Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus.

My name is Thomas McConkey.

I am your host and tour guide of body, mind, and spirit.

Thank you so much for joining.

So last week we talked about the different bodies.

This is a manner of speaking.

We don't have to call them bodies,

but we do in developmental psychology

and the world's wisdom traditions has done it

for thousands of years, so we follow suit.

We talk specifically about how exercising awareness,

exercising the causal body,

helps give us access to a full spectrum of gorgeous human qualities, many of which are the ones we most deeply admire.

So if you didn't get a chance to listen to last week's episode, Boundless Vitality, I recommend

you check it out. In the meantime, it's occurred to me that I do so much talking on this show that I should just do a show of just practice.

So without further ado, I would like to ask you to settle in and get ready for an extended practice period.

We'll go a little bit longer here than we have in the past,

about 15 minutes or so.

Nothing crazy, but enough to deepen a little bit more.

Okay. I'm Take a moment to let the body settle into a posture that allows you to be both relaxed and alert.

And as the body settles in

you can just open up awareness to all of sensation

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