Hi friends,
Welcome.
For this practice,
Please lie down flat on your back on the floor without any props underneath you or distractions around you.
Settle into the weight of your bones.
Close your eyes and begin to detangle yourself from anything you are working out in your life right now.
As you breathe in,
Feel your awareness radiate 360 degrees from your center in all directions.
And as you exhale,
Draw your awareness back to center.
Inhale,
Expand and radiate.
Exhale,
Contract and come home.
Inhale,
Expand and radiate.
Exhale,
Contract,
Come home.
Continue like this.
The mind loves to wander,
Gently shepherd your focus back to the breath,
Back to the feelings and sensations present in this moment.
Where in your body do you feel an amplification of energy?
Where in your body do you feel no energy?
Are you attracted to that energy?
Averted to that energy?
And also notice what areas in the body you are indifferent to,
Perhaps not even paying attention to.
Numbness is the most severe form of pain.
We can pay attention to where we go numb.
Just as ignorance or to ignore,
To deny is the primary cause of suffering.
Pay attention to what you ignore.
Subtly begin to awaken tiny ripples into the body.
This can take the form of movement or remain imaginary like a snake begin to subtly ripple,
Undulate,
Slither and to stretch.
Take note of where the body constricts and send your mindfulness there.
The Pali word for mindfulness is Sati,
Which means to remember.
We are remembering ourselves in our practice,
Putting ourselves back together through curiosity rather than dominance.
画面如歌 You You You Release your slither and pause in stillness Nothing we do in our practice is about what other people see it's about seeing ourselves Interesting that in order to do so we have to block off our sense of vision and look inward Sight is associated with the outer world whereas listening is associated with the internal world It can be so confusing to identify with the body We spend our lifetime trying to see ourselves through the outside world through other people's words through photographs and mirrors through love But we can never truly see who we are by trying to see ourselves through another's gaze You cannot be the art and the audience at the same time So we practice turning the gaze inward towards our true self the light of wonder within Still lying on your back begin to float your arms and legs softly upwards and Imagine they are seaweed or sea plants attached to the ocean floor Begin to move like seaweed Perhaps a suspending or rippling from the hip joint to the toe from the shoulder joint to the fingertip From the hip joint to the toe from the shoulder joint to the fingertip You Release your seaweed bones to the ground and return to your breath Inhale Radiate Exhale come home漂亮 scent comes from a river in Washington where nice sand and underneath all sands have entered the ocean One comment that loves me now as a person out there born there could be some silverware Just to demonstrate that you are vibes and teens pastor And someone has packed your ankles in,
Hugged the sand up against the boundaries of your skin so that you are cradled in warmth.
Follow the thread of your imagination here.
Place yourself somewhere.
Feel any harshness,
Fear or defensiveness melt in the warmth and sunlight of your meditation.
Inhale radiate.
So come home.
Inhale radiate.
Inhale radiate.
Return now to this time and place.
Remember to trust your body.
Thank you for practicing.
Until next time,
Friends,
I am grateful for you.
This is Morgan,
Bowing out.
