Shop tracker Settling into this moment.
Being aware of what's around you and what's within you.
Let yourself inhabit your body,
Being present from the inside,
Inside your feet and legs,
Inside your torso.
Breathing through the quality of your life force,
The quality of love in your heart.
Include your arms and your neck and your head.
And breathing through the whole body into every cell,
Sense the continuity within the whole body.
Be aware of your wholeness.
And just check and see,
Is there any part left out?
Is your back included?
If you find any part left out,
Just breathe into that part and invite it in.
This coming into the body is a practice.
We're very accustomed to living outside of our bodies,
To living very much in our heads.
Takes time to learn to really drop into the body.
It takes this kind of practice.
Don't make it wrong if you're not feeling it entirely or not connecting to the instructions completely.
Just have the intention.
As you breathe through the center of your body,
Find the place which feels like center.
In the center,
Let yourself breathe and let this be the seat of awareness.
From this seat of awareness,
We can witness everything that passes through,
Can witness our thinking mind,
The emotions,
The sounds.
Without any criticism towards your thinking mind,
Just notice what it's up to today.
Use it planning.
You can invite it to rest.
Invite it to concentrate on breath or sensation.
Use a sense in which that concentration practice is part of what's held in awareness.
With this we invite you to say something to the audience about what you think,
Your As we rest in awareness and let everything move through,
We can observe that there's nothing solid,
There's nothing that has to stay right here.
Awareness continues to change every moment.
There's nothing to do or figure out.
Just be the awareness.
You can let the breath be very fine so it moves through the stillness without disturbing it.
Thank you.
Whenever you find yourself caught somewhere else,
Caught in the thinking mind or just somehow having left that seat of awareness,
It's a wonderful moment when you notice.
And so just take your time and very gently invite yourself back in.
Come back in and inhabit the body,
Eye into that center point,
And take that seat of awareness again.
There's no rush.
If there's an emotion,
A sensation in the body,
Let that be part of what moves through awareness.
Notice that it has an origin,
A rise and a fall.
The thinking mind can relate to that emotion and keep it stirring or the emotion can simply move through awareness and dissipate.
Notice how the thinking mind is relating to sensations,
How it interprets and has attributions.
This is a training that builds our capacity to be a witness to thoughts and emotions and experience throughout the day,
To be the observer and notice the responses that arise within us.
And as we improve this capacity,
As we lay down these neural pathways,
We become more able in daily life to say,
Oh,
There's that tendency of my mind arising.
Now I'm interpreting that feeling or making attributions.
And as we see that activity happening,
We realize more and more,
Well,
We don't have to believe everything that our mind thinks.
