So now use your breath to let yourself deepen into your body.
Coming back to the notion of having a body that belongs to the world,
Very different than being lost in thought.
Let your senses be awake to the moment.
Things become possible that were impossible a moment ago.
An idea,
Memory,
An impulse,
Something to follow.
Is your breath gradually deepening down into your pelvis?
As you allow yourself to feel bodily sensations and breath moving through you,
Do you have a sense of an enlarged space inside?
A sense of being held and contained?
And a relaxed but alert attention?
An awareness of life simply happening around you and you?
If you let thoughts melt,
Sensations melt and sink down into your core,
Just keep falling away and being here.
Besides being deeply enfolded,
In yourself,
Can you also be beyond yourself at the same time?
Feeling people you love in your life,
Wind.
Just notice what that's like to let go,
As if you could just go with the wind when it comes and goes.
Again,
What's your experience of containment like,
Of being contained in your body?
But also spacious,
Wide open,
Vast.
What's that like?
Relaxed but interested,
Curious,
Available.
And notice now as you sit here how you're both in time and outside of time,
Here and beyond here.
Rooting,
Relaxing into the body,
Being at rest and being.
And allowing your senses to be awake and active.
Sensation,
Feeling,
Sound,
Taste,
Soon vision.
This ability to be grounded and present and responsive,
Containing,
Resonating with,
And stay interested is what allows places of chronic trouble to become potentially transformative.
Where we don't have to be overly careful,
Just sensitive.
So as we come to this day,
To all more times,
To possibilities that are going to emerge through encounters,
Through exchanges,
Through experiences,
That we have no idea about in advance.
We don't have to be concerned about.
They just emerge as they do.
