Welcome.
Let's not go inward just yet.
When everything in us is activated.
The kindest first move is often outward to the room,
To the ordinary world around us.
So that's what we'll do together.
Wherever you are,
Let your eyes stay open for this one.
Softly.
And when you're ready.
Let your gaze wander.
Slowly.
Around the space you're in.
We're not searching for anything.
We're just looking.
The way we'd look around a place for the first time.
And let your eyes land on something.
Anything.
A corner,
A color,
An object.
And just Take it in for a moment.
Its color.
Its shape.
Where the light touches it.
Now if it feels okay.
.
.
Let your head turn gently.
And find something else.
Behind you maybe,
Or off to the side.
Let your neck move slowly.
Like you have all the time in the world.
This is you showing your nervous system the actual room.
Not the room your body is bracing for.
The one we're right now.
In this moment Nothing is asking you to fight or run.
And now notice what's holding you up.
The chair,
The floor.
The ground.
Feel the places where your body meets it.
Weight of you being carried.
We don't have to hold ourselves up right now.
Something is already doing that.
And one more slow look around the room.
And as you look,
You might quietly name a few things you see.
Just in your mind window.
Cup.
Door Simple words for real things.
Here we are in a room in a moment held up by the ground.
Stirred,
Maybe still.
And also here.
Both can be true.
Let's take one easy breath.
And when you're ready.
Come on back.
