Sitting With Faith

So let's just settle in.

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Softening the eyes.

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Letting the eyes be kinder.

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Our attention beginning to connect more deeply with the body.

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Noticing the breathing.

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The breathing not just as the breath,

But any and all sensation.

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Connected,

However indirectly.

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With the process of air flowing in and out of the body.

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Sensations from the inner core of the body.

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Right out to the skin.

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Sensations from the diaphragm.

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Down into the feet.

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Through the arms and into the hands.

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And right up to the crown of the head,

Which is rising and falling in time with the breathing.

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And I just encourage you to have faith.

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Faith in the practice.

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Faith in the fact that no matter how many times the mind wanders,

It comes back to mindful attention again.

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Faith in the fact that repeatedly coming back to the breathing has benefits.

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It brings a little more calmness.

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It changes the brain.

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It brings a little more contentment.

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It changes our emotional habits in the long term.

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So just see if you can bring this faith to mind.

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And bury it in mind.

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Throughout the practice.

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If you don't have that faith.

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Just doing the practice.

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And seeing if that faith arises over time.

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And any time you realise that you've been distracted.

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Just recognising that the mind found its own way home.

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Just reminding yourself that it did that.

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That it always does that.

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Every time the mind returns from distraction.

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Recognising that you have the choice to be happy about having come home again.

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You can just continue.

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Sitting with faith.

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Or sitting cultivating faith.

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Until you hear the bell.

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