A Nose For Silence ~ Finding Stillness In The Senses

So welcome to another short meditation where I'd like to take you along on a fun little trip through the senses in the way that I had contacted a few years ago and we're going to work specifically with the sense of smell and and hearing the sense of sound.

So wherever you are get nice and comfortable with a certain alert awakeness in your posture while at the same time relaxing down giving in to gravity.

So be right there in the middle of alertness and relaxation.

Let the muscles in your face relax,

Your shoulders relax down.

So you want to keep a slight lift in your chest,

A relaxed lift while letting the back of your body fall down towards the earth.

And allow your breath to become a bit deeper by itself without forcing anything.

Enjoy this breath.

And then the way it came to me a few years ago,

I think I was remembering my yoga teacher Delilah instructing us to breathe as if you're smelling the air that you're breathing.

And I realized that smelling begets listening and listening begets silence.

And perhaps your sense of smell is not the most developed.

It actually doesn't matter.

What I invite you to do is to indeed smell in this way that you.

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To breathe in this way that you smell.

So have a certain curiosity about the flavor of breath that comes into your nose.

And probably either immediately or after a few breaths you notice a certain attentiveness comes part of your quality of presence right now.

And do you also notice that smelling is really a kind of listening?

It's listening with your nose.

Do you hear it becoming already a little bit more quiet wherever you are?

And just play with this for a little bit as you please.

Smell the air and have this sense that it's actually a kind of listening.

And then see where the silence comes.

And when the silence comes,

Stay with the silence.

Allow it to enlarge its part in your world for about one more minute.

Enjoy.