Alright then,
I invite you to,
Something in your hands,
Put it down or if you have glasses on you can take them off and allow your awareness to just take in first your surroundings and whatever you've been doing right up to now just be aware of that.
Whom you've been with,
What thoughts you've had,
Location you've been in,
Just a brief feel into that.
And then let that fade like dissolving in the sunshine and let yourself arrive right now in this place and time and in yourself.
Bring your awareness to your breath and just noticing the air as it flows in and out without directing,
Without forcing,
Just noticing the ease and the rhythm as your chest expands and contracts.
Your whole ribcage upper body moves gently.
And then allow your awareness to spread into the rest of your body and notice where your attention goes first and share some appreciation for that part of your physical being.
And then notice where your attention goes next in your physical body and spend some time there.
Just allow the weight of your being just to sink into the ground and to the earth and be carried,
Letting go.
The natural tension involved with doing and acting in the world,
Thinking,
Speaking,
Just let that fall away now.
Allow yourself to be who you are without the action.
Notice what's there now.
And as you bring your awareness into your physical body,
Feel into your heartbeat.
See if through your breath or through your stillness,
You can feel the rhythm of each beat.
Give yourself a moment to tune into that rhythm that's only yours.
And as you feel your heartbeat,
As you can feel that rhythm,
Imagine a sound being attached to that rhythm,
The beat of a drum,
Warm,
Deep,
And constant.
And then imagine yourself peacefully standing in a field in sunshine with people around you playing drums.
There's a sense of community and quiet.
And the only sound you hear is the drumbeat that matches your heartbeat.
And everyone around you is playing at the same rhythm,
The same pace as yours.
And perhaps you find a drum in your own hand that you're playing.
Perhaps not.
But as the sun warms you,
And you hear and you feel this rhythm,
Recognize your connectedness to all of these people around you,
To this community,
And recognize how that beat,
That rhythm,
From your heart spreads beyond this community,
Beyond this moment,
Beyond this space in the sun,
Into the earth,
Up into the heavens.
And all around you into the trees and all the beings,
All the animals,
That this rhythm is beating gently,
Connecting and weaving as it moves.
And allow your feet on this ground to gently tap,
Dance,
Shift with the rhythm as the drum beats.
And recognize the ancient experience of this communal heartbeat that stems from you and goes beyond you to all of those around you.
And recognize as you feel your own heartbeat and have it be reflected in the drumming of this group,
In the drumming of the earth,
The trees,
The birds,
The four-legged,
The creepy crawlies,
The finned ones,
The tall standing ones,
That this rhythm repeats itself again and again and that connects you.
And that if you were to interrupt that drumbeat,
If you were to alter it or stop it,
That all of these beings around you in the earth itself would miss your contribution.
How essential you are for life to continue,
To thrive,
To express its goodness.
And as you feel your heartbeat and feel it reflected in the others around you,
All beings,
Two-legged and otherwise,
Recognize that they also have their own rhythm and that you are in sync,
That there is no conflict or tension,
That there's a harmony,
That there's unity,
That there's love as all heartbeats connect.
Perhaps you see or feel or hear that rhythm playing itself out with such ease and naturalness and feel it reverberate through you so not only are you dancing and moving but you are that beat and so are those around you.
And you recognize that life itself is beating this rhythm of you.
And as you feel that rhythm pulsing through you and through all those around you in the very earth and sky,
Bring your awareness back to the heartbeat in your physical being without leaving the other.
Recognize that although your awareness may be drawn to one,
It is not gone from the other.
So as you pick up the heartbeat within your physical being,
Allow your awareness to extend outward from where you are right now in this moment in time and feel into the ground and the earth above you here and the space around you and the people you are with in this moment and recognize that that beating heart is beating each one of us and that you are always connected exactly the way you are is perfect and beautiful.
There's nothing to change and everything to celebrate.
Without you it would not be the same rhythm.
And bring your awareness back to your breath as the air flows in and out.
And as the backdrop of that rhythm of breath,
Again feel your heartbeat.
And recognize that there's a dance between that heartbeat and the cycle of your breath and all things around you.
Saki Simo-in,
Dancing with the universe.
And as you watch your inhale and your exhale flow through you and as you.
In one of the next few breaths give yourself the opportunity to arrive back in this place and gently open your eyes and welcome back.
There's an institute called HeartMath and they have researched for decades now the impact of the electromagnetic field of the human heart and some of the studies that they have done and that they have attached themselves to or collaborated on have measured the vibration,
The electromagnetic field of the human heart,
One single human heart to five miles.
Something about that fact is that the reason that it's five miles is because that's as far as their instruments could measure.
So in thinking about that not only the distance and expanse of our hearts I imagine that there is no limit to that.
I imagine that from a quantum perspective that every one of our heartbeats impacts the world always and in all directions without limitation and others do the same to us so that there's a entrainment,
A coherence that takes place.
And so the greatest good that we can do in this world for ourselves and for others is to attend to our well-being,
To attend to our hearts,
To really listen to that heartbeat,
Literally listen to that heartbeat.
And when we do that we become aware of the impact of that beat both the finality of life itself and also that the life force never stops.
Even if our individual heartbeat stops or those that of a loved one stops the collective beat does not.
There's a continuity.
There's a all omnipresence if you will that cannot ever end.
And that awareness I think can give us the understanding that we are essential and precious and that also there's something grander than us that we are part of.
Feeling that in a physical way because we are in physical body right and what we tend to do is to when we're seeking spirit or we're seeking peace is we go to our head because if we're not moving often what we have most available at the forefront is our cognitive thinking.
If we move ourselves into the physical being and remove ourselves from the thinking then really we can feel that connection in a palpable way and spirit is more available to feel as well because we've moved into the physical form and we've allowed space to get out of the cognitive and to be in our spiritual self or emotional self.
Yeah and it's true when we're and that's as you said when we're out of alignment the group is impacted by that right or when we think we're out of alignment because we never can be but we can act from a place that feels like it's out of alignment.
The way so if I'm not physically moving the drumming alone feeling that heartbeat or feeling that the drumming or dancing on the ground just very gently not with large movements but just to the beat of that drum connects me to something that's greater and we can do that with our heartbeat then just to really feel that before we go to sleep or when we wake up in the morning is to just feel the heartbeat and that connection.
Okay I have a little something I want to share with you.
So this is a Native American warrior woman's warrior song and I drum to this and sing this and I would invite you if you're so called to sing to this as well it's sure it's only a minute here.
I'm here today to honor all our missing and murdered women across Canada as you know we did a walk for justice last summer and we walked from Vancouver to Ottawa.
Excuse-me.
Chemical movement So,
That's it my friends.
Take care.
Have a beautiful day.
Bye bye.
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