Welcome to this meditation for coming back to yourself and to your roots.
So as we start just taking a moment to find a comfortable position,
This can be any position that feels comfortable to you,
Sitting,
Lying,
Could be standing or moving.
And knowing that you can change this at any time should you need to.
And you can do this practice with your eyes open,
Closed,
Soft gaze,
Whatever allows your attention to come inwards.
Just allowing yourself to land into the practice.
You might notice what's here.
In your body.
New feelings,
New mind.
Just being curious,
Perhaps any signs of stress?
That might be showing up for you and just acknowledging these with compassion.
Just allowing them to be there.
And then if it feels comfortable,
You might allow your attention to come into the movement of the breath in the body.
Just being curious about where you notice the breath moving the body.
Might be in the belly or the diaphragm.
In the chest.
Just noticing that expanding out.
Subsiding back.
Just observing that natural rhythm and flow of the breath.
Coming in and flowing out.
You might allow the out breath to start to be an invitation to soften down a little bit.
As each time you're breathing out,
Letting go of a little more tension.
Inviting a little more ease.
You might start to imagine growing roots downwards.
Through the points of contact with the surface beneath you.
Again each time on the out-breath.
Allowing this sense of softening down and growing these roots.
Allowing the roots to become more established.
Solid.
And allowing that sense of being supported by these roots.
In your experience right now.
And taking a moment to recognize.
These are your roots.
That you are your own tree.
Your own being.
And our roots connect out into wider networks.
You can always come back.
To this simplicity.
That you are your own tree.
If it feels comfortable you might invite into your.
Mind.
The sense of.
And experience that you're having were these.
Boundaries are blurring between you and another perhaps you're trying to match their energy or feel you're absorbing something that is not yours.
And we might imagine that this is some of the air that's round the branches and the top part of the tree.
We're not trying to judge,
It makes sense.
That you would be aware of these energies.
Perhaps expectations or pressures.
Just allowing a sense again of dropping down into the roots.
Allowing what isn't yours to float away.
And coming back down into your roots.
And you might find the out breath is supportive.
Flow downwards into these roots.
Allowing that breath out,
No roots to be an anchor back.
So what is yours?
And perhaps inviting a sense of release.
In the upper half of your being of your tree Just inviting this softness and letting go.
Softness in the scalp.
In the forehead.
And the cheek.
The jaw the shoulders.
All the way down the arms to the fingertips.
In your torso.
It's allowing that to drop back down into the roots.
And knowing that these roots are always with you.
You are always your own tree.
And you can be connected.
And also come back.
Anytime that you need to.
Now just allowing your attention to come back into the points of contact.
The surface beneath you.
Might start to become aware of the space around you again perhaps noticing the sounds,
The air.
That's taking it in with your eyes.
Was gently bringing this practice to a close.
And I hope that you find it supportive to take this.
Awareness of your roots with you as you go about the rest of your day.
