Welcome,
Welcome.
Thank you for being here.
If you're new here,
I'm so glad that you found us.
Our time together is really just an invitation into something very simple.
So simple that I think the mind wants to make it much more complicated than it really needs to be.
That personal self,
The ego,
This bodysuit can just make all of this seem very difficult and distant.
And it can suggest that something needs to be achieved or understood or changed.
But those are just thoughts appearing.
And they're seen and they're appearing in the same field of awareness that is here right now.
I am is already present before any thoughts about ourselves,
Before any stories or any effort.
I am.
So let's begin there with the simplicity of resting as I am.
If you'd like to close your eyes,
You can do so.
And just allow the body,
The breath,
Just to naturally settle on its own.
Nothing forced.
The body is here.
Breath is moving.
Sensations are present.
And all of this is known.
I am is present before sensation is noticed.
I am is present before the next thought appears.
I am is the knowing of experience.
We're just really resting in the simplicity of I am.
And just letting attention gently relax into this noticing,
This recognition of what you are.
Thoughts may continue to rise.
Images and memories,
Perhaps some commentary.
And they all appear in I am.
They dissolve in I am.
Like clouds moving through the sky.
Thoughts move through I am.
The sky is unchanged.
So we're just resting as this spacious awareness of what we are.
Sensations continue to be present in the body.
There's movement and temperature and a sense of pressure beneath you.
As you sit or lie down.
Then it's all appearing.
And I am.
The body is known.
Notice the openness of this.
The body appears within awareness.
Awareness is not contained within the body.
Everything moves.
Thoughts shift.
Sensations change.
Sounds come and go.
I am presence does not move.
I am is what you are and it's constant.
I am is here before,
During,
And after every experience.
So we're just letting attention rest as this unmoving presence.
In this resting,
We can know that what we are has never been harmed.
Has never been lacking.
Has never been separate.
Has never needed healing.
Has never been hurt.
I am is whole.
And wholeness isn't created.
It's recognized.
So we're just resting as this recognition.
As we begin to close our session,
A gentle awareness of the room appears with sounds and light through the eyelids.
The feeling of the body where it's sitting.
And all of this is appearing in the same.
I am presence.
Nothing changes.
Experience just expands to include more.
If the eyes were closed,
You may want to softly open them.
Noticing the small movements in the body happening.
The hands and the shoulders or the neck,
Perhaps.
All of it unfolding with an awareness.
I am remains exactly as it is.
This presence is is here in stillness.
It's here in movement.
It's here with the eyes closed or open.
Busy or slow day.
It's here.
Thank you for joining me today.
Namaste.
Namaste.
