Let's close our eyes and let's go on a journey.
First into our body and see how you're feeling right now.
What's the screenshot showing you that you can take of yourselves right now.
I used your body feeling tight,
Open,
Warm,
Cold,
Contracted,
Pleasant,
Unpleasant.
And what's your emotional experience?
What's your mental activities?
Is your mind racing?
Is your mind calm?
Is your mind tight?
Is your mind expanded?
You feel a bit withdrawn into yourself.
Do you feel expanded and open to the world?
To see if you can look at these things with curiosity instead of a lot of judgment.
How should I be versus how is it?
And then you can take some deeper breaths.
Settle into your body deeper and slow down a bit your exhalations.
That feels right.
Drop into your body.
You should feel more subtle sensations like streaming,
Pulsing,
Aliveness.
And to make a little space.
Okay.
Notice when you drop into your body how it creates immediately spaciousness.
A little bit of space to reflect on your current experience.
And space induces capacity to reflect on.
You can reflect on your day,
On the last days.
How are you dealing with your life at the moment?
Personal challenges and maybe also collective challenges.
So then through space we activate like three processes.
Reflection,
Becoming aware of,
Becoming aware of residues and certain situations left in me.
Undigested experiences that I couldn't yet integrate.
When I make space,
I can reflect.
I can reflect,
I can slowly integrate.
First digest stress for example or emotions.
Because I want to be with,
I don't want to get rid of.
As long as it's not too overwhelming or I need some relational support.
I can sit with,
I can feel into,
I can bring unclarities into my awareness,
Unresolved moments,
Questions,
Relationships.
And through being with and also digesting maybe the physical tension or stress,
Or sitting in relaxation and emotional experience,
Maybe some conversations,
Relations,
Situations,
Left some emotional undigested qualities.
And I just become aware of because I have space for it.
And then me digesting and being willing to feel and reflect and digest helps me to integrate those.
Helps me to learn something out of it.
Helps me to increase my perspective,
To recognize some needs or some support I need with it.
Helps me to see that I'm not alone,
That I can reach out and maybe reflect together,
Digest together,
Integrate together.
Especially in times that are more volatile,
More disruptive.
So I take the challenge of what it means to be a human being.
I don't shy away from the discomfort of certain moments or being a contemporary witness.
But I also don't store that stress and experience in myself only.
But I keep it moving.
I keep digesting and turning it into a fertile soil.
So whatever you carry inside that is undigested,
You can still sit with it,
Reflect on it.
If you feel it's too much or too overwhelming,
Then you seek relational support either with friends.
And if that's too much for that,
You can seek also a conversation with somebody who does that professionally like a therapist.
But to keep digesting in order to grow and to learn and to expand our perspective on life.
Whenever you're ready,
You take a couple of deeper breaths and open your eyes and come back.
