Speaker 1: Something deep, something that will say the all toys always
Speaker 1: feels like a goodbye to.
Speaker 2: Me, Happy New Year, tribe, Welcome back to Good Mom's
Speaker 2: Bad Choices.
Speaker 3: I'm Mela and I'm Erica, and it is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: It's twenty twenty four. It's a new day, it's a
Speaker 4: new year. Maybe it's a new you. Maybe it's not.
Speaker 2: Maybe you feel the same as you felt yesterday, because bitch,
Speaker 2: it really is just another motherfuckerery.
Speaker 3: It's an m improved you.
Speaker 2: I like to look into yours as just a reset,
Speaker 2: a reminder. A lot of times, you put so much
Speaker 2: pressure on ourselves to like become these new people overnight,
Speaker 2: to have these big goals set up, and that kind
Speaker 2: of takes the fun out of the journey.
Speaker 4: And as you know, this is.
Speaker 2: Season two of Good Mom's Bad Choices, which is kind
Speaker 2: of a funny idea because you know, we've been if
Speaker 2: you've been rocking with us since the beginning, we've been
Speaker 2: podcasting for almost six years, every single week, and so
Speaker 2: this year we are moving with more ease and we're
Speaker 2: moving into season So this is season.
Speaker 3: Two, episode one, episode one, even though season one was
Speaker 3: three hundred episodes, this one will not be.
Speaker 4: And you know, we open up our year with the Meditation.
Speaker 2: It's sometimes led by us, sometimes led by someone else,
Speaker 2: but we've had quite the twenty twenty three and I
Speaker 2: felt like it was really appropriate for us to enter
Speaker 2: into this space with y'all and this intimate, beautiful backdrop oasis.
Speaker 2: If you're listening to this podcast, make sure you go
Speaker 2: check us out on YouTube. We're actually out of the studio,
Speaker 2: which we're going to be doing a lot more of
Speaker 2: this season.
Speaker 4: And you know, if.
Speaker 2: You're the meditation you want to like set the scene,
Speaker 2: then definitely check us out on YouTube and and tap
Speaker 2: into the environment that we're in right now.
Speaker 4: I want to start off by saving you.
Speaker 3: Guys, saved the people, my love sage.
Speaker 5: I just want to.
Speaker 3: Say, I think for twenty twenty four, I know, like
Speaker 3: everyone's always like new Year and new me, and there's
Speaker 3: all this pressure to perform as soon as like this
Speaker 3: twenty four hour markets and you know, that's good to
Speaker 3: have change and to have goals, but I think ultimately,
Speaker 3: I think sometimes it kind of it fucks people up
Speaker 3: because you're like, damn, I didn't do this, I didn't
Speaker 3: do that. I'm not doing it perfectly. I'm not working out,
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of times that gets us
Speaker 3: further away from our goal. And so this meditation is
Speaker 3: really based in the journey. It's based in compassion for
Speaker 3: yourself and love for yourself, so that even during this journey,
Speaker 3: we don't forget that we too are human and we
Speaker 3: are flawed, and this journey is flawed and it's going
Speaker 3: to be up and down, and that's what we can't expect.
Speaker 3: So I just want to remind everyone in the beginning
Speaker 3: of the year, be peaceful, be easy on yourself, like
Speaker 3: you would your kid or your friend.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: And I'm just going to bring you in. Come a
Speaker 4: little closer. I'm closer, and come, come, come. Can you
Speaker 4: smell the sage.
Speaker 2: I just love the smell of sage. It's just a reset.
Speaker 2: It really engages your senses and invites you to really
Speaker 2: just ground down and calm down and say, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Let that shit go.
Speaker 2: But let yesterday's hangover go, whatever you did last night
Speaker 2: or this weekend. I'm gonna let that energy that's stagnant
Speaker 2: energy release.
Speaker 3: And as you release and you take some deep breaths in,
Speaker 3: take a deep breath, inhale, and let's just indulge me
Speaker 3: in some Mela moans. I think a lot of us
Speaker 3: we feel judged if we're not saying English words, and
Speaker 3: so we reserve that for the bedroom. But just take
Speaker 3: some inhales and exhale with sound so it can just
Speaker 3: relax your nervous system and let your body know you're
Speaker 3: safe and kind of tap into the pleasure that is
Speaker 3: in your environment all around you and your body.
Speaker 2: And if you have a joint nearby, like I do,
Speaker 2: you can also inhale and inhale your weed, and it
Speaker 2: also can be part of your meditation.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 2: I know there's like I feel like in this space
Speaker 2: of meditation and all these different modalities sometimes there's like
Speaker 2: this like like elitism in it and it feels like, oh,
Speaker 2: like I can't like oh I don't know how to
Speaker 2: meditate like I can only every time I meditate it
Speaker 2: fall asleep, or I could never lead a meditation or
Speaker 2: like you smoke and meditate, like whatever you need to.
Speaker 4: Do, bitch to ground the fuck down, do that shit.
Speaker 3: There's no right or wround, right or wrong, good or bad.
