Making any adjustments that you'd like to make so that you can get really comfy,
Like making your little nest.
If there are any little wriggles you need to do so that you can be super at ease,
Go for it.
When you're ready,
Really having the feeling that you can rest back.
Let's imagine that our lungs are in our belly,
And as we breathe in,
The belly fills,
And as we breathe out,
The belly softens and we relax.
As we breathe in,
The belly is full,
And as we breathe out,
We let go.
So with every exhalation,
There's this opportunity to soften and let go,
To deepen into rest.
And with every inhalation,
There's an opportunity to come back to ourselves,
To remember that rest is possible,
That letting go is possible.
Let's let our toes relax.
Let's see if we can let the feet relax.
Can we let the heels rest a little more deeply into the ground by letting the legs be heavy?
If we relax the groin,
Does that allow the legs to drop into the ground?
Can we allow the belly to take up a little more space?
Can the lower back relax and release into the ground anymore?
Can the upper back and the shoulder blades rest,
Rest more heavy into the ground?
Can there be a sense of the shoulders able to melt,
Spread out,
Rest into the ground?
Could the chest soften?
Could the neck relax as the head rests heavy?
If we drop the weight of the arms to gravity,
Does that allow the shoulders to relax a little more?
Does that allow more sense of opening in the chest?
Can the fingers relax and the thumbs relax?
Can the bottom jaw fall away from the top jaw?
The lips fall away from each other.
Can the tongue rest heavy in the mouth?
Can the eyes come to rest?
So sometimes even if we have our eyes closed,
There's still some sense of the eyes trying to look from behind the closed lids.
Can we really let the eyes soften?
Can the forehead smooth?
Can the temples relax?
Can we come to rest in the heart?
Can we feel into the heartbeat at the chest?
Can we feel the heartbeat from the inside of the chest?
So as best we can,
There's not the sense that we're located up in our head,
Looking down at the heart as if from the outside.
Can we let our awareness come to rest inside the chest and feel our heartbeat from the inside?
Can we open up our awareness so we're feeling the whole of the chest?
And perhaps even feeling the echo of the heartbeat in the right side of the chest as well.
Can we bring our awareness into the belly?
Can we feel the echo of the heartbeat in the belly?
Can we feel into the legs?
Is there any movement pulsing in the legs that seems to relate to the pulsing of the heart in the chest?
Can you feel your heartbeat in your feet?
In your toes?
Feeling into the palms and the fingers?
Can you feel that pulsing of aliveness in the hands or fingers that seems to relate to the beat of the heart?
And how are the arms?
Can you feel the veins at the wrist and the pulsing of the blood there?
Can you feel into the neck and feel the pulsing of the blood through the body at the neck?
Can you feel your heartbeat in your neck?
Can you feel it at the temples?
Or at the base of the skull?
Can you bring your focus back to your heart?
And still the focus is on the heart,
But can you now widen the lens so you take in the scope of the whole of your body?
So with our awareness,
Feeling the heart,
But also tuned into the rest of the body and the feeling of this aliveness as you experience it throughout the whole body.
If it's easier for you to stay with the heartbeat at a specific part of the body,
Feel free to just focus in on that.
But if you can stay with this open awareness,
Feeling into the body as this field of pulsing aliveness,
You can just rest there and the forehead can be smooth,
The jaw relaxed.
Feeling into how your relaxed body facilitates this flow,
This flow of aliveness.
Is there any way in which you could soften more?
That would allow the body to be more open to the flow,
That would create more space for this flow of aliveness.
And that in turn would allow us to be more receptive to this flow of aliveness.
If we can soften any clenching at the belly,
Does that allow more flow?
If we can soften the hands and fingers,
Does that allow more flow and also more receptivity to flow?
If the jaw and the temples soften more,
Can there be more space for this pulse of aliveness?
Either resting into this sensation,
This field of aliveness,
Or feeling for where there's a clench against this flow,
Where there's a clutch or a bracing,
And feeling for how it feels to soften.
Resting in the sense of your own vibrant aliveness.
