Yes,
So welcome to this mindfulness session.
The theme for the session and for the meditation is deep rest.
Resting.
And sometimes we can associate that with sleepy resting,
Which is also fine.
If that comes along,
We embrace that too.
And the resting in mindfulness tends to be spacious and soft,
Open,
With a quiet vibrancy of awakeness.
It's receptive,
Available,
Perhaps with qualities of soothing,
Relaxation,
Calming.
So we're just arriving.
Being aware in an inclusive kind of way.
So we might notice what's kind of followed us here.
The busy morning,
The busy day,
Some pressing thoughts perhaps,
Or emotions.
A sense of being dispersed or scattered.
Or indeed,
Already sensing a quality of wholeness and presence to some extent.
So we just say yes to what's already here.
And there's more.
So we open up to the and there's more-ness of it.
As we settle,
Inviting the body to emerge more fully.
A sense of the body.
Sensing its wholeness.
And beginning to notice details that come forward.
Perhaps how the hands are resting on the lap or wherever they may be.
The shape of the hands.
Fingers and thumbs.
Just allowing them to rest in themselves.
Perhaps we can become aware of our shoulders.
A softening down.
Inviting them to rest.
Resting in themselves.
Sensing the torso.
Perhaps some movements of the breathing process.
The tummy and chest rising and falling.
Just allowing this process to rest in itself as it operates naturally and organically.
And the breathing of course,
Inviting a calming and a soothing as it flows in and then out.
Resting with the breathing.
And there's more.
Just being available.
Receptive.
Noticing contact with the earth.
Perhaps through the chair or sati or bed or through your feet on the earth.
Letting this contact rest in itself.
Earthing and grounding.
Resting here.
With this reassuring sense of contact.
Of a foundation beneath us to support us.
To hold us.
Always available at all times.
Resting here.
And there's more.
Allowing the jaw to soften.
Perhaps the lips.
Letting them rest in themselves.
The face softening.
The eyes.
And perhaps the forehead smoothing out.
Resting here.
Perhaps the whole body can begin to get a whole sense of itself.
Its whole shape.
Some fabric of clothing on the skin here and there.
Body resting in the body.
Perhaps you can sense the pulse.
The temperature on the skin.
Letting it rest in itself.
And from the whole of this sensing body.
Senses outwards into space.
Noticing sounds and silence.
Resting with this silence.
Or an orchestra of sounds perhaps.
The colourful play of the universe.
And this space extends out of course.
Beyond the walls.
Around the vast globe.
Beyond the big blue and dark night.
Into that vast galaxy of stars.
And beyond the beyond.
Letting that all rest in itself.
Inviting a spaciousness.
A place to really breathe.
Also in the company of all sentience,
All beings.
That we're kind of intimately and magically connected to.
I'm just inviting the body now.
To begin to centre around its breathing.
It's as if the whole universe is breathing.
Into this one place.
As we remain available and open.
Yet grounded and whole.
Connected.
Inviting the body to entertain.
The intimacies of breathing.
Flowing in and flowing out.
Allowing it to rest in itself.
And there's more.
Just being available to the richness of your inner world.
Something living through you.
Something alive there.
Giving that space and care.
Perhaps inviting kindness and compassion.
To keep it company.
Something perhaps open and spacious.
Enjoyable.
Or maybe more constricted.
Localised.
Contracted.
More enjoyable.
We keep them company.
Just noticing the qualities and details.
Of where it abides,
Resides in the body.
And if you like you can place your hand on it.
Sometimes helps.
Especially if it's intense.
Just greet it or acknowledge it.
If that's OK for it.
You might offer it a little hello,
Hello.
It's like that for you right now and there.
So we're just keeping you company.
The whole body keeps you company.
The whole universe keeps you company.
Offering a healing space.
A place where it can be authentically itself.
Finding its own fresh edge and forward movement.
In its own time.
So we're not trying to force or fix.
Or force a change.
Just a compassionate holding.
A kindly connection.
Empathy.
Resting here with it.
Allowing it to rest in itself.
Perhaps sensing the spaciousness that accompanies it.
Around you and within you.
From this grounded whole sense of yourself.
Resting in itself.
And continuing to rest with the breathing.
From the whole of this.
The body knows just how to rest in itself.
And taking time now to move into no agenda.
Into some kind of completion.
Allowing this organic and natural process.
To emerge into its freshness each and every moment.
As you continue about your day.
Perhaps taking moments here and there.
To pause.
Settle.
And let the body rest in the body.
Always available at all times.
