And so I just wanted to introduce this quality and as a way of perhaps supporting a connection at the very beginning here in introducing this I'd like to ask you all to do just a short exercise right now
So it would help to close your eyes I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes and whatever spontaneously comes in this imagination, to remember yourself as a child whatever age comes to you and even vividly imagine seeing pictures of yourself wherever in your life, in the environment that you grew up in maybe at play, maybe discovering life, perhaps with a friend or friends, or animals and see and let yourself feel this you, this innocent you the child who doesn't know about life,but is discovering life
Let yourself feel the energies, the innocence.
And also notice if something else arises some difficult or painful experience arises or if sadness rises just observe that and notice it and just be with it
Notice if there's a block or resistance to feeling, to see your innocence whether you're conscious of it or not, just something in you that's preventing you from letting go, surrendering to your childlike innocence
Notice if your body is tight or holding or if you're breathing in a shallow manner, and take a deeper breath continuing to vividly imagine yourself as a child
The pictures, the images might change, different ages might occur to you ... and let yourself enjoy the feeling of you as you were young as you were a child
If sadness or pain arises you allow that. If the pain you experience as a child comes, let yourself be compassionate to that child who was hurt or in pain.
And letting yourself be in touch with your child
If that's difficult to connect with your innocence or even if it isn't, imagine ta child right now in your life that you know perhaps a son or daughter, a grandson or a granddaughter someone that you know as a child and bring them into your heart into your mind and see them in their innocence. Allow your heart to open to this innocent being, who is yet to discover life.
Let your tender heart be moved by the senses.
And so just a short journey into this part of your being.
I know that if I can remember something that's innocent in another, in myself as a child, that feeling is in me right now. It awakens the quality that is already in my heart.
And so you can take a couple of deeper breaths and open your eyes when you're ready.
