Coming Home to Your Body - Presencing & Welcoming

Today, I am sharing with you a practice to come into your centre and into presence within yourself to cultivate a sense of deep listening within the body. This is how I begin all of the meditations I hold for myself and for others. This practice is the very first step to growing a relationship of trust with your body, mind and spirit. 

So often, when being held in a meditative experience, we are guided to take deep breaths right away or to let go of thoughts and ‘drop into the present moment’, discarding our actual real lived experience in our bodies. Often, we may feel drawn to these experiences as a way to 'fix' ourselves when we are feeling out of sorts.

Like everything that is sustainable and long lasting, it takes time for us to settle, adjust and warm to the process as at any given moment our internal systems - nervous, digestive, hormonal - are working away to keep us safe, warm, satiated and more.

Accessing our primal, naturally occurring feminine life force requires us to build and nurture our capacity for allowing, receiving, opening, surrendering, holding, being with, and listening.  It's not intended to be a fast track, it's asking us to slow down enough and courageously meet what's there. 

What this practice shows us is how all of our human experiences - be it emotions and feelings, thoughts and mental chatter, the sensations of the whole body, the rhythm of the breath, connection and alignment with soul self in any given moment - is ALL welcome, is ALL valid, and ALL has a place, and ALL is a pathway into a deeper awareness of self. 

When we allow all of us to be present, we practice loving however we show up - in our dark, deep and murky, in our sweetness, joy and radiance and in the places in-between, we create space to meet ourselves with compassion and forgiveness, and over time grow an embodied love with ourselves and strengthens our capacity to listen to the fine nuances of our intuition.

This practice is the first step in the week-long journey, however and we dive in to the full spectrum of body listening, however I invite you to either listen to this again before each day’s exploration or begin to practice it yourself before you begin.

Once you’ve run through this a few times, I encourage you to practice ‘presencing’  throughout the day, especially when you feel you are distracting yourself away from your present reality.