Allow your eyes to gently close.
Receiving a deep breath in.
Settle into your body.
And as you exhale,
Settle your body into your seat.
Savoring a low belly breath in now.
Allow the breath to move you,
Expanding the lungs and the diaphragm.
And as you exhale Remember that you also.
Another low belly breath in now.
Allow this breath to lengthen the spine.
Crown high.
And the tailbone low anchored into the earth by gravity.
Exhaling into a posture.
Dignity.
And peace.
Savoring one more low belly breath in now Surrender your worry.
Surrender your tunnel vision.
Let go of fear.
And as you exhale,
Arrive right here.
Continuing now to breathe at your own pace.
Become present.
All that is alive in your body right now.
Any sensations of tenderness?
Any sensations of flexibility and strength.
Find the support of your breath.
At its natural pace.
And as the breath moves you.
Allow your awareness.
Shift into those different spaces of the body.
But a longing for your nurturing care.
We'll be present with the body for three minutes here.
As I hold space with the sounds of the guitar.
And nature.
And now,
Presentation.
Your body and the breath.
One more low,
Better breath in.
Focus your awareness on.
.
.
The gratitude you have.
For all the ways.
Nobody holds you.
And all of the ways that we are held by the earth.
Through the breath.
Through the soil,
Through the plants.
To other animals.
Be present to the ways we are connected.
And now,
With a low belly breath in.
Breathe into your heart.
Become present too.
What is real within you.
All color of emotion.
The Paradoxical.
Connection of your joy and sorrow and all that exist in between.
Suspend all judgment Observe with the curiosity of a child.
Be a witness.
To every emotion because every emotion is valid.
If you feel any resistance Let resistance dissolve with a conscious breath.
We'll stay here present to the heart for the next three minutes.
And now,
Present.
To the soft strength of your heart.
Its capacity to hold.
Every experience.
We seek the heart's wisdom.
Its inside.
That isn't shadowed by The Egoic Mind.
So we asked three questions this morning.
And the first question is.
.
.
Dear Heart How do you want me?
To nurture.
Dear heart,
How do you want me to nurture joy?
We'll hold space here for the heart's reply.
For the next two minutes.
Breathing through any resistance from the egoic mind.
And allowing our intuitive inner wisdom.
The space to speak.
You you Amen.
And now holding.
The heart's wisdom with an open hand.
Let me ask the second question.
Which is dear heart.
How do you want me to nurture joy?
In others.
Dear heart.
How do you want me to nurture joy?
In others.
Again,
Holding space for the heart's wisdom,
Breathing through any resistance from the egoic mind.
For the next now holding that wisdom with an open hand.
We ask the last question of our heart this morning.
And this question is,
Dear heart,
What do you want me to remember?
About the nature of joy.
Dear heart.
What do you want me to remember about the nature of joy?
Holding space here for another two minutes.
For the heart.
You you Bye.
Now holding All of these answers.
Responses from the heart with an open hand.
Breathing in without judgment.
Interesting.
Our awareness.
We'll expand as we embody Enjoy.
And the honoring of our heart in a new way.
We say thank you to the heart.
As we close our practice with a bit of metta loving-kindness.
Breathing in Allow pure loving kindness to arise in the heart space.
See it as miniature sun.
Brilliantly bright.
In your heart soon.
And as you breathe,
Your heart opens wide.
And see yourself.
Standing outdoors.
On a bright sunny day.
And feeling that inner light of loving kindness magnified.
By the light of the sun.
As it amplifies,
You feel that warmth.
Throughout your entire body.
Expanding.
Reminding you of a life without condition.
Of infinite love.
And as you receive that pure love,
In the form of the sunlight.
You expand in loving kindness.
Bye.
Reciting this simple.
.
.
Blessing Repeating after You who are the source of all power.
Whose rays illuminate the entire world.
Illuminate also my heart.
So that it too might do your work.
Repeat it one more time,
Changing one word.
Repeating after me.
Love.
Who is the source of all power.
Whose rays illuminate the entire world.
Illuminate also my heart.
So that it too might do.
It's been the last minute of our practice right here.
Being fed by loving kindness.
And surrendering to the will of our hearts.
The love,
Light and truth within me.
Honors to love,
Light,
And truth.
Within you.
Namaste.
