This practice is one designed with the intention to be done while sitting down or walking somewhere with headphones on.
So that you can be with this practice as the primary most important thing for a few minutes.
And so once you're ready,
The invitation is to just take a few slow deep breaths.
To bring a curiosity and attention to our body.
What is your body experiencing in this moment?
What is it like to ask that question and allow for the body to answer without the mind needing to go seeking?
The mind can just return back to a steady place of awareness.
The awareness that is underneath the streams and trains of thought.
And so exploring what it feels like in your body right now.
Across your neck and shoulders,
Your face,
Your arms,
Your hands.
Breathing in some spaciousness,
Some curiosity.
Slowly breathing out that long exhale,
Letting your body know that you're generally okay right now.
You're not under attack.
It's okay to just allow whatever's coming up to be noticed,
To flow,
To happen.
And to see if you can bring your attention to your heart.
And not needing to do anything.
You don't need to try and pry it open.
You don't need to squeeze it or turn away from it.
Just taking a deep breath and checking in.
Curiously.
What is your heart feeling in this moment?
Not the story of what should your heart feel or why does it have a right to feel that.
Just curiously.
Almost like you were going on a walk and you walked by this like beautiful painting that was randomly on the street.
And you didn't feel a rush to go up to it and ask it a bunch of questions or touch it.
But just in the awe and wonder of noticing.
Just standing there curiously.
Discovering what you see.
What does your heart feel like in this moment?
Is there closing?
Is there breaking?
Is there numbness?
Is there openness?
Is there heat?
Just noticing.
And other thoughts might come up.
That's okay.
That's what the mind does.
Wanting to protect us.
Wanting to prepare.
Wanting to review.
Problem solve.
The mind needs us to remind it that,
Ah,
Thank you.
I don't need to do that right now.
I can drop lower.
Beneath the problem solving.
To this state of curious awareness.
Just noticing the heart space and the body.
Not needing to fix anything or even label anything.
Just swimming through your own experience like your awareness was a being and your inner world was an ocean.
Just dropping in and diving through.
Being here.
Being here.
We so often run from our inner world.
Because it hurts.
And we've been raised through systems and spaces that told us to ignore it.
To stay busy.
To get going.
To not have idle hands.
To impress.
To perform.
Meanwhile,
Our inner world has gotten louder.
Screaming for our attention.
Desperately hoping to be held by our hands.
So just returning here.
To your heart.
When was the last time you felt okay with your attention just resting on your heart?
Without any urge for planning or problem solving or figuring out.
Can you ask your body that question and just see what comes up without needing to judge it?
Or even evaluate the story around it?
To just hold that truth.
When was the last time you felt safe in the home of your inner world?
In your own home of your inner world.
Trust your roots and own your power.
Trust your roots and own your power.
This is what a redwood tree told me years ago.
When I went hiking up there and I sat.
And I meditated for a few hours.
And I asked this 2500 year old tree if it had any wisdom to share with me.
And that's what I heard.
Trust your roots.
Own your power.
We get caught up into thinking.
We so often mistakenly believe that we are thinking beings who sometimes feel.
And we are not.
Luckily.
Our intuition,
Our body,
Our embodied wisdom.
Carries so much more information than our rational mind can process.
We are feeling beings who use thinking to guide and to act.
But our feelings are our fuel.
Can you send some thankfulness?
Can you send some thankfulness to your body?
To your heart?
To all the parts within you that you may have not given attention to.
In the past,
Can you just send some thankfulness to all of these parts within you?
The deep wisdom that you carry.
The pain that has been held here within your body.
The organs that keep on working.
The organs that keep on working.
That you are alive today.
And that if all these things are functioning well enough so that you are alive.
There is so much more right with your life than wrong with it.
And what would it be like to just send some thankfulness to your body?
For working.
And also for any fear,
Anger,
Or nervousness that comes up.
And says don't forget about me.
Don't forget.
We need to keep planning.
Can you just send some thankfulness to those parts?
Caring so much about you.
That they want to protect you.
Trust your roots.
Own your power.
When it comes to your values.
You don't have to do any figuring out.
It's not a creation practice.
It's a discovery practice.
Your body has been carrying wisdom all along.
And it always has.
The key here is to connect with your body.
And to ask it a question.
And to discover what comes up.
And to uncover what is most true.
There is no wrong way to do it.
There is no perfect tactical way to have the mind.
Dissect what needs to be known.
It is a practice of presence.
And openness.
It is a practice of being.
Receiving.
And thanking.
So if you were to connect with your heart.
And you were just to ask.
What does our fullest life look like?
What does my fullest,
Truest life look like?
You might even imagine that you are deeply rooted in a field.
With a long horizon beyond you.
And as you ask this question.
Answers come up into the sky.
And bursting colors and clouds.
And you can see them.
What does my fullest and truest life look like?
There may be some answers that come up.
Maybe there is openness.
Love,
Adventure,
Compassion.
Just noticing.
Like a child seeing fireworks for the first time.
Just allowing answers to come up.
From the ocean of wisdom within you.
What does my fullest and truest life look like?
Maybe there is an image that comes up.
Or scenes that play out.
And see if you can trust yourself.
And your experience.
And your future self enough.
To root here.
To trust your roots and own.
That you do not have to write any of this down right now.
You don't have to figure any of this out.
You just have to witness.
To be,
Receive and thank.
As your body answers.
What does my fullest and truest life look like?
Maybe there are scenes that play out.
Images,
Words like health,
Trust,
Truth.
Leadership,
Balance,
Respect,
Kindness.
If those words do come up,
Where are they?
Are they in the ground?
Are they in the sky?
Do they play out as scenes dancing together?
Showing you a picture or movie of some sort.
Just taking a breath.
And seeing what comes up.
What does my fullest and truest life look like?
What does my fullest and truest life look like?
