To just start with the slowing down so that we can be aware of our sharedness,
Our shared humanness,
Right?
The fact,
It is a fact that we're all having thoughts and ideas and judgments and mind activity that will accidentally or on purpose maybe but I would say innocently separate us from one another.
We're all having,
That's actually a commonality.
We're all have that oneness of mechanics,
That oneness of humanness.
We all have that humanness.
We all,
How it's showing up maybe different in environment,
Different in location,
Different in body and age and gender and whatever.
And then if we even,
If we stick to experiential,
Like not to concepts but we really stick to the here and now and we come to this fact that we're all held in this field of gravity.
We're all being held by this field of gravity.
No one gets to escape that.
So how do we see that in this moment?
How can we consciously connect to that not from concept?
Well we look at our bodies and we see that our bodies are not floating.
That's how we know we're bound by gravity.
We can lift our arm with using muscles and then we release the muscle and the arm flops down to the downward.
We can feel when we exhale the body goes down to the floor,
Down to the chair.
When we inhale and we bring in air,
Our bodies lift up out of gravity a little bit and then we release that air,
Our bodies fall back into that field of gravity.
And everybody,
Everyone's body is bound by those rules.
We all have heavy limbs because in this field of gravity everything has a weight to it.
There's nothing weightless on this planet.
So we can feel the weight of our arms or the weight of our legs or we can reposition ourself to further our weight to go back or our weight to fall forward.
If we're laying down it would,
We would just feel that kind of evenly distributed a bit.
We would still feel the gravity influence the breath if we were laying flat.
So if we want to connect to what very viscerally or tangibly holds us as one or in the same space we know that the field of gravity,
That we are all within that field of gravity.
And all our uniquenesses and all of the other things that mirror each other are included.
Gravity does not exclude anything.
So with attention to keep it dropping down kind of below that thinking mind and into the experience of how in this moment you might be experiencing that field of gravity.
This is not an intellectual pursuit and there is no right or wrong answer.
There's just a feeling of the butt planted in the chair so to speak.
Or the feet firmly placed on the floor or whatever is making contact.
That will communicate that we're all held in this field of gravity whether we like it or not.
It's just how it is in this moment.
All of us listening are in this reality of gravity.
We can be in conscious relationship with that or we can resist it and either one is what it is.
Maybe there's a part of you that wants to resist or escape gravity.
Well that's understandable.
We can let that part come into or maybe some part of you just feels some kind of emotion with this residency of being held with gravity.
That's all allowed to be here too.
Gravity will hold that.
Gravity is unconditional.
It's unconditionally holding you however you want to be,
However you don't want to be,
However you are.
Gravity doesn't say no to anything and gives us permission to say no to it.
We can be unconscious to gravity our whole lives and never say a conscious embodied yes to gravity.
We can do that if we want.
In this moment we're actually being invited to receive gravity's yes of us.
Gravity says whatever you've done,
Whoever you've been,
Whatever thoughts you have,
Whatever actions you've acted,
Doesn't matter.
Just let any of our attention that's available to connect to gravity attend there,
Go there,
Connect with that felt experience of gravity.
Your thoughts will still be thinking,
Your body will still be engaging,
Your images will still be happening,
That's okay.
Letting whatever else is happening be as it is if you can keep just one little bit of attention with the felt sense of gravity to include that too.
Noticing sounds.
Those are all in relationship with gravity.
Noticing sense or smells that are hanging in space.
Noticing maybe taste.
Taste might be here.
Just connecting into the different senses,
Taste.
With the eyes closed we can notice sight.
If we're in our imagination we'll notice that,
What we see in imagination.
If we're not in imagination we'll just kind of have that dull background.
To me it looks like a grayish brown today.
With some change depending on what's happening in front of me.
If we were to open the eyes we would see proof of gravity.
Nothing's floating.
Even those leaves that float,
They come down eventually.
Being creatures they come down eventually,
Land.
And then we're back to the sense mechanism of touch.
We can feel air on our skin.
Even air has a weight and it rests upon our skin.
I'll feel the sit bone pressing into the chair.
Reminding our nervous systems that we are secure,
Stable.
We again can come back to that felt experience of the relationship between breath and gravity.
The body filling and lifting up and then releasing and falling back down.
And here we are,
All of our bodies are stable,
Are being held in environments where there's no danger.
I look around and I see no danger coming at any of you.
And I look around my space,
I notice there's no danger.
I look around behind me,
To the floor,
Up.
Now that doesn't mean that I have no,
Maybe I have some sensations that feel dangerous or some thoughts that feel dangerous or something like that.
But we're just noticing the both and.
That we're all in this moment in spaces that are where there's no danger coming at us.
And we're all having our unique relationship to our experiences through acknowledging the space that we're in,
As well as the internal dialogues that we might be having or the sensations that we might be feeling,
Whatever they happen to be.
Some we may be fine with and some we may not be fine with.
Those human experiences,
We're all having human experiences.
We share that.
Trying to just be honoring your own experience right now within the common experience.
This is and both.
We are sharing experience and we are having our unique experience all at the same time.
And as you stay connected to this field of gravity,
Let the arms and legs start to move a little bit.
Let the body move a little bit,
Maybe the spine move or the sit bones move.
Staying connected to the weight,
The everlasting weight of your body,
Of your bones.
We will always have that in some way or another.
And then when it feels right for you to let the eyes open and if they're not already,
Let your eyes open,
Taking in the space of the room.
And when you feel ready,
Come back to the screen.
