Hello,
My name is Stephen Proctor.
In today's guide of meditation we will look at the elemental quality of our body and perceptional borders that appear around them.
If you just start out by taking a meditation posture and gently place one hand within the other,
Holding each hand together lightly.
Now close your eyes over lightly,
Relax your jaw and place your tongue behind your two top teeth.
Now gently take a deep breath in and as you're breathing out,
Allow yourself to relax.
Now start off by being aware of the feeling of your body sitting or lying down.
Start to notice that throughout your body there's a feeling of heaviness.
Anchor your awareness within that feeling of heaviness within your body.
Bring out your focus.
Allow your awareness to sink down to the place where your body touches the chair or the floor.
The experience a touch may appear to you as sensations such as pressing,
Hardness or softness.
The experience a touch may appear to you as sensations such as pressing,
Hardness or softness.
Be aware of the point where one hand touches the other.
In the experience of your hands touching each other,
Can you experience the sensation of warmth there?
If you can,
Be aware of it and silently say,
Warm,
Warm.
Within the touch of your hands,
Can you experience any coolness there?
If you can experience coolness within your hands,
Be aware of it and silently say,
Cool,
Cool.
Be aware of the point where one hand touches the other.
Of the experience of coolness and warmth,
Hardness,
Softness within your hands.
Can you notice where one hand begins and the other hand ends?
Or can you only notice,
Only experience the hardness,
Softness,
Warmth,
Coolness?
As the perceptional borders of your hands disappeared,
There is only left the experience of these elemental qualities.
As the perceptional borders of your hands disappeared,
There is only left the experience of these elemental qualities.
Now gently bring your attention down to the place where your body touches the chair or the floor.
Become aware of the elemental qualities of hardness,
Softness,
Warmth,
Coolness in that touch.
Can you experience where your body ends and the chair or the floor begins?
Or can you only experience the elemental qualities such as hardness,
Softness,
Warmth,
Coolness?
As the perceptional borders of your body dissolved.
Now gently expand your awareness throughout the whole of your body.
Notice all the different sensations within your body.
Being aware of the borders of your body,
Can you experience where your body ends and the room begins?
Or can you only experience the warmth,
Coolness,
Tension?
Or can you only experience the warmth,
Coolness,
Tension,
Heaviness?
Can you only experience the elemental qualities that make up your body?
Have the perceptional borders of your body completely dissolved?
Have the perceptional borders of your body completely dissolved?
Now bring your awareness gently down to the point of touch with the chair or the floor.
Immerse your awareness within that touch.
Open your awareness up and be aware of any sounds around you.
Allow the sounds to come into you.
And very slowly open your eyes.
Be aware of seeing.
Be aware of just being in the room.
Thank you for spending this time with me.
Take care of yourself.
Goodbye.
