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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Come into the room, |
0:10.9 | the gathering room, take a deep breath, relax your arms and legs, make sure your arms and legs are not |
0:17.7 | crisscrossed if possible. Sit in a comfortable position or lie down or if you |
0:25.0 | have to stand up and then just start breathing very relaxed breaths, especially relaxed out breaths. |
0:35.8 | Purse your lips and force the air through it. |
0:38.3 | That makes your diaphragm work harder. |
0:40.3 | And it tells your brain you've got plenty of breath and everything is good. |
0:46.3 | Ah, that sound actually, that sigh will help. |
0:51.3 | Now, just ask the strange little question that always kicks off this meditation. |
0:58.7 | Think to yourself, can I imagine the distance between my eyes? |
1:07.2 | Repeat that to yourself a few times. Can I imagine the distance between my eyes? Is it possible for me |
1:15.7 | to imagine the distance between the front of my face and the back of my head? Can I imagine that |
1:24.0 | whole space inside my skull? Is it possible for me to imagine the space in the atoms that make up my entire head and also my neck and shoulders? |
1:44.8 | Can I imagine the distance between the front of my chest |
1:49.8 | and the back of my rib cage? |
1:54.4 | Can I imagine the space between my sit bones on the chair, |
2:00.6 | thighs, hips, and my heart. |
2:08.6 | Can I imagine the space inside all the atoms of this body, |
2:15.6 | which is so much more space than it is matter. |
2:22.7 | Can I shift my focus from the matter that makes up my body to the space that is most |
2:30.4 | of my body, that is continuous with all space to the ends of the universe. |
2:39.0 | Can I imagine the stillness underneath all the motion in my body, in my surroundings, |
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