Stephen: I'd like to start bye suggesting that you imagine
Stephen: on the crown of your head mindfulness.
Stephen: specifically mindfulness of non-reactivity
Stephen: to notice
Stephen: within your body, mind.
Stephen: whatever sensations.
Stephen: feelings.
Stephen: attentions.
Stephen: non reactive.
Stephen: that are just present.
Stephen: still
Stephen: open.
Stephen: Recollect.
Stephen: Dimension
Stephen: of your experience here and now.
Stephen: as an example.
Stephen: pay attention to the cushion on which you are sitting.
Stephen: which itself
Stephen: is a non reactive thing.
Stephen: The cushion doesn't care
Stephen: whether a saint
Stephen: or a sinner is sitting on it.
Stephen: It doesn't react.
Stephen: So pay attention to anything in your body. Mind
Stephen: that is like that cushion
Stephen: non reactive.
Stephen: Just that yourself
Stephen: sense. Feel what that's like
Stephen: to not be reactive
Stephen: to be like a piece of wood.
Stephen: Ashanti Deva suggested.
Stephen: Now the base of your spine
Stephen: at your bottom.
Stephen: Imagine equanimity
Stephen: a state of balance.
also non-reactive.
Stephen: neither pulled
Stephen: to what you want or what you like.
Stephen: what you prefer.
Stephen: pushing away
Stephen: what you dislike. what is uncomfortable.
Stephen: what you find difficult to bear
Stephen: resting
Stephen: in a centered
Stephen: economists.
Unst
Stephen: space.
Stephen: Now
Stephen: in your belly.
Stephen: just below your navel
Stephen: is collectiveness.
Stephen: samadhi.
Stephen: in which your energies are gathered.
Stephen: You feel integrated.
Stephen: complete.
Stephen: not dispersed.
fragmented.
Stephen: but hell
Stephen: in your belly.
Stephen: feeling your breath
Stephen: as it expands and contracts
Stephen: your diaphragm.
Stephen: If you wander off
now
Stephen: in your solar plexus
Stephen: midway between your navel and your heart
Stephen: is stillness.
Stephen: tranquillity.
Stephen: peace.
Stephen: an unmoving core.
Stephen: rest in that stillness.
quiet.
Stephen: That's silence.
Stephen: No need to picture.
Stephen: and a thing just to sense
Stephen: the presence
Stephen: of stillness.
Stephen: If you notice any tension
Stephen: in your shoulders
Stephen: around your eyes and your hands
Stephen: in your torso. just try and let that relax
Stephen: and center in
Stephen: on this stillness at the core.
Stephen: and bring your attention to your heart.
Stephen: not your physical heart.
Stephen: but at the center
Stephen: of your chest.
Level
Stephen: of your heart.
Stephen: where there is joy.
Stephen: whatever
Stephen: pleasant. agreeable sensations you might feel in your body.
Stephen: experience, and experience them there
Stephen: in your heart.
Stephen: however slight
Stephen: the agreeable feeling may be.
Stephen: let it reside in your heart.
Stephen: If you find nothing.
Stephen: then gently smile
Stephen: to yourself.
Stephen: raise the corners of your lips
Stephen: into a faint smile.
Stephen: Let that pleasure, that joy.
Stephen: settle in your heart.
Stephen: or, if you prefer.
Stephen: after one of the phrases of loving-kindness.
Stephen: may all beings be well.
Stephen: be happy.
Stephen: free from suffering.
Stephen: So you sense that well-being
Stephen: that you share
Stephen: in your own heart.
Stephen: remaining in your body.
Stephen: aware of the title.
Stephen: rhythm of the breath.
Stephen: aware of the presence of well-being.
Stephen: joy.
Stephen: happiness.
Stephen: and now at your throat
Stephen: there is courage.
Stephen: strength.
Stephen: the courage to find your voice.
Stephen: the courage to take risks.
Stephen: the courage to step outside your comfort zone.
Stephen: conscious of your certain death
Stephen: and the uncertainty of its time.
Stephen: the courage to make the most of what your life
Stephen: remains.
Stephen: Reflect on what you are resolved
Stephen: to do
Stephen: in the few months or years.
and now, in the centre of your brain
level of your ears
Stephen: is wonder.
perplexity.
Stephen: questioning.
which may take the form for question.
Stephen: What is this?
Stephen: Who am I?
Stephen: Why is this?
The words fade.
Stephen: the feeling
of wonder
Stephen: remain
Stephen: filling your body.
Stephen: infusing your awareness.
Stephen: Now returning to the crown of your head.
Stephen: where once again
Stephen: is mindfulness.
Stephen: mindfulness of non reactivity.
Stephen: of a non-reactive space
Stephen: grounded inequanity.
Stephen: the base of your spine
Stephen: in collectiveness.
Stephen: in your belly.
Stephen: stillness in your solar plexus.
Stephen: joy in your heart.
Stephen: courage
Stephen: in your throat.
Stephen: Wanda.
Stephen: in your brain.
Stephen: Just remain
Stephen: fully mindful.
Aware
Stephen: of these 8 facets.
Stephen: like the facets of a diamond
Stephen: which are the facets of being
Stephen: awake.