Ice water vapor practice This practice is really nice to do lying down.
And one of the wonderful things about this practice is that it allows the body to get very,
Very still and it allows the body to really rest.
So for this practice we're going to imagine that our attention is like a warm light and wherever we shine our attention we are shining this warm light.
And we can move our attention all over.
We can move our attention to sounds or we can move our attention to what we can feel in our big toes right now.
Maybe wriggle them.
You can feel that.
So our attention is amazing.
It will go wherever we want it to go.
And we know that sometimes what happens with our attention is it gets hooked by other things so it can sometimes be distracted.
And that's really okay.
Whenever our attention gets distracted we just really gently guide it back to where we want to put our attention to where we want to shine that light.
So let's begin by bringing the light of our attention to the whole body and seeing if we can allow the whole body to be very,
Very still.
Almost as if the whole body was made of ice.
Very solid.
Unmoving.
So if the body was frozen in time.
Maybe noticing how the face feels when it's very still and unmoving.
Maybe noticing how the shoulders feel.
Noticing how the hands feel to be still.
They're so often moving.
So the whole body frozen in this moment as if made of ice.
The legs still defeat.
So let's bring our warm light of attention to this body.
First bring the attention to the belly where we feel the breath.
And as we bring this warm light of attention to the belly we kind of melt that solid ice.
And we can feel how the belly can be very soft as we breathe.
We can also bring our attention to our shoulders even though they are still very still.
As we bring our warm light of attention they can soften.
With every breath they can get softer and softer.
We can shine this warm light of attention all the way down from the shoulders through the arms to arrive in the hands.
So even though we're still not moving our warm light of attention can melt the hardness of ice that we sometimes feel in the body.
Maybe tension or tightness.
And instead we can feel the arms,
The shoulders and just start to melt.
Melt down to the floor,
The kitchen,
Whatever we're relying on.
Bringing the warm light of our attention to our back,
Our legs,
Our feet.
So with every breath we can just allow the body to soften.
Almost like we're melting into a little puddle.
The body really at ease,
Full of warmth.
Any tightness just listening.
Even the muscles of the face can soften and melt.
So our eyelids can soften,
The muscles around our lips.
So we no longer hold any tightness or hardness like ice.
We're just soft and flowing,
The breath flowing through the body just like water.
Warm and fluid.
And for the last few moments of the practice allowing the body to just bask in that heat of our attention,
That warmth,
The enjoyment of softening,
Resting.
Until we can almost feel the body become lighter.
Just the way water when it's very warm turns into steam or vapour.
Instead of heaviness we now notice anywhere in the body we feel lightness.
And just with the warmth of our attention we can transform the body like magic.
From ice to water to vapour.
Thank you for watching!
