Taking your time now,
Settling in,
Exploring the space you're in with your eyes open.
What's the light like?
Is it day,
Night,
Dusk,
Or morning?
Are there any shadows?
Anything glistening in the sun?
Take note of the weather.
What season is it right now?
How is the sky?
The temperature?
The plants?
As bad a rap as talking about the weather gets,
Noting the weather and seasons and time of day is one of the simplest ways that we can teach our body to be here right now,
To come back to this moment right now.
What's it like right here and right now?
What's it like to be you right now?
Bring your attention to your body and locate their place in space.
If it feels good to you,
You can close your eyes,
Unless of course you're driving.
If it feels good to you,
Close your eyes.
Can you find yourself in the very center of all four directions?
Imagining north,
South,
East,
And west.
Front,
Back,
Right,
Left.
Find the very center of your body and then noting the space above you,
Softening the space between your ears,
Letting your eyes be soft,
Letting your perception go wide.
Brilliant.
And as you do this,
Also feeling your body interplay with gravity,
The weight of your body,
The density of your bones,
The pull of this force outside you,
Gravity holding you down,
While your own spark of aliveness props you up.
This moment matters,
No matter how it's presenting.
Because you,
My friend,
You matter and you are matter.
So once again,
Noting your body,
A spirit with living flesh,
You are matter.
You exist,
Therefore you matter.
You are matter,
Therefore you exist.
Somewhere along the way,
Potentially very,
Very young in your life,
There was a disconnection between your attention and your body.
On your attention and the fact that you in fact matter.
No matter the reason why,
Throughout our lives,
This forgetting that we matter shows up in a myriad of ways.
Whether it shows up for you as putting other people first or neglecting your needs,
Self-abandonment,
Staying small,
The fear of taking up space.
It doesn't have to remain that way.
You can decide in this moment to reconnect to your matter,
Your body,
And remember that you do in fact matter.
So let me ask you this.
Does your body know the shape of not mattering?
Maybe there's muscle memory to not mattering.
Perhaps it's small,
Shoulders forward with a hollow belly,
Dull and flat.
That's how it shows up for me,
Deflated.
What shape does it take for you?
How does it feel to think about taking that shape and maybe to move your body in the direction of taking the shape of not mattering?
How does it feel?
For me,
It feels like a deflated balloon.
And that doesn't feel so good.
So note the sensations so you'd know when they're gone,
Right?
So once again,
Reconnecting to your center and re-anchoring to the density of your bones and your matter.
Breathing into your pelvis,
Listening wide to the room around you.
What is the shape of being ripe with your fullness?
Of being ripe with your own mattering?
What is the shape of mattering?
Notice that.
Feel the big right-sizedness of it right now,
Moving out from your center.
What is the shape of you mattering?
Take that shape now and explore what it feels like to move like you matter.
Perhaps your shoulders relax away from your ears.
Perhaps your face softens and your eyes become kind.
Perhaps your hands open and your heart shines forward.
What shape does mattering take inside your body?
Hold this shape and breathe into it,
Breathing life into it for three seconds and three seconds longer.
So,
You'll know how to return when you forget,
Right?
Because you decide you matter.
You are matter.
You decide your fate knowing this.
From this shape of mattering,
You decide your next choices.
You decide.
You decide because this is your life and you,
My friend,
You matter.
So as we leave this meditative episode of this show,
Please take with you the shape of your own mattering and the next choice you make and the next step you take.
Take it in the shape of you mattering.
Thank you for being here and taking the time.
