How important it is for the body to sense the visceral-ness of who we are. To sense the elements. Given that we may be in an office or home for protracted periods. Stepping outside and looking up. Look up to that Sky and breath in that universe. Universe, let the universe breathe. Breathing in from the universe. Maybe the sun is on your face. Or just sensing the breeze coolness, with your feet on the ground, taking your shoes and socks off on a patch of grass, look up and let the body become available to this bigger system that we are also part of. Available. The biggest system that we are also part. If you are lucky hearing the beautiful melody of the sound of a bird, a Song thrush maybe, such exquisite variety of sound, or a parakeet maybe. Or the sound of a Bee, or the leaves rustling in the wind, and breathing in this air.  And indeed if we are by the sea, looking at the vast Ocean and the sound of the waves crashing down and ebbing back, and the sand under our feet.

Feast and Banquet of Being in Nature Mindfulness Meditation

Time to refresh and invite some inner nourishment, to come home. Mindfulness is a context for authentic expression and creativity from a sense of wholeness. Its pretty normal to start off more cerebral, more thoughtful and there’s more inviting you into the feast and banquet of being. Just letting things be and beginning to come more available to the sensing, coming to our senses even! Perhaps being more available too the shape of your whole body and as we do so inviting a sense of care and warmth and softening. Sensing the flow of breathing and inviting rest and calming with each and out breath, comforting and soothing, whole-body breathing. Inviting stability, safety through this contact.  Sensing outwards, out into space, beyond the canopies of the trees, up into that glittering mass of stars, with feet on the ground, always keeping us company.  Whole body kindly and warmly breathing, inviting a sense of care and compassion with each in and out breath.  Filling the whole body up with care and kindness as you breath, perhaps imagining a beautiful colour being drawn in to each cell, organ and tissue, to flood the whole body. Staying with the whole body breathing.

Feast and Banquet of Being Mindfulness Meditation.

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Feast and Banquet of Being in Nature Mindfulness Meditation

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