Speaker 3: It is all up to you. You are the jury
Speaker 3: and the judge of your home case. You make the rules.
Speaker 3: So remember that when you're observing other people observing yourself,
Speaker 3: there is no good or bad. It's just you and
Speaker 3: what you feel is your your scale. So, however way
Speaker 3: you want to meditate, I like to meditate with my
Speaker 3: eyes open and a soft gaze to kind of bring
Speaker 3: in the inside outside so I won't fall asleep, because
Speaker 3: bitches be falling asleep. If you need a little weed,
Speaker 3: if you need a little wine, whatever it is that
Speaker 3: you need it, just make sure that you are at
Speaker 3: a ten spot in your pleasure. What do you need
Speaker 3: right now to bring your pleasure to a ten ten
Speaker 3: out of ten? You need a blanket? Do you need
Speaker 3: some aromatherapy? Do you need some water to your.
Speaker 2: Jacket, Light a candle, put some tunes on the backdrop
Speaker 2: of our voice. You want to lay down, sit up,
Speaker 2: Just take a second.
Speaker 4: To just be still.
Speaker 2: Listen to your environment, Listen to the sounds in your car,
Speaker 2: if that's where you're at, your apartment, your house office.
Speaker 3: Just take a second, even if you are in the
Speaker 3: bathroom hiding from your kids. I like to take ten
Speaker 3: breaths to clear my palate, clear my thoughts, the goal
Speaker 3: is no matter what comes up, just allow the thoughts
Speaker 3: to pass. Don't judge them, just observe them. If you
Speaker 3: find yourself going off track, that's fine. Just gently bring
Speaker 3: your attention back to the meditation and start. If you've
Speaker 3: lost count of what breath you're on, start from one.
Speaker 3: The problem is we don't give ourselves time to be
Speaker 3: imperfect space to mess up and then just simply try again.
Speaker 2: And we're going to take a few more deep breaths
Speaker 2: and I'm going to play my bull which this is
Speaker 2: my root chakra bowl. It's going to help us ground
Speaker 2: into the space before we really get into the meditation.
Speaker 2: So let's take one deep breath together, and.
Speaker 3: Then we're gonna start getting into our meditation in tantra
Speaker 3: uh Tantra's literally main weaving light and form with sound,
Speaker 3: which is simply visualizations your voice and intention. And so
Speaker 3: we're gonna start with a three point a three part
Speaker 3: visualizing white light inhaling through your nose, just visualizing beautiful
Speaker 3: white light filling your lungs and then hold at the
Speaker 3: top visualize red light flashing throughout your entire body and
Speaker 3: then x hill out your nose blue light inhale white light,
Speaker 3: visualizing it, hold at the top, flashing beautiful red light,
Speaker 3: ex hill blue light. One more time, we're going to
Speaker 3: inhale beautiful white light, hold at the top, visualize flashing
Speaker 3: red light through all of our energy body, and then
Speaker 3: exhale blue light. And now we're going to add some
Speaker 3: mantras with it and sounds. Inhale white light, think ohm,
Speaker 3: hold at the top flashing red light, think ah, and
Speaker 3: then exhale blue light thinking hung Hu and g through
Speaker 3: that two more times inhaling white light, OM, hold flashing
Speaker 3: red light AH, exhale blue light hung om ah Hung,
Speaker 3: And they're going to add one more layer, one more mantra.
Speaker 3: We're gonna visualize white light inhaling through our nose, thinking ome,
Speaker 3: and we're going to add positive thought and then we're
Speaker 3: gonna hold at the top flashing red light AH, thinking
Speaker 3: positive speech. And then we're going to exhale blue light
Speaker 3: hung thinking positive action. Last time inhaling white light OM
Speaker 3: positive thought, hold red light ah positive speech, exhale blue
Speaker 3: light positive action. And now we're going to invite you
Speaker 3: to close your eyes and join us in a visualization
Speaker 3: to guide you through this next year. Throughout it. Just
Speaker 3: if your mind wanders.
Speaker 5: It's okay.
Speaker 3: Just gently bring it back.
Speaker 2: Just take some deep breaths, settle into your space, and
Speaker 2: let's begin. As you ground down into your seat, just
Speaker 2: imagine what it feels like to have a body, to
Speaker 2: be a soul in a body, the way your toes
Speaker 2: feel sensation your leg release any tension in your hips.
Speaker 2: As you travel up your spine to your shoulders, take
Speaker 2: note of where you have any pain, any discomfort, And
Speaker 2: as you travel up to your head, your crown, pay
Speaker 2: attention to any sensations in your forehead, your jaw, is
Speaker 2: it loose, is it tight?
Speaker 6: Relax your tongue. Take a deep breath in and out.
Speaker 2: As we reflect on our twenty twenty four and think
Speaker 2: back to twenty twenty three, I want to invite us
Speaker 2: to remember to give ourselves space. We may have not
Speaker 2: hit every single goal because we are high achievers.
Speaker 4: And that's okay.
