Connection Meditation

Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Begin with a few grounding breaths.

Feel yourself here, in this body, in this place. Sense the space around you.

Now expand your awareness to include the building you're in, the land it sits on, the neighborhood around it.

Continue expanding: your city or town, your region, your country. Hold all the people going about their lives.

Expand further to include the entire planet. See it from space if you like—this beautiful blue marble floating in darkness.

Feel your connection to all the people on earth. Despite surface differences, we all breathe the same air, share the same basic needs, experience joy and sorrow.

Expand to include all living beings: animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, microorganisms. All of it is life, expressing in countless forms.

Feel how you are not separate from this web of life. Your breath connects you to the trees. Your body is made of stardust. You belong here.

Rest in this sense of vast connection and belonging.