Getting settled and maybe enjoying that there's some way that our body and beings know what settled is.
We can be curious about the places that are unsettled.
We don't need to know in our visor heads how to deal with it,
Just feeling.
Enjoying our capacity to feel settled and to feel what is not settled and just being with that,
With curiosity.
And if there is somewhere that feels settled,
Maybe we can start to gravitate there.
And if we don't feel at all settled,
Then there's the contact with the ground and the feet and different ways we could play with our breath,
Like a little bit bigger breaths,
A little bit longer,
And especially the longer out breath over time with a few waves starts to organize some settling for us.
When we're really unsettled,
It can be worth trying a couple more specific tricks with our breathing,
Like letting the breath be,
Exhale at least five or six seconds long,
And the in-breath also at least five or six seconds long.
Gradually kind of massaging our breath that way,
And then gradually massaging the out-breath to be even longer.
And also if we're really,
Really unsettled,
Just using with the hand,
Closing the right nostril and just letting the breath come through the left side,
If possible.
Maybe allowing our eyes to roam around with the eyes closed or open,
Looking to one side for a minute or so,
And then the other side for a minute or so.
And just noticing the way we might watch a storm or just the weather when our physiology gets these signals to relax.
We might feel a bit of relief and also something that stays tense or immediately jumps back.
This is just the way the weather is,
It's not your fault.
Or if there is some some settledness or a great settledness,
Feeling how really drinking that in,
Enjoying that,
Doesn't need to take any credit for it.
And the less credit we take,
The more it's a gift,
The more it's wow.
And even that feeling settled feels good,
It's not really a personal game or gain,
But just a very natural fit and phenomenon.
And at the same time that we can enjoy not being mine,
We can really enjoy drinking the goodness of being a bit or more settled.
Enjoying leaving some of the life energy that's trickling into us,
That by not throwing it away might be a bit more available than usual.
Enjoying letting life have that rather than using it all up.
Enjoying letting energy and aliveness trickle in as if like a spring within a lake,
Trickling in,
Filling in.
Settling into our ground and the ground of our bodies on the ground.
Giving in to our heaviness as if we are an anchor on the seafloor.
And just by being in heaviness,
Maybe some stillness,
A quality of stillness that allows a fullness of breath,
Vibration,
Flow,
Maybe whatever helps you towards quality of stillness and quiet,
Quality of not distraction,
Not throwing ourselves away,
Letting ourselves be filled.
And whatever helps there be enough room for that energy and that stillness quality.
