowingness. And feel your body loosen up a bit more consciously. Let go of your shoulders, let go of your arms, that resistance and flow with the moment right now. Tensing up against your symptoms only feeds them. Let it be. Let them be there as you now imagine what it would feel like to accept your symptoms. What a relief that can be just imagining that now. And let's just do that again. Let's become aware of the symptoms. Become aware of tensing up against the symptoms and your condition and your situation. And now tense up slightly more Tense up your body. Indulge the resistance. Take a slow deep breath in and with a smile let go and breathe out and surrender it all to love with a smile, Feeling safe and warm and taken care of. Connect with that feeling of acceptance of your symptoms. It's okay that they are here. Let them be with no pressure or expectation that you need them to go. That is true acceptance and surrender. Breathe slowly and deeply, imagining that feeling of letting go and accepting whatever is so. Now, become aware of the emotions of fear and anxiety about what will happen in the future. Will I be stuck with these symptoms, those questions of will I get better? What will happen? Become aware of those emotions about how you feel about the condition. Tune into them. Take a slow deep breath in. And breathe it out. Surrender it to love. Trusting in the process, knowing this is happening for a reason. And imagine these sentences now. Whatever happens, happens. I will handle it. I am much stronger than these symptoms. And I live in surrender to whatever happens. I am at peace with any future. Let it be. Once again. Become aware of the fear about your condition and the future. Which is stopping you from being in the present moment. Feel that fear and anxiety fully. Take a slow deep breath in. And breathe it out and let go and bring your mind surrendered to the present moment, letting it go to your representation of love that can absorb all that resistance. See them smiling back at you with eyes of compassion. Letting go and trusting the process. In keeping your eyes closed. Let's imagine these sentences. I accept that whatever is happening to me is for my growth. I have that deep faith and trust in the power of love. And I choose to let go of any resistance. Taking a deep breath in, I breathe out and I surrender and let go to the present moment. Become aware of the worry, thoughts, the mental worries and noise in the mind and the intellect which keep draining your energy and doesn't help the situation. Let's make a decision to let go of that mental noise. Become aware of those busy thoughts in the mind, in the back of the mind. Take a slow deep breath in and with a smile, breathe out and let go of that mental worry and release it to your representation of love. Feel that compassion flow through you, those smiling eyes of compassion as you choose to let go of worry. As you feel that higher power taking care of you, Imagine how liberating it can feel to accept everything in this moment right now. Now imagine you're being held in a warm embrace by your representation of love. Like a mother lovingly holds a baby and the baby lets go and trusts in the mother Knowing it's looked after, letting go of control or trying to fix the situation. Instead letting go and trusting that you are on the healing path to health and happiness. Breathe slowly and deeply as you're held in that warm embrace and feel the letting go in your body and perhaps a warm feeling spreading around your limbs, Surrendering to love. And as you enjoy this feeling of acceptance and surrender, tune into the compassion for yourself and for others. Noticing how loose and relaxed your body feels, Let go of that old resistance now and embrace each moment. With a sense of surrender. Let's make that decision that each day you choose to be more and more accepting. And to live in surrendered gratitude for your life. And when you commit to the path of surrendered gratitude, each cell of your body becomes filled with a beautiful consciousness that it lifts you, that expands you, that removes old surrendered parts that have got resistance. Instead, you let go and relax. So from now on, in day to day life, no matter whether your symptoms are worse or better, you choose to accept and surrender to each moment with faith and trust that whatever happens, I'll handle it. It's for my growth and I trust in the process. I don't force it or have expectations. I live my life moment to moment with gratitude and a smile. Once you feel that has been absorbed in every cell, muscle and fiber of your being, every part of your conscious and subconscious mind really feeling and committing to, letting go and moving forward with grace, we gradually become aware of our bodies and the room around us. Just moving our arms and our necks slightly and let's take a slow deep breath in. And breathe out. Let's take another slow deep breath in. And let go. And with a smile you can just gently open your eyes. Good. So welcome back. Thank you for experiencing our acceptance and surrender meditation. Hope you enjoyed it. And if you want to find out more information about the Gupta program, please do have a look@gupta program.com so I hope you're feeling nice and relaxed. We're accepting and surrendered. And each moment in your waking day, just remind yourself to become aware and witness your mind. What is it worried about? What is it resisting? What is it grieving over? What is it anticipating or expecting? And realize that all of that just creates more tension within you and acceptance and surrender is the path. So please do share this with your family and friends and I know that some of you have some questions. So we'll do a very short Q and A in a new Facebook Live. We've never done this before in a third Facebook Live. So we're going to end this particular live event and we'll go to one final session on the Facebook page just to answer your questions about acceptance and surrender. Look forward to seeing you in a few minutes time. Thank you for watching. Please do share and we'll see you again soon. Thank you and goodbye.
