Welcome to this moment, Let your own pace lead. Choose a place to begin, With the space and time you need. Let the name of where you are Come gently into view. This room, this place, this time of day, The present welcoming you. Let your eyes meet something simple, A window, a lamp, a chair. Rest your gaze for just a moment On the thing you find right there. Choose a detail close beside you, Then something farther away. Explore the space between them In the light of this particular day. A shape, a shade, a little distance, The edges of a door Your eyes receiving something Of the place you’re looking toward. Here, where I am, Let this moment open gently. Here, where I am, Let the room surround me. A little sense of presence, A little sense of place, This living body meeting The world at its own pace. Choose a sound that draws your interest, Let its rhythm reach your ear. Sense the direction it arrives from, Somewhere distant, somewhere near. The rustling trees, a bird, a pet, The soft unfolding of a song Sounds arriving through the space Around the place you’re listening from. Bring attention to a meeting: Your hand upon the chair, The fabric touching at your shoulder, The support already there. Choose the contact that feels clearest, Explore its texture, warmth or weight. Let this small and simple meeting Have the time you wish to take. Sense where one hand rests beside you, Where one foot meets its support. Let the distance from your shoulder To your fingers be explored. Let your present shape be welcome, Sense the places taking weight. Chair and floor beneath this body, Here within this living space. Here, where I am, Let this moment open gently. Here, where I am, Let the room surround me. A little sense of presence, A little sense of place, This living body meeting The world at its own pace. Choose a tiny, easy movement, Let a finger gently glide. Follow its beginning, Feel the motion as it arrives. Let your finger come to rest, Sense the place where it has stayed. Explore the feeling of choosing, And the movement that you made. Choose the warmth within a palm, Or a breath already flowing. Meet one simple sign of life, A quiet, living kind of knowing. Let attention travel gently Between this feeling and the room. Choose the place that feels inviting, Give that meeting space to bloom. Let your hand and something near you Share attention for a while. Body here and world around you, Held within one little span of time. Explore the place you’re seeing from, The place you’re hearing through. Let “here” take its own expression, In the way that comes to you. Here, where I am, With the world surrounding me. Here, where I am, With a place from which to see. I can look and I can listen, I can move and I can stay. I can meet this living moment In my own unfolding way. Here, where I am, A hand, a sound, a sense of space. This body in this moment, This life within this place. Let your eyes meet something familiar, Let the room come into view. Carry what feels clear and useful Into what you choose to do. Here… Where I am.