Daily Reflection Sit

How does it feel inside? How can you be responsive? Explore! Be curious.

Inviting the child within through visualization.

Consider a chant to uplift the heart.

Friendliness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity

Bringing childlike energy; ‘noodling around’.

Kindle the ATTITUDE of kindness and care. Invite the heart into your practice, at the beginning and while you are practicing. This is the atmosphere we want to practice out of!

Feel into each of these two aspects of the holding environment. What needs holding? How can we hold what needs holding?

Ahimsa, non-harm is the ground of friendliness

Bringing forth images of wonder from past experience

The heart senses and communicates symbolically. What stokes the heart’s warmth, care, and kindness?

Using memory image to invoke gratitude in meditation.

First see where we contract and not further reinforce it.

Bringing heartfelt attention to the breath

The heart regulates our interest in our world. Mindfulness meditation trains us in holding interest.

Another way to cultivate the internal holding environment; a personal example.