Resting back into the back of the body,
Especially the lower back,
As if really sinking down into your favorite sofa,
Bed,
Chair,
Or place of grass on the earth.
And for a while,
Feeling into the back of the body,
Feeling the back of the head,
Hard and delicate,
With its different plates,
Like the plates of the earth.
As if we could let some kind of sunshine warm and melt the back of the head,
And also now the neck,
Feeling especially into the spine,
Starting at the top,
As if we could melt it into liquid light.
And the upper back,
Especially the spine,
Between the shoulder blades.
Relaxing and feeling,
And seeing if there could be ease of friendship between the shoulders and the spine.
So partly just feeling,
As if for the first time,
Into the back of the body and especially the spine.
And if we can feel some kind of sunny day warmth that could help us just melt into the ground.
But it's also possible just to feel.
And coming down the spine into the middle of the back,
As the bones start to get bigger.
So feeling the lower and middle spine.
Coming into the back of the body and feeling.
As if we would start to be able to develop eyes in the back of the body.
As if we would be that aware and sensitive and open in the back as we are in the front.
Feeling a sense of liquid light into the spine.
And then just for a while staying with the very lower back,
The very wide bones of the sacrum.
The back of the hips and the buttocks.
And there's a feeling of exhaustion in the lower back.
Allowing a sense of space between the bones.
Of resting into the earth.
And of really letting life in.
As if life begins in the lower back.
As if the sacrum is the sunrise.
And then again,
Tuning especially into the sense of resting back into something soft and comfortable,
Even if you're sitting up.
And maybe throughout the day staying with some of our energy with the lower back,
With the sacrum.
To help us arrive at the truly deep rest that's restful also in activity.
And at the same time openness now to include sounds and the space around us.
The breath coming in and out.
As if we are kind of the forest floor.
Moved by the earth and open to the trees and the light filtering through and the breezes and the birds and so on.
So there's enough room for thoughts and we could just let them be like the millions of ants that live probably inside this very hill that we're sitting on.
Just for now letting them be busy.
And not the only or most important thing that's happening right now.
And we could play with for a moment,
For a few moments,
Resting back with openness that does receive sound.
We're playing with how much I could stay relaxed and learn about receptivity,
Find some receptivity and how little effort is needed for hearing to happen.
How much I don't need to be involved.
Just being with sound can help us see how quickly and precisely crystal clear and flowingly life hears sound through our ears.
And how different that quick,
Precise and flowing knowing of the sound is compared to the mind trying to say oh that's a bird and that's the wind and that's someone moving in the room.
And that's Jaya's voice.
So resting back,
Allowing openness for life to receive sound in us.
And gradually starting to feel the difference,
To experience the difference between the first kind of hearing of the sound.
That hears and lets the sound go at once.
And then the image in the mind that says oh that kind of bird,
That kind of tree and that kind of wind.
And just leaving more room for that quicksilver that comes first.
That kind of knowing that I'm not knowing.
I don't know what kind of bird it is through my mind.
Through the filter of my mind I don't yet know if it's even a bird.
Yet the hearing is very accurate.
And there's an aliveness and electricity in the meeting of the aliveness within us and the sound.
The aliveness in the sound.
So just leaving a little more room for the aliveness and also leaving room for the mind trying to filter and categorize.
To name and remember.
Just another hill of ants.
No problem.
And so if we could bring that kind of quicksilver,
Aliveness meeting aliveness in our experience.
Before we even realize what's happening mentally.
We could bring that space for aliveness to the lower back,
The sacrum and to our inner experience.
So the main thing is relaxing.
Maybe relaxing back.
And receptivity to experience aliveness meeting aliveness.
Even if the mind and the commentary and the tensions and the likes and dislikes also come in very quickly.
Leaving space for both,
Not getting into a battle.
And then again,
Relaxing back.
Feeling the sacrum,
The lower back.
Feeling the aliveness there.
Or the possibility that we might feel aliveness there someday.
And openness.
And if thinking keeps taking over all the space,
We can rest back,
Feel the lower back.
Or if it's easier somewhere else,
Like the chest,
That's fine.
And maybe just the out breath.
Relaxing back.
Getting to a place in the body that's easy to connect to,
That feels alive.
And the out breath.
So letting the out breath be itself.
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