So good morning and welcome.
Take your seat and give yourself time.
To settle into your posture.
Allowing some comfort,
Allowing the body to be supported.
Won.
How old?
Feeling the weight of your pelvis Heels on the floor.
Elbows heavy.
Allowing the breath to move freely.
Whatever way.
It chooses to move.
We'll start with a full permission to get comfortable.
You might find that quite naturally the breath slows down.
Our intention this week is for loving kindness.
So in our practice today,
We're going to.
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Explore.
What it is to meet ourselves with loving kindness.
We're going to start by meeting ourselves in our physical body.
So tuning into.
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The sensation of the body.
Perhaps noticing what you first notice.
Might be contact.
With seat or floor.
Be clothing.
Or perhaps there's a dominant sensation.
In the body for you.
Without seeking too hard,
Just turn towards.
What's hair for you?
To no tips.
Sometimes it can be helpful to move a little bit,
To wriggle.
Helps me to remember that I am a body.
Noticing the edges,
The boundaries.
Of my body.
The places where contact is made.
A sensation of skin.
Sensing.
The periphery.
You can feel the temperature of the air.
In the room.
And the temperature of my clothing.
The warmth.
At the centre of the body.
Perhaps noticing the movement of breath Maybe your chest rises and falls.
Maybe you notice the sensation down your belly.
Or even in the pelvis.
Not that you have a body it's that you are body.
Here you are.
You are form.
Matter.
You do matter.
Your body matters.
You might notice taste in your mouth.
And the sounds.
That you hear.
It might be subtle,
But there may be a scent.
Of your practice space.
If you knew this space well.
You probably have.
Strong idea of what it looks like.
Memory.
Of what its appearance is.
This appearance,
This vision,
This sense.
This hearing.
This feeling through your skin,
It's you.
Heal you all.
And as you move,
Toward the inner world.
You might notice.
A felt sense.
A feeling state.
Usually it's moving a bit like a weather system.
And it might be in relationship to.
Your expectation for today.
How you slept.
What's happening around you.
If you were a weather person and you were reading the weather of your inner world.
What could it be?
And noticing how.
There is a feeling.
Perhaps a sensation.
And then there is a labeling.
As we make sense of it.
The way the person looks for pressure points and interprets them.
Sometimes it feels like that's just one stage,
But it's not.
There's a process.
If we slow it down.
There's a sensation.
As noticing the sensation.
And then there's making sense of it.
And giving it a name.
A label.
All of that happening.
Is a partner.
It's so fast,
It's so automatic,
We don't even often realize.
What we're up to.
There's a sensation.
As a noticing.
There's making sense.
Of it.
And there's labeling it.
Giving it a name.
And the way that we do that are patterns.
Become.
Who we think we are.
The way we make sense.
Of the sensations.
And then we have our responses.
Once we've made sense.
Leave.
Decided.
On a label.
We have a trigger,
An impulse,
A response to that label.
I'd be at judgment.
It might be an action.
There is a coolum response.
Happening within.
A sensation that leads.
To acknowledgement.
Which leads to making sense.
Which leads to labelling.
Which leads to a response.
These well-trodden paths.
That's who we are.
In these paths.
The ones that we can see beneath them.
And the path of the unconscious.
These paths are more blind,
The subconscious.
They might be so old.
We no longer even know that we're walking them.
And there might be from our family,
From our culture,
From our.
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Ancestry.
Though they may be unseen,
They're present.
These unconscious pathways.
That make us who we are.
And these are all the ways.
That we are in the world.
Me a phone.
We are feeling.
We are perception.
And meaning-making.
We are unconscious pathways.
All of it is here.
And when we sit with it,
With all of that.
Perhaps we get a sense of something else.
As we dive into all those shapes.
Perhaps we know that they're not.
The whole story.
We dive in to dissolve.
To study the self.
To forget the self.
And to forget the self.
Is to be enlightened by all things.
In the gaps.
Between the atoms.
The gaps in sensation.
And mental processing.
The gaps in our unconscious.
In that empty space.
Is all things.
Into connection.
Or nurse.
And so what felt so solid.
And dissolve.
Into the void.
Like moving through layers.
We find the body within the body.
The feelings within the feelings.
States of mind within the states of mind.
And content of mind.
Within the content of mind.
Allowing your breath to deepen.
Feeling into the ways,
The things.
Seem so individual,
So personal.
So set in stone and solid.
And when we move in.
They just dissolve.
It's all just story.
And we contact our.
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Wonders.
Offering the fruits of our practice to ourselves,
To each other and to all beings.
Namaste Thank you so much for being here.
And enjoy your day.
