Gently,
Gently finding yourself in a sitting position.
Comfortable.
Sensing your sitz bones.
Your lower back released and relaxed.
Shoulders rolled away and down away from the ears.
Neck in alignment with the head and the rest of the spine.
Sensing your toes,
Your heel.
Broadening your awareness to the whole body,
Looking you from the mind's eye.
Are there any parts that are still holding up?
Relaxing those with the exhalation.
Releasing your jaws.
Tongue gently touching your upper palate.
Your lips separating down there.
Releasing increases between your eyebrows.
Sensing your skull.
Noticing the uprightness,
The effortless with relaxation.
Rooting down through the pelvic floor.
And your legs.
Feeling straight,
Yet relaxed.
Just come into your breath once you notice how the body is feeling comfortable and at home.
Where do you notice your breath currently?
Your belly,
Your chest,
Your collarbone raising,
Your throat.
As you inhale through the nostril,
Sensing the air going in.
As the belly expands,
Taking it all the way down to the depths.
And if you can bring your awareness to your toes as well as you breathe in.
Waking up the whole body to its state.
Continue to breathe deeply,
Softly.
And quietly.
As you get more and more comfortable and rhythmic.
And then checking in with your mind now.
Bodies relax.
Breath is settled.
And then checking in your mind.
Is it busy?
Still rushing,
Running,
Chasing?
Pausing all of it like bringing awareness to your sensations.
Continue to focus on relaxation.
Releasing,
Letting go of all the holdings.
Whether it's of the thoughts,
Emotions,
Sensations.
Getting into the bones,
Into the marrow of the sensations.
Feelings and the thoughts staying in there.
And listening and watching from the midst of it without reacting.
You might feel tingles in your fingers and your toes,
Warmth in your palms,
In your body,
Your heart center.
Bringing in a smile on your face,
On your lips.
A smile in your heart.
Giving yourself this gift of warmth,
Heartedness.
Relaxing your gut,
Your belly,
Your sphincters,
Your toes,
Your legs.
Your back,
Your chest,
Your throat,
Your jaw.
Hold and relax in the feelings and the emotions too.
Witnessing,
Pausing.
And remembering that we can carry it out.
Carry this practice out to the real world whenever we find ourselves in a little stress.
Coming to see,
Coming to feel where we are at that moment.
In this moment.
Sensations in your feelings,
In your heart.
The emptiness of your mind.
All of you here,
Relaxing,
Willing to be gentle.
And listening,
Open heartedly to whatever is coming up right now.
Let the mind come to your breath and follow the breath through all the sensations.
Giving them breathing space.
Being patient.
Deligent in staying focused on the path.
What brings you joy?
From your heart center.
Turn that more and more.
What brings us come back to life,
To gratitude,
To freshness.
If it's meditation or yoga practice or journaling or self-study.
What brings joy that has no guilt and residual of heaviness?
Doing those more and more in life.
Filling up the daily life with those activities and beingness,
Allowing your beings to flow through those activities.
What is your heart asking for in this moment?
What is it deep as prayers?
Great as need that's unmet.
Allowing the answer to dawn for yourself what that is.
Why deep?
The mind listening.
By listening,
By the virtue of listening,
The mind quits.
Whatever is going on around,
You can choose to come back into yourself and listen to the voices inside yourself.
Giving them a seat on your table,
Space to breathe,
To get curious,
To introspect,
To ask and to listen.
Listen with open-heartedness so that we can fill up those emptiness,
Those lack of purposelessness.
With love,
Compassion,
Kindness,
Acceptance,
Patience,
Creativity,
Curiosity,
Joy.
Maybe that's enough to begin with,
To start the journey with.
Coming back into yourself.
Remember we feel pulled away.
Coming back to your body,
To your heart.
Noticing the body is still relaxed in these spaces that we can deepen our relaxation even more.
Getting more and more subtle into feeling spaces,
Into our chemical spaces.
And eating ourselves with our fears,
With our frustrations,
With our despair,
With our harshness,
With our shame,
With our granduosities.
All with open-heartedness,
None better or worse than the other.
Having equal space for all of them to speak their pieces.
So to see if you choose which manifestation is most effective for filling and in service.
Seeing what comes in the vision as we get reminded of our true nature.
And can we continue to practice to come back here again and again throughout the day.
And every day making that the practice of reminding ourselves to remember.
And I'll go back to sleep.
And if you do,
Go back to sleep.
Having kindness with that,
Having space with that too.
And making that the practice that wherever we find ourselves,
Making that the gate to enter into the gate of Dharma.
And turning our wheel,
Our own wheel.
If it's going anti-clock,
Giving ourselves a pause,
Gently,
Gently slowing down.
And if you do it in rushed,
The wheels will break and we'll struggle.
And having patience and compassion for that too,
If that is our disposition.
Otherwise gradually,
Gradually slowing down with patience and compassion and gentleness and understanding,
Weaving it.
And then turning it towards Dharma more and more.
Remembering ourselves and our place in the existence,
In this interconnected web of life.
Of manifestation.
Of karma and Dharma.
Taking it to a heart.
Whatever message is coming for yourself.
Whatever vision you have.
Allowing that to take the seed and root.
Planting the seed.
And staying centered here,
Coming back here again and again,
When we swing between the extremes.
Of duality.
Of shame and grandiosity.
Of guilt,
Of blame.
Of self-righteousness,
Of arrogance,
Pride.
Of despair,
Of hopelessness.
All of it.
When we feel all of the coming back here in this space.
The whole.
They can embrace both without preferring one over another.
Keeping it real for ourselves.
Giving ourselves compassion,
Open-heartedness,
Curiosity,
Understanding.
And gentleness when we are faced with our harshness.
Trusting in the process.
Trusting in integrity,
In alignment.
In the magic,
In the mystery,
In the math.
In the sacred geometry.
May every mundane activities become sacred.
May they fulfill your aspirations.
And may the collective enlighten and awaken.
And be joyous,
Happy,
Healthy,
Creative,
Fulfilled.
I love you.
