Good morning.
You may still be in bed,
Or perhaps you're sitting and upright.
But wherever you are,
Let's just take a moment to open to and welcome this brand new day.
This day,
Today,
Is a one-off.
It's never appeared before,
And won't ever appear again.
It's what it is,
The morning of the next day of your life,
Presented fresh and new,
Untainted and unpainted,
With your hopes and dreams or disappointments and sadnesses.
Can you consider unopened to this new day as a new beginning?
Can you consider unopened to this time being a time of respite,
Of healing,
Perhaps flowing on from your sleep?
Whatever is going on in your life right now,
Whatever joys,
Commonplace or challenges that you face,
Can you open your mind and your heart in greeting and acceptance of this new day?
This is a day that can offer you healing and new beginnings.
Because it is a new beginning,
It's a fresh opportunity to be filled with the wonder of life,
No matter what your circumstance.
Each new day opens and offers again another opportunity to choose to live your life in a way that fits,
Aware of the ability to change things that are not working and value things that are.
And as you rest in this state,
Keeping your mind and heart open,
Notice your breath,
Notice that you're breathing in and out.
Notice the movement of the upper body as it rises and falls,
The feel of the abdomen as it opens and shuts,
Or the belly as it fills and empties.
Notice the pause between the in and the out of breath.
Breath is a constant of life,
Linking each new day,
Bringing with it its new life.
Life that comes from the air,
Oxygen and the incense and energetic influences around you,
Fresh and healing.
Each in breath filling you with the nourishment for the health of your cells and your being,
Feeding you and filling you with possibilities.
Each in breath and new breath in this new day,
Allowing another moment of life and another and another.
Each out breath collecting and releasing toxins from your body.
Notice the relaxation and the calming influence of the out breath as it flows.
Each complete in and out breath,
A nourishment,
A cleansing.
Breathing is healing.
And allowing any sounds,
Sounds of the air,
Sounds of the air,
Sounds of the air,
Sounds of the air,
Sounds of the air,
Sounds of the air,
Sounds of the air.
Letting all things calm and go,
Calm and go.
As you rest your attention,
Your awareness,
On the breath and the nourishment and healing of your being in this new day that you are welcoming.
We are just being with the breath this morning,
Recognising its healing qualities.
With an open heart and an open mind.
Accepting each breath as a new breath,
A new nourishment.
Each new breath purifying and cleansing the body.
Connected to and being with the breath and the body.
Connected to the nature around you.
Near or far you are connected to that creation.
Part of it,
Living within it,
Sustained by it.
Allowing yourself to expand into that connection as you breath.
So grateful for this new day,
This new opportunity,
This life.
Each morning,
Each day is another chance to play your part in life and to play it well.
To live and learn and to give and grow.
In this day,
May you be well,
May you be peaceful and may you be happy.
