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When the Flower Opens the Bee Comes Invitation

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Deep Cool Waters Of Healing The Sovereign Nature of the Body Reclaims itself Meditation

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”   Rainer Maria Rilke

Meet frightened, anxious, angry etc parts of yourself tenderly with kindness and care.  

All inner critics and emotional patterns have a positive intention.  How are they permitted to let themselves go into a new fresh edge and shift into their newness. Every part within us has its own healing mechanism, all we need to do is offer relationship on the basis of ‘letting be the way it wants to be’ rather than reject or attack so they can morph into their fresh edge and wellness.

Limitless Mindfulness Meditation.  Something can be constricted, cramped, raw, tender, vulnerable – in and of themselves they are fine, the question is how do we relate to them?  Are we held hostage or are we in relationship with them so they can express themselves fully for being fully received.  We are not trying to force change or fix something, it’s a bit like pouring water onto a seed, its an organically flourishing process which just takes care of itself within the context of Presence. Perhaps you have a place where resting is easy, sunbathing on a beach, a forest perhaps or somewhere else where an exquisite sense of safety makes itself known to you.  Inviting a sense of care and warmth in the body.

Inner Critic Relationship for Self Tenderness Kindness and Care for Raw Vulnerable Meditation

The open and connected dimension of Being.
Something can sense the intimacy of connecting right now. Like the tree is available to all the birds that land on it—available to the sky above, and the clouds that float by, to the rain, to the wind that dances the leaves. That tree is firmly rooted and grounded, just like us in Presence.

The felt sense then runs through the whole of this—it’s life connecting everything up, as it is. And the nexus of the felt sense could be in the heart, tummy, or chest somewhere, or more amorphous. Just sensing what is alive here—how is it living through the sensing?

And maybe, making room for the timelessness in Presence, the infiniteness in Presence, and the life that runs through it!

The felt sensing does not belong to anyone in particular—it just seems to course through us. But that shared sense of the felt sensing—if we just pause right now, and just be quietly available in a very ordinary way, to each other—it’s as if there is a shared felt sensing going on. It does not belong to you or me exclusively. Something in us knows there is a bit more going on here, and it seems to be shared.

So I am inviting your body to sense how it is for it—its living experience in the sharedness. This felt sensing, this field, this matrix, this mutuality, this dance, this correspondence, this unity—it can rest in itself. As it does so, something can just be with it, and notice the quality of it from its own perspective.

We are just playing with the mystery of intimacy, of connection.

Often we are not receptive to this shared quality. And here, we invite permission for availability to come forward—to open the gates, to open the portals to this sharing, into the mutuality of sharing that creates its own portal. Resting with this, to sense how it is.

If you like, something in you can open to the portal to all of those around you, to all the sentience beyond—into a felt sensing of all that. Subtle, yes, it can invite itself to know itself more fully from availability in Presence, letting it rest in itself.

And as it does, you might notice the qualities of it—at least a sense of something here. What are the qualities of this sharedness? Perhaps more owned by itself—a sense of sharedness. What’s this like, this shared element? What’s it like in itself, even?

My sense of all this, from a felt sense perspective, is that this—the shared intimate felt sense—brings true wellbeing and healing, and is a portal into the mystery itself that knows its own truth, whatever that means!

And you could say that there is a lot of rest and peace in this sharedness, this mutuality, this mystery. There’s a lot of rest—something can rest deeply here—a lot of nourishment. And if I dare push the boat out, it’s almost timeless, infinite, limitless in its own way.

Of course, there will be parts that may shrink or contract. However, this shrinking and contraction can take place in the breadth of it all.

Timelessness and Infiniteness In Presence Focusing Attunement

What does this actually mean to attune? That's the question.
There's something about... for me, life. And how it resonates. How it lives itself forward, if you like.
The Limits of Language
One can't really capture the spirit fully in words. But one can imply it, I guess. You can open up portals into direct experience.
Or the direct experience is already here. Who is it?
Where does language end and experience begin?
Would a rose smell just as sweet if it were not called a rose?
Being Claimed by the Universe
And something in me would like to imagine at this point in time the universe is coming to claim us. Yeah. As it were, already claimed.
Hovering in the Pause
So, just hovering in the pause.
There's something here that kind of... knows.
And can sit in a kind of availability, openness. Something can open.
That's not a mechanistic thing, it's rooted in relationship and meaning.
Connection with the Earth
So, the connection with the Earth through the chair, or the ground, for seats, sofa, bed.
It just knows itself to be connected. Connecting.
And that can invite the livingness of its totality to come forward. To sense the shape of the body, perhaps.
Sensing Outward: Boundarylessness
And where does that shape end? Especially if the body senses outwards. The sounds and spaces.
It knows no boundary. It can go through walls very easily into the ether.
And sense the stariness of things.
The Breathing Mystery
So this mystery is not static.
And it breathes.
Making Room for Life
Sensing the life running through the body. Making room for all of that. What's there.
Leaning in, if you like, to the subtlety, ecstasy, and obviousness.
Making room for what is to be held. With care, perhaps.
Meeting it in a way that works for your body. Maybe with a little...
Closing
Settling alongside all that.

The Universe Claims you: Mystery of Living Breathing Universe Attunement

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.

