Namaste.
This is a moment in your day where you can take a comfortable pause and use this pause to learn how to see again,
How to listen again,
And how to feel all over again.
Close your eyes if it's comfortable.
Bring your awareness to how you're sitting or lying down,
And feel the weight of your body.
Begin feeling down at the base of your feet.
Move up to your calves,
Your knees,
The backs of your thighs,
Backs of your hips and sitting bones,
Your lower back,
Mid-back,
Upper back,
The back of your neck,
And the weight of your head.
Feeling your entire back body,
Or as much of it as you care to feel.
Let your eyes draw back now towards the back of your head.
Become aware of the space between your shoulder blades and in your lower back.
Looking back so that you're looking behind closed eyelids.
What do you see?
Is there darkness or shifts in color?
Does it feel dull or vivid?
And are there shapes you can focus on or blackness?
What are you seeing now,
Even with your eyelids closed?
Move to what you're hearing now.
Is the sound further away or closer to you?
Is it constant or intermittent?
Come back to the feeling of your body and feel any part of your body that's calling for your attention.
If you're finding a part of your body that's calling,
What is it like to spend time there noticing?
Is this a place of discomfort for you or comfort?
And what does the comfort or discomfort feel like?
These are three anchors,
The ability to look behind closed eyes and to see shapes,
Darkness,
Or colors.
To listen to the sounds that are happening close to you and further away.
A second anchor.
And the third anchor is feeling your body.
Perhaps one of these anchors is speaking more to you.
Use that one and stay with it for the next few breaths.
Experiment now with adding a second anchor,
Looking behind closed eyelids,
Feeling into your body,
Or listening to sounds.
Is it possible to hold two anchors at once?
If not,
Return to one.
What is it like to try and hold all three anchors at the same time?
To let your awareness move from one anchor to the other,
Or to fixate simultaneously on several anchors at once?
Let's try.
You continue looking,
Listening,
Feeling.
Let the experiment stop now and return to the feeling of your breath.
Take a full inhale through your nose and let it out with a sigh,
Taking two more rounds in through your nose and out through your mouth.
You may begin slowly blinking your eyes open and returning to the next part of your evening or day.
After your greeting,
Grab recycled tissue and wipe that least
