Gently begin.
See if it feels comfortable for you to rest your body in a comfortable sitting position.
Just taking time here to sense into your body.
Tuning into the rhythm of your breath.
Adjusting,
Finding a comfortable sitting posture.
When it feels right,
Perhaps allowing your eyes to gently close or to rest on a spot near you.
As you continue to notice your breath,
The rise and fall of your chest,
The sensations in your body.
Allowing a moment to simply be here noticing the gradual sense of your inner body landscape.
The tingling sensation,
Any tension.
The sense of aliveness from within.
Sensing if you can ask yourself,
Is there a place in my body?
Or was there an experience in my life?
Just even a very simple moment in my life that I felt perfectly okay?
It doesn't have to be anything fancy.
Just a space in my body or an experience I've known where it felt alright.
Perhaps screening for that sense of okayness in your body.
Noticing the tip of your nose,
Your earlobes,
Your toes.
Or an experience like a small memory.
Maybe an afternoon nap.
A moment of connection with someone you love.
Or when you're watching a certain movie or drinking a warm cup of tea.
Whatever that may arise.
Allowing space to sense a moment or a sensation of okayness.
Just trusting your body.
Giving it time.
Allowing something that feels okay or neutral to come.
There is no rush.
There is no need to search.
No need to work too hard.
Just allowing this moment for any thoughts,
Feelings,
Physical sensation or memories that may arise.
Allowing time as you stay spacious and open to welcome,
To feel a place or time that feels pretty okay.
And then very gently see if you can expand and allow just a little bit more of your body to rest into this okay place.
Nothing needs to happen.
Just simply notice.
See if there is any part of your body that may be tense,
Feeling unsafe or activated.
That's okay.
Honoring this feeling in the present moment and bring your attention to what does feel okay as well.
Sometimes you may have your eyes open if it feels more stable.
This practice is about noticing and welcoming anything that may arise gently without any pressure.
Welcoming it while allowing your attention to sense into this okay place.
If it comes,
Give it time.
Welcoming it.
Noticing how it feels,
How it lands in your body,
How the sensation can radiate and kind of spread and flow throughout the body,
The sense of okay-ness.
Noticing how your body responds as you welcome a sense of okay-ness.
Feeling into it.
Welcoming it.
Noticing how this feels.
Perhaps a clear sensation or an image or metaphor that represents this sense of okay-ness.
That it's within you and you can always come back to this key element that you're noticing.
This okay-ness,
This place is always accessible within you and you can always come back to look for an okay place,
Whether it's a sensation,
An image.
Take your time to ponder and rest here.
Whenever you feel like you're ready and you have enough,
You can bring your awareness back to your body,
To the room you're in.
Taking a moment perhaps to note down this experience and then carry the sense of safe,
Okay place with you into the rest of your day.
