Sit comfortably and allow your shoulders to drop.
Lean back in your chair and allow the chair to support you.
In this moment,
There's no need for you to be the doer and the one who holds up the world.
Simply,
Be as you are in this moment.
Feel the sensation of the floor beneath your feet.
Place your awareness fully in your feet and allow the pads of your heels and the balls of your feet,
And even your toes if you can,
To sense their connection with the floor or the ground.
The nerves in your feet are always communicating with your brain.
In fact,
The nerves of your entire body are always doing this.
When you move your awareness into the communication from the nerves,
You start to build your skill of awareness.
Your physical connection with your nervous system helps you start to regulate your nervous system.
The simple act of connecting with the nerves in your feet and the sensations in your feet helps you learn to teach your body a new way of being.
Simply be with the sensations in both heels.
Move more deeply into the sensation.
Notice the nuances.
Do your heels feel cold,
Hot?
Is there pain,
Tingling,
Softness,
Pressure?
Now move your awareness into your toes and notice what feedback they are sending to your brain.
Their temperature,
Their pressure level,
Their pain level,
Their comfort level.
And gently experiment with moving your feet a tiny bit so you're placing a bit more pressure in the toes and then back so you're placing a bit more pressure in the heels.
Into the toes and back into the heels.
As you build this awareness of your feet,
Create a visual image for yourself where you grow beautiful,
Deep,
Strong tree roots from each foot that move into the earth.
These roots are not the small roots of weeds,
But they are the massive roots of giant redwood trees.
They travel far,
Far,
Far down past all the layers of earth.
And they spread outward through these layers of earth.
Visualize your roots moving so far down they reach the center of the earth,
Which we'll call the heart of the earth.
Allow your roots to merge with the heart of the earth.
Allow your roots to be bi-directional like a two-way highway where you release through your roots into the heart of the earth all energies,
Emotions,
Blockages,
Past memories,
Past pains,
Physical symptoms.
You release all of that through your roots into the earth knowing that they are simply forms of energy that the earth can recycle into something beautiful.
And conversely,
Through your roots,
You allow the earth to provide to you nourishment,
A pure,
Clean,
Nourishing,
Healthy energy that travels into your roots and into your feet and up through your legs,
Your hips,
Your torso.
Touching your heart and moving upward into your shoulders,
Down your arms,
Up your spine,
Your neck and your scalp,
Right into your brain.
In this way there is an exchange between you and the earth where you kindly release energy for the earth to use in a new way while you receive energy from the earth for you to use in a new way.
And in closing,
Reconnect with the physicality of your feet,
With the physical sensations in your feet,
In your hands,
In your face and send a little gratitude to your body,
To your energy system and to the earth for the balancing you have just received.
