Hey there, friend—
Each season carries a unique energy, mirroring nature’s cycle of birth, transformation, and release. As beings deeply connected to these rhythms, we, too, can draw from this energy to align with our inner processes.
Fall, with its cooling air and vibrant leaves, invites us to let go of what no longer serves us, much like nature sheds her leaves in preparation for winter’s deep rest.
As we witness the shift from summer’s warmth to fall’s crispness, we’re reminded that this is a time for reflection and release.
Nature prepares for renewal by pruning what’s no longer needed. This is not death but rather a preparation—a time for inward focus, a time to nurture the seeds of what is yet to come.
Now, imagine embarking on your own journey of release.
As the days shorten and life slows, what would you let go of? What burdens, habits, or patterns feel heavy and no longer aligned with who you are becoming?
We all reach points in life where we realize we’re carrying too much. Like nature, it’s time to clear out what weighs us down.
Whether it’s physical clutter or emotional baggage, now is the time to prune back what no longer fits. Without this shedding, there can be no new growth.
Fall invites us inward. It’s an opportunity to light a candle, look within, and ask ourselves: What do I need to release to create space for the new?
Let this guided meditation help you explore the process of letting go.
Guided Meditation for Fall: Letting Go and Lightening Your Load
- Find Your Space: Settle into a quiet, comfortable space. Whether indoors or in nature, allow yourself to arrive fully. Begin to soften your body and mind with each breath—slowly inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth.
- Visualize Nature: Imagine a scene from nature in fall—reds, oranges, and yellows scattered across the ground, a cool breeze rustling the leaves. You are part of this landscape, deeply connected to the earth’s rhythm.
- Become One with Nature: See yourself as a part of nature. Maybe you’re a tall oak tree, rooted but ready to release what’s no longer needed. Or perhaps you’re the mist rising off a still lake, fluid and ever-changing. Feel the essence of fall’s energy in your body.
- Dream Forward: As you prepare for winter’s inward journey, allow yourself to dream of the person you are becoming. What do you wish to create in your life? Envision your ideal future, your ideal self. What does it look, sound, and feel like?
- Identify the Burden: Now shift your focus to what’s weighing you down. Is it physical clutter? Emotional patterns? Unhealthy relationships? Old habits? Allow whatever comes to mind to surface gently.
- Embrace the Qualities You Need: What qualities would help you let go of these burdens? Is it compassion, courage, or clarity? Do you need more strength to set boundaries or more grace to accept what is? Reflect on what’s needed to help you release and move forward.
- Take Action: What steps can you take today to lighten your load? Let go of limiting beliefs, toxic patterns, or heavy emotions that keep you stuck. Commit to letting go of one thing that no longer serves your highest good.
- Journal Your Insights: When you’re ready, open your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Grab your journal and reflect on your experience. What did you see? What do you need to let go of? What actions can you take today to clear the space for new growth?
- Move Forward with Intention: Each day, take one step toward letting go—whether it’s clearing out physical space or releasing old emotional patterns. One day, one step at a time.
Fall, like every season, holds its own wisdom.
As you release what’s no longer aligned with your truth, you make space for the new. Approach each moment with curiosity, knowing that just as nature prepares for renewal, you too are preparing for the next chapter of your life.
Wishing you a lovely fall season.
Warmly,
Tris
An International Bestselling Author, Lifestyle and Leadership Coach and speaker, Tris Thorp is one of today’s leading experts in the field of personal growth and leadership development, specializing in emotional healing, women’s empowerment and shadow work.
Having spent a decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of social emotional learning, consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day science and mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.
During her tenure at the Chopra Center, Tris apprenticed under the Chopra Center’s co-founder Dr. David Simon, co-facilitating the Healing the Heart and Emotional Freedom workshops alongside him. Prior to his passing in 2012, Dr. Simon appointed Tris as the person to carry on his teachings in the field of emotional healing. In addition, Tris was fortunate to be mentored by the late Debbie Ford prior to her passing in 2013, which is where she continued her extensive studies of the unconscious mind and concepts of the persona and shadow. After the loss of her two mentors, Tris went on to become certified through the Ford Institute as a coach specializing in Shadow Work and reconciling mental and emotional issues stemming from past experiences. She continues to share the gifts of emotional healing and facilitating this work in the footsteps of her former mentors.
Tris is the International bestselling author of Healing Your Heart: Rewrite Your Story with Awareness and Intention. A guide book to understanding your emotions, how we create our story and workable tools and techniques to heal from the past, Healing Your Heart stewards you through the process of releasing mental and emotional baggage, forgiving yourself and others, setting and enforcing boundaries and consciously communicating your needs in a loving and effective way so you can be who you’re meant to be, do the things you want to do and have all that you deserve to have in this life.
Tris is also the co-author of bestseller Mental and Emotional Release® with Dr. Matt James. Written in a language both professionals and non-professionals can understand, Mental and Emotional Release® offers real life case studies, an overview of MER and its foundation, step by step scripts to follow, and clinical efficacy studies comparing MER to other therapies.
Clearly in her dharma, Tris’s passion and dedication to gently guide people on their inward journey through personal growth is evident in her work as a Lifestyle and Leadership coach, Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release and workshop facilitator. She teaches various courses on leadership development, personal empowerment, social emotional learning and higher states of consciousness – both in online courses and her certification programs, live workshops, VIP retreats and 1-1 clients.
Tris Thorp is Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology as a Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release ®, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Mental and Emotional Release ®, a Certified Reiki Master, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Tris is devoted to inspiring and empowering others to cultivate and maintain mindfulness-based lifestyle practices that lead to greater clarity, purpose and fulfillment. Through one-on-one coaching, online programs and live events, Tris specializes in helping people to fully release negative emotions, limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns, enabling them to make quantum leaps into the life they are truly meant to be living.