DAY FOUR: GUIDED MEDITATION - AIR

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Reflection offerings and practices for the day - Shelley Ostroff

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1. Intentional invitation:  There are many ways to connect with Air.  Sense into the way in which you would like to deepen your relationship with Air today.  How can you best create the conditions for this to manifest. 

2. Breathing Air:  Spend time greeting the Air as you breathe. Spend time with it as you inhale it, as it settles, in the pause between breaths, and as it moves through you in the exhale. What are the qualities of Air that are being revealed to you as you pay it your honouring attention?

3. Sensing Air: Sense into the essence of Air – what is its role in the Web of Life? What is the story of Air? How does it breathe itself into existence? How does it replenish itself? What is its unique intelligence as a life giver and information carrier? How do we stretch our imaginations to sense into this extraordinary intelligence invisible to the human eye? Sense into the different ways in which Air is present in your Life, not only in your breath, but as an essential part of Water, of Fire, of the living breathing Earth? What does air taste like, sound like, feel like? 

4. Reflecting Air: In what way is your relationship with Air reflected in the way in which you breathe? How does Air feel moving through you? How spacious and nourishing are the inside chambers of your being to this life-giving guest, as it moves in and out of your most intimate home? How does your culture relate to Air? Air is a carrier of information – what is the consciousness with which your culture imprints and informs the Air you breathe? In turn how does the Air that is a product of your culture, inform our own consciousness and in turn our own bodies?

5. Embodying Air: Imagine yourself as Air.  Become Air-like in your body, in your being. Sense the lightness, the boundlessness, the invisibility, the paradox of its gentle powerful presence within you.  How does the body express Air in movement through you as you give yourself to this element in your imagination and become as Air? Give yourself to Air to dance through you.

6. Airy Inspiration: Sense into the air of your consciousness, the stagnant thoughts, the breezes of fresh perspectives, the winds of change shifting your most favorite assumptions about the world. How do you greet new information? How do you open the windows of your consciousness to inspiration from unfamiliar sources? 

7. Messages from Air: Allow the essence of Air to offer you a wisdom message from its unique perspective? How would you become enriched if you became more like Air? What is the message that Air would like to offer to Humanity through you?

8. Messages for Air: Sensing deeper and deeper into your ever-present relationship with Air, what is the message that you would like to offer Air?  What would you like to tell Air if it could understand your language?

9. Message from the Winged Ones: Sense into the birds and insects that move with Air and inform Air. Sense what it would feel like to be able to navigate air like they do. What is the special relationship that air has with these winged creatures? How do they nourish air and how are they nourished by Air? What winged insect flies into your imagination now? What is its message about its unique relationship with Air? What can you learn from it? What bird flies into your imagination. What is it showing you? What is its unique relationship with Air and what can you learn from it?

10. Message from the Trees: Sense into the mutually nourishing, intextricable relationship of Air and Trees. The trees are often referred to as the lungs of the planet. What does this mean to you? How does this information transform your way of relating to Trees and to Air.

11. Art from the Heart of Air:  Sense into the way in which this dialogue with Air wants to express itself through the Heartist you in any art form you wish. What heartful offering wishes to be expressed through you in Honour of Air?