Relaxing And Tending To Your Head

So making yourself comfortable and taking a few deep breaths and noticing what it's like to be sitting with your eyes closed if your eyes are closed bring in your awareness to how it is to have your eyes closed or your eyes to not have to do anything right now it's no new information they need to take in how is it to have no demands on your sense of sight right now you you if you're noticing the muscles around your eyes are a little bit tight your forehead is tight you release the area around your eyes you might even imagine your eyes resting in their sockets a little there's nothing to do there's nothing to see how is it to rest back your sense of sight you if you're feeling any stress any tension in this part of your body will be putting a hand over your heart or even putting your hands over your eyes you might even put the palms of your hands over your eyes resting your eyes in the palms of your hands introducing even more darkness to your experience maybe feeling the gentle pressure of the palms of your hands over your eyes over your forehead now is it to hold this part of your body now is it to invite some extra darkness which is what can be soothing how is it to to rest your eyes from the light if you have your palms over your eyes you can leave them there or you can rest them down moving your awareness down to your jaw if you notice any tension in your jaw maybe you don't even realize that you've been holding tension in your jaw now is it to invite the lower part of your jaw to relax down maybe this means that your lips are slightly parted maybe it means you're relaxing some muscles in your neck noticing if it's challenging to allow your jaw to relax maybe your jaw feels that it needs to be aware be ready for something maybe you've been holding tension in your jaw like a coiled spring waiting to to expand quickly was it to allow energy in your jaw to dissipate simply relax your jaw you might even notice a little trembling in your jaw in this relaxed position maybe it's not accustomed to relaxing down as much as you can just being open to your experience you might even like to bring one of your hands up and to rest your jaw in the palm of your hand much as you held the palms of your hands over your eyes you might even allow yourself to lean into that palm to rest your jaw in that palm now is it to hold your jaw in the palm of your hand you might like to move to the other side how is it to hold the other side the other side of your jaw in your other hand once again allowing your jaw muscles to release knowing your lips to part you then you might like to bring both hands up rest both sides of your jaw in the palms of your hands he be even resting your head down forward a little bit to let the palms of your hands take some of the weight of your jaw of your head how is it to offer some of the weight of your head into your hands into your arms to gently cradle your face in the palms of your hands you know so noticing what it's like to have inaction in your jaw no action no requirements of your jaw no requirements of your mouth your tongue or is it to be inviting stillness to this part of your face moving your hands one more time and putting one hand on your forehead and the other one on the back of your head sort of as if you are gently holding your head feeling your palm and your fingers wrapped around your head supporting your head now is it to be inhabiting that space between your hands that space that's being held very finite really fairly small space that your head inhabits who is it to hold that kindly to let your head know that you're here that you care about it if your arms are getting sore you might even swap them over allowing yourself to be held allowing your head to be held allowing your awareness to be with this very busy very active part of your body and then gently resting your arms down again simply being in your experience of this moment how is it to have held parts of your head brought awareness to your eyes to your jaw to your head now is it to be resting in this space after having done that you And as we're now starting to move towards the completion of this little practice bringing your awareness to your breathing again notice the in-breath and the out-breath for a few moments expanding your awareness to your body as a whole so down to your arms your hands down your legs to your feet might start to move your body a little very gently when you're ready opening your eyes you'll be looking around the space that you're in just to orient yourself to this space having a stretch a sip of your drink