A Meditation

Breathe in deeply through your nose (4 seconds)

Hold (7 seconds)

Exhale through your mouth (8 seconds)

Again…

Breathe in deeply through your nose (4 seconds)

Hold (7 seconds)

Exhale through your mouth (8 seconds)

I encourage you to keep that breath pattern throughout our meditation.

We breathe in peace. Peace that allows us to serve others with fullness and grace (4 seconds).

We hold that peace in our spirits (7 seconds).

We then breathe out anxieties and worries that don’t serve us as we do our work in the world (8 seconds).

We breathe in hope. Hope that this too shall pass, and we will rejoin one another without barrier (4 seconds).

We hold that hope in our hearts (7 seconds).

We then breathe out hopelessness and despair and any doubt of things getting better (8 seconds).

We breathe in acceptance. Acceptance of what was, what is, and what it is to come (4 seconds).

We hold that acceptance in our bodies (7 seconds).

We then breathe out fear of the unknown, fear of uncertainty, fear of chaos, fear of grief (8 seconds).

We breathe in love. We breathe in love for ourselves, our families, our patients, our communities (4 seconds).

We hold that love for the world that is broken yet healing (7 seconds).

We breathe out all that limits our ability to give love, receive love, and to embrace love during such a time as this (8 seconds).

Amen.

Jessica Chapman
Kaiser Permanente Orange County Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim, CA