So in this meditation we're just settling,
Not doing anything in particular,
Not trying to meditate.
Allowing ourselves to come a little bit more naturally to wanting to sit.
Being able to be quite restful in relation to our experience.
So I suggest that you don't necessarily close your eyes to start with.
Just get familiar with your surroundings.
Not in the sense of checking them out but just feeling into where you are.
Feeling the space that surrounds you.
You may wish to look around,
Just locating certain anchors within the room or beyond the room.
And at some point you may want to close your eyes but it's fine if your eyes stay open throughout the practice.
You can let them be quite soft and perhaps letting them rest in one particular area.
Often quite low to the ground and on something fairly neutral.
Perhaps the wall or a corner of the floor.
The approach to practice is quite natural and receptive.
And this encourages relaxation.
We relax into awareness.
Relaxation encourages awareness.
And the added ingredient is to be present with what's happening.
So we can allow the mind to come home as it were quite gradually,
Quite naturally to rest within what we're actually experiencing.
It's a little bit like when you wake up in a dark room and as you lie there with your eyes open,
Different things within the room gradually become clearer.
Your eyes naturally adjust.
And the mind settling naturally notices objects within body and mind.
You might notice the breath.
Notice where you feel the sensations in the body.
And you might notice movement in different parts of the body from the process of breathing,
Movement in the belly and the ribs in the back of the front of the body,
In the chest and the throat.
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And more and more you can just allow gravity to let your weight rest.
Let it be taken up by what you're sitting on.
Let the ground receive your weight so that you're supported and you can relax at ease.
And you can be just sitting,
Just breathing,
Just feeling.
Feeling different,
Just feeling different sensations through the body.
The warmth in the hands,
Stiffness in the knees.
Just noticing where your attention goes,
What it notices.
Just feeling the breath and its movements.
All the different sensations associated with a single breath.
And whatever you notice,
Whatever you're aware of,
And it might be pleasant or it might be unpleasant.
See if this relaxed,
Attentive awareness can simply know what's happening without commentary,
Without judgment.
Noticing these judgments or commentaries if they appear.
Not being swept away by them.
Just remaining present in an attentive,
Precise,
But very relaxed way.
Appreciating the moment.
Appreciating that you're aware in this moment.
Appreciating the mind that can know,
That can be aware.
And just resting with that.
