So as you're making yourself comfortable,
Finding the right posture,
Letting your body be as comfortable as possible,
You can just let your eyes close so you drop your attention inside.
They may open periodically,
Doesn't matter.
Just going to allow them to close and drop deeply inside.
So when you're ready,
Just take a deep breath.
Feel the body relaxing.
And if there's any discomfort any place,
You can rearrange the body.
You may want to lie down.
And you may want to prop your feet up,
Support your knees,
Whatever works so that your body is as comfortable as possible.
Being aware of your breath without changing the breath.
Just feeling how it moves through your body and recognizing that simply being aware of your breath can change it.
You may be aware of some sensation in your feet.
Just let that be a signal to drop deeper inside.
And if there is some sound from another room or outside,
They can all be signals.
Simply drop deeper while staying conscious.
And if anything I say doesn't fit for you,
Simply discard it.
Recognizing that your integrity is in alignment with your awakening.
And these are just suggestions.
I'd like for you to imagine a person you feel very tender toward.
Someone you love or at least feel affection for.
Just imagine them in your mind's eye.
And let your mind move toward them.
Recognize what happens in the mind,
Their thoughts about this person,
What are the qualities of the thought,
What types of thoughts are present when your mind is moving toward.
And recognize your emotions.
What are you feeling in your chest,
In your belly?
And also recognize your posture.
You don't have to physically move,
But just recognize are there micro movements involved in this subtle mind movement toward what is loved.
And then you just come back.
Let that person just disappear.
Come back to open,
Empty,
Spacious.
And now imagine someone who frightened you.
Someone you know or a fictional character or just make someone up.
And allow that person to be in your mind's eye just for this experiment.
And recognize the movement away from this that frightens.
And recognize the thoughts that you have to have for this movement.
Some thoughts of danger,
Perhaps,
Protection,
Thoughts of safety.
And recognize the emotional energy in your body.
Is there some constriction,
Some micro movement posturally away from this?
Just really allow yourself to feel,
To experience,
To recognize what is the movement of moving away.
And then while this person is still present,
Discover if you can simply open.
You can recognize the thoughts of danger and you can just let them go.
You can recognize the constriction and you can relax.
You can recognize the subtle postural movement away and you can open the body.
And then let this person disappear from your mind as you become even more spacious.
And then next,
Bring someone in who makes you angry or imagine someone or some situation that would generate anger,
Something that would fuel you with the aggressive power to make a change in the situation or to stop the person from doing what they're doing.
Really allow yourself to experience the surge of power and where you feel that in your body,
In your emotions,
What thoughts are necessary,
What you feel,
Perhaps your jaw and your throat,
Maybe even your fist.
And then as you are aware of these physical feelings and emotional feelings and thoughts,
Be aware that you can simply let them go.
You can open.
You can discover the thoughts dissolving.
The energy of anger that was arising can just discharge like a breath.
The emotional component of power can soften and whatever micro movement in the body can open.
And now just erase all of those people,
All of those incidents,
Those situations.
Be aware if there's any internal evaluation or judgment of yourself in this process and what you should have done or should have felt.
And recognize any internal movement toward yourself,
Away from yourself or against yourself,
Either with thought or emotion or posture.
And allow the recognition to be the signal to simply be space,
Open,
Free of judgment,
Free of evaluation,
Free of definition.
Breathing into this,
Being breathed by this.
Recognizing it's always possible to open more to spaciousness.
And the mind can be given an assignment to see if it can find the bottom of the spaciousness or the sides or even the top.
You can continue with this as long as it feels supportive and helpful.
When you're ready you'll come into a normal state but you will have a bigger capacity to recognize the movement of your mind.
And with the recognition of the movement of mind you will also recognize another choice,
To be spacious,
Open,
To be yourself.
