Arriving exactly as you are in this moment.
Just like this.
Wherever you are.
However you are in this moment.
Allow the body to begin to settle.
Into the support of the earth.
Feel your body softening its grip.
Releasing any effort.
Nothing to rush toward.
Nothing to wait for,
Either.
Can you relax your shoulders?
Your jaw.
Maybe even the space behind your eyes.
Bringing your attention closer within.
Pratyahara.
Sensing inward.
What is here?
Subtle currents.
Warmth a pulse.
Your body speaking the language of sensations.
Perhaps you notice the quiet stream of your breath moving through you.
Expanding.
Releasing.
Unforced.
Does your breath change when you notice it?
Maybe you let it.
Knowing your breath.
Exactly as it is in this moment.
At the same time.
Aware of thoughts.
Stories.
Narrative.
Memories.
This mind stuff chitta vritti.
Like movements in the sky of your mind arising and passing.
No need to follow.
No need to chase.
Bye.
No need to energize any particular thought allowing them to come.
Allowing them to go.
Who is the one?
That is aware that you are having thoughts.
In a moment of stillness allowing something in you to settle.
Bye.
What brings you here?
What's going really well right now.
Maybe it's possible.
To find a sense of appreciation.
For something small,
Something simple in this moment.
Maybe it's the glow of the morning sun rising.
Depending where you are right now.
Maybe it's a quiet moment between tasks a pause.
Maybe that first sip of water when you're thirsty,
When discomfort turns to ease.
The feeling of taking off wet socks and putting on dry ones.
The idea here is that maybe the more we practice directing the attention of our mind toward these things in our lives that feel easy.
To appreciate,
To be grateful for.
Maybe we'll start to notice.
These things are rising.
All on their own.
I think it was Eckhart who once said that gratitude is the foundation of all abundance.
Another way this is stated by Melody Beattie.
She says that Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
And more.
As you take Maybe another minute or two for yourself.
Is it possible right now,
Wherever you are?
To widen your gaze.
Is there anything here in the moment to be appreciated?
Maybe in the end,
Gratitude.
Might just be a practice.
Of paying attention.
What's going well.
May you be well.
May you be happy.
May you be grateful.
Namaste
