So let's just settle in.
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Softening the eyes.
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Letting the eyes be kinder.
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Our attention beginning to connect more deeply with the body.
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Noticing the breathing.
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The breathing not just as the breath,
But any and all sensation.
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Connected,
However indirectly.
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With the process of air flowing in and out of the body.
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Sensations from the inner core of the body.
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Right out to the skin.
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Sensations from the diaphragm.
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Down into the feet.
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Through the arms and into the hands.
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And right up to the crown of the head,
Which is rising and falling in time with the breathing.
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And I just encourage you to have faith.
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Faith in the practice.
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Faith in the fact that no matter how many times the mind wanders,
It comes back to mindful attention again.
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Faith in the fact that repeatedly coming back to the breathing has benefits.
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It brings a little more calmness.
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It changes the brain.
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It brings a little more contentment.
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It changes our emotional habits in the long term.
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So just see if you can bring this faith to mind.
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And bury it in mind.
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Throughout the practice.
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If you don't have that faith.
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Just doing the practice.
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And seeing if that faith arises over time.
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And any time you realise that you've been distracted.
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Just recognising that the mind found its own way home.
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Just reminding yourself that it did that.
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That it always does that.
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Every time the mind returns from distraction.
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Recognising that you have the choice to be happy about having come home again.
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You can just continue.
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Sitting with faith.
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Or sitting cultivating faith.
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Until you hear the bell.
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