Welcome to our morning meditation.
Good to go.
Finding the seat.
We're establishing a connection with the body this morning.
Quite often we just get out of bed and then we're straight in our jobs.
So how to do this?
Maybe not even straight in our jobs,
But we definitely,
Most of us are straightened out thinking about them.
Planning everything and going over what we didn't do yesterday.
So this is a nice chance to come home to your body before you start the day.
Closing the eyes.
Coming to the sense of sound.
Take it far and wide.
And take it near.
And bring it near.
And even with the eyes closed,
This sense of sight.
You might see colours dancing on the backs of the eyelids.
Perhaps a smell in the nostrils.
A taste in the mouth.
And the sense of touch,
The body touching the ground with the chair,
The bed.
The touch of the cloth of your clothes on the skin.
The touch of the air on the skin.
And coming home to body.
Coming home to body.
Just feeling into a whole of body.
From the top of the head to the tips of the fingers,
The tips of the toes.
Re-establishing a connection in a kind,
Soft,
Gentle way.
We can often look our body around as the mind's busy and the hands are busy.
She becomes our slave,
Just helping us try and keep up and catch up.
What if the body was a temple,
As the saying goes?
It's a beautiful,
Precious home.
Coming to love,
To honour,
To respect.
Drawing the awareness into the heart.
Coming home to the heart.
The centre of love and compassion and kindness.
What if today you moved more from the heart?
How would you care and tend for your body as you went throughout the day?
As you go throughout your daily business,
Your jobs,
Your meetings with other people,
The times you're alone.
This heart-centred movement.
Coming home to the body,
Coming home to the heart.
Feeling that sense of aliveness within the body,
The whooshing and the tingling and the vibrating.
Your home is full of light and love and energy.
And being at home in the body,
Is there a room that's holding onto any tension,
Any knots,
Whether they be physical or emotional?
Can you just go and sit in the room with that sense?
Just let it be okay without trying to change or fix or improve.
Moving somewhere else in the body that feels light and airy and bright,
Clean.
Being a while there,
Just sitting,
Feeling,
Noticing.
And can you hold both rooms,
Both spaces,
Both places together at the same time,
The light and the airiness,
The cleanliness and the darker space?
Just letting that be okay.
Take a moment now,
Just letting go of that as if you've stepped out of your own body and you're looking towards your home.
And finding a heart of gratitude that you've got a body.
It might not look the way the mind wants it to or do the things the mind wants it to do,
But it's asking you to love it,
To honour it,
To respect it,
To accept it.
Perhaps there's a kind phrase that you can drop into your body,
Just letting your body know,
I'm home.
I'm here for you.
I'm listening.
Finally,
Taking a moment to visualise yourself going through your day in a way that cares for,
That loves,
That honours and accepts your home,
The body.
And take a deep breath in and exhale through the mouth.
Look to the eyes open.
