I invite you to find a comfortable seat and close your eyes and place a hand on your chest and a hand on your belly and as you breathe,
Experience the expansion of your belly and the expansion of your chest with every breath you take and allow your hands to be like the hands holding a newborn babe.
Allow your hands to hold you,
Precious one,
With that kind of tenderness,
With that kind of adoration and with that kind of love so that every inhale is an expansion into that tenderness,
Into that adoration and into that love and every exhale is a soaking in of that adoration and that tenderness and that love,
Loving your body with all of your heart and all of your soul and all of your might and as your breath slows down even more,
Relax,
Precious one,
Relax into the love,
Into the tenderness,
Into the adoration and expand your awareness beyond your body to the presence of Hamakom,
The place from which everything comes,
The source of life and blessing itself,
The space that holds you with tenderness,
And with adoration.
Feel that divine presence wrapped around you,
The source of all being holding you,
And allow yourself to relax,
To melt into that divine embrace,
To become at one with Hamakom so that it feels like you are the place.
You are the holding which you inhabit and relax into the embrace of your hands,
Let them hold you,
Melt into their tenderness and their adoration and breathe and soften and relax into the source of all that is,
Into the source of life itself.
Breathing and relaxing just like that and precious one,
As you hold this body with the love of Hamakom,
With the adoration of the source of all of life,
Feel your body's capacity for pleasure,
Its ability to taste,
Smell,
Feel,
Hear,
And sense,
All of this is alive in you,
Precious one.
And the gift of the fruit of this earth on which you live is that it can offer you a rich sensory experience.
So allow yourself to receive the richness of the earth,
To imagine where this food you are about to eat has come from,
Travel in your mind to that farm,
To that team of farmers who with their love and their adoration tended and cared for this food which you are about to eat.
And feel the divine providence of weather being just right,
Right,
Of protection,
Guarding the health of the plants or animals before you,
Of water being available,
And of nutrients arising from the earth in just the right combination.
And as you feel your heart pumping under your hand,
Experience the life force of these farmers,
Experience the life force of these plants or animals,
And travel through time as they are harvested and packaged by other people,
Also with hearts,
Also with a love of life.
So many people whose hands lovingly touched this food,
Whose hands lovingly prepared this food until it came upon your plate.
And even before you open your eyes,
See this food in your mind's eye,
And offer it a smile,
And offer it your gratitude,
And offer it a blessing.
That it should be a source of taste,
Of texture,
Of smell,
Of pleasure,
Of nourishment for you,
Precious one.
Thank it for giving its life force to you,
So that you can serve the divine with all of your heart,
And all of your soul,
And all of your mind.
And offer your body a smile as well.
Thank your mouth,
Your teeth,
Your tongue,
For knowing just what to do.
Your throat,
Your esophagus,
And all of the organs in your belly,
For preparing to take in that food,
For knowing how to extract its goodness,
And release what is not necessary.
For loving you so much,
That all of these body parts do this day in,
And day out.
Offering you pleasure,
Nourishment,
And with that smile still upon your face,
Open your eyes,
And gaze upon the food on your plate.
And prepare to bless the world with more abundance,
With more nourishment,
And more life.
I bless you,
Precious one,
To enjoy this meal.
And to enjoy a long and healthy life.
