Deep Relaxation

Fifteen minutes body scan meditation

From head to toe

Slow

How many muscles did Thich Nhat Hahn say that we have in our face? And how many of those are exercised when we smile.

Slow

Through the heart chakra, where Adam, from Mindspace, takes us to for the blue sky mind of emptiness.

Slow

Connecting with, and collecting, the black blob of pain which the lady from Buddhist class showed how to flush aware.

Slow

Yes, it was a miracle, years of back pain relieved by a student-teacher whose penchant was for chocolate, of any kind.

Slow

From toe to head

Remember to be equanimous, shake hands with the impermanence of pain; focus intently, feel the dissolution.

Slow

Now you are home

Nine Words Playing - C

S Very charming

A Words the mean a lot

Having faith that all will be I

B Enjoyed, brought up emotions

Unlocked words

Will use the process again

J Thoroughly enjoyed, dense then more dense

Tension

L Favourite exercise

Will use it to work things out

T Typical anxious self

Nine Words Playing - B

1 Forgiveness traps obsession

Non-cognitive monster

Always thoughts

Ether; vocabulary

2 Non-cognitive thoughts

Nine Words Playing - A

Forgiveness 1

Thoughts 7

Traps 2

Monster         5

Obsession 3

Vocabulary 9

Always 6

Ether 4

Obsession

Nearly always, actually always, I find a way, I discover a route to permeate the ether with my need to continue with the rise and fall of the heart, the mind, the soul; those cognitive and non-cognitive processes which allow me to make, and then celebrate a connection to what perhaps would be safer, or wiser, or _ _ _ _ left unexplained.

Yet that I discard the inner and the outer voices which beg me, which incite me, which indulge me to let go; but no, hanging on is the obsession, and just as the mountain climber (though I am no mountain climber) I hang on as if it is for my very life, which of course is exactly what it is; obsession or no.