Sit somewhere you can be alone, silent and undisturbed. Wear loose, comfortable clothing, so you can be physically relaxed, while sitting straight and still: calm, alert, in control.
Close your eyes and dive into your life-breath. If we practise breathing regularly, then whenever we dive into our breath, we have the feeling of returning home, to where we belong. Nothing else exists, nothing else matters.
Now please imagine that what you are breathing in from the atmosphere around you is not air, but solid peace. And you are breathing in this peace not only through your nostrils, but through your eyes, your ears, through the very pores of your skin. It is as though inside, you are a dry sponge and you are just soaking up this peace directly into your very core. And slowly but surely this peace is circulating right throughout your being from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet to the very tips of your fingers.
And as you breathe out you will release anything within you which is not peace. If there is tension in your muscles, anywhere in your body, let that tension go, release it and breathe it out. Any restlessness in your nerves or emotions, soothe it and breathe it out. Any stress that is tying your mind in knots, unravel it, let it go and breathe it out.
Stress and tension are not our possessions. They are stolen goods. We have no right to hold onto anything which is not our possession. So all these stolen goods, this foreign stress and tension, let it go, let it flow out the window, up and out into the sky, where it dissipates and evaporates without a trace, never to return.
(to be continued…)