A Meditation on Fierce Love and Inner Strength
For the reader: Speak slowly, with warmth and quiet strength. Pause between paragraphs. Let your voice feel like a safe, protective presence. Approximately 6–7 minutes.
Settling into Presence
Everything offered in this grounding is an invitation. Please engage in whatever way feels right to you. You are the sacred steward of your own experience.
Let’s begin by arriving. Not in some imagined place of strength, but right here, with whatever this moment brings.
Feel the contact between your body and what supports you: perhaps the floor beneath your feet, your chair, the air touching your skin.
If tuning into your body isn’t accessible today, you might bring awareness to your surroundings, the quality of light, sounds around you, or a presence that feels safe or sacred.
Rooting into Your Natural Strength
Now, I invite you to shift awareness to the quiet ways your body is alive. You might notice your heartbeat, not necessarily its sound, but its steady rhythm. Or the weight of your limbs, reminding you of your substance, your presence.
Maybe you feel the warmth of your skin, or the air moving in and out of your lungs: gentle reminders that you are here, you are breathing, you are enough.
Let your awareness settle there. You don’t need to change anything. Your work right now is only presence.
Connecting to Your Protective Wisdom
In this grounded awareness, I invite curiosity: Is there a quality of strength, perhaps fierce or gentle, that feels familiar to you? Maybe it’s the protective love of a parent or caregiver. Maybe it’s the quiet endurance you’ve discovered in yourself. Maybe it’s the courage of an ancestor or animal guide.
You don’t need to name it or understand why. Whatever arises is enough. Just let that connection move through you, like warmth spreading through your chest, or roots growing deeper, or a quiet knowing settling in your bones.
You might not perceive anything specific, just a feeling, a presence, a sense of your own resilience. That is enough.
Polar bear mother and cub, PickPik
Inviting Your Animal Presence
If it feels right, you might invite an animal presence into this space. Perhaps a bear comes to mind, or a wolf, a lion, a hawk, or another creature that embodies fierce love. This is the kind of love that protects what it treasures, that knows both gentleness and power.
If an animal appears in your awareness, notice how it wants to be with you. Does it want to travel alongside you on this journey? To curl up in your belly, warm and solid? To rest in your heart, a quiet guardian? To stand behind you, lending you its strength?
There’s no right way. Simply witness what unfolds and allow this animal companion to be present in whatever way feels most supportive. Feel the qualities it brings: perhaps steadiness, fierceness, courage, or unwavering loyalty. Let those qualities become available to you, woven into your own being.
If no animal comes, that’s perfectly fine. You might simply sense a quality of protective love, or you might explore this invitation another time.
Honoring Both Tenderness and Fierceness
Let yourself feel held by this strength, as something you already carry rather than something you must perform. You are both tender and fierce. Both vulnerable and powerful. Both deserving protection and capable of protecting.
This is the wisdom of the wild heart: to know when to be gentle and when to defend what you love. This is love with boundaries. This is tenderness that remains whole.
If anything feels overwhelming, return to your anchor: your heartbeat, your breath, your connection to what supports you.
Emerging in Wholeness
You are held, by gravity, by community, by the quiet wisdom of your own being. In times of uncertainty, this strength remains. In moments of fear, this fierce love endures.
When you’re ready, begin to reawaken gently. Come back to this moment. To the sensation of your seat or your feet. To your heartbeat. To this body, this place, this now.
Wiggle your fingers or roll your shoulders. Notice the space around you. Observe a sound, a color, the presence of others if you’re in a gathering.
Let this grounded strength be your companion in the moments to come.
May you travel through your days knowing both your tenderness and your fierce protection. May you witness your own resilience and honor the wild wisdom that lives within you.
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