An invitation to welcome yourself to yourself.
Welcoming in the breath and the body that sit at the centre of your experience in this very moment,
Right here,
Right now.
Dropping into the sense of contact on the ground,
With the cushion,
And energetically with the earth beneath you.
Perhaps a sense of rootedness flowing down through the breath,
Through the body,
Connecting you to the earth below.
This rich earth,
Offering support,
Holding,
Offering nourishment and nurturing.
Nurturing your roots,
Nurturing your being,
Grounded,
Rooted in the earth.
Just like your imaginary roots unfurling into the earth beneath,
So too the breath,
Unfurling,
Blossoming,
Opening up cavity of the chest,
Inviting spaciousness and openness in the body,
Wherever that's available to you right now.
And an invitation now to fall back,
Let go,
Drop in,
Coming to rest in the flow,
Unfurling Noticing the sensations,
The emotions,
The thoughts and feelings that are present,
And letting them all go,
Letting them all flow downstream in the gentle unfurling of the breath.
Perhaps noticing that deep rooted need to arrive somewhere,
To achieve something,
To get somewhere,
Or to get rid of something.
Using these impulses to solve,
To fix,
To heal,
To bring closer what we want and to remove what we don't.
The push and pull of desire and aversion,
Of comfort and discomfort,
So inbuilt,
So wired in to our experience of being human.
Welcoming all of that intractable conditioning.
Just recognizing that within,
Through and beyond it all,
This breath,
This flow of energy,
That's beyond our knowing,
Beyond our ability to control.
It's naturally here,
Naturally unfurling,
All by itself,
Without any effort required on our part.
This breath,
This body,
Is already one with the flow.
Continually drawn towards deeper alignment,
Attunement with this flow.
The mystery of this breath,
Of this energy,
That knows no bounds,
No boundary.
Infinitely unfurling,
Timelessly flowing.
This divine flow is your nature already.
There's nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to cling to.
Everything,
Everything is constantly being washed away by this unfurling aliveness.
This visceral resonance of divine beingness,
Divine unravelling.
It's beyond our ability to know or contain.
The only constant is change.
And this cannot be understood by that which seeks to stand still,
To take hold,
To grasp.
Yet even that too will pass.
And all will merge with divine flow,
Divine unfurling.
This breath,
This boundless,
Sensational happening.
All is unfurling,
All by itself.
And now,
These final moments,
Welcoming gentle movement,
Fingers and toes.
Welcoming comfort and ease in the body.
Welcoming the fruits,
The blessings.
Engaging in this practice in this way.
Resting into enjoying the quality of presence in the body,
In the visceral unfurling of breath,
Sensation,
Energy.
Welcome home.
This being human,
This mystery of life.
It's not a problem to solve.
It's a blessing,
A miracle that yearns to be expressed.
Yearns to unfurl,
To blossom.
Your nature is to blossom.
Your nature,
Your essence is already,
Always in a boundless state of divine unfurling,
Divine blossoming.
