Good morning guys,
Afternoon,
Good evening.
So I have an ongoing back problem,
So I'm going to lay down for this guys,
Okay,
I can't sit for more than five minutes,
So it's more important that you can hear me anyway.
So,
I'm going to take us through a body awareness,
Sometimes called a body scan,
Just settle in,
You're settling into the body,
You're settling,
So as we approach the body,
Body awareness practice,
We're not trying to change anything,
We're not trying to fix anything,
That's not the intention,
And we're just holding what's here,
Feeling what's here,
And if we stop interfering,
And we just hold and feel,
What happens is the held emotion is allowed to release,
But it's got to be an approach of allowing,
Just allow it to,
But that's not,
The intention isn't to do that,
That's just a consequence,
So there's no agenda,
Which is difficult for us,
Because we're so agendered in life,
And I found that over the years,
It releases,
And I'm still finding it,
So just starting,
A place that feels right,
Might be the head,
Might be the belly,
Might be the lower back,
As with myself,
Just feeling what's here,
This is actually the self-compassion practice by another name,
If you find any discomfort,
Anywhere in the body,
You can spend some time there,
Any areas of pain,
Really edge of the pain,
Might be a simple holding,
Might be a tightness,
Don't locate anything,
It's okay,
It's moving around the body,
And feel the edge of this discomfort,
Take your attention to where there isn't any pain,
Any discomfort,
Show the body that it's not all painful,
Notice if you've tensed up around any areas,
Just feel it,
It's okay,
If I had something,
You can describe it,
A descriptive word,
Like feels hot,
So just exploring it as a present moment event,
Not a history,
Where are you now,
If you lose your way,
Now we go back to the breath,
Do your best not to pick up the thoughts,
If you pick them up,
Just drop them,
Just put them down,
The silence,
The stillness,
And just the experiencing of the body,
Do the work,
Don't interfere,
What's happening,
Bored,
Relaxed,
Tensed up,
Just relax into the tension,
Or relax with it,
It's okay to be tense,
The body wants to be as it wants to be,
That's how it heals,
Okay,
That's the first one of the new year,
First meetup,
Thank you guys,
Thank you,
Thank you,
Good day,
See you tomorrow,
Bye-bye,
Thank you,
Bye-bye.
