To begin,
Find a comfortable seat for your body,
A mindfully comfortable seat where you place your spine in an upright way.
No rigidity,
Just alignment,
Allowing the shoulders to relax,
The chin nodding down slightly in the front,
Feeling a lengthening effect through the back of the neck.
Once you're happy with the physical arrangement of your body,
Allow your eyelids to close.
Take an inhale,
A conscious inhale,
Breathing in and breathing out.
As the exhale completes itself,
Allow your attention to remain steadily on the movement of the breath.
We're not changing the breath right now.
We're just bringing our conscious awareness to that movement in and movement out,
Noticing how the breath was already doing itself before you brought any of your conscious awareness to it.
Just following that breath in and then back out.
Following the breath in and then back out.
One more,
Following the breath in and then back out.
Watching any shift in your state just from a few moments of breath observation.
Hopefully you feel a little space now between awareness and what's being observed.
So starting to notice the sense of self seated slightly deeper in the mind,
Imagining a gap between the thought that just passed and the one that's on its way but hasn't quite arrived yet.
One thought just passed and there's another one coming but it's not quite here yet.
And you're just dwelling in that gap,
That space between thoughts.
Finding that gap for as long as you can.
Noticing how the breath still moves even in that still space between the thought that just passed and the one that's on its way but hasn't quite arrived yet.
The sweet movement of the breath still appearing in and out,
In and out.
Noticing if the movement of thoughts becomes fast again,
Just bringing your practice back into play,
Finding that gap again.
One thought having just passed,
The next one on its way but hasn't quite arrived yet.
Letting yourself dwell in that gap,
That space between thoughts.
Letting the surface mind go quiet so you can feel the depth of stillness within you.
Unless the surface mind is less activated in your awareness,
The richness and the spaciousness that's always dwelling behind the chatter becomes apparent to you.
Nothing to think about,
Only experiencing.
Dwelling in the space between the thought that just occurred and the one that's on its way but hasn't quite arrived yet.
Suspending that gap for as long as you can.
Giving yourself the experience,
The reconnection with the deeper dimension of your own mind.
Balancing the internal state,
Impressing on your conscious mind this dimension of you so that even when this practice comes to an end,
You carry that awareness internally but very vibrantly into your day,
Into your life.
More and more as you practice consistently,
This dimension becomes integrated,
Impacting the way you relate to the conditioned surface mind in a way that allows more peace and a greater experience of harmony.
Just taking one more moment to feel that space,
One thought just passed,
The next one on its way but hasn't quite arrived yet.
Harness suspended in that spacious stillness and then letting your attention return to the movement of the breath and then letting your attention reconnects and sorely with the body,
Maybe moving the fingers and the toes,
Maybe moving the head a little bit and then when you feel ready,
Opening the eyelids and moving forward with your day,
Knowing this impression has been made and is activated within you even when you're not consciously thinking about it.
