Connecting To Enoughness

In this 20-minute guided rest, Lisa connects us with the theme of “ enoughness”. You will be invited to connect with different parts of your body and find out how these feel for you. Please feel free to push pause at any point during the rest to spend more time with the prompts.
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Transcript

So just letting yourself be comfortable or finding a comfortable spot if you haven't already.

Seeing if you need another pillow or a blanket or anything,

Anything that your system is needing right now that would feel useful to include.

I'm just noticing off the bat like,

Oh,

My body apparently wants to be doing these exhalations because I'm hearing that happening.

So just honoring like whatever is happening in your system right now,

Whether it's stillness or movement or breaths that are happening a certain way.

Sounds that even might want to come out of your body or maybe a desire for more quiet.

And just letting that be what is true for you in this moment.

And I'll be inviting that same that same invitation as we sit together here.

Just honoring what is arising for you,

Keeping in mind that in these rest recordings or in our time together,

There aren't actual rules or supposed to or shoulds.

And we our brains are kind of hardwired to have those.

So we might notice those thoughts of shoulds and supposed tos.

And then just when possible to go to say one to oneself like,

Oh,

Yeah,

That's not an actual role from Lisa or from this space,

This time together.

So let's just start by including maybe what we've not included in our in our moment just now.

Maybe we have accidentally not included the knee pits.

Just noticing what my daughter calls knee pits.

This is the backside of the knees.

And we don't bring attention here because there's something you should be feeling here.

We bring attention here because we want to be inclusive in our in our moments.

Often we just include little particular areas,

But we're just being curious to be like,

Oh,

Yeah,

There's this back of the knee area.

That's here.

What's what's it?

Include that to see what's what's there.

I just like to include that and hang out with that for a moment.

I can't my mind just automatically jumps to my shins.

So,

OK,

We'll just go to the shins next.

There's the shins.

The shins are here.

And the back of the calves are here.

The ankles and into the top of the feet and the bottom of the feet.

I'm just noticing what those feet are connecting with.

Of course,

This will depend on context.

If you're sitting in a cross legged position,

You might feel your feet tucked under you or pressing into your own leg or whatnot with the floor.

If you're sitting with your feet on the floor,

You'll feel the feet on the floor.

The souls making contact and.

The toes,

The heels.

In their own unique ways.

The tops of the feet.

I feel really different for me right now.

The tops of my feet feel really cool.

And the bottom of my feet feel pretty warm.

And so that's just an example of how one area can can feel varied and can feel contrasting things,

Hot and cold,

Both together,

Real nearby.

This and both hot and cold is here for me.

Now,

For your experience in your feet.

You might have other varied experiences.

Just noticing your own.

While you're noticing the space of the feet.

Knowing that that the sensations will be based on context.

On your surroundings,

On your positionings.

So you might intellectually understand there's no right or right or wrong way your feet should be feeling.

They're just feeling the way they are based on things like the temperatures in the room and the placement and the textures of the items that your feet are connecting with.

You might see if in this moment the feet are maybe uncomfortable.

Or are the feet struggling in some kind of way?

Is there difficulty with the feet?

The answer might be yes.

The answer might be no.

We're just noticing.

The opposite might also be happening.

Is there comfort or ease or.

Okayness.

And there might be both the discomfort and ease or a variation of all of those in different ways.

So,

Again,

We're just kind of observing and being curious of the and both that might be existing with the feet and the feet area.

In case anyone's thoughts are going to,

Why are we connecting to feet?

That's a really normal thought.

Your thoughts might be going everywhere but the feet and that's completely fine and valid.

So just acknowledging that the attention wants to roam and meander.

That's normal.

And if it does feel like you can let the attention roam for a little bit and then gently connect back to the feet,

Just gently guide your attention back to that the simplicity that you might find in the feet area.

Or the hand area is also a common one that people like to connect with.

And it's nice for the brain and the nervous system to start with simple areas of our body.

So that is kind of why we sometimes start with the feet or the hands or the sit bones or it could be the back of the body.

Some area of your body in this moment feels pretty simple,

Easy,

Neutral.

Doesn't mean you like it or that it's 100% wonderful or anything like that,

But it might have some kind of okayness to it or simplicity.

You might find that ease or simplicity in the breath or some aspect of the breath or anywhere else that I haven't named already.

So just letting your attention kind of meander if it wants to connect and notice maybe areas that you don't like so much,

Areas that you do like,

It doesn't matter why in this moment.

Just letting yourself connect or bring your attention to rest with areas that in this moment anyway are pretty easy to just hang out with.

Acknowledging that there are areas where that's not.

In this moment we're just practicing including what is okay or neutral or simple.

