So take your seat,
Or if you prefer to stand or lay down,
Or if you're walking or driving,
But just settle in,
In a way that is supportive of you coming to the present moment,
Bringing the attention to the present moment.
And bring the attention to the breath or to the sound and the environment,
Whichever is most supportive for you.
And just let the body settle,
The mind settle,
The nervous system settle.
And then think of a time in the last day or week or month or year,
Maybe you have to go back farther than that,
When you really felt at peace,
At peace with yourself,
At peace with the world.
Could be just the smallest moment,
That perfect sip of tea,
Or yesterday I was walking somewhere and I just happened to look,
Just look to my left and there was a gigantic tree in full bloom,
Blossoms.
It was just that moment of awe,
Awe can be a moment of peace.
And with that recollection,
That sense of peace,
Just let it into the body and wherever it lands,
That recollection,
Wherever it lands,
Just let it begin to permeate the body,
This sense of peace.
Then loosen up the boundaries of the body a little bit and just imagine that the peace could kind of permeate the space around you.
Just a little ways around you,
Like a little space of peace,
Almost like you're in the theater and there's a nice warm spotlight on you.
So peace a little bit wider than the body.
When the edges of that spotlight begin to blur and the lights begin to come up on the whole stage,
In the whole room,
Wherever you are,
The room,
The car,
Wherever you are,
Just let that peace flow out to that space,
That wider space.
And then maybe it wants to go farther,
Maybe it wants to flow out into the whole building where you are,
If you're in a building or a wide open space,
If you're outdoors.
Then maybe you can imagine the city or the town or the countryside where you live and peace just radiating out as far as you can see in your imagination.
And then let go of any boundaries around your imagination and just let peace flow all the way out.
Into the whole world,
Everything in front of you,
Everything behind you,
Everything to the left of you and to the right of you and above you and below you.
Just this sense of peace,
All the humans,
All the other beings,
The earth herself.
And see if you notice kind of a feedback loop of being the one radiating this peace and then having it come back to sustain you.
So offering and receiving.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours.
May the clarity of the light be yours.
May the fluency of the ocean be yours.
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow wind work these words of love around you,
An invisible cloak to mind your life.
