- [Narrator] Mindfulnessexercises.com.
(calm music)
Welcome fellow soul.
What might help you feel refreshed and cared for?
Please imagine that as a felt experience right now
as we prepare ourselves
for an unexpected journey to oneness.
We will travel that journey via a mindful metaphor.
Let's consider the human body
which is made of many cells in one vessel,
many organs in one vessel and many systems in one vessel.
When cells turn on themselves,
we call that auto-immune disease.
The body that fights against itself does not feel as good
as it could, and it does not function as well as it could.
The same is true of human society.
This is the metaphor.
Consider society as a body, a vessel
that is also made of many cells, which are its people.
This body of society is also made of many organs,
which are its organizations.
And the body of society is made of many systems
which are its institutions.
When any of these aspects turn on themselves,
a social auto-immune disease appears.
And society does not feel as good as it could
nor does it function as well as it could.
And here is our chance
and invitation to summon our awareness,
to summon the power of our gathered attention and direct it,
point, aim, intend it toward better feeling
and better function with each other.
Better feeling and better function with each other.
How do you envision this wholeness, this wellbeing?
What does your imagined flourishing and thriving include?
Seeing in this pro-social way is helpful and healing.
It offers support to the various social auto-immune issues
that have arisen to be seen and transformed.
One land, many grasses, one sky, many stars,
one human species, many beautiful souls.
Bias, deceit and confusion can create
an illusion of separation but we are quite connected
to each other in our shared social body.
Despite the appearance of things, may we strongly, lovingly
and always hold our vision of oneness.