Please get comfortable.
Wherever you are.
I was sitting.
Lying.
Take some time.
To get comfortable.
Your back straight.
And just have a sense of ease.
No effort.
Let's take one full breath in through the nose together.
And exhale through the mouth.
Emptying your lungs entirely.
Once again,
Long inhale.
And a slow deliberate exhale.
This is the biological signal we are sending.
Exhaling longer than the inhale.
And the vagus nerve begin to respond.
Parasympathetic system starts to come online.
Once again in through the nose.
Slight pause at the top.
On a longer exhale.
Now let the breath return to its natural rhythm.
No effort.
Simply observe it.
Now gently notice where the weight lives in your body right now.
Notting your thoughts.
In the physical body.
Is a tension in the jaw.
Throat.
Chest.
Stomach Simply noices.
With curiosity.
Not judgement.
Now I want you to draw your attention down.
Away from the heads.
Away from thoughts and the plans and the mental rehearsal of tomorrow.
Down through the throat down through the chest.
Down through the belly.
Feel the weight of your body.
Completely supported whatever is beneath you.
You do not need to hold yourself up right now.
Let everything be held.
Now drop your shoulders,
Let them fall away from your ears organically.
And clench the jaw.
Let the teeth pop slightly.
And bring your attentions to your hands.
Feel your hands from the inside out.
The weight.
The warmth.
Feel the aliveness in your hands.
Let's take one deep inhale together.
And an exhale.
Feel your body coming to stillness.
Coming out.
Of the driven to emerge.
Knot through 4's through permission.
There is a gap right now between the mind that was running the way monitoring.
Justin.
Closing gaps,
Generating plans.
From this moment.
In this car.
Nothing is required of you.
No outputs.
No decisions.
No performance.
Simply this breath.
The body.
On the ground.
Now bring your awareness to your feet.
Feel them whether they're in contact with the floor or the surface beneath you.
Feel how you are completely rooted.
Grounded awareness.
Lives in the Fitch.
Let go a little more and let the floor hold your weights.
As we move from doing to being.
I want to offer you something to rest upon.
We are able to lean into life with open awareness.
Not to fix it.
Not to optimize it.
Simply to meet it with curiosity.
With allowance.
The breath is your primary anchor.
It has always been here.
It will always be here.
It does not ask anything of you.
It's simply continuous,
Patient,
Steady,
Available.
Whatever the week brought,
The pressure,
The decisions,
The moments where you felt the driven doing mode take over,
Let it be here now.
Not to be solved.
Simply to be seen.
Now bring your attention to the heart space.
Feel the warmth there,
The aliveness.
Beneath the business,
Beneath the cognitive load.
Beneath the plans and the fears and the projections.
There is something that has remained constant throughout the entire week.
Thanks.
This quiet intelligence of the body.
Breath.
Peace.
Peace.
Is what we are returning to.
We lose ourselves and we come back.
We lose ourselves.
And we come back.
That is the practice.
As we close,
I want to offer you the words of Dorothy Hunt.
Do you think peace requires an end to war?
Or tigers eating only vegetables?
Does peace require an absence from your boss,
Your spouse?
Yourself.
Do you think peace will come some other place than here?
Some other time than now?
In some other heart than yours?
His is this moment without thinking that it should be some other way.
That you should feel some other thing.
That your life should unfold according to your plans.
His is this moment without judgment.
This moment.
In the heart space.
Where everything that is.
He's welcome.
