Trusting What "Just Is"

This guided practice we'll invite you to connect with your experience in a simple loving way. It will let you discover what "just is" for you in this moment. It might give you a sense of grounding or simpleness as a result.

Transcript

Yeah, Just letting yourself get comfortable, Whatever that means for you. Just watching your body find the spot that it wants to pause with, What feels comfortable to you. Knowing that might change, You can readjust at any moment. You can honor the comfort of your positioning, However it wants to land, And then re-land, Maybe. And just noticing how you have landed, Noticing where your arms have landed, Your hands have landed, Noticing their weight, Noticing where their legs have landed, Where they're positioned, The feet. And I had a client bring in this phrase this week, And then coincidentally two more used the same phrase. They said, What just is? And just using that prompt here, Just noticing that the legs, They changed the verb, They just are, And each one just is, Just is positioned as it already is based on your context. What is for my left foot might be different than what is for my right foot, And the same for you. What is with the temperatures or the textures with your feet? There isn't a right or wrong or good or bad about the temperature of your feet. There may be discomfort or preference, But morally speaking or ethically speaking, It just is. So we connect with that just is-ness of the feet and include more from there, The legs, The rest of the legs, Just what just is with the positioning of the legs? What is just with the positioning of the arms and the hands? Noticing again the temperatures, The textures, The qualities that are beyond right, Wrong, Good or bad, They just are in this moment based on context, Based on positioning, Based on the thermostat, Based on this field of gravity that we're all in that give us weight to our bodies just is. And the breath just is as well. The breath has been just is this whole time, And now we notice it as intimately or as distantly as you'd like. You can study it from within itself or you can observe the just is-ness of the breath. You can observe the rise and fall of the body by noticing the shoulders or the inhalation out of the nose or the way that the ribs or belly move, The just is-ness of those movements of those expressions of breath. And you might notice the thoughts that are here and the images and the just is-ness of that, These thoughts just is, We have thoughts and images. There might be emotions here. Just is are part of our experience, Just is. Being yours, The quality of sensations and comfort and discomfort and all those varying senses of touch and sensation in the body, Around the body, Under the body. Some will be neutral, Some we won't like, Some we might like, And that is what just is. Maybe those are wanting to change what you're experiencing and that just is too. And there's sound here, The sound of my voice and maybe the sound of your voice and that just is. Maybe there's other sounds that are being received and as you hear them, You might see images that come with the sounds or thoughts or ideas and that is just is as well. Maybe there is scent in your room and that just is. Maybe there's taste in your experience and that just is. Maybe thoughts and images are coming with those sense receptors too or just generally speaking in the thought, The image, Just is. The next exhalation just is. Noticing what your attention is habitualized to include and noticing what is forgotten and just playing with what is normally in attention and see what it might be like to include more. That maybe you have not known the just isness of before or forget is here also. Maybe it's the armpits or the cheeks. Maybe it's the tailbone. Maybe it's the palm of the hands. Maybe it's the heartbeat that you might feel in other areas of your body. Maybe it's the space behind you, The couch or the chair or the pillow that's giving support to your form, Your head or your neck or your back. Letting the back receive that just isness of support behind it or the head receive that just isness of support behind it. Nothing to do or go just to feel the back being supported. That just isness of the back pressing against the chair or the chair pressing against the back or whatever you're sitting making contact with. Under the sit bones that just isness of this field of gravity that makes a lot of our weight collect in the sit bones makes our body press into the object that we're upon. That just isness of that. That just isness of both stillness here in some ways and movement that's here in other ways. Noticing the stillnesses. Maybe it's through the feet or something else experiential or more ethereal. Starting at the very same time there is a movement in the breath in other ways. Notice their coexistence just as their relationship just as. And while you're noticing the just isness of stillness and movement. While you're noticing the just isness of breath and sitting staying with that and slowly letting your eyes take in the sense of sight and the just isness of sight. The colors that come the different experiences of light and dark maybe. The different shapes. The lines that come together to create shapes. And then the just isness of the thoughts coming in with labels and memories and context. And while there is still the just isness of breath and sitting. I'm just taking your time to slowly make your way back to the screen when you're ready.