So welcome,
It's good to be here with you,
Allow yourself time and space to get settled and to feel the ground beneath your feet and to feel that connection with ground coming through the whole of your body and you settle,
Becoming heavier,
Allowing yourself to drop.
Our intention for this week is loving kindness.
So just allow those words to land,
Whatever it is that they mean to you.
If you invite loving kindness into your practice,
Where does that land in your body?
Do you feel anything,
Notice anything?
If I notice it as a geographical landing,
A location,
Possibly your heart space,
Maybe it's somehow different,
Do you notice it as a temperature or a texture or a color?
There isn't a way that you should be feeling it.
There's just your way and that might be really quiet or it might be loud.
I like the metaphor of the interior world as a weather system,
The way that it's always changing.
So taking a moment to notice the weather system and see if it's possible to meet what's here with an okay,
Okay you belong.
Just like the weather,
It's not permanent,
It's ever-moving.
On Sundays,
You can watch it move from one place to the next,
Rain to sunshine and then sunshine to rain.
Our practice today is shared silence.
My invitation is that you stay with loving kindness and then however the practice goes,
You meet that with loving kindness toward yourself.
I'm coming back to the loving kindness,
Seed,
Intention.
Noticing where that is in your body.
The mind can take us off in all directions,
Through all times and places.
And when we come back to the body,
We find the present moment.
What's here?
A moment to connect with ground,
Perhaps through the soles of your feet or the seat of your chair.
Maybe tuning into the sounds of the space around you.
Not making them a problem,
But just bringing them into this present moment.
They belong.
Noticing how the breath is moving.
Perhaps bringing your hands up towards your heart.
So we offer the fruits of our practice to ourselves,
To one another and to all beings.
Namaste.
