Sitting Meditation - Spa time in your own mind in your own backyard

LYRICS -
A pair of black faded jeans wrap around my legs as
the legs cross over eachother while I sit and watch.
A mini spa moment for me, a little sitting on this faded black
plastic lawn chair, tucked under a little bit of shade under
the hot Sedona sun.

The sun seeming to be having a little affair with the earth,
their passtion turnign the mesas, the mountains, and bluffs
a soft ruddy rouge.

For nowhere else in the Arizona desert does the land hold
such and immense mysterious power. So I sit.
First noticing my toes. Not visually, but from the inside out.
Feeling my feet without moving and only moving up my
legs once I've felt that urgent throbbing of pulse and
energy from my feet then slowly to my knees,
relaxing them both with a few deep breaths and then onto
my upper legs, hips, waist.

With a deep belly breath in, and then slowly out, I relax
my chest.

The life force floods through my body, into my back,
spine and arms.
Feeling each inch of my skin, muscles, and bones
from the inside, sending energizing breaths and
healing my body inch by inch.
Now, at my neck, I feel my throat, the air passing
through my nose.

Conscious of my face, I close my eyes and feel
each eye, cheek, temple, ear, jaw one by one.
Noticing the energy rise in my face and body,
a gentle buzzing sensation, the sound of a
faraway lawn mower engine buzzing peacefully
on a silent sunny sunday morning.

With a renewed aliveness, a stronger presence
in my body.
I feel as though I fill it up more fully, using all the
spaces inside me to fill with aliveness.
So I sit and watch, now squarely in the middle
of my mini spa break.

Some time has passed, the experience of arriving
in my body is timeless in the 3-5 minutes that must
have lapsed.
Proclaiming the physical space that I take up on our
earth for myself.

And so I sit and watch with little judgements, with little
mental chatter and with little anything else at all.
A zen monk, Thich Nhat Hahn, once suggested,
"Don't just do something, just sit there."

Relaxing into that warn, accepting suggestion, I follow
Thay with ease.
Not doing anything else but sitting and feeling this
experience of sitting to the fullest.
The fold of my hips, the fold of my knees are delicious
to relax into, succumbing to gravity --
our earth's longing to draw us into her, to merge within her.
Letting my feet get heavier and heavier, getting so closely
intimate with the earth underneath that a half thought arises
- Am I growing roots yet?
- Am I getting as involved as that tree with our earth, sending shoots out solidly establishing the togetherness?
That tree and these legs inspiring one another to never let go
of the ground.

Feeling grounded and stable, just giving into the temptation
of gravity, pleasure coursing through up from the earth and
through my legs, and into my spine.

Now straight, my spine stirs with a long lost memory.
A memory of trust. Trusting the lower half of my body to be
So strong, So grounded that it can soar.

The memory slowly turns to real experience as my spine
straightens, pulling strength and vitality from the earth into
my core.

Creating space and taking up more space, I take deeper
breaths.
With a smile, noticing the parallel of that tree's trunks
rising solidly towards space, grounded in security that
the only truth is that She won't let go, ever.

With my spine increasing in length, my chest moves forward
and my heart lifts gently with each breath.
I feel like soaring, my arm and mind rise to the sky,
just as my brother-from-the-same-mother tree over there,
raises his arms like branches to the sky.

And so, I sit here and do nothing.
While the tree just stands there, and does nothing.

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• meditation
• spa
• relaxation
• breath
• grounding
• poetry
• beauty
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• arizona
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• bluffs
• trees
• thich
• nhat
• hahn
• mother
• earth
• healing
• body
• spine
• muscles

[VIDYAdotTV]

thanks! you can try doing this meditation wherever you are - if you have a few minutes to become more alive (as opposed to having a few minutes to killl)

[missmevarooski]

love it - two awesome ways to start the day off!

[PadmaNep]

Beautiful imagery, background music, clear audio, deeply meditative voic, deeply stirring narration/content.

I especially liked the tree and how you are resonating and vibrating with it.

A great second video, Vid!