I'm Jocelyn.
This is a simple check-in with your body and your sense of home.
So simply closing down your eyes and allowing your awareness to turn inward.
Allowing your awareness to settle on your breath,
Natural cadence of your breath.
Not trying to change it or alter it,
But simply noticing and witnessing your breath.
Allowing your awareness to witness your breath breathing your body.
How does your breath move your body with each inhale and exhale?
You might imagine your breath as a river and each inhale and exhale has its own current.
As it twists and turns through your body,
Finding the path of least resistance.
Imagining yourself standing on the earth,
Witnessing the river of breath in your body.
The breath is a most wondrous act of giving and receiving.
I often sit in awe at my breath as I inhale,
Breathing in air from all around me,
Molecules from all around this place I live.
I bring them in.
I receive.
And when my body is ready to exhale,
A bit of me,
Molecules of me,
Of who I am,
Of my experience,
Goes back out into the world.
It is an awe-inspiring act of giving and receiving.
One that I often look to when I find it hard to give and receive in my life.
So might you,
As your awareness is here,
Settled on the breath,
Like a river of current in its own time,
Its own pace,
Its own pathways,
Might you bring a sense of wonder and awe at the stories,
The lives,
The memories,
The pieces of this world that you bring in with each inhale and with each exhale,
Might you offer a bit of gratitude and love to the world.
In allowing your awareness now to release the breath,
Might you ask yourself,
Where is home within me right now?
Where do I sense home within me right now?
Allowing your awareness to search for that sensation of home in your body.
And home might mean something different for each of us.
It might mean safety and security.
It might mean unconditional love.
It might mean support or being held.
There's no right or wrong here.
Just allowing your awareness to gently scan through your body to find those sensations of home.
And once you find your sense of home in your body,
And this might change from day-to-day or moment-to-moment,
There's no right or wrong answer here.
Once you find that sensation of home,
Might you bring your breath to this place in your body,
Allowing your inhale to be born here at this place and expand with the inhale in all directions.
And on the exhale,
Might you gather all of those nuggets of home and bring them right back to the center of this sensation.
Just allowing your inhale to expand that sense of home.
It might even expand out past the shape of your body.
And on the exhale,
Bringing it right back into that center point.
And releasing the breath from your awareness,
Might you ask this place of home here right now in your body,
What do I need today?
What do I need today?
And your answer might come in the form of a knowing,
A vision,
Hearing something,
And a feeling or sensation across your body.
Just be still with the question,
What do I need today?
And when you're ready,
Simply bringing your awareness back to your breath and just taking a couple deep breaths,
Inhaling through your nose,
Exhaling through your mouth,
Maybe placing a hand on the area of your body where you felt that sensation of home and offering just a bit of gratitude or love to this place.
When you're ready,
Blinking your eyes open,
You might want to write a bit of what you experienced or you might be ready to go on in your day.
But thank you so much for joining me.
This is something you can come back to at any time of the day.
It would be interesting to do it a few days in a row,
Seeing where that sensation of home moves from day to day,
The different wisdom that you receive from that sense of home.
And as you begin to take action with that wisdom,
Journaling into the changes that you feel,
You see,
Or you experience,
This is,
After all,
The human experiment,
My friends,
And we're all in it.
So thank you again for coming.
I so appreciate all of you.
Namaste.
