The guys started to take turns on the mats today, rolling in and and out as they felt, and I literally taught the same basic thing 6 times in a row: I’d give the task to one and then another would hop in and I’d give it to him and then another would leave and they’d switch and so on…
I asked them to close the eyes and imagine a good place. Somewhere they wanted to be. Somewhere safe and beautiful. I reminded them that our bodies hold the memory of our experiences, so they could bring those back as a way to travel to that place with all the sensations in the body. Once they found the place and settled in, I asked them to shift the attention to the breath, and lengthen the exhale. Count 10 of those breaths, and if they got distracted and lost count to go back to one and start over. A total of 5 minutes, maybe less.
I don’t know where they went or what they felt but every single one of them came back a little softer.
And I think that the guys watching saw that too and that’s why they started to roll in like that. Because it’s so hard to be soft here.
It felt like rolling waves kept coming and I was just offering the practice as the sand to roll on. The good days are good