Letting It Go - Breath Awareness

If I let go of those reasons, too, and open my hand anyway, and place it on my heart, and say to myself, this moment is like this, then I can do it. And then I can get to work.

This moment is like this, I care, we all do. There is work to do, that is always, and we need to roll up our sleeves, now more than ever, and do it. And always as well, this moment is like this.

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So finding the posture that most supports,

Best supports stillness for you right now and seeing if just right from the beginning of this brief practice,

You can let go into your practice.

Just let go of anything that's alive for you in this moment and just settle into the body.

Locate the breath.

And this is probably the best playground of all,

Right?

Because thinking begins or worrying or ruminating or an emotion might arise or some sensation in the body.

And we can just practice letting it go.

And maybe as you're breathing and paying attention to the breath and noticing thoughts or emotions or sensations arising and passing,

You can notice the difference between pushing something away and just gently opening your hand or opening your heart and letting go.

And choose that gentle path of letting go.

Last night,

Our rabbi,

Kol Nidre,

The holiest night of the year,

The Jewish calendar,

Said that the Torah,

The very,

Very first book of the Judeo-Christian everything,

Says,

In the beginning,

There was God or there was grace.

But that the actual Hebrew translation is,

In a beginning.

In a beginning,

There is grace.

So I'll leave you with that.

In a beginning.