Feel cool air on your skin. Let it calm your overheating mind, let the crisp air bite. These sensations mean something, their meaning beyond you. What is going on in the present, the here and now?
Crisp air,
Cold oxygen,
Sensation,
Feelings.
You are alive.
Look into the grey sky and realize that you are real.
Let your awareness settle on your body,
Fingertips face the floor,
Eyes closed,
Head tipped back,
Arms and Legs attached.
Feel gravity pulling at you, feel your legs fight to keep you upright. Your body is on a tightrope, you are made to stand. Balance does not come easily for most, but for you? You are made for this.
Do you feel cold? Is the breeze coaxing your temperature down from its peak? Gentle breeze and overheating body reaching equilibrium.
Do you feel the gravity pulling you down into the ground?
Do you feel the stability of knowing you stand upon the earth?
The ground that will never release you into freefall. It reaches out with its gravity and refuses to let you go, it will always be here for you.
Do you see the sky? The vast expanse of horizon. It watches over you, a safety net. It serves to keep away the reaching confines of space.
Blocked vision,
What is behind it?
No need to worry,
It is keeping you safe.
Stars dim in daylight,
Hidden.
It is safety,
Freedom.
Reach for it,
It will reach back.
Does the cold settle into your bones? Does it keep your awareness anchored?
Do you know that you are alive, that you exist? Everything around you exists and it exists to keep you safe. Everything is nothing more than:
wavelengths,
atoms,
light.
Yet still, it exists.
You exist.
You are as real as gravity, as the breeze, as the earth, as the sky.
Your heart beats, and every time you feel it, know that you are alive.