Start to find a comfortable position.
Take some fuller breaths.
Start to sink into your seat.
Sink your shoulders down.
Your eyes close and the gaze turns inward.
Expanding out your ribs,
Lengthening up your spine with a few fuller breaths.
You can soften the muscles of your face,
Especially the cheeks and the eyeballs,
Softening into a smile.
You might right away connect to a peacefulness that is under the surface of all these thoughts,
Like a background of stillness.
Start to soften your body piece by piece.
You might start with your skin.
The arms and hands soften all their muscles.
Soften all the muscles of your back as you breathe in and out of the heart space.
Soften all the muscles of your legs.
Taking a full body breath.
A few more of those fuller,
Slower breaths,
Feeling from the inside.
Enclosing up the entire back of your body.
And this is more than enough to just be here,
Breathing,
Arriving,
Allowing everything to be.
You might slow down your next round of breath and keep the face soft as well.
Taking the breath through the heart space,
Notice its special qualities.
The heart might feel like intimacy or like energy or like home.
A palm might rest on the chest at any time to deepen that awareness of your middle.
And you can replace the distracted thoughts with your breath awareness.
And connect to any more intimate thoughts or feelings that are persistent here below the surface.
How do you feel today?
Is there something waiting to be recognized and allowed or loved?
Thank You.
Asking once more,
How do I feel right now?
What do I need?
Staying inside the body,
Softening any unnecessary tensions.
Slow relaxing breaths through a smiling face.
And for a moment let all of the effort fall away.
And come all the way back into the place that you're looking out from.
Your being behind the thoughts,
The senses,
The images,
To your very own presence.
You might say the word I or I am.
And sense what that refers to inside.
Your being.
Each breath through the heart space grounds you into the center of your being.
OneRun Asset The physical body relaxes.
The heart keeps opening,
You can bring your palm back to the chest at any time.
As you breathe the energy of the heart into the entire body,
Softening and loving yourself from the inside.
One more minute,
Embodying the being,
Loving and relaxing every part of you from inside out.
You might conclude with a palm on your chest,
Offering yourself some beautiful words,
Exactly what you need to hear and also know to be true.
Keeping a nice full breath through the heart,
Allowing your practice to conclude organically,
So really take your time,
Feeling the echoes of your practice,
Setting an intention from inside as you move into the rest of your week.
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