Let your body settle however it would be comfortable to sit today.
And then close your eyes.
Feel how the weight of your body rests on the ground against the earth beneath you,
Holding you here firmly.
Through your nose,
Take a slow breath in and through your mouth,
A longer breath out.
Do this again.
Breathing in,
Sighing out.
And then rest your lips against each other now.
As if sipping through a straw,
With your inhales,
Draw a delicious breath in.
With each exhale,
Imagine that you are loosening the knots of noise inside you.
The chatter of the mind slide out on the breath.
Draw in.
Let out.
Let go.
Inhale again,
Soft and natural.
Exhale,
Letting go.
Now,
Notice the silence that follows each inhale and exhale.
That small pocket of stillness.
Stay there for a moment each time.
Let yourself lean into that pause as though the pause itself were a doorway.
A doorway to yourself,
Your higher self,
Your source.
Silence is not really empty.
It is full,
Full of presence.
A listening that is deeper than sound.
Imagine you are walking down a path within yourself.
Descending slowly,
Each step quieter than the last.
The further you go,
The more the noise of the world fades.
Words fall away.
Thoughts disperse.
Stillness arrives until you are left with only this.
The quiet rhythm of your breath.
The quiet rhythm of your being.
Let this silence wrap around you like a cozy blanket.
Let it sink into your bones.
Let it remind you that you are not separate from the divine,
But an expression of it,
Like a single wave returning to the still ocean or a star dissolving back into the night.
Stay here,
Breathing gently.
Let yourself dwell in it.
It has always been here.
It is here now.
It will always be here.
All you need to do is breathe.
This is the place where wisdom hibernates,
Where creativity is born.
This place quiets the conflict inside you,
The war outside.
A place that flows,
A place that connects to the same place of another human and helps us see that we are all connected,
All part of the same origin.
Dwell in this place a little longer.
As you prepare to return to the world of sound,
Know that this silence,
This stillness is never far away.
It lives inside you.
It is your center,
Your anchor.
Anchor,
Your home.
It's just a breath away.
Now take a deep breath in and exhale slowly.
And when you are ready,
Open your eyes and smile.
Carry this stillness with you.
