While you are in a comfortable seated position,
See if you can start to engage with your body by noticing where your body is touching the ground or another object.
And start this practice today by seeing if you can experience any tactile sensations or sensations where your body is connected or touching another object.
So wherever you're sitting,
You might notice weight.
You might notice temperature shift.
Wherever your clothes are touching your body,
Start to notice what the experience is.
See if you can feel any pulsing,
Any weight shifts,
And scan any area that's touching the ground,
A chair,
Your bed,
And really deeply experience any sensorial experiences that are happening in that area.
And hold onto this if your mind starts to wander,
Emotions start to happen,
Allow those to exist in the background.
But draw your awareness to these tactile sensations in your body.
Spend a moment noticing how you feel in your body,
What it feels like to breathe,
To be sitting.
And again,
This is not a time to analyze this.
See if you can truly experience purely the sensorial and tactile experience of sitting and breathing right now.
Connect to your breath.
Notice that it's coming in and out,
Expanding your lungs,
Deflating,
Leaving your body.
Now we can expand this awareness outward to start to connect to the space or environment that you're in.
And with your sixth sense,
See if you can naturally feel where you are located in the room that you're in.
No need to analyze or explain to yourself anything.
This is a feeling.
Do you notice if you're in the center of the room,
In the back of the room,
The corner,
What does it feel like to be sitting in the spot that you're in,
The room that you're in?
See if you can sense the space between you and any of the furniture in the room.
Can you feel where a chair is or a table?
Do you feel big or small in the room?
Can you notice the direction that you're sitting in?
And again,
You don't have to think about it.
We are not engaging the contemplative state or mind.
We are letting our mind settle into the experience of being in this body and being in this room.
So spend the last few moments seeing if you can notice your body,
Your breath,
Where you're at in the room that you're in,
If you feel big or small in the room that you're in,
And rest your awareness on this big expansive space connecting to the room that you're sitting in.
Okay.
