This meditation is for feeling hopeless. First of all, if you are in danger because of how you are feeling hopeless please call 911 or the phone number provided on the MajiMind website. Lets begin, put your hands on your chest, and feel how there is a connection between your hands and your chest as a form of making you feel grounded, feeling more balance and a thing to concentrate on. Slowly feel the warmth of your hands on your chest that keeps you cozy and warm and right here in the present moment. Sit on a chair or in the lotus pose or lay down somewhere comfortable, if you choose, you can keep your hands on your chest. Or palms up, and have your thumbs touch your pointers or your middle fingers, or simply have your hands folded on top of one another on your lap. Now gently close your eyes. And just listen to the music, and let the tones of music float through you, take them into your head, and take it into your neck and your chest. Now visualize, sense, think, feel, imagine, any way you can do it to let go of all your thoughts. And you can do this by visualizing that your thoughts are little white puffy clouds disappearing on a blue sky, and see the little clouds or thoughts disappear to empty your brain, like an empty beautiful blue sky. Let go of everything right now, right now here in the present moment you don’t need any thoughts beside what you are doing right now. And I am going to ask you to take a few deep breaths but before you start I am going to explain how you do it. With each deep breath in you visualize light coming from the universe through your nose, inside of your body, and when you breathe out, you breathe out anything that is stressfully held in your body. So take a slow deep breath in as far as you can, visualize the light coming into your body getting in your cells, and when you breathe out through your mouth let go of your stress you don’t need to carry around. Let it go. And again, take a slow deep breath in, visualize the light coming into your body, and then again breathe out through your mouth, let go of all the stress. And one more time breathe in the light through your nose, visualize the light going into your cells. Take a deep deep deep breath in and breathe out through your mouth again letting go of the stress. Now you are going to shift your concentration to feeling hopeless.

When someone feels hopeless it is hard to know where to look for answers or what to do, because most of the time everything has been tried, and there is a lingering feeling that nothing is going to change in the midst of feeling hopeless. Productivity has stagnated, in pain of lacking the ability to do anything. So in these times it is very important to quiet your mind. Lets start with that by trying to locate the places in your body or thoughts about feeling hopeless, and when you find them, visualize, think, sense, feel or imagine sending love into these feelings of being hopeless. Be really understanding and compassionate to yourself about the fact that you feel hopeless. Hopelessness often is accompanied with feeling really down or depressed, or feeling you are unsuccessful with what you are trying to do. These are very difficult feelings to embrace, and instead we often want to run away from these kinds of feelings. Though it is really important you walk towards feeling hopeless, to befriend your feelings of hopelessness and to understand yourself that you feel hopeless. So say to yourself that it is completely understandable that I feel hopeless, and I want to be loving and kind to myself that I am going through this. It is almost like talking to a small child within you that is feeling hopeless, and you want to take care of it. So embrace feeling hopeless, and be really present for these feelings in you, and sit with it. Give the hopeless feelings space within you. Because when we give room to hard feelings they can slowly dissipate by themselves. Give them all the space within you, if needed give them space outside of you, and expand the hopeless feelings as far as you need to give them space, even if they fill up the whole Universe. Feel how it is asking you to listen to it, with a kind heart. And if you feel fear around feeling hopeless, try to release this fear by breathing into the fear, and out through your mouth letting it go. So go ahead, breathe in the light through your nose into your fear, and release it out through your mouth. And do it two more times. Breath in through your nose, light into the fear, and breathe out the fear through your mouth. One last time, breathe it in and let go when you breathe out. Feeling hopeless doesn’t mean it is permanent. It could also be a gateway for learning to deal with life when it is not going so well in the moment, which is most often just temporary. It often is to help you become creative for finding positive solutions. So embrace again your feelings of hopelessness but also invite it as a teacher, and then quiet your mind. Let go of your thoughts again, as white little puffy clouds on a blue sky, and just sit with the feelings. Then again, breathe in the light into feeling hopeless, and breathe it out through your mouth to let it go. I am going to give you a minute to do the breathing exercise by yourself. So with every breath in you visualize light going into the feelings of hopelessness, and out through your mouth letting it go. I will be back in a minute.

Okay, this is good. And since you now have completely accepted and embraced your hopelessness, it is slowly becoming time to become creative to change things that you can change, and give you the wisdom to let things go you can’t change. This is a moment for you to decide if you can change your ways. To see if you can change things, or if this is something that you aren’t able to change and just walk away. Now give yourself permission either way with loving kindness. Deep love and kindness and embrace yourself to make the right choice for you so breathe through your mouth to give yourself courage, and breathe out the fear. Breathe in again to give yourself courage, and again breathe out the fear. And maybe this way you can change hopelessness into hope by creating positive and kind ways to deal with the situation in your life. Let this feeling settle deeply within your intentions and memory when you come out of this meditation. Now, slowly become aware of my voice, the music, and the place where you are sitting or laying down. And when you are ready wiggle your toes, then wiggle your fingers, and when you are ready open your eyes. Welcome back! Give yourself a minute just to come back from this meditation. Take a sip of water or just look around and observe the things that are around you, and then tap into the new found commitment to do things differently or to let go. If it is helpful; for you take a piece of paper and write down all the different, kind, solution focused plans you can come up with. Choose one and commit to follow your plan that is always positive and helpful for any community at large. And if this is too difficult to do on your own, find someone to help you. You got this. Namaste .