Feeling that you can settle in,
That it's time to rest and surrender,
Making any adjustments that's going to help you feel at ease,
Feel comfortable.
Breathing in,
Let the belly rise and breathe out,
Let the belly fall.
Breathe in,
Let the belly rise and breathe out,
Let the belly fall.
As you breathe in,
The belly rises.
As you breathe out,
The belly falls and there's this feeling that every time the belly falls with the exhale that the weight of the body can fall into the ground,
Fall into gravity's warm embrace.
And there's a sense that we don't have to support the weight of our body,
That we're totally held and supported by the ground,
That there's nothing to do right now apart from rest.
Just rest.
The toes can rest,
The feet can rest,
The ankles can rest,
And the legs can rest.
The belly can totally soften.
The lower back can ease out and rest into the ground.
The shoulder blades can rest.
We can let the shoulders relax,
Let the heavy burden that the shoulders are carrying perhaps rest into the ground.
The chest can soften and rest.
Any armor that we find at the heart can soften and come to rest.
The arms have nothing to carry,
They can rest.
The fingers soft,
The wrists soft,
Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to do,
The hands rest.
The neck can rest from holding up the weight of the head,
The weight of the head is held completely by the ground,
Nothing to do,
Let the neck rest.
The jaw can rest from its clenching,
The bottom jaw can fall away from the top.
The tongue that gets its tensions from the thinking,
It's like the act of thinking can awaken the tongue as if the tongue is sort of quietly whispering those thoughts.
We can let the tongue completely relax now.
The inside of the mouth can soften and open,
And the back part of the mouth where the inside of the mouth becomes the throat can soften and open and rest back.
The cheeks can rest,
The eyeballs can rest,
Rest back into the sockets,
And even sometimes as we are resting and the eyes are closed there can be a sense that the eyes are still switched on,
As if trying to look from behind the closed lids.
So now we could just invite the eyes to rest,
No danger is lurking around the corner.
We need not be attentive to anything other than this inner work of resting and letting go.
Allow the eyelids to rest,
Soft yet heavy,
Covering the eyes.
Allow the forehead to smooth.
Allow the worries that the forehead carries,
The worries that tighten the forehead.
Let them rest,
Let the forehead rest.
The temples that clench in problem solving,
In that effort to try to cram as much as possible into our days.
Let it rest,
Let it rest.
Let the brain rest,
The big muscle of the brain softening and resting.
Allow the mind to come to rest,
The tired scattered mind with all its projects and all its ideas,
All its marvelous visions and terrible judgments.
Let it rest.
Anything that we put to the side just now we can attend to in a few minutes or so.
Any thoughts we don't have just now can wait just a few minutes or so as we give ourselves to this rest.
With every exhale there is an invitation to soften even more deeply into rest.
With every inhale there is an invitation to feel where our tensions are,
Where our busyness is and then with the exhale to let it go.
Resting,
Resting.
Feeling as you breathe in that the belly can rise and as you breathe out the belly can soften.
As you breathe in the belly rises,
As you breathe out the belly softens.
Feeling that the in-breath gives you what you need,
The energy you need to go on with your day.
Feeling that with the out-breath you can let go of anything you don't need.
Feeling that the in-breath gives you what you need.
Feeling that with the out-breath you can let go of anything you don't need.
