Picture Yourself Deeply Resting

Thank you for being here for this shared time together.

Of all the places you can be right now,

You're choosing to be here.

How would you like to feel as a result of taking this time together?

Is there something that you would like to receive or take away when you move back into your day?

Is there something that you would like to leave here when you return back into your day?

And if nothing's bubbling up,

Know that it will happen on its own.

Feel us together.

My invitation is to be here exactly as you are,

With whatever's present in your body and in your mind.

Nothing you need to change or fix.

No right or wrong.

No doing.

You're already doing it right.

Allowing yourself to arrive,

To land,

Soften and settle.

Create any conditions to support a deeper experience of rest.

Take a soft breath in and let it go with a sigh.

Another soft breath in,

Letting it go with an even bigger sigh.

I'll offer one more.

Take as many as you need throughout our shared practice.

These breaths alerting the immune system and the nervous system rippling to all of the places that it needs to reach.

As you transition into our time together,

Use anything you need to support yourself.

If you'd like to pause this recording to go get a pillow,

A blanket or something that will support you to be even 1% more comfortable,

You can come back at any time.

And then find a comfortable place to be.

It may be standing seated or laying down.

Tune into what your body needs at this time.

Your eyes can remain open or gently close.

The tiny muscles around the eyes are working constantly.

Allow the eyes to rest.

Orient into the space that you're in.

Perhaps using your senses and checking in with something you may hear.

Something you may feel.

Is there a particular scent or taste that you're aware of?

It may be a point of contact with the surface,

Your feet against the floor,

Your seat against a cushion or a chair in the back of your body being held by a surface.

Drop into a place of stillness where doing stops.

Invite your attention inward and invite yourself to be here.

I'd love for us to rest together.

Just as you are and just as I am.

Notice what you may be carrying into this moment with you.

Is there a thought,

A leftover experience?

Imagine putting it aside onto a table or into a folder.

You can come back to it later if you would like without your attention on it right now.

Without the mind needing to attend to anything right now.

Being without the thinking mind.

Our cells respond to the thoughts we think.

Every word silent or spoken influences our bodies functioning.

When our brain is in a more restful or relaxed state,

It can be more receptive.

This can be an opportune time when preparing for sleep or taking a rest during the day.

Kindly say this to yourself.

Even though I may be holding on to some stress,

I choose to rest and let it go now.

Even though I may be holding on to some stress,

I choose to rest and let it go now.

Picture yourself deeply resting.

Blood pressure dropping.

Heartbeat slowing down.

All thoughts and sensations quieting down.

Inflammation being reduced.

Muscles relaxing.

Breath slowing.

Immune system being nourished,

Repaired and strengthened.

Healthy tissues in the brain and other organs.

Being restored to optimal health.

Your body knows how to be vibrantly healthy and to find any repair needed.

Safe here.

All is well.

Picture yourself deeply resting.

Place your hands open on top of your thighs with your palms extended upwards.

Tuck the thumbs inside the palm and gently wrap the other four fingers around the thumbs.

Hands can remain upwards here or can be turned facing downwards.

Using your thumbs,

Imagine cradling and holding a child or a bear hibernating in a cave or a tray of cookies sliding into the oven.

Something going inside.

Allowing everything to be as it is.

Landing into this space of being held.

Notice the temperature of the air on your hands.

Present in your body.

Softness connecting you to you.

Feeling awareness of the feeling of landing and grounding.

Nowhere to go and nothing to achieve.

Sense and feel the volume of the thumb being held.

An inhale fills the space inside the hand.

Exhale lands.

Natural breath.

The inhale fills the space inside the hand.

When your body informs you to let the breath go,

The exhale lands you 1% more here.

And when you feel ready,

Allow your hands,

Palms and arms to rest comfortably now wherever you would like.

Everything to be just as it is.

Thoughts dissolving,

Dropping into a deeper state of non-doing.

Noticing a pause in between an inhale and an exhale.

Awareness of any underlying sensations in the body.

A pause of a hum.

Pause of a tingling.

Perhaps no awareness of sensation.

That's where the body is needing support.

Everywhere it's connected,

Feel the imprint that it's leaving on the ground,

On the chair,

On the bed.

Starting with this vertical sense of yourself,

Whether seated,

Standing or laying down.

Allowing the body to drain,

Meeting the support and then letting it be.

On your next inhale,

Draw the breath from the tip of the toes to the top of the head.

On the next exhale,

Draw the breath from the top of the head to the tip of the toes.

Inhale the breath moves from the ankles to the top of the head.

Inhale the breath moves from the top of the head to the tip of the ankles.

Inhale breath moves from the knees to the top of the head.

Exhale breath moves from the top of the head to the knees.

Breath from the pelvis to the top of the head.

Top of the head back to the pelvis.

Breath from the belly to the top of the head.

Breath from the top of the head to the belly.

Breath from the heart to the top of the head.

Top of the head back down to the heart.

Breath from the throat to the top of the head.

Top of the head back down to the throat.

Breath from the face to the top of the head.

Top of the head back over the face.

Whole body being bathed in breath.

The center of the body illuminated,

Vibrant and whole.

The breath brightening the insides as if doing a housekeeping sweep.

The cobwebs and the clutter and the dust all being tidied and brightened by the natural breath.

Sense the front of your heart and the back of your heart.

Image of the space between the front of the body and the back of the body.

Sparkling heart center,

Expansive and open.

Body is soft and at rest.

The space in the room holding you sense the space all around you.

The space in front of you and the space behind you.

The space above you and below you.

Space to the right of you and the left of you.

Soundless space,

Vast space.

Grounding arriving soft waves of breath.

Point of contact sliding you down.

No need to hold grip.

No work.

An effortless softening into the ground.

The mind sliding down beneath the thoughts.

Settled into the body.

An invitation to connect with the inner resource.

Sensations of the tongue resting in the mouth.

Shaw released and top lid of the eye sliding down.

Eyeballs and the orbs of the eyes at rest.

No holding in the belly,

Shoulders or the brow.

Lungs are breathing.

Food is digesting.

The heart is beating softly.

Dreams of sensation and wholeness in the whole body while at rest just as you are.

Spacious awareness of being held and whole.

Release yourself deeply resting.

Sense the body at rest.

If you have a particular area that would enjoy some healing light and love,

Send healing light and love there now.

Allow your healing light and love to expand beyond yourself to others in your home or in your community.

And then bright light and love to all beings everywhere.

Begin to become aware of returning to this space.

The quality of the air as it touches your skin and soft sounds around you and within you.

Whole body renewed with vitality and peace.

Breath may be soft.

Mind may be quiet.

Heart beat may slow.

Begin to gradually wiggle fingers and toes.

Taking a body stretch.

Coming back into this space.

And as you feel ready,

Allowing your eyes to gently take back in the room.

Preparing to move back into this day.

Taking this inner experience with you.