EDITGrounding
I am here, in this moment, and this moment is enough to begin from.
Practices for coming home to the body and the present moment: standing still, feeling the ground, breathing without agenda. Grounding is not withdrawal from life but a way of meeting it from a steadier place. These prayers and practices suit the start of a day, the end of a day, or any moment when the mind has run ahead of the body.
Come as you are
Today in this room
Today's prayer
EDITOriginal compositionMODModern interpretationSource of all that is steady, I come to you as I am — hurried, scattered, human.
Before I ask for anything, let me arrive. Let my weight be honest on the ground that holds me. Let my breath find its own depth without being forced. In the quiet beneath my thoughts, teach me that I am already held — not because I have earned it, but because being held is the nature of things. Still my inner weather, not by silencing it, but by giving it sky enough to move through.
I rest in what is real. I am here. That is enough for now. Amen.
I am here, in this moment, and this moment is enough to begin from.
The ground beneath me is allowed to hold some of what I carry.
I can be still without being stuck, and quiet without being empty.
Where in your body do you feel most present right now, and where do you feel absent?
What would it be like to do nothing at all for the next three minutes?
Name five things you can sense from where you are. Which one had you not noticed?
Two great modes of the inner life — speaking to the Divine, and resting beyond words.