And if you're following along,
I invite you to either take a soft gaze in the room or to close your eyes if that's comfortable.
And feel into this position of rest,
Of being received by your sit spot.
A cushion,
A ground,
Whatever's holding you.
See if you can let yourself melt into that support.
And at the same time,
If you can invite your being into awakefulness,
A form of alert awareness.
So already we have this juxtaposition of settling and activating,
In this case resting the body and awakening the mind.
Just notice how that feels,
What the breath does in response to that combination.
And following the breath into the body,
Noticing what's present in this moment,
My physical body.
Seeing sensations,
Fluctuations,
Places of activity,
Activation.
Maybe even discomfort.
And places of rest,
Of groundedness,
Perhaps ease.
It's coexistence,
Covidencia.
And then noticing the part of you that is able to observe that coexistence.
And then as you're ready,
Taking that witness's eye,
That ability to perceive,
Bringing that awareness to the emotional body.
Notice what feelings are flowing through the heart stream.
Noticing if there's a part that's numb or dull in between activation and settle.
Noticing if you can make space for that also.
Noticing more expansive feelings,
If there are any moving right now.
And also noticing heavier feelings if they're here.
Frustration perhaps or sadness.
This is what's present for now.
This is what's present.
And then as you're ready,
Letting that witness function rise to the level of the mind.
Watching the sky,
Mind,
Recurrence,
Clouds.
What are the thoughts that are moving through you?
Still connected to your anchor of witness.
Seeing those thought bubbles,
But also looking beyond them to the stillness of the big sky.
It's holding it all.
Noticing how that affects the body when you broaden your awareness to that space.
Birds and sky,
Thoughts and space.
Last space.
And then with this awareness of body,
Heart,
Mind,
Invite you to stretch into the realm of soul.
And as we've talked about before,
Soul could be located anywhere.
For tonight,
I invite you to play with one particular location that some people find useful for the soul.
And that's a spot roughly three feet above the head.
And as you lift your energetic gaze to that spot,
Again,
Just notice what happens in the body-mind system.
And like a shoot rising from the spring ground,
Invite you to send energy up from your heart through your throat chakra,
Through your crown,
Rising up to land right at that point,
Three feet above the head.
And invite that stem to open a flower there.
Coming to the sun,
To the light,
It's coming down to meet it.
Notice if that image arose for you,
What flower is or what color it is.
Maybe even the fragrance of it.
However widely it's blossomed or how tightly,
Let it just rest and receive that light,
The light of the soul.
Let that light affect you.
Continuing to watch what's happening to that flower and what it's doing.
And then if you're willing,
You might ask the light if it's willing to reveal to you more of your becoming.
If the light wills to tell you some words,
Some guidance,
Some message about the next movement in your life,
Whatever realm,
Whatever realm you might be desiring to become more of who you are.
Oh light,
Do you have a message for me about my becoming?
And if the answer is no,
Honoring that,
Feeling whatever you feel and yet honoring the wisdom of the no.
And if it's a yes,
Just listen,
It may not speak in words.
Let it rest.
And whatever message you got letting that in as fully as possible even if you got no message letting that light that you met right there gathering that up and invited to pour down through the flower through the stem back into your body heart mind letting that light trickle and pour and seep back in the mind heart body connecting to the roots connecting to the darkness and the fertile earth being a channel for that light that is your own essence settling it to the ground beneath you that's where it becomes real resting in that
