Welcome to our nature meditation series.
This is going to be a number of meditations about how we connect with both the natural world around us and our own inner innate nature.
So this first meditation is going to focus and gently lay our attention on our sense of touch.
So to start,
If you haven't already done so,
Find a comfortable place to be,
Ideally seated,
But as long as you are comfortable,
Any position will do.
You may want to pay attention to having the soles of your feet on the ground beneath you.
Allowing your spine to be upright,
But the muscles around it soft at the same time.
Relaxing those tension areas of your shoulders and your neck and jaw.
I often find it useful to just turn my head gently from side to side until I find that natural comfortable position for my neck.
If you can do,
Lay your hands on your top of your thighs because that just gives a natural opening for your chest.
And to invoke our other senses,
I invite you to close your eyes if that's comfortable for you to do so.
And if it isn't,
See if you can close your eyes enough to barely see through your eyelashes.
And then bring your attention down to the soles of your feet.
And how you are connecting to the ground beneath you.
If you are doing this outside and barefoot,
Even better.
Actually how the feel and how it connects with the Mother Earth beneath you.
If you are indoors,
Use your imaginal sense and allow roots from all the contact points in the soles of your feet.
Maybe the pads of your feet and some of your toes.
Connecting down roots through the surface that you're on,
Maybe down a couple of floors,
Through any foundations,
Until it meets Mother Earth.
You may also want to put some tentacles out from your roots,
Just to anchor and feel the just to anchor and feel that solid pull,
Almost like the Earth is pulling you closer down.
And I wonder how that feels for you to greet the Earth and the Earth to greet you.
That necessary connection from the human body to the Earth and the Earth back to human body.
That gentle energy connection,
Maybe for you as a heat source,
Maybe you can feel the recharging of your batteries.
That gentle electrical charge from the Earth comes back into your body.
And then when you're ready,
Just come back and gently lay your focus on your breath.
Not trying to change it in any way,
But just noticing those minute movements within,
Those natural movements as you breathe in and you breathe out.
That natural rhythm feeling of your breath,
And you breathe out.
That natural rhythm for you,
Feeling the air coming in through your nose.
And just noticing where you do feel that,
Whether for you it is through your nose,
Through the nostrils or the back of your throat.
Or maybe you don't notice it until the rise and fall of your chest or your abdomen.
I wonder how the air feels as it breathes in,
As opposed to how it feels for you when you breathe out.
I wonder if you can get a sense of all the places within that the air touches.
And staying with that focus of the air,
The air that's all around you.
I wonder how it feels on your bare skin,
As opposed to the areas where your skin is clothed.
I wonder if you can get that sense of it being all around you.
Holding you.
And you also holding the air.
Just feeling the temperature,
The density,
And all the different areas of the body that that air is currently surrounding.
And just bringing in one more element of touch for today.
We will do more on another meditation.
But just for now,
Very,
Very gently,
As if you're hardly going to touch.
Just feel your own skin with the tips of your finger on one hand to maybe starting off with the top of your hand.
As if you're feeling it for the very,
Very first time,
Be really curious.
I wonder if you can feel all those fine lines,
The structure of your skin.
I wonder if you can feel any minute little hairs.
Or the creases on your skin,
Of how it folds in that movement.
And I also wonder how it feels to actually touch your own skin.
And how it feels to be touched in this moment.
And then when you're ready,
Going back just to your breath.
Feeling that air coming into your body,
Nourishing your body.
Bear in mind that we also breathe from our skin.
So all of those areas that you can feel the air on your skin,
Just absorbing it in through your skin and into your body.
It's one of the most natural ways that we give and we take the reciprocity with our natural world.
As we breathe in the oxygen that feeds our body,
And as we breathe out,
We give.
That carbon dioxide that feeds our natural world.
Seeing if you can get that sense of full body breathing.
And then when you feel ready,
Bring your attention back to your feet.
Go down into your,
Into the earth.
Feeling that connection one more time.
Allowing the tentacles to come back into your roots.
And slowly bringing your roots all the way down to your feet.
Allowing the tentacles to come back into your roots.
And slowly bringing your roots all the way back up through the earth and the foundations,
Through any flaws that you may have been going through.
Or however it is for you,
Whether it's directly with the earth,
All the way back up.
Until it meets all those contact points in your feet.
And re-enters your body fully.
And all those contact points become sealed.
So just knowing that you can stop at any moment and just stand for a few seconds and feel the air around you at any time that you wish.
And feel the air around you at any time that you wish.
Get that sense of the air holding you and you holding the air.
Have a big stretch.
When you feel ready to do so,
Open your eyes gently.
Have a fabulous day and thank you very much for joining me.
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