Speaker 2: And releasing the expectation to perform or be perfect. In
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, I want to invite you to just
Speaker 2: choose peace, choose peace and ease.
Speaker 3: I'd like to invite you to just take a moment
Speaker 3: and reflect on this last year, all that you've accomplished,
Speaker 3: all that you've done, how far you've come.
Speaker 5: Take a moment.
Speaker 3: To just sit in gratitude for existing and making it.
Speaker 3: Take a moment to thank yourself, to forgive yourself. Think
Speaker 3: of this body as a vehicle, care for it like
Speaker 3: a brand new top notch, a luxury vehicle.
Speaker 2: When you think of your body as a vehicle and
Speaker 2: the journey of your life in this vehicle, it allows
Speaker 2: you to really put in perspective how well you treat
Speaker 2: the vehicle that you're in and what's inside, and creating
Speaker 2: the best conditions so that you can move smoothly through
Speaker 2: your destination, even though you are going to encounter twists
Speaker 2: and wines, and you go through different seasons and terrain
Speaker 2: may change along the way, but the one constant on
Speaker 2: that journey is you. You get to shift the energy. You
Speaker 2: get to have control over how you decide to react,
Speaker 2: to maneuver, to accept, to not accept whatever comes towards you.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, we're not putting energy towards anything
Speaker 2: that does not support our highest activation of self, where
Speaker 2: we feel the most nourished, where we feel the most enriched,
Speaker 2: where we can really thrive, where we really can take
Speaker 2: that journey where we really can take the road less traveled.
Speaker 6: That's the energy that.
Speaker 3: We're in fighting and remind wanders that's okay. Just gently
Speaker 3: bring it back to the current moment, without judging your thoughts.
Speaker 7: Just ground down and breathe.
Speaker 2: And take another deep, long breath through your nose, hold
Speaker 2: of the hop.
Speaker 5: And release.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do that two more times in Hall at
Speaker 2: the top, hold.
Speaker 6: And release.
Speaker 5: Last one in hell, hold, keep holding a little bit longer,
Speaker 5: a little bit longer and release.
Speaker 2: So when you reflect on the vehicle that's carrying you
Speaker 2: through this journey back to yourself, which is kind of
Speaker 2: the evolution of just humankind, it's like this never ending
Speaker 2: need and want to expand improvement, to consider, to reflect,
Speaker 2: and I think the biggest reminder of all of that
Speaker 2: is that it all starts with you. You have to
Speaker 2: take care of yourself. You have to be in agreement
Speaker 2: that while you are here on earth, your only real
Speaker 2: mission is to take care of yourself in all ways,
Speaker 2: in your joy, in your health and your body, in
Speaker 2: your relationships, in your experience, in your environments. And in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, we are walking in with abundance, We're walking.
Speaker 6: In with health.
Speaker 2: At the forefront of our journey into this next year,
Speaker 2: realizing that health is a privilege.
Speaker 5: To be able to be healthy is a privilege.
Speaker 2: To be able to even have the capacity and the
Speaker 2: time to consider your health is a privilege, and it's
Speaker 2: one that we all need to take advantage of while
Speaker 2: we're here.
Speaker 3: Let this be a reminder that this year is all
Speaker 3: about self devotion, to your inner voice, to your highest good,
Speaker 3: and to all paths back to you, shameless, unwavering self love.
Speaker 3: That is what this year is about. Don't feel like
Speaker 3: you're over indulgent. This year is a year of following
Speaker 3: your pleasure, figuring out what that is, and doing everything
Speaker 3: in your power to live in your highest pleasure because
Speaker 3: you deserve it, you're worthy of it, and this.
Speaker 6: Is your year.
Speaker 3: So when you're ready, bring your attention back to the
Speaker 3: room and remember you are that bitch.
Speaker 2: Omens and anything other than anything else you believe in.
Speaker 6: Wow that felt great. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, thank you for joining us on this New
Speaker 2: Year's meditation. We hope that this is a beautiful reminder
Speaker 2: that all paths lead to you, and you decide what
Speaker 2: that journey feels like, what that journey looks like, and
Speaker 2: how easeful you want to make that journey so.
Speaker 4: And how fun you want to make it, and how
Speaker 4: freaky you want to make it like you kind of
Speaker 4: get to decide all that shit.
Speaker 2: And so I hope that also this this meditation reminds
Speaker 2: you to play, like, just have fun twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Like it's been a heavy few years, right, and it's.
Speaker 4: Been a lot of good.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of other shit too, And I
Speaker 2: think what we've all come to understand is that we
Speaker 2: can't take this, this life for granted, we can't take
Speaker 2: this piece for granted, we can't take the privilege of
Speaker 2: life for granted.
Speaker 4: So just have fun and.
Speaker 7: We will.
Speaker 3: You make the rules. Happy New Year, Happy New Year,
Speaker 3: goes my Naja.
Speaker 4: Soor diver.
Speaker 5: Healing but sadly mus lean into me. I'm going on
Speaker 5: last my time.
Speaker 6: Well,