Aligning with the Planets Focusing Attunement

# Guided Meditation: Presence and Creativity

## Opening Invitation

Here's a little attunement for you.

Feel free to close your eyes, and sit as you wish, lay down, stand on one leg—whatever works for you.

Attunements for herons.

That'd be a good one, wouldn't it?

Settling In

So, just pausing.

Yeah, I've got an image of a heron actually coming up.

The way they kind of stand.

And they can be really still.

And they're kind of poised, really, in this... well, you could say quality of awareness and presence.

Yeah, fully aware.

Becoming Available

So... yeah, just becoming available.

And whatever's alive in us, whether it's less alive or more alive.

We can sense our feet on the ground, or body on the chair or cushion.

Fantastic.

Whatever it's on.

Body Awareness

Tuning in to sensing from your feet... the shape of your body.

Just being available to that.

And it normally comes with a whole load of sensations.

A patchwork quilt of sensations.

A kaleidoscope of sensations.

Clothing... pressure... temperature... tingling... pulsing... moving... still.

Expanding Awareness

Perhaps sensing from the body, the space around.

Beyond the four walls.

Into that magical... still... eternity.

An infinity of... diamonds... worlds... planets... stars.

Comets.

And here we are, rotating on our axis, spinning around the sun—our own star.

Inner Sensing

And then, all of this... sensing within what's there.

Some mood which is obvious, some tiredness, some... something calm, something anxious, something... it's like... maybe it doesn't have a word.

Maybe it's subtle, maybe it's really obvious.

In that space.

Receiving With Compassion

Receiving that in a way that works for you.

Tenderly... gently... spaciously... compassionately.

Just as you are.

Theme Introduction

Yeah, so the theme of this module is creativity.

Finding creative holding... maybe... agility... guest... sensitivity... playfully... perhaps.

Keeping the inner universe company in this way.

Closing

And taking your time to emerge.

Still like a Heron Presence Attunement

Let's entertain some presence, and...
And where is our real home?
Always available at all times.
Whether we live in a palace, or a shanty town.
I guess our real home is presence, really.
Opening to Connection
Presence brings us into relationship with Nature, the stars... others... the animals and plants.
A life coursing through us.
In this magical mystery tour.
Yes, roll up.
...
Yeah, and I do believe, actually, presence... it will take us to the cusp of the mystery in some shape or form.
Whatever that means.
Might be more of a pragmatist or nihilist.
It's all good.
Cultivating Curiosity
Just... arriving...
Inviting a soft... open curiosity to emerge.
Like a child playing... exploring...
...
More sensitive to the sensing.
And from the sensing.
...
Very heart of life. It's in the sensing.
The Living Moment
I feel it. Nobody sensed it.
It's living... moment.
What's that like?
...
Where is that?
Whole body sensor living... or is it more localized?
...
Grounding and Reaching
Perhaps send some breath to your feet. Your seat.
Grounding.
...
Imagine a giant redwood tree.
This massive root system burrowing down.
Grounding and earthing.
...
Immovable.
Stable...
...
Following its trunk up.
The branches to the top.
Reaching out into the ether.
Sensing space.
Spaciousness, yet solidity.
Expanding into Infinity
Grounded, and then spacious.
...
And space.
Radiating out to the infinity of things.
Including the stars... and beyond...
Galaxies.
...
Milky Ways.
...
Coming Together
Here we are. Together.
In community. Sharing.
...
Acknowledging those of us here.
Friends... beings.
Being breathed by this very universe.
Sensing Inward
Sensing inwards.
What's alive here?
...
Something inside there.
Maybe wanting a gentle... kindly company.
...
Closer, or giving it space.
...
Maybe a little hello?
...
Getting accompanied... being in company.
Majesty of the universe.
...
Let's rest here.

Finding our Real Home  - Majesty of the Universe Presence Invitation

Vast Universe in Presence

Freshness in Presence
Yeah, so welcome, everyone, to this focusing session experience. This module, Focusing Intuition and Creativity. Yes, playful energies that we can access.
Pausing and Settling
So, just pausing and settling.
The Invitation of Presence
So presence is really an invitation to the freshness of experience. So I think it's easy to get into by rote, in other words, habit. In habit, it's really the antithesis of intuition and creativity, and even presence, to be honest. There's a kind of open space in which freshness can begin to emerge.
Recognizing Freshness by Its Absence
And we'll often know it by its absence. Something can be bored, or judgmental, or not available to the freshness, in whatever shape or form. So just checking in with yourself. What does that mean for you? What is this freshness?
Cultivating Curiosity and Adventure
As we pause, is there a genuine curiosity here? A kind of opening. A kind of sense of adventure.
Leading Ourselves into Presence
So in a way, we lead ourselves into presence. Sensing the freshness of where the feet meet the ground, as if for the first time. Where the body meets the chair. And where the edge of the body meets space. Sensing outwards. Sensing outwards, freshly. Out into space, up into the stars.
Turning Inward
And pausing again. Making room for what's alive inside, in a way that's new. Sensing the subtlety of what's there. The edges, the shapes of it, the intensities, the complexity.
Coming Alongside with Compassion
Coming alongside with a sense of warmth or care, or compassion, even. And if you like, a little hello, or acknowledgement of some type.


Freshness in Presence

Finding Oneself 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB
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Finding Oneself 2

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