To feel our feet on Grand Mother Earth is a prayer that only a few will ever understand!

Lakota

What the Body is Noticing Playcise Quartet

Perhaps the most crucial distinction in Focusing is the ability to shift from and 'I am' into a 'Something in me' for an empowering and spacious relationship within and without!

Explore I AM Vs Something In Me

These Playcises invite the Body to reclaim it's Soveriegn identity, shifting away from the thinking mind as owner to offer the possibility of deeper peace and presence

NOTICING Playcise 1 What This Body Is Noticing

Invite a very deep resting in the body as it reclaims its own sovereign nature. 

"Herein, Bahiya, you should train yourself thus: 'In the seen will be merely what is seen; in the heard will be merely what is heard; in the sensed will be merely what is sensed; in the cognized will be merely what is cognized.' In this way you should train yourself, Bahiya.

NOTICING Playcise 3. What The BODY Is Noticing and Letting It REST In ITSELF

Here's a practical approach to inviting deep peace and rest very quickly, without forcing out thinking, allowing for a natural and magical transformation. The body provides a safe haven of stability and peace, find out how.

NOTICING Playcise 2 Noticing and Resting With it.

How do we come into relationship with our feelings?  Normally default mode settings of ignore, repress, overwhelm, blame, evaluate, fix etc.  These modes perpetuate the continued arising of these feeling-story patterns.  How do we get out of heh 'closed loop' of the thinking mind?  In this playcise we explore how to come from embodiment to connect with a feeling.... it is not a definitive approach to relationship with feelings but a vital part of the relational process.

Playcise 4 What The Body Noticing and Feeling Tone Emotion Mood

Focusing most certainly about experience and relationship.  We are inviting an exquisite relating, you could say everything is relating to everything; ‘To see the universe in a grain of sand’ Blake of course.  Indiras net too.  The key quality here is Availability, synonymous to openness, although perhaps more than that, we are waiting to ‘hear back’ from the universe.  Letting things be and allowing also feature here, and there’s more than the thinking mode, as Gene Gendlin said ‘Dead end stories and dead end feelings.’  Its as if we are a giant Redwood, our roots burrowing down into the fertile, rich aromatic soils, drawing up the nutrients.  Rooting, grounding and earthing, stable and strong to the elements. Yielding gently to the winds but not breaking, the leaves and branches dancing in the big blue, rising up towards the starriness of things. Letting the body rest in the body as it senses into the breathing.

Playcise 4 Body Noticing and Aliveness Focusing Quality

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/

What the Body is Noticing Playcise Quartet

Simon McKibbin Presence Meditations & Reflections