We've been considering the endless activity of the mind to avoid change as well as to encourage change.
This body,
My employment status,
My health,
That can't change.
Everything and everyone else needs to change.
And at times at the core of this,
There is some basic assumption that we carry about what is needed for our survival.
But then beyond that,
It starts to be more of a compulsion.
To control,
To be in control,
To gain control.
Are being for or against change alternating between those modalities from one second to another?
This body creates an opening for the mind to step in.
For the mind to reclaim its role.
To prove itself indispensable.
As it tries to claim order in the midst of all the change.
Even in the retelling of events in a way that can make sense of things.
In projecting into the future how things should be,
Will be,
When there is order,
When there is change.
But by now,
We pretty much know.
We understand change.
Even the most positive thoughts that I have about myself.
Even those will change.
By this point,
We understand that this phenomena,
It's simply built into this operating system.
It's a built-in feature.
We don't need the mind to know this.
So then if we don't need the mind to know this,
Can we meet it more directly?
Can we meet it more directly?
Find a comfortable seat.
Exhale all the air out.
Inhale a breath.
Om.
Om.
Om.
Om.
Om.
Make any final adjustments in your seat.
Allow your seat to feel spacious and not restricted.
Allow the invitation towards stillness to be also one that feels spacious and not restricted.
Allow your attention to move towards the breath.
And just observing where the intelligence of the breath is coming into contact with the body.
Where the breath is able to touch the body,
Spread into it,
With ease and fluidity.
And likewise,
Where it may be encountering some resistance.
Allow for the body's natural breath.
Just observing it moving in and out of the body.
And the wonder of it all.
This life force.
And its movement,
Its presence in this body.
Unsolicited.
Bestowed upon us.
In all its bounty.
Moving through all the corridors of the body.
Infusing all the cells with vitality.
Unconditionally.
Free of any transaction.
It makes itself known.
Forgoing any need to hold onto it.
To contain it.
To box it in.
To save it for later.
And observing its presence.
Allow it to reveal to you all its dimensions.
As it appears.
And then as it disappears.
As it rises.
As it recedes.
As it enters.
As it leaves.
Its very presence.
Also defined by its absence.
And notice any feelings.
Any sensations arising in the body in that acknowledgement.
Any notion of uncertainty that arises in that acknowledgement.
Of its leaving.
Its absence.
Its retreat.
Notice where that and how that touches the body.
What feelings,
If any,
Of chaos it evokes.
And see if you can notice without reaching for your mind.
Without reaching for the mind to contain.
To rationalize.
To retell,
Reorganize what you're feeling.
Without asking the mind to project some image into the future.
Meet whatever sensations are arising.
Meet them directly.
Meet yourself directly.
Meet the being.
The being alive.
Of yourself directly.
Rather,
Allow it to meet you.
Allow it to meet you.
Without resisting it.
The life-life-liness of being alive.
Notice how as the mind interjects,
Something of that meeting is interrupted.
Notice the energy that reaches for the mind and calls it forth.
The tug of energy towards the mind.
And just relax into it.
Become effortless.
And drop all language,
All words.
And keeping the eyes closed.
And bow the head towards the heart.
Lean back slightly extending the legs out.
Lie down on your back.
Arms move away from the torso.
Palms turn up.
Continue to allow yourself to drop in.
Fall into the living experience.
What it is to be a living organism.
More than organized.
Organic.
A living organic being.
And allow the intelligence of a living organic being.
To meet you.
Allow yourself to become effortless.
And in that effortlessness,
Changeless.
Fold the arms to the torso.
Bend one leg then the other.
Roll to your right side.
Pause there.
When you're ready,
Come to sit up.
Allow the palms to join.
Exhale all the air out.
Inhale a breath.
Namaste.
