Hello,
Welcome to this meditation on arriving into recovery and restoration.
This session is to really help enable us to navigate,
Orient into all aspects of our being,
Recognizing that arriving in is a process.
It needs time taken.
It is a journey into recognizing where coming home needs to be towards to follow.
So arriving in,
In the first aspect,
Is very much arriving into our physicality,
Where we find ourselves in a very real and palpable way in this moment in relation to the ground.
So finding really comfortable seated position,
But if it feels that sitting sitting is either quite effortful or not fully comfortable for you,
Do feel free to do this or any of these meditations lying,
But wherever you come to,
Finding a position that breathing feels it has ease,
You have room in the diaphragm,
Sitting up onto something if you're seated on the ground,
And that attending to these positions in the body,
To our physical being,
Is very much part of our practice,
Part of how we arrive into this potential for soothing the system,
This potential where recovery,
Restoring of our energy,
Our resources,
Our ability to self-regulate can be found.
Having any little adjustments you might need,
Any little shifts on your seat or if you're laying down,
A roll on your back body,
Any little shifts,
Adjustments that really allow you to feel any parts of you that are awakened to feeling.
We might also notice parts of us that are not feeling,
They want to join in,
Might feel a bit absent,
But in order to come to still,
That which we call still in a moving breathing,
Being,
A little bit of movement really helping us to navigate ourselves,
The size and shape that we are.
And if you feel you need a little touch onto your body,
You might simply be touching in towards your belly or your heart or even giving yourself a little rub or a squeeze.
Any of these,
Meeting ourselves that we might need to really foster,
Cultivate this recognition of where we are,
A sense of home,
A place to come back to,
And allowing a turning inwards feeling an awareness of where our edges are,
Where the ground might meet us below,
Allows us to then turn in to recognize where the interior lies,
This place where our breath body occupies the whole of our physical being in the size and shape that we are.
This is not to have a specific breath or judge our breath in any way,
Letting each breath be as it needs to,
And noticing and meeting ourselves where we are,
Feeling that we are writhing into each breath,
Each breath a unique experience,
And feeling here just a little checking in with our physical aspect again,
Letting your lower jaw drop away from the top teeth,
And as you might feel a softness into facial muscles,
Around the eyes,
The temples,
Just being curious about how this might change the tones,
The textures of breath,
Being allowed,
Maybe allowing or prompting some ah sounds or any other expression of release through the exhalation.
This holding space for ourselves,
Allowing us to arrive more pace and input,
Might be higher in frequency,
The noise,
And that which we are turning inwards towards this potential for some kind of peace,
Some kind of soothing through the nervous system,
Some kind of dropping into those tones where we can feel perhaps intuitively that that is where our potential for recovery and restoration might be found.
Always there for us to drop into beneath the busyness,
The noise,
And breathing with a recognition and meeting that these qualities of recovery,
Recovering our resources,
Our energy,
Our compassion,
Our space,
Our tolerance,
Are highly necessary for how we're able to navigate the world,
Our health,
Our relationships with ease and joy and breathing to feel where seeds the potential of restoration,
Of a restoring of anything that might have become a little dull,
Depleted,
Even agitated,
Breathing a space of friendliness,
Generosity to anywhere that feels it needs tending to,
We're tending to our inner landscape as a garden,
These times and spaces that you're setting aside for yourself,
The kind cultivation and nourishment,
Particularly if you've been looking after others,
Recognizing we need constant recovery,
Constant restoration,
So we're able to offer compassion to others through this resource of kindness,
Compassion to ourselves,
Noticing if there's anywhere in your body,
Your physical being,
We're bringing your hands to,
Feels that it meets that deeper place,
That seed where breathing with compassion,
Recognition of the need for recovery and restoration,
Feels to you at this moment as support,
Now do feel free to stay with yourself,
Holding that kind space for some moments more,
But if you're coming out,
Drawing your practice to a close with me now,
You can bring your hands together at your heart,
Allow your head to drop to meet head,
Heart and hand,
If you're laying you can roll to one side and gently taking your time to begin to look around the room or space you find yourself,
Bringing yourself out gently,
Kindly,
Namaste
