Let's just start by slowing down,
Getting still.
You may be lying down,
You may be sitting down,
You may be even just resting calmly.
If you're seated,
Just notice where your buttocks and your hip points rest in your chair.
If you're standing,
You might notice where your feet are,
The edges of your feet,
The arches of your feet.
Maybe if your foot is more flat,
The center of your foot you might feel.
If you're lying down,
Just notice the points of connection between you and your bed or the floor or your couch,
Settling in,
Letting go of an external noise or internal conversation.
We're going to do an exercise repeatedly of gently opening our eyes.
And with each time we open our eyes,
We'll take note of a feature of the outside world.
You may be by a window,
In a bedroom,
In your kitchen,
Sitting outside,
Wherever you find yourself.
We're going to gently open our eyes multiple times,
Take note of the features of the external world,
And we'll close our eyes and draw into that internal point that is the sky,
That is unchanging,
That is fixed.
We'll allow the weather and the clouds of emotion and cognition to just drift by.
So maybe you want to take a three or a five count to gently let your eyes open.
Just unsqueeze your eyelids so that your eyes gently open.
Take note of a feature of the external world.
Might be a tree,
Grass,
Could be the wall of the room you're in,
A board of wood,
Might be a pet,
Just witness it.
Take stock of its edges,
Color,
Curves,
Lines,
Mass.
Take a mental snapshot and then when you're ready,
Close your eyes again letting it linger on your eyelids.
Coming into that internal space that is like the sky,
Fixed,
Relatively permanent,
Consistent,
And essential.
It's natural to have distractions,
Background,
Thoughts,
Emotions.
Those are just the weather.
They can't stay forever,
But the sky does.
Bring yourself in,
Settling,
Breathing deeply,
Slowing down.
Maybe you find anger like a stratus cloud or sadness like a cumulus cloud or excitement like a fluffy cloud.
I'm just gonna drift by and you will remain.
When you're ready,
With a three or a six count,
Relax your eyes and let them gently open toward the same general area that you looked before.
Find the object in your field of view that you considered before.
Take it in.
Has it changed?
Has the light changed?
Has it moved or rustled?
Shifted in any way?
Is there a part of it that's the same as it was?
Is there a part that's different than it was?
Be a witness.
Take a snapshot with your eyes.
Take it in.
When you're ready,
Just let your eyes close again with the image behind your eyelids,
Saved in your memory.
Begin to draw inward.
Realizing what about you is consistent,
Continuous,
Enduring.
What about you shifts from moment to moment just like clouds across the sky?
Breathing.
Finding the part of you that is essential and whole and sacred.
And unchanging.
And letting everything else drift by like the weather,
Not grasping at that.
Letting the clouds drift across the sky of your being.
When you're ready,
Sew,
Sew slowly.
Let your eyes open gently to find the thing you looked at before.
Take stock.
What's the same?
What's different?
What's essential?
And what's ephemeral about it?
There's the light shifted.
Are the details different than you remember it?
Has it changed or just your perspective?
Trick of memory?
Let your line of sight just drift along that object.
Nothing plays tricks,
But what was consistent and what's fleeting?
And close your eyes again this last time with that memory on your eyelids settling into yourself.
Creating the part of you that's consistent,
Eternal,
And essential.
And letting the external just drift by like clouds.
Finding your sky and observing the weather as it goes by.
Finding your sky and letting the weather drift.
Finding your sky and just letting everything else drift by as you breathe and settle.
Essions of Noah Because it is what I call trance whenever I can.
So it is the D
