I'm inviting you to,
In whichever way you find helpful,
To tune in to your whole body,
Top to toe,
As a single whole space.
And some people like to start from their feet up and move upwards,
And other people like to start from the top down,
Whatever is helpful.
Just to find a way of appreciating that your body is also a body-shaped space,
And that you are in it.
And as you move your awareness around your whole body space,
Just notice if there's some areas that you easily feel that you are here now in it.
You can be present in it,
And other areas maybe not so much.
Just gently noticing.
You Just appreciate your whole body space as home,
Home for being.
See also if you can then have a sense of the whole surface area of your body,
Your skin,
As a permeable boundary for this whole body space.
And sometimes you may notice that there are certain parts of your boundary,
Your skin,
That are particularly permeable,
And are openings like the palm of your hands,
Or the top of your head,
The crown.
Just feel also the soles of your feet,
And how this gives a container,
The skin,
That is both the boundary,
But it's also permeable to your sense of inhabiting presence.
See if you can open your awareness also to the whole surrounding space around you,
Above,
Below,
Behind.
And appreciate how your awareness is,
Is able to move into that space,
And touch and connect with something in your room that you're in,
And most wondrously it can connect to someone who's not in the room,
And we can connect directly with the conscious awareness of anyone,
Not grasping,
Not holding,
Just touching.
And if we hear a creature,
A bird,
We can move outside and connect with that being,
Or a dog.
And then just enjoy that.
And only when we've established this appreciative sense of space,
That is both boundaried and yet totally without boundary,
We can move towards going a little deeper in,
Within this space.
Let's move our awareness inwards and move it to our mind center,
Almost as a spherical space,
A kind of a head-shaped space that has a center.
A still,
Light-filled center.
If you have a sense of any clearing or quietening of mind,
Just give thanks and go back to experiencing what it feels like just to be quietly anchored and centered in the mind space.
And then drop your awareness into your heart space,
Sinking deeper and deeper into the core or center of that space.
If you bring breathing awareness to this core place,
You can breathe in kindness.
Oh,
Gentleness.
You can keep doing that to just have a sense of kindness infusing this heart space.
You you you Then when you're ready,
Bring some of this quietness of mind and kindness of heart and let it drop down into the womb space,
This whole abdomen-shaped,
Belly-shaped permeable space.
Place a hand on your stomach if it helps to remind you where you're coming from right now.
You you you Let your awareness be like a breathing in the center,
Breathing from the core.
And notice if there are any qualities of aliveness,
Non-verbal feelings that come from being here.
Just subtle movements or a feeling,
A tone or resonance.
And notice if there are any qualities of aliveness that come from being here.
Just subtle movements or a feeling,
A tone or resonance.
And notice if there are any qualities of aliveness that come from being here.
Just subtle movements or a feeling,
A tone or resonance.
Just go a little bit deeper and tune into the particular language of the womb space which is not verbal and listen,
Almost like listening to music.
Just go a little bit deeper and tune into the particular language of the womb space which is not verbal and listen,
Almost like listening to music.
And then to begin to close our meditation.
Say thank you if you'd like to,
To body for picking up the subtle movements and feelings of aliveness of being.
Either a little bit or a lot,
Just thank it.
And reassured that you will be back to listen more.
So be it.
Thank you very much.
