A Focusing Meditation: An Invitation to Presence


Welcome, everyone, to this focusing experience.

And this is an invitation into the focusing paradigm in which presence is primary.

Shifting from Doing to Being

I believe much of the time, we're not necessarily in presence. Probably more in the doing, thinking mode, which clearly has a place.

But if we want to access our whole humanity, access rest, even, and presence is always available at all times.
Inviting Presence to Emerge

And we can just invite it to, as it were, emerge.

And we can just pause. It's a soft pausing, a quality of settling.

And as we pause, it just becomes increasingly available in a natural way, organic and natural.

## Sensing the Body

The body can just begin to sense itself more fully.

And most obviously, sensing contact with the earth, or where the body meets the earth through gravity. The seat, the ground itself.

And there, perhaps, is a certain comfort here in contact. It can rest in itself.

## Physical Sensations

Resting in itself, these sensations of touch, pressure, warmth, cool, soft material on the skin, here and there.

As the body, as it were, emerges, there's a whole sense of itself, shape of itself, breathing, being.

## An Invitation to Rest

An invitation here to rest in itself. The sensations just rest.

And your body can sense a space around it, radiating out.

## Expanding Awareness Outward

Hearing sounds here and there, maybe, beyond the four walls, out into nature and the elements.

Something can sense up into the ether, up into that starry night, into our solar system.

All those planets orbiting nearby, and the moon, and the sun, and a trillion diamonds sparkling.

## Sensing the Inner Universe

The body can just sense all of this as it is invited to sense within more fully. What's alive?

The inner universe. Something distant, something close, something intense or mild, enjoyable, less than enjoyable, or both.

## Making Room

Something that... just making room for that.

Maybe inviting a sense of softness and gentleness, that sense of warm awareness, to keep us company with whatever's here.

## Closing Invitation

Inviting safety and wholeness, curiosity, play and fun, healing, engagement, space, and rest.

Resting with it all.

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