Cross-Training Body Mind Emotions Spirit | Rachael R. Resch

 Morning session.

I awoke this morning, tired and happy, to a thin dusting of snow, just the smallest draft from the pinky feather of the wing of the White Goddess who is cloaking my friends and family in Ashland.  My mind has been keeping me awake the last two nights, excitedly reviewing the events of the day and worrying over my altered morning routine.

I rode the bus downtown and felt like a Portlander again.  I got off at Yamhill Marketplace, where I held my first job in Portland, working in a French restaurant called Savoir Faire when I was 23, and then walked eight blocks to Nia headquarters

Awareness:  What if I could sense my body all the time?  What is happening to my attention when I am not sensning my body?  Can I grow my attention such that I have 100% awareness of my my body sensations regardless of what else is going on around me?

This morning Carlos said, “Awareness is the way we connect with the body.  The body is already aware.  The body itself is awareness.”  

The body itself is awareness!  My body is the warm, curious attention of the mystery itself, manifesting as me and my 75 trillion cells.  My several million proprioceptors are so faithful, always sensing what is happening.  I desire to hear their voices, to hear their devotional song, singing pleasure, singing pain, guiding me how to move, how to be a human animal, how to live, how to heal, singing me awake,  guiding me how to be, in turn, devoted right back to the mystery.