Open awareness.
Let's begin by taking a moment to allow your body to settle,
Inviting a sense of ease in the body,
Sense of relaxation and alertness,
Finding a dignified posture where you can begin to feel fully embodied with your awareness,
Sensing into your legs,
Your torso,
Your chest,
Your shoulders,
Your arms and hands,
And the sensations of your head.
Just noticing where your body touches the ground or the chair,
Feeling into your whole body,
Sensing the sensations,
Feeling the feelings,
And allowing your presence to be fully embodied without judging anything to be good or bad,
Right or wrong.
Simply bringing alertness to the present moment.
This open awareness practice allows us to stay in tune with whatever arises with the unfolding of each moment,
Noticing all the sensations that occur moment by moment,
Breath by breath,
Noticing the sounds around you as they come and go,
Simply noticing them as sounds,
Nothing more,
Nothing less,
Just sounds arising and falling,
Coming and going,
Coming and going,
Noticing the sights around you,
Noticing colors,
Lights,
Shadows,
Shapes,
Lights,
Shadows,
Shapes,
Just noticing what it's like to be seeing,
And instead of looking out,
See if you can receive the sights into your eyes,
Allowing them to come to you,
Resting in awareness as you simply notice sights as sights,
Visuals as visuals,
Awareness of seeing,
And staying open to your experience as you notice smells that may be happening right now,
You may be sensing through your nose in this moment,
Receiving smells as you breathe in through your nose with a natural rhythm of breath,
Awareness of smells as they happen in each moment,
And now choosing to come back to the physical sensations in the body,
Sensing into the feelings,
Visceral sensations in the body,
Not judging anything to be good or bad,
Right or wrong,
Simply sensing into the body,
Softening around any tension,
Inviting a sense of ease and vivid alertness as we maintain our awareness and sensing of the body.
So with open awareness practice,
We're not preferring to bring awareness to one thing or the other,
We're simply noticing what occurs in the field of our awareness moment by moment without a sense of judgment.
We're staying open in our awareness of the sensations of seeing,
Smelling,
Feeling in our body,
Sounds,
Opening to the field of our experience,
Whatever that experience is,
And staying present as you maintain the sense of full embodiment from your toes to your head.
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