Welcome my friend.
Bring yourself into a comfortable seat.
Letting your hands rest in your lap and consciously connecting to the surface beneath your seat and your feet.
And there's a sense of your body relaxing back.
A softness moving into your face as though you're smiling to yourself.
And welcoming yourself to this sacred refuge that you are offering yourself here.
As you call your energy back from all of the people and places and things that you have been engaged with.
Calling it back and welcoming it back into your body.
Notice the touch of your breath at your nostrils.
Feeling the inflow and outflow of the breath.
Not actively changing or shaping the breath in any way.
You're just creating space for a receiving of the breath and a releasing of the breath.
Every exhalation is another invitation to you,
Your body,
Your mind to rest back and relax.
In this space there is nothing you need to make happen.
There is nothing you need to fix and there is nothing you need to know.
You're just simply creating space for you to pause from all of the noise and activity of the world.
Allow the breath to deepen and lengthen.
Allow for a little pause at the top of the inhale and at the bottom of the exhale.
Allow yourself to linger in those pauses.
Just going with the ebb and flow of the breath.
Allowing yourself to rest here in this moment.
Following the breath and finding that path of least resistance.
Where you can welcome the whole of the moment just as it is.
Noticing the sounds around you.
Allowing them to arise and dissolve in the field of your awareness.
And there's nothing you need to do about them.
You don't even have to name them.
Just simply being aware of them.
Just allowing for this flow of sound with you just resting in it and with it.
Noticing thoughts in the mind.
Acknowledging them.
Thanking them.
And again just letting them flow.
There's nothing you need to do about them.
Acknowledging the thoughts.
Thanking the mind for all that it does for you.
And just reassuring the mind that it can rest now.
There's nothing it needs to do.
Noticing sensation in the body.
Acknowledging it.
Letting it run its course through you.
Running its course through the being that is you.
And you continue to soften back.
Cultivating this sense of allowing.
Of receiving.
And releasing.
Again allowing for that ebb and flow.
Acknowledging that life is always changing.
It never stays the same.
And no matter how much we tighten,
Grip and tense against,
Life continues to unfold in its own way.
And we hold the choice.
Do we grip to what we know?
What we want?
Or do we soften and allow?
Opening us up to greater possibility.
Magic that lies beyond what we know.
Noticing the movement of the breath once again.
Allowing the body to relax back.
Softening your palms and fingers.
And welcoming the whole of the moment just as it is.
Welcoming the moment just as it is.
Welcoming the moment just as it is.
Namaste.
