This is mindfulness of body,
The four access points.
Gently close your eyes and settle into your body.
Take a few moments now to adjust your posture.
Sit with an upright and open posture.
Now in your own way take a few moments to relax your body.
Take three slow deep conscious breaths as you feel your feet,
Your muscles softening and loosening.
Relaxing,
Awake and alert.
Allowing your breath to find its own depth and with an hour to just breathe itself.
Now become aware of the space before your closed eyes.
It's like a field of darkness.
Perhaps there are some muted shapes or colours.
Just simply rest in your attention there with relaxed eyes and a soft gaze.
Now bring your attention to any sounds coming to you from outside or inside the room.
Just simply listen with a gentle curiosity.
Allow the sounds to call your attention into the present moment.
Just listen.
As you bring your awareness to your breath,
Notice the feeling of the breath as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Feel the air moving over your nostrils.
Feel the slight movement of your chest and your belly.
Rising with the in breath,
Sinking with the out breath.
Perhaps there are even gentle sounds with your breathing.
Just your natural breathing.
Follow each breath.
Now take your awareness to your feet.
Feel into your feet.
Feel the contact between your feet and the floor or your shoes.
Move your awareness through your feet,
Noticing any sensations in your feet.
Again,
Just with a gentle curiosity.
Notice sensations of touch,
The feet touching the floor or your shoes.
Notice sensations of your temperature,
The air as it cools your breath.
Notice the subtle sense of aliveness and energy right through your feet.
This is how you know your feet are there.
You feel them.
Just feel them.
All through the feet.
And as you feel into your feet,
Feel the flow of your breath.
Just simply coming and going.
Now bring your awareness up to your heads.
Rest your attention on your heads.
Feel the touch of your hands against your thighs.
Your fingers touching each other.
Notice the temperature through your hands and fingers.
Notice the subtle sense of aliveness through your hands.
Just feel all the small sensations around and through your hands.
Take your wings now to your shoulders.
Notice the feeling in the muscles across the top of your shoulders and around the base of your neck.
Perhaps a softness or a hardness here or there.
A lightness or a heaviness.
Just notice any sensations there.
Even if the feeling is very slight,
Stay with it.
Just simply noticing.
And as you feel into the muscles of your shoulders,
Feel the flow of your breath in the background.
If you notice that your shoulders have come forward,
Make any gentle corrections to your posture.
Bringing your awareness to the space before your eyes,
Become aware of any sensations in and around your eyes.
Move your attention through your eyebrows and across your forehead.
Notice whatever sensations are there.
As you feel through the eyes and across the forehead,
Feel the flow of your breath.
Now open your awareness to your whole body,
The feet,
The hands,
The shoulders.
A little above each of these areas.
Notice whatever sensations are coming into your awareness now.
Your feet,
Your hands,
Perhaps the feeling of your breath.
The away moment,
Just noticing.
If you notice your attention wondering or becoming caught up in the stream of thought,
Simply bring your attention back to the next breath.
Feel your feet on the floor.
Feel into your hands,
Your shoulders,
And the feeling of your breath.
Notice whatever sensations are coming into your awareness now.
Your whole body,
The feet,
The hands,
The shoulders.
As we come towards the end of this meditation,
Allow your breathing to become a little stronger.
Perhaps a deeper breath or two.
Start to reactivate your body by moving your fingers and toes.
Have a stretch and when you're ready,
Slowly open your eyes.
