Day 14: Toes of one foot, fingers of opposite hand and...

Let's make it simple today
Sense one of your feet. Fully. Easily.
Sweetly. Gently.

Sense all five toes, or however many you have.

Now sense the opposite hand
and all its fingers.

Sense them as pairs if
you want to get fancy:
thumb-big toe
little toe-little finger
and so on all the way inbetween

Add on breathing and anything else you
want

start like
now
as you read this,
so I'll let the words ramble a little more
while you catch five toes
in the awareness net and then
loop in five fingers

when that set of ten is feeling saturated,
switch to the other diagonal,
but let it be a nice long while

Good.

on the machine in the mornng

Thich Nhat Hahn
confessed to writing
being one of the hardest
times to be present

i'll confess the
same
especially at the computer

in hand
my handwriting is so bad
that luckily
I have to slow down
if I want to read it later

a grand incentive to be
present
while the pen
moves along

maybe I can try typing
on computer land
with attention on one
finger and
its companion toe
(right ring finger, left ring toe, say)
while I write

ah
that "makes" me
slow down

not the worst
tragedy in the world

actually
i breathe
when i sense a finger
and a toe

what was i doing before?

the old silliness:
holding my breath
until
"it's over"

ciao
for NOW
Chris