Magical
As you sit quietly,
flutter your eyes, soften your gaze,
let your fingers move
ever so slightly.
Sense your fingers connected
with your hands,
and your hands connected
with your mind.
You feel all sensations
from inside out.
As you move your fingers,
you experience
freeing friction
from your mind.
Any angst released,
any dormant drives unleashed,
neurons firing.
You feel the energy flow inside your body.
You remember
you are a body holder.
You inherited cells in your
extraordinary frame.
Bones heaving and compacting
through lifetimes.
Your bone marrow,
replete with profound partitions,
over 50,000 blood stem cells
stowed away for generations and millennia.
You may say: "I am not responsible
for how all this began in my body.
Or "I am not responsible
for past transgressions".
The plight of indigenous people, labourers
the killing and pillaging.
You may have been barely there when
your build was designed.
And here you are,
the present inhabitant of a vessel
with soothing rifts
and shapely knees and elbows.
You are the successor of your precious body.
Yet, you did not create your curved nose
or your graceful mouth.
But they belong to you to tend to now.
Unheeded, any creeks of your
bones and muscles
will not heal themselves.
Any DNA will not disappear.
Rather, you will pass
all knowledge
onto your descendants, your blood,
your education, your influence.
When you inhabit
and inherit DNA,
riddled with cortisol or stress hormones,
you have a choice.
If you adapt to your own idiosyncratic perils,
lurking within your ancient human design,
the uncomfortable may turn into acquiescence.
And acquiescence may turn into the opportune.
You may then start believing that unthinkable
events of antiquity are normal,
and you may come to believe that the inexplicable
is the way of living.
Instead, you are invited
to truly feel into your sensations.
To uncover the mystery of life
and BASTE in your own light.
First, tune into your Breath.
Focus on the quietness of the body,
a sunk stillness,
bringing your mind to your belly region.
Feel the way your mind is breathing there.
How the air naturally opens, inhale,
and naturally closes, exhale
with your full acceptance.
Then, you become Aware
of what surrounds you.
Maybe you are at a doctor's office,
or at a bus stop.
You ground yourself
to the preset moment
You notice the desk
or the bus.
Now, you are ready to plunge
into the Sensations of your body.
What is unobserved,
the foundation within.
Your individual structure,
the collective unconscious,
encryptions from thousands
of years.
Moving attention to your fingers and hands,
you notice any tingling, vibration, or tension.
A delicate dance entering into your own existence.
You feel alive.
You turn your attention
to your Thoughts,
viewing them as scaffolding,
your temporary building plans.
Plans drawn on water, emerging in an instant,
remaining only for a fleeting moment,
and melting, returning to formlessness
from whence they arise.
And you move onto your Heart,
allowing vitality to pour into your heart.
You call forth a sense of stillness,
peace, and tenderness.
You become familiar
with a sort of straightforward knowing here.
Not observing from the mind,
or returning into thinking.
You feel alive, gateways previously
sealed begin to open.
Now you call forth Empathy,
as you imagine
your fingers and hands
touching your own heart.
In the same way your
significant other, child, or pet
would touch your heart,
with delicate fondness.
You realize
a new breeze passes through you,
ashes of generations
blown away.
You sense as though
you have just dipped into a bath,
basting in your
magical body.
A. Johnson
Photo by Yousef Espanioly, Unsplash
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