The So, If you're feeling heavy today, if you're feeling brief, you're feeling lonely, if you're missing someone, someone that's out here in the world

somewhere or someone that has transitioned recently or even a while ago.

I want you to close your eyes and sway with me for a little while.

Soothe yourself for a little while.

The way Mary must have rocked the baby Jesus calming him, comforting him, warming him,

warming him.

Fill the comfort and the warmth in the swaying.

Notice how it quiets your mind and how something drops down from the mind into the heart. and you rest there. become there.

Become aware of your breathing.

Become aware of your breathing.

Don't alter or change your breathing. Just be aware of it.

I want you to notice something.

Notice that what is aware of your breathing is not breathing. The awareness of the breath is happening in. Become aware of some physical discomfort.

It could be a small pain in your back.

It could be discomfort in your legs and your knees if you're sitting with them

folded and then notice that the awareness of the discomfort is not uncomfortable.

This that notices the pain is not in pain.

This quiet witness of the pain is not hurting.

There's the pain and the awareness of it.

There's the pain, and then there's a space around it, surrounding it,

pervading it, beneath it,

above it.

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