Letting the brain regulate and the nervous system regulate in attunement with what is simple for you in this moment or has some ease to it or okayness.

Every time your attention kind of gets pulled away into something else,

That's totally normal and valid.

Just notice that your attention has been drawn away by something that seems so important that you have to attend to it.

You may not actually have to attend to it but you may want to and that's okay when it feels possible or alive for you or resonant for you just gently coming back to something simple,

Easy,

Neutral in this moment,

Anything head to toes.

And then we're going to be really curious of this beautiful invitation to connect with the theme of enoughness.

I think we all humans that I've ever met in my entire life have struggled with this in various ways and I mean everyone.

I know lots of people.

People you'd never think could struggle with this.

Yep,

Them too.

So we just name that and then we're just going to be really curious in this moment,

We're going to stay really connected to what we've already been connecting to in this moment,

We're going to just see with what your attention had been landing with,

Whether it's hands or feet or sit bones or whatever.

What is,

Is there enoughness.

I'm going to just use the sit bones for an example for is there and you can translate that to your area.

Is there enough.

I'm sorry,

Is that is there a sense of enoughness.

In this moment in the sit bones.

I'm just being curious we're not even looking for a yes or no necessarily although one might pop up.

That question might not even land for the sit bones of the sit bones might be like I don't even understand that question so there is no right or wrong response just to be curious like is there for my feet,

Is there a sense of enoughness.

Maybe I need to even need to slow down,

Not just the hands maybe just like the backs of the hands or the fingers.

The fingers is there.

Is there enough in this in this moment.

Just watch the mind do its thing which may be really interesting to watch what that mind does with the question,

And then let the mind do what it's doing and let your attention gently come back to just what the fingertips are experiencing the fingertips or the fingers.

What is your experience with this question is,

Are they enough.

The toes or the heels or some other aspect of the body is simple some simple aspect of the body is there enough.

Is it enough,

Or is there enoughness.

I'm going to ask like the converse of that question is there a lacking in the fingertips or a not enough in the fingertips or just really being curious of how the simple areas in our body receive this really beautiful question vulnerable question for the fingertips is there a lacking or not enoughness and when I say fingertips that might be toes or sit bones or something else in your experience that is simple and easy in this moment to include that question with.

Ah,

There is not an agenda here to have an experience of 100% enoughness.

There's not an agenda to to have a lot of enoughness there's not that agenda here,

But we just want to be curious.

As we meander,

Maybe a little bit more freely and let our attention dip into other areas that maybe aren't as simple,

Maybe aspects of the breath that may not be as simple or parts of the vista the chest or the belly or some other area for you that might not be a simple area and just be curious as you go kind of from head to toes like you're just letting your attention meander as if to,

To do like an imaginary for fun checklist.

Yeah,

Under the armpits enoughness Yes.

Belly No or Yes,

You know,

Elbows Yes or No we're just kind of just noticing the variation very slowly here without an agenda,

If possible.

Yeah.

I'm just noticing this question of where it takes you what memories it might yield past memories or future imaginings,

What the question might yield in your narratives,

Maybe fears or desires.

Maybe it's just kind of a lot of randomness in the mind or imagery.

Whatever you notice,

Just notice that for you and your experience,

If possible without making it right or wrong or good or bad.

This is a,

This is a big question,

And we're not actually looking for an answer.

We're just being curious of what is alive for us with this question,

And to see what we have not connected to with this question.

And if this question includes a simpleness or a gentle acknowledgement that might be a challenge or might be struggle,

Or might be ease or anything else in this moment.

When you listen back to this again,

You can pause at any time or pause here for longer reflection.

For now,

I'll just invite you to take a moment to just thank yourself for being willing to connect in real time in this embodied way.

And take,

Take some time to connect with yourself and think yourself if that feels okay to thank yourself for what was revealed that maybe you hadn't known before,

Maybe there's a learning that has happened or discovery that's happened we just want to have acknowledgement for that.

Maybe it's a learning you don't like or learning you do like but either way like,

Okay,

I'm learning something about myself here.

And can I stay slow with that learning and include something that's simple in this moment with this learning whether it's a simple breath or simple feet on the floor.

Maybe there's something that you want to say to yourself that you'd like to deepen into this learning,

I'd like to learn more about what I've discovered today.

And if so,

You can just name that for yourself very gently.

And now slowly just make our way more back into this moment you can slowly let the eyes start to open while you stay connected to sitting and stay connected to something simple.

Letting your,

Your eyes gently look around the room.

Maybe your body wants to stretch a little bit.

Move a little bit.

Maybe you want to write down something that popped up for you during this rest that you'd like to take note of,

To remember something or discovery that you want to connect more with.

If you have time you can come back to the screen here.