Just appreciating what there is here to appreciate.
We're alive,
We have the resources internally to come to a practice.
Even if things are quite difficult,
We're willing and able and capable of being present with ourselves.
That's a strong message of encouragement to our system.
Notice your whole body,
Your head,
Neck and shoulders,
Your face,
The way your body is positioned.
Notice your chest and your heart center,
Your stomach.
And as we move back into noticing our breath in the belly,
We can really work again with that softness of the belly.
To let ourselves experience,
Even just for a few minutes,
What it's like to relax and rest and breathe.
We ask our mind to take a back seat for a few more minutes,
But really just relaxing and resting.
We're letting our whole system know that we're safe in this moment.
It's okay to take this time and rest and breathe.
And notice what it is that's always here that never needs to be healed.
There's nothing wrong.
There's an expression in yoga meditation philosophy of our inner being,
Our core,
As ever pure,
Ever wise,
Ever free.
That's certainly not our predominant experience.
Just see if you can touch into that,
Just even for a moment.
Our intrinsic nature,
Ever pure,
Ever wise,
Ever free.
Ever free.
Everything else is on the surface.
Everything else comes and goes.
And this never changes.
Ever pure,
Ever wise,
Ever free.
The way we have evolved as human beings in these bodies makes it a little bit difficult to turn our attention there at times.
The urgency of our survival grabs all of our attention.
And then we can also,
Because this is true,
We can also stop and rest and then tune in to that part of us that we all know where there's nothing wrong and there never has been anything wrong.
Tune into our own basic goodness,
The miracle of being alive.
You can rest there.
Notice what that feels like,
What the experience is of that,
Of acknowledging that.
Ever pure,
Ever wise,
Ever free.
Ever pure,
Ever wise,
Ever free.
