Settling more and more into that seat,
Into that breath,
Into that body.
Is there any place in that body that needs your attention?
Maybe a place there in the neck or in the wrist that is still tense.
And can you bring your breath over there on the exhale and allow a little bit more release.
A little bit more acceptance of the tension that is created months,
Weeks after weeks,
Months after months,
Year after year.
And inviting your whole mind to be aware of that tension.
And your breath to help it release.
And then doing kind of the same thing with your emotion.
What's the background here today?
How are you doing just this instant?
Any emotion?
And just hold them with kindness like if it was a little bird nest,
You know,
With feathers at the bottom.
Maybe it's a joyful and peaceful emotion and it's really easy here in the little bird nest to settle.
Maybe it's a little rougher,
It's a little anger,
It's a little fear.
And yet,
Can you make a little bird nest around it?
A nice little cocoon.
So you welcome that hard emotion with kindness.
And you match his strength.
The more angry he is,
The more kind you become.
And stay with that idea here because we have been through a lot and there's people dying,
There's people not acting the way we wish,
Not seeing our changes.
People having fear around us.
How can we in our little group here acknowledge our own issues,
Acknowledge our own fear,
But find our way toward kindness?
Toward acceptance?
So if we do it for us,
It will be easier to do it for others.
And so hold that for a little bit,
That idea of whatever is happening in you,
Within you,
Is definitively happening outside,
Out there,
To you or to others.
How can you become more of a seer,
A person looking out and observing?
And not so much the person jumping in,
Like in a puddle and splashing everything.
How can you be the little nests,
The little feather nests?
How can you keep creating that cocoon for yourself?
So with one blink of a mind set,
You can go back to that instead of splashing the puddle and following somebody else's emotion.
And letting that destabilize you.
Like the sounds that pass around us,
We can't control them,
But we can definitively control the way they impact us by not going into the stories over these holidays.
Just take a couple of breaths here and check in with yourself.
How am I doing now?
And slowly bring yourself back to the room by opening your eyes.
