The invitation in this practice is noticing and allowing yourself to immerse in pleasant feelings and sensations in the body, embracing their warmth and depth. As Elizabeth English writes in her book “Journeys to the Deep”, they may hold more than you know. These sensations often carry layers of meaning waiting to unfold. Taking your time, luxuriating, savouring the sensations, in the process expanding the capacity to feel what needs to be felt. Nurturing the capacity to truly feel and process what needs your attention and all that life offers, opening the doors to deeper self-awareness.
Morning Sunrise, by Elizabeth English
A luminous sunrise of red and gold
Reflecting from the ripples of the Cam;
Driven by day, and watching it unfold,
My restless thoughts that skitter on and on;
There’s nothing in this stream of thinking draws
Me, tempts me into mystery, offers peace,
That leads me onwards, lifting me towards
A place of quiet, where troubled thoughts all cease;
But with the turning of my mind within,
A gentle thing, no grand or special skill,
Likes a greeting, or a chance remembering,
I find the sunrise lingers in me still:
Dawn’s glorious colour that my body feels,
Touching me softly as it bathes and heals
Guide: Noelle Lim
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