So just inviting ourselves to land, to arrive more fully.
I’d rather call it compassionate connection, with communication being a strategy.
Connection is the need—the core kind of element underneath it.
And we can communicate in so many ways: verbally, non-verbally...
Yeah, even through silence... through presence.
In a way, we can’t not communicate.
And we can’t not connect—because we already are connected.
So it’s a curious thing... the mystery of human relationship, the mystery of sentient relationship.
Yes, we live in this...
...complexity of life, living together—not as atomized parts—but as a kind of dance, an interpenetrating...
...dance,
where everything influences everything.
Where there are seeming boundaries.
And I guess this is all to be explored and tested for ourselves—this relationship unique to us.
What closes us down? What disconnects us?
And what opens us up? What allows for connection?
What is a healthy boundary?
All these curiosities...
Something about community and communing brings health and wholeness.
It also has a different flavour of being.
Certainly, when I’m in community, I sense...
...a wholeness which is maybe not fully here when I’m on my own.
And sometimes it is—yeah—communing with the birds, with the trees, the sky, the earth...
I’m just pausing here...
...inviting a sensory awareness...
Sensing perhaps outwards—into the room and beyond, into space, outside, above the clouds—into that infinite ether...
An infinity of diamonds surrounding our planet...
Keeping us company as well.
And something in us incensed—this cosmic, universal, sentient connection...
As we perhaps sense inwards... to the inner universe.
What’s alive here?
What edges... what softness... what beauty... what contractions... what not-knowing and knowing...
What mystery...
Making room for all that, from a grounded, whole sense of the body—sensing the earth, perhaps inviting...
...grounding—I think—safety, wholeness...
And what needs are wanting in us...
And indeed, being met to some extent right now...
...based on the feelings here.
So perhaps we don’t need to be analytical. We can just be with it directly...
Sensing it as it is—with compassion and care...
Knowing that the needs for safety and care, love, closeness, peace, and ease are important...
Freedom... play... connection...
Joy, healing, and wholeness...
Exploration, adventure, well-being...
Learning...
Authenticity...
Communication, community, friendship...
Acknowledgement... engagement...
Beauty...
All these needs—and more—are important to us.
What would make your life more wonderful?
Sometimes the thinking mind is quite busy. Emotions can be busy too. That's okay.
The landing is not a negation. It's an inclusion of our whole experience, which brings stability and relationship to whatever's going on, in a way that invites the possibility of freshness and forward flow—especially to any stuck parts, or worried or hurt parts. Things like that.
Shall we just pause into the quality of availability—being available in a quiet way?
From the body’s perspective, from a sense of itself, tuning in... inviting sensitivity.
Maybe sensing the shape of the body. A sense of the ground and the earth. Earthing, grounding. Contact.
Just resting with these sensations of touch.
Inviting stability, safety, a wholeness.
As the body senses itself more fully, perhaps noticing the breathing—whole-body breathing, sensing—and resting.
If there's room for the body to rest a little more, to soften, opening out to the environment, the space around it, the sounds, and the space beyond the four walls—up into the ether, up into the stars.
Being held by the stars, being held by all beings that also keep us company in this web of interdependence.



Compassionate Universal Connection What would make yourt life more wonderful

Presence Deep Rest Meditations and Reflections inspired by Focusing, Mindfulness and Nonviolent communication Embodied Relational Presence training and personal coaching.  https://www.living-presence.co.uk/

Compassionate Universal Connection What would make yourt life more wonderful

Simon McKibbin Presence Meditations & Reflections