Now bring your attention to your breath.
Just keep noticing the ways your thoughts will generate themselves and let them go again.
Bring back to your bodily sensations and your breath.
Begin to notice what it is like to allow your breath to go down,
To inhale down,
Without forcing it.
Feel the quality of the movement of your breath as opposed to your body.
Whether it's stiff or stilted or held,
Or whether it's more fluid,
Has a sense of movement to it moving through you,
Moving from you.
Philip Shepper would say the quality of our experience of reality will be determined by our experience of the world's energy moving through us.
And a primary way to do that is experiencing our breath passing through us.
Practicing patience and waiting,
And allowing your breath to deepen and drop.
And in the same way that your breath moves through you,
Can you also feel sound move through you,
Not bracing against it or inhibiting the flow?
Then the sound of silence moving through you,
The quality of that.
Begin with your skin as well as your muscles,
Your embodied sense of being porous,
Of being able to let life permeate,
Pass through.
Let it come through,
Let it go through.
Can you rest into that?
And whenever you find your mind wandering off as it will,
Coming back to your seat and your feet and the ground underneath you,
Solid,
There for you.
The feel of your breath moving through you.
Begin feeling the porousness of your being,
Being permeable,
Allowing your breath to flow in,
Feeling in the air to move through,
And also to let it go.
Getting into what Philip Shepherd calls felt relationship,
Felt sense of life happening,
Moving.
Moving from the abstractions of the mind,
Things that the mind can think and know,
To the simple and direct experience of flow.
From the narrowness of abstract thinking to the embodied knowing,
To a felt sense of what's happening.
Sensations,
Sounds.
What we're living through and what lives through us is the whole point.
And our wholeness will be determined by our capacities,
Our abilities to live through something,
Anything.
Something supportive,
Something challenging.
Feel your orientation now to an exchange,
To a porous exchange through your breath and through your being here now,
Getting ready for the encounters or the exchanges,
The flow of life that you'll be returning to.
From the simple and direct experience of grounding and opening our senses,
Changing the quality of our day,
A subtle shift of what could be possible now that wouldn't have been possible even 10 minutes ago,
And opening ourselves to that possibility.
From what we no longer need,
We let go.
