Thank you calm.com for your support. Please sit quietly, close your eyes, be comfortable in a chair with a backrest.

Keep your feet on the ground, firmly planted.

Keep your hands open in your lap.

And just observe your breath.

As you observe the breath,

with your eyes closed, your experience of the breath is just a sensation.

A sensation arises, is experienced, and then it subsides. This is the nature of all

experience. All experience is either a sensation or a

perception or an image or a feeling or a thought

that arises in our awareness,

that is known in our awareness that subsides in our awareness and in fact is made out of our awareness.

Notice as you observe the breath

that you can't hold on to it. If you try you'll suffocate. This is the nature of all experience. No experience is

grass-pibble because all experiences arise and subside eternally in that which we call now.

We can observe experiences and we can let them go. We cannot hold on to them.

If we try to hold on to them, if we grasp, if we cling, even to a thought or anything we experience the same quality that is called suffocation.

Holding on causes suffocation.

Letting go is freedom.

So just observe your breath now. And now bring your awareness into your heart and mentally ask yourself, who am I? your

awareness into your heart and mentally ask yourself,

who am I, what am I?

Don't try to answer the question, just settle into being.

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