0:00 If you can...0:01 find a comfortable position.0:04 Seated, or lying down.0:07 It doesn’t matter.0:09 Just a way of being that feels supported.0:13 Let your hands rest.0:16 Let your eyes soften, or close them if that feels right for you.0:23 And just...0:24 arrive.0:25 Here.0:25 You will take about twenty-three thousand breaths today.0:32 Most of them, you will never notice.0:36 In our last time together, we spoke of the thirty-five thousand decisions we face in a day...0:46 and the search for a moment of calm within them.0:52 But this...0:53 this breath...0:55 is not a decision.0:57 It happens for you.0:59 Without any effort at all.1:02 So for a moment...1:04 let's just notice one.1:06 Feel the air as it enters.1:09 Cool, maybe.1:10 Filling your lungs.1:13 There’s a pause at the top...1:16 a moment of fullness.1:18 And then the release.1:21 The gentle letting go.1:23 That’s all.1:24 Just that.1:25 You don't have to breathe better, or deeper.1:30 You only have to allow it to happen.1:34 The body knows exactly what to do.1:38 Now, let that same gentle awareness expand.1:43 Feel the weight of your body.1:46 The points of contact...1:49 where you meet the chair, or the floor.1:54 The solidness of it.1:56 You are here.1:57 You are occupying this space.2:01 And for this moment...2:03 that is your only job.2:06 To be here.2:07 Not to prepare for the next moment.2:11 Not to analyze the last one.2:14 Simply to exist, right now, in this body.2:19 There is a constant pressure, isn't there?2:23 A hum in the background of our lives.2:27 The need to strive.2:30 To improve.2:31 To prove our value.2:33 To earn our spot.2:35 We feel we must be productive...2:39 or clever...2:40 or strong...2:41 or perfect.2:42 That our worth is something we have to build, day by day, accomplishment by accomplishment.2:53 And what that means, if you’re a person trying to make it through the day...3:01 is that rest can feel like a failure.3:06 Stillness can feel like a waste.3:09 It means we look at ourselves and see all the ways we are not yet enough.3:17 But what if that entire story...3:21 is wrong?3:22 A tree in a field does not spend its life trying to prove it is a good tree.3:31 It simply grows.3:32 It reaches for the sun.3:35 It provides shade.3:37 Its being...3:38 is its value.3:40 It doesn't have to DO anything to be worthy of its space on the earth.3:48 It just IS.3:49 And here is the quiet truth...3:52 a truth your breath already knows.3:56 Your worth is not a project to be completed.4:01 It is not a prize to be won.4:04 It is the fundamental condition of your existence.4:10 It was there with your first breath...4:14 and it is here with this one.4:18 The quiet power is not in achieving more.4:22 It’s in the gentle acceptance of what is.4:27 Of who you are.4:29 Right now.4:30 Flaws, fears, tired bones and all.4:33 That is not weakness.4:36 That is the deepest kind of strength.4:40 The strength to simply BE.4:43 So the thought to carry with you...4:47 is this.4:48 Your worth is not something you build.4:52 It is the ground you stand on.
