I just invite you to let the words go and just check in with the body as it's either sitting or lying down or whatever the posture is that you're in.
How are you feeling?
How is it going?
How is this moment for this body?
Letting it settle,
If settle is possible,
Or noticing if there's agitation or restlessness and just noting,
Oh,
Yeah,
This is a restless moment.
That's okay,
Too,
And then locating the breath in the body,
Just the body breathing,
The sensation of the body breathing,
And beginning to follow the breath as it flows in and out of the body and noticing how this choice to take just a few minutes to practice,
To pay attention in the present moment to the breath,
This is an act of compassion.
Arriving here,
This is setting a good intention.
We're already doing this,
That wisdom and compassion,
They're not just available,
They're here,
They're right here.
If you want to,
You can put your hand on your heart and you can say to yourself,
Yeah,
This is how it is right now.
Compassion is here,
Wisdom is here,
And it's a tough moment.
It's a tough moment in the world,
Maybe in your own life as well.
And here we are practicing together,
So it's just clear how much we care about ourselves and about one another,
Just reminding ourselves of that.
The wisdom to get here,
To be together,
To be in community with one another,
To put our hand on our heart even if just in our imagination,
To know that this is a difficult moment,
Difficult moment maybe in our own lives and certainly in the world,
And to care,
To see how much care there is,
To be part of that too,
To be part of it,
To know that we're part of it.
