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Here's a little meditation for you to try at the point at which you are up and about

in the day and have the time and remember to do so. Try and find something in your house that you own

that is particularly heavy,

but it is also something that you can hold in your hands,

or even perhaps one hand something like

I don't know

a bowl's ball

would be ideal

perhaps if you

owned a bowling ball

that might work too

something heavy metallic perhaps, perhaps dense.

And like I say, you can either hold in two or ideally one hand.

And then, like I say, when you have the time to sit down with this object,

try as best you can to really feel and to be aware of the force that is acting on that object.

And now, this is something that we regularly take for granted, because that force, that powerful force that pulls us to the ground but keeps us rooted to the floor, is so ever-present that it can be

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