Welcome to this meditation time.
Begin by letting yourself settle into a comfortable seat.
And then just feel your hands,
Wherever they are,
Wherever they're resting.
Feel your palms,
Your fingers.
And notice how as you attend to your hands,
Your sensitivity gradually increases.
You can feel more.
Pick one spot on one hand and focus your attention there.
Hone in.
See what you can feel in that one place.
And then attend to your whole both hands again,
And let them soften,
Let them relax.
The joints between your fingers,
The skin on the backs of your hands,
Your wrists,
Let it all soften.
And feel your feet,
The soles of your feet,
Arches.
Feel your toes and the space between your toes.
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And feel your face.
The skin of your face,
Cheeks,
Forehead,
Eyelids.
Your eyes,
Your tongue and lips.
Feel the air flowing in and out of your nose.
Feel your teeth in your jaw and let your jaw and your teeth soften.
Your hands,
Your feet and your face are sensitive.
They're the parts of you that reach out into the world and touch things.
They're meant to interface with the world around you.
Feel all three,
Your face,
Your hands and your feet.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed.
And then draw your awareness in to your inner body.
Start with your navel and go in,
Into your body and know that coiled there,
Wrapped around itself,
Packed and sealed together is your small intestine.
The organ that digests,
Draws the nutrients out of the food that you eat.
Coiled and wrapped and held,
Planted in the mesentery.
See if you can feel your small intestine inside your body and see if you can invite it to soften.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Let them all be soft,
Relaxed and sealed together is your small intestine.
Feel your lungs and the skin that wraps your lungs.
Each lung is wrapped in its own package.
Soften the skin from the outside as your lungs expand and condense with each breath and then go inside to the spongy soft tissues of the lungs.
Air flows in and oxygen is transitioned into the blood inside the lungs.
This process is mystical and genius and it goes on all day and all night regardless of what you're paying attention to.
Oxygen is distilled from the air and infused into your blood and the blood pumps into your heart which receives it and nourishes itself.
Your heart drinks in oxygenated blood and then pulses it to the far reaches of your limbs.
Blood flows through the arteries,
Capillaries,
Soaks into every cell of your body.
Every cell drinks in that nourishment and releases,
Drinks it in and releases every cell.
And then your heart draws the blood back through the veins,
Draws it back into itself.
You can know this but can you feel it?
What you think of as the heart in the center of your chest is a concentration,
A muscular concentration of the circulatory system.
Your heart is your circulatory system and it permeates your entire body.
Can you feel this quality of heart in your veins and arteries?
In the tiny blood vessels,
In the capillary beds where blood pools like an estuary between the ocean and the land.
Can you feel it?
Can you feel your bones solid but also alive?
The bones of your arms,
Your legs,
Your ribs,
The bones of your spine.
Your bones give shape to your body.
Your muscles are draped around them.
And everything in your body is wrapped in fascia,
Connective tissue,
Every organ is wrapped,
Every muscle is wrapped and penetrated,
Every bone.
Everything is wrapped in a connective weave,
A seamless weave and that weave is sensitive.
Can you feel it,
The web that wraps throughout your entire body and can you soften it?
You may notice in all of this a tendency of your mind to pull towards abstraction,
To pull towards thought.
Maybe there's a tension between your mind dwelling on what could be and your body resting in what is,
Pulsing,
Breathing.
Just notice that tension between your mind pulling into what could have been,
What could be,
Abstractions,
Unrealities and your body resting here,
Now,
In reality,
Pulsing,
Breathing in time and space right now,
Right here,
Carrying on the miraculous functions that keep you alive.
So without fighting the tug of mind,
Just notice the tension between abstraction and embodiment.
Can you feel it,
The web that wraps around your body resting in what could have been,
What could have been,
Unrealities and your body resting in what could have been,
Landfill Morrison's 9th and Always.
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