Oh beautiful waking one,
Set your eyes free to be open,
Closed or half closed.
Two ears listening together form the shape of a heart.
There is so much love behind the need to feel heard.
Listen inwardly.
Listening not as a mental process,
But more of an energetic bodily and cellular listening.
Listen deeply so that your listening can become a gift for your community and all that you encounter.
And let this practice be a blanket of protective energy that can infuse this day and everything you come into contact with.
Awakening often involves a passage through a kind of sacred fog.
And this practice is intended to help you navigate that fog with patience and instinct.
We look outside ourselves all the time for breaking news,
External messengers and notifications.
But what is the breaking news inside you in this moment?
Feeling the natural changes in your own inner webs,
Your own interior and your environment.
What is arising inside you as you meet this new day?
Sense and feel into the inner weather of you today.
Imagine breath as vibrant,
Clear eyes that can see in all directions.
And under the surface of things,
The inner ecosystem.
Each breath like a highly attuned force of nature that can sense and feel in all directions at once.
Physical sensations,
Movements of energy,
Mental landscape,
Emotional tones,
Messages from your soul.
Drop into your capacity to feel.
One breath at a time.
Feel the energy you are made of.
Each breath tunes you to the beauty you naturally are.
A source of life force and aliveness.
And your body has a consciousness all its own.
Invite breath to feel its way into the belly brain.
And if you like,
Rest your hands there.
Imagine your own hands and your own attention are those of a very wise healer.
A deep,
Listening,
Loving presence that says,
I see you and I welcome you exactly as you are.
One breath at a time.
Feel the digestive and intuitive powers of your gut brain.
Stoking like a potent sunrise.
The inhale clarifying like the pure undiluted freshness of morning air and light.
Each exhale a gentle clearing effect.
Now feel the breath gently massage the wise heart brain.
Each inhale lifting the heart buoyant.
Each exhale sensing and feeling the heart field extending out into the space all around you.
Your heart making waves out into the world.
Glowing like a soft sunrise.
Now use a fingertip to gently close your left nostril or simply use your imagination.
And savor three full breaths in and out inhaling and exhaling through just the right nostril while pressing the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth.
Right nostril activating solar vibrant waking energies.
Tongue to the roof of the mouth stimulating the pituitary and pineal glands.
Super conductors of rhythmic energy.
Once you've had your three full breaths through just the right nostril release your fingertip.
Return to breathing through both nostrils.
Now feel the aliveness at the space between the eyebrows.
Each inhale invigorating stimulating fortifying.
Imagining a clear refreshed eye opening there.
And feel that you possess a kind of x-ray vision here that can see beyond the surface of things.
Each breath enlivening the third eye.
And feel these intersections like a trinity of intelligence and instinct.
Gut heart space between the eyebrows breathing together like beautiful cords coming from a precious instrument.
How does this instrument want to play today?
What kind of day wants to be experienced?
And beyond your to do's how would you like to do?
And what state of being would you like to cultivate independent of outcomes?
Trust your awakening with the unforced timing of a morning sunrise.
With each breath millions of cells are born millions recycle.
Feel the ever changing flowing river of energy you are.
