One tree welcomes me when I step outside,
Its golden sunlit leaves like some ancient treasure find.
The gold tree stands tall shining in the pale morning light and says,
But for you I am not seen.
Thus I was given an important task.
As the tree stands in silence,
Let your silence shine.
Be like a tree rooted,
Spreading into space without a sound.
Spread quiet from every pore.
Give off silence into the world.
Move it out to all the space around you so that it fills the room.
Sit here and feel the space that you fill and fill it more.
Know that this is your space.
Offer your body the comfort of a home.
Send appreciation to your feet,
Legs,
Waist,
Chest,
Arms and head,
And together to your whole physical being.
Emotions take up space too and,
If not acknowledged,
Become coalesced like petrified wood.
Grant yourself now permission to breathe life into your feelings.
Awareness of your feelings can be permission enough.
Awareness is enough for now.
However you define your spirit at this moment,
Let it shine like gold.
Whatever this essence is,
However you imagine it,
Breathe it and express it.
Let go of the definitions.
Let yourself shine at this moment.
Begin to move yourself into this day.
Breathe and stretch.
Make paths in the air.
Take your whole affirmed self with you like a light shining forth.
Your gift today is luminosity.