Brother Richard

Is it relaxed?

Is it finding it hard to focus?

Imagine now that you are slowly rolling a wave of relaxation from your hairline down across the face, around to the jaw,

to the muscles around the jaw, down to the chin, and feel your face relax.

Coming down now through the chest, we arrive at the solar plexus and the belly, and just being aware of the breath now as it gathers there, as you breathe in and breathe out.

Breathing in and breathing out.

Feeling the solidity of your feet against the ground.

Aware of your arms and hands, whatever they are doing.

Feeling the shape of the entire body.

and the way in which it favors one side over the other, or tilts slightly to one side.

Gently then remembering all those points of tension in the spine, breathing out now through those points.

And with each breath, feeling the tension dissolve a little more, dissolve a little more.

dissolve a little more.

Take three cycles of gentle, deep in breath and out breath, moving at a pace and to a capacity that is comfortable for you.

And just notice what it is like to stand in awareness.

And gently then, still aware of the breath, still able to stand with awareness, we begin to be really aware now of the ground beneath our feet, maybe gripping it once again with the toes.

We gently begin to move our fingers.

We feel the sensations of the air around us.

The clothes hanging on the body.

Perhaps the chair if we're touching or holding a chair for stability.