THE LOVING ARMS OF AWARENESS

THE LOVING ARMS OF AWARENESS

Strip away the old words.... lonely, bored, abandoned, unloveable, worthless, rejected, ugly, failed... and bring attention to the living body, to what is alive, now. Invite awareness into the sore place, the place that aches, that burns, the tender place, the place that feels tight and in need of loveright now, and there is only right now. Invite awareness into the belly, the chest, the throat, the head... Drench the sensations there with this warm awareness... Let awareness flush through.... Let it saturate the tingly, pulsating, vibrating, raw, alive sensations, let it penetrate them.... Let it wash through and around‌ the sensations... And invite in the breath too, allow the sacred breath to move into the sensations, and into any sense of holding or contraction around them. And remember, you're not trying to make the sensations go away, or delete them, but welcome them, make room for them... And realisethat you are the room for these sensations, these sensations that just want to move, to dance, to arise and dissolve in their own sweet time. And there is no urgency here. And nothing has gone wrong, there is no great rupture in the cosmic play; this is not the wrong moment of your life, thewrong scene in the movie. This is life, full, presentand complete, and including any sense of incompleteness,lack, 'wrongness', unsafety. As the ground holds the body now, as the sky holds all the ever-moving weather, so awareness safelyholds all of this moment in its loving arms. All thoughts and feelings arise to be loved, here, to besaturated with awareness, blessed with your attention, for attention is the greatest blessing of all.

- Jeff Foster