Welcoming,
Welcoming ourselves to ourselves,
Starting right where we are,
Just as we are.
Noticing any sense of needing to get anywhere,
Needing to achieve anything,
Needing to work anything out or get it right.
And in noticing those impulses,
It's possible they can just begin to melt away,
Leaving a space for just what's here.
Supporting that quality of melting,
Of letting go.
There is this breath and the energy of this breath.
It flows down through the body,
Into the sense of contact on the air,
On the cushion,
Through the soles of your feet,
And through that sensation of contact,
As a quiet invitation to ground,
To feel rooted,
To feel supported by the earth beneath you.
And the quality of the breath,
Of its energy,
Really support us in this dropping in,
Dropping down,
Rooting in the ground.
So really listening to the quality and attuning to a quality of breath energy that supports this dropping away,
Sinking into the air,
To be held,
Nourished,
Nurtured by the air.
And it's the nature of this breath that it has the capacity to be sensitive to,
To be able to listen to what's alive in you right now.
And with gentleness,
With a quality of tenderness,
This breath energy can attune to what's needed in this moment.
Like the ocean tide washing to the shore,
This breath can just flow through the body,
Gently rippling at the shores of your being.
And as the tides of this oceanic breath energy gently wash through the body,
They can begin to reveal quality,
Nature to your being.
That is equally gentle,
Tender,
Sensitive.
And that has the strength,
The depth and the capacity to be tender,
Be alert,
Be awake to what is just as it is.
And your experience of this tenderness that's innate to your being,
It may not be something known,
May not be something that you're sensitive to or aware of,
Because in fact,
It is you.
It is sensitivity.
It is tenderness.
It is awareness,
Presence.
And it is divine.
It's your divine nature.
It's who you already always are,
Right here,
Right now,
Without any need to make it so.
You are this divine energy,
This boundless sensitivity,
Presence,
Aliveness,
That embraces all,
Includes all,
Receives all,
With care,
With kindness,
With openness.
This is divine tenderness.
This is it.
Including any sense that it can't be.
This divine,
Tender openness that you are.
This sensitivity.
This receptivity.
It loves nothing more than to receive you.
To receive all that you are.
Welcoming it in.
Welcoming all the impressions that are present here.
Until there's no gap,
No separation.
Until there's only divine tenderness.
Divine presence.
In this breath.
In this body.
These thoughts,
And sounds,
And tastes,
And smells.
The whole sensory unraveling.
There's nothing other than divine presence.
Tender beings.
Already ready,
Willing,
Welcoming.
Right here,
Right now.
Just as it is.
And an invitation now,
In these last few moments,
To relax a little bit deeper into your posture.
Find a deeper level of comfort in where you're sitting or lying.
And just enjoy the fruits of this practice.
From opening to receive the blessings.
They come from just offering yourself the opportunity to be here,
In this way.
In this alignment of your true nature.
Of your divine,
Tender,
Loving presence.
