I am an inhabitant of this body. I dwell within it, deeply rooted in its nature, so much so that it is easy to think that we are one thing, yet it is more difficult to sense it because my awareness always separates itself from my sensation to one degree or another. And this is the moment when I bring them together here in the same place with one another and I allow the very gentle and intelligent movement of the breathing to help bring in an energy that will bind them together in the single state that they actually inhabit together. It's useful to come to the bottom of the breath and begin there. To rest in stillness. And then to breathe in the revolution of substance that takes place as the air meets the blood. The involution of substance where substances are taken into the body, which are needed in every moment to support it. Every cell and the molecule alive with the energy that the breathing brings to them. Every muscle in the body participating by letting go a bit more so that it is more relaxed to receive this goodness. And each breath that I take in can help to remind me that in this life, which leads towards death I have the opportunity to be a creature aligned with the forces of this planet and of life itself. Not a creature aligned with politics, or science, or religion, or the humanities, or business, or money. Not a being aligned with greed, or ownership, or despair, or exhilaration. A being aligned with being itself, which comes before all things, here and now, as the fundamental condition within my sensation.
