Thank you for pressing play.
That's already the halfway.
That's the most important part.
A little thanks from me to you and an invitation to give a thanks from you to you.
This practice is to enhance our spiritual connection with the world,
With ourselves and the fellow human beings.
There's a definition that I would like to bring you before we start,
Which is from researcher and storyteller Brene Brown.
Recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us.
And that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and belonging.
And practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective,
Meaning and purpose to our lives.
My name is Patrick Christopher Eila,
And I'm going to lead you to this little connection practice.
Take three deep breaths.
And with each breath,
Arrive in the moment.
A little deeper.
A short body scan.
Checking in if you're holding tension anywhere.
And without breaths.
Try to gently ease the tension a little.
Pay attention on which senses you are perceiving.
Auditory.
Visual.
Smell.
Feeling on your skin or maybe a taste.
And check which one is most vividly showing up for you.
Pay really close attention on this very sense.
Take another deep breath.
And expand the sense.
And connected now to all senses at the same time.
Try to keep attention in the same time on auditory,
Visual,
Smell,
Feeling on your skin and taste.
Feel them all in the same quality and presence.
Stay focused to give them all equal attention.
Feel how it is to be totally aware of your senses.
To be connected to all of your senses.
To be spiritually connected to all your senses.
And feel how it feels to be aware of what reality is.
What might reality be.
No labeling upon the senses.
Just like a perceiver.
No action.
Just be observing and perceiving all of your senses in the same moment.
Allow yourself to see all the different nuances that each sense gives you.
And to see how each sense gifts you with something.
Be present for a moment.
Bring the attention to the breath.
Invite yourself home into yourself.
Take a few moments and reflect on how you're feeling.
How you experience your body and your senses.
And keep in your mind that senses are door openers that can enhance our feelings.
They can enhance emotions.
And what strongly enhances them also are thoughts which create emotions.
And emotions are just hormones.
A little homework if you're fancy.
Try this feeling of being connected to your senses.
And expand it to the people and the projects around you.
This connection that's inextricable.
Find something that connects you that's larger than the self.
And to end this little practice,
I have a quote from Eckhart Tolle.
To know yourself as the being underneath the thinker.
The stillness underneath the mental noise.
The love and joy underneath the pain.
It's freedom,
Salvation,
Enlightenment.
Thank you for participating.
Have a little check in to your body.
Feel your presence.
And you owe yourself a little thanks because you did this practice till the end.
My name is Patrick Christopher Ehler.
Happy to connect.
