So yeah,
Grabbing your candle if you have one or just letting your eyes rest on something very simple,
Something very actual,
Factual in your space.
Something that you don't need to,
That doesn't require you to figure anything out about it,
That doesn't require you to manage it,
Understand it,
Analyze it.
And just letting your attention continue to just hang out with that which you have identified with your eyes.
It might change,
It doesn't have to stay the same.
Letting your eyes stay on that object or letting your eyes orient to different objects that are just so simple.
So simple.
And if managing thoughts come in with regards to that object that's simple or just come in that's so normal,
Just gently bring your attention to that object that doesn't require any figuring out.
Letting yourself just kind of gaze softly.
Letting your eyes just kind of rest there gently.
Not to figure out but just to notice.
Just to hold in curiosity.
Breath is happening.
Sitting is happening.
Thank you simplicity.
Thank you simplicity.
Thank you simplicity.
And letting the eyes gently close and letting that same orienting attention find something simple and sitting.
Whatever your attention comes to.
My attention first came to my sit bones and then my hands clasped.
Doesn't matter there's not a right or wrong.
Whatever your attention just finds.
It's so simple.
Doesn't need to be figured out or understand or analyzed.
It's just simply here and letting your attention hang out with that simpleness.
The simpleness of your body.
Something of your body.
Your sitting body.
Of course if you listen to this later and you're standing then you just shift the context to how you're positioned.
There's always something simple in any context when we really slow down to orient in that way.
So we're really letting our attention connect to what's so simple in our experience.
Not in our ideas but in our lived experience of this moment.
And then letting your attention stay there a little bit.
Just hang out there.
And again thank you simple.
Thank you simple.
Maybe you've already been connecting to gravity.
Maybe not.
I'm just noticing that none of us are floating to the ceiling.
None of us are hanging out in space without grounding beneath us.
We all can feel a tangible holding.
We are all tangibly held.
Even if we're standing we're held through our feet.
If we're laying down or sitting we're held by the places that our bodies are making contact that we can feel in this moment.
Through bed,
Through couch,
Through chair.
It is a great relief for the nervous system to be held in just this way.
None of us are running from anything.
None of us are scurrying or there's no urgency in the space around us that we can see and feel.
None of us are scurrying or there's no urgency in the space around us that we can see.
I'm guessing our walls and ceilings and floors are quite solid.
And so we let ourselves,
We let our attention really include the support.
It's very visceral,
Tangible,
Felt support from gravity.
And we thank gravity for this gentle hug.
I thank gravity.
We thank gravity.
And we can keep noticing it.
When we breathe in we breathe up towards the ceiling away from gravity,
Slightly.
And then when we exhale the body empties and we return to that hug of gravity.
It's just there waiting for us.
We can't think ourselves there or logic ourselves there but we can feel it when we bring our attention to our direct experience.
It's continuing to notice our space and gravity with gravity.
And continuing to notice that relationship with breath.
And like gravity we don't have to manage breath.
We can if we want but we don't have to.
We could even try to manage gravity I suppose but we certainly don't have to.
We can really let gravity do gravity's job and we can let breath do breath's job when we sit back and just watch breath come in and leave out.
Let breath do breath's job of breathing us.
Just like it does all night long when we're sleeping.
We can do it during the day too.
And if this is tricky,
If it's tricky to feel this you can help this along a little bit by having an exhalation and then not holding against breath but not you breathe.
And eventually breath will breathe you in because it's just an automatic system.
And again we can give thanks to breath.
Thank you breath.
Thank you breath.
Thank you breath.
These wisdoms that are beyond the small,
Small self that are very tied to our existence on this planet.
Way wiser than a small self that we don't have to manage and luckily we don't and we couldn't if we wanted in a certain way because they're wiser than we are.
And so we just call forth this invitation to receive,
Receive breath consciously because we already are receiving breath,
We already are receiving gravity but we invite our attention to consciously experientially call forth this receiving to experience receiving into the cellular network of our systems.
To be conscious of the receiving that's already in happening.
And just as our eyes slowly open let's continue to notice receiving keeps happening.
We might need to use a little effort to keep that receiving in our attention because now all this data is coming in through our eyes and whatnot.
We want to keep some attention on this receiving of breath.
Receiving through the space of gravity,
The chair,
Whatever we're sitting on.
And just notice or maybe take note of something from this rest that you want to keep practicing today or tomorrow or in the future.
What do you want to practice that will help you stay connected to the receiving that's always happening but maybe is out of your attention.
And just kind of sit with that for a minute,
Let that just state or jot it down on a piece of paper.
And we'll pause our rest here.
Letting your attention come back to the screen.
