Welcome.
You might begin with a few mindful breaths.
You might allow them to build in length,
But slowly.
There is no rush.
There is no place to go.
There is no goal to achieve.
Just breathe.
If it feels good,
You might extend your exhales to be a little longer than your inhales.
Nice,
Long,
Slow breaths coming in and out through your nose.
Every few breaths,
You might allow your exhale to escape through your mouth.
You might not even push the breath out.
Just open your mouth and let the air you have borrowed return to the atmosphere of the earth.
Maybe your release makes a little sound,
A vibration purely of your own.
Maybe the release of your breath carries away a small tension lurking somewhere in your body.
Let a breath come that serves you in this very moment,
And then let it serve you.
As you breathe,
You might notice the space between breaths.
The moment when exhales turn into inhales,
When inhales become exhales.
You might stay for a bit there on the frontier of breath.
You might find yourself in that tiny space between breaths where stillness reigns.
A tiny space that encompasses all.
Enter these turning points where the rhythms of life transform into each other.
Breath flows in,
Filling,
Filling,
And this moment drink eternity.
Breath flows out,
Emptying,
Emptying,
Offering itself to infinity.
Cherishing these moments,
Mind dissolves into heart.
Heart dissolves into space.
Infinity becomes a vibrating field pulsating between fullness and emptiness.
The atoms that make up the air you breathe have all come from the exploding hearts of ancient stars.
They were born in the fire of creation and will exist until all things end,
Combining and recombining into different forms over the long course of time.
Sometimes into salty water like your blood.
Sometimes into iron like your bones and the bones of the earth.
Sometimes into delicate life-giving air that you rent for a moment with each inhale.
Each time your body opens to receive air,
You literally drink eternity.
Cairn wrap into your arms.
Your body takes what it needs to nourish you from each inhale.
Each exhale gives back to the world what other forms of life need to nourish themselves.
The universal rhythm of receiving and giving.
Your breath flows back into the atmosphere of Earth,
Joining into the great flow of air that surrounds our planet.
Your breath flying high above the trees,
Swooping down mountain valleys,
Gathering above deserts,
Sometimes even escaping the gravity of Earth to travel across interstellar space,
Across time too fast to even imagine.
Each of your exhales is an offering to infinity.
Enter these turning points where the rhythms of life transform into each other.
Breath flows in,
Filling,
Filling,
And this moment drink eternity.
Breath flows out,
Emptying,
Emptying,
Offering itself to infinity.
Breath flows out,
Emptying,
Emptying,
Offering itself to infinity.
Might your breath lead you to connection,
To the recognition of kinship between mind and heart,
Body and space,
This moment and all moments,
The tribe of you and the tribe of all living things,
Of you and the Earth,
Of you and infinity.
Breath is your anchor and your pathfinder,
Drinking eternity,
Offering itself to infinity.
Cherishing these moments,
Mind dissolves into heart,
Heart dissolves into space,
Body becomes a vibrating field,
Pulsating between fullness and emptiness.
Your body subtly and softly vibrating at the frequency of the universe,
A gentle hum moving you more and more deeply into rest,
Following the path created for you by your breath.
Cherishing these moments,
Mind dissolves into heart,
Heart dissolves into space,
Body becomes a vibrating field,
Pulsating between fullness and emptiness.
Take rest.
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