Finding a place that feels like home in your body.
Maybe you cross your leg a certain way.
Maybe you allow your hands to be in a certain place.
Maybe you add a little blanket or cover over your shoulder or your lap.
Whatever the little detail you have to make you feel home.
If you're outside in a park,
Maybe it's just the soul of the food connecting with the ground,
The seat connecting to the bench.
Let's take a moment to just hear sound around us now.
Sounds of birds,
Of other beings in your building or house.
And notice the beginning of the sound,
The way they stay and the way they go and completely disappear.
And you know,
Sounds are like people.
They calm and go.
Some leave a good impression and some don't.
Some noise may feel very pleasant to hear and we can't stop listening to them.
And others may sound very disturbing and aggravating and anger creating.
What I invite you to notice with this meditation is that none of the sounds last.
And gladly or not gladly,
None of the people in your life last either.
For that reason,
It's important to really enjoy when you like someone.
Enjoy the moment when you hear a good sound and bear with the fact that when this is about someone you don't like,
They won't be here too long.
And maybe you can use when you're faced with a situation that you don't like,
A sound that you don't like,
You can use all your other senses to notice how you feel.
Instead of making it a mind game,
Just make it a study guide,
A study guide to your own self.
When I hear this,
I am tensing my shoulder.
When I hear this person talking to me,
I tense my jaw.
Oh,
Interesting,
When I hear that bird tweet,
I release tension in my hands and elbows.
So play with these ideas for a little while longer in silence.
If your places are fully quiet,
Maybe you can only hear your own breath.
And that's enough of a sound to be able to focus on.
Maybe the place you're in has a lot of different sounds and it's quite overwhelming actually.
Maybe you could pick the sound of your own breath to bring you home.
I'm pretty sure it's the closest sound to you,
Wherever you are.
Maybe you can decipher sounds that are very very far and sounds that are very very close.
Maybe you're selective about the sound you allow yourself to hear.
What is that all about?
Are they a sound in your mind that are better than others or more worth of your time than others?
How about you accept them all at the same level of emotion?
Just sound.
So you detach yourself a little bit emotionally from them.
And when you're ready,
Let's take a last breath before this meditation together,
Noticing all the sounds of your breath.
And start opening your eyes if they were closed and moving your body.
