All right,
So grab,
If you have a candle,
Go ahead and grab it and light it or anything that can be the subject,
Object,
If some attention,
Some simple attention in this moment with the eyes open.
Letting your eyes find something that's so simple in this moment.
Something that doesn't need to be figured out or fixed.
Something that your eyes and your brain with your eyes and your cognition can identify as simple,
Easy,
Not a problem,
Doesn't require managing.
And let your eyes or your gaze be soft with it or just gently including it.
Not with our figuring out capacities or our analyzing capacities,
Just kind of with our gently looking capacities,
Our curious capacity.
Staying with that simple object while also starting to include the simplicity of breath that's happening.
You might even peripherally notice the rise and the fall of the body.
Or you might kind of sense the rise and fall of the body kind of from the outside-ish.
With the eyes open,
You can peripherally still notice the space around you,
The chair under you or the object under you,
A solid space,
Solid something or other that's supporting your body.
You can look at it if you want directly or you can kind of just peripherally notice the solidity of the space that you're in or the safety of the space that you're in.
And then I'm gonna invite you to let the eyes close.
So now we're feeling the solid object under us.
Maybe behind us.
We're feeling the breath continue to do what it's been doing,
Which is to say the breath moves the body and we can feel it.
We can feel the ribs move with the inhalation,
For example.
We can feel the ribs move with the exhalation.
Or the shoulders or the belly.
We can pick,
We can choose what we want our attention to be on or to be with.
And notice what's in happening.
The simple,
The simpleness of breath that's just coming in and out.
So we've got solidity under us or behind us that's holding our bodies in a very real way,
Right?
This isn't conceptual.
This is in actuality,
In direct experience.
All of our bodies are not floating.
None of our bodies are floating.
All of our bodies are being very much held.
And we can feel that through our sit bones or our backs or some other aspect of our sitting or laying body.
And we're very much being breathed.
And we can feel how our bodies receive that breath.
The ribs receive that breath and they move.
The body receives the breath and the shoulders move,
Maybe.
The body receives the breath and the diaphragm engages.
Maybe the pelvic floor engages for you,
Just noticing how in real life how in very practical experiences,
Your body receives breath.
So we're not trying to fix anything right now or change anything.
Not trying to manage or have an experience.
There might be a part of you that is,
But we're inviting another part to and just study,
Study the experience from our movie theater chair,
From our half-step back perspective,
Where we can observe the actual factual happening that we're within.
There might be what we call,
Might call a smaller self that's having narratives and doing what that small self does,
Maybe fighting,
Maybe trying to figure out,
Maybe just daydreaming.
Doesn't matter,
We're not judging that part of us.
That's just comes with being human.
And then we're noticing something beyond that small self that's already in happening.
Noticing something beyond that small self that's already in happening,
That that small self is included within,
Within this movement of breath,
Within this experience of gravity,
Within that which is just happening with us.
And this space of gravity,
This space of breathing,
Breathing us,
Isn't so much interested in rights and wrongs and goods and bads.
It's just a co-creation of itself that we are with,
We're within,
We're a part of.
And we don't earn it,
We don't try to make it happen.
It's just happening.
And if our attention is slowed down a little bit and our nervous systems are regulated a little bit,
We might be able to notice this experience that we're in within,
This co-creation that we're within that isn't about right or wrong or achievement or success.
It's way more simple and way more inclusive.
In this way,
We might be experiencing what some people might call a higher self or divinity or God or love or,
That's co-creation,
Whatever word works for you.
And that smaller self might be trying to figure it out or understand it or want,
Or have a whole other reality going on right now,
And that's okay.
It's gonna be here too.
I wanna just keep inviting our attention to reconnect with what's so simple in this moment,
Maybe not easy to connect with,
But what's so simple,
The space of gravity that we're connected with in some practical way,
And the breath that's breathing us in some kind of lived way.
Let your attention connect with what anchors you to this bigger than a small self experience.
Is it sit bones?
Is it the outsides of the body?
Is it some aspect of breath?
Is it the feet?
Doesn't really matter what it is.
Let your attention just acknowledge this anchoring spot or experience helps you to be grounded in this experience that's beyond a small self.
And as the eyes start to slowly open,
Let your attention still stay with that anchoring experience just letting that attention or the eyes be with a soft gaze again.
The bulk of your attention staying with that anchoring experience.
Maybe the eyes need to gently rest closed again to re-establish that grounded experience.
When you reconnect or re-establish that connection,
You can then let the eyes open again,
Continuing to invite attention to mainly be with the experience of groundedness or whatever word we would use.
This more inclusive experience.
Maybe the body wants to move a little bit or your gaze wants to move a bit.
The invitation continues to be the same though.
We're still letting the bulk of our attention be this grounded anchor that we had established a few moments ago.
And so as we move into our day,
We're still gonna invite ourselves to periodically check back in.
Am I still with my anchor or have I completely forgotten?
And chances are we will forget,
But we just wanna re-establish this connection when we remember to live more from this place in our days.
And when you're ready,
Just gently coming back to your computer.
Yeah,
And if you would like to take a note or two or write down something that you wanna take from our rest that you wanna remember,
Let yourself jot it down.
Just a couple of simple words or sentences to anchor our anchoring.
And then we'll come back to the screen.
