Noticing a desire for water.
The desire may be experienced as a dryness in the mouth, an interest in the mind, a feeling of fatigue, or a cue -- of the morning, a meal, or a workout that reminds you of water.
Filling a drinking vessel with cold, room temperature, or hot water. Noticing the sound of the water as it fills your cup. Noticing how listening to the sound is experienced in the emotions and the body.
If you like, adding tea, lemon or anything else, or just drinking your plain, pure water.
Feeling the weight of the drinking vessel in your hand. Noticing the temperature of the water that is conveyed from the cup to your hand.
Looking at the water and seeing what you notice.
Telling your water, "I love you."
If you like, contemplating the sources of your water. Remembering or imagining where your water comes from to arrive at your cup. Does it come from a reservoir? Is it fed by a glacier, does it come from a river in the Sierras or other mountains? Noticing what you know and what you don't know. You may pray or send good thoughts to the sources of your water.
You may notice gratitude for being in that portion of humanity that has running water in their home.
Smelling the water and noticing what you notice.
Taking a drink and noticing the temperature of the water in the mouth and the temperature of the water as it travels into your body.
Noticing that the water in your cup joins the water you are.
With a deep bow to the Lakota Sioux teen girls and elder women, traditional allies of water through the flow, who are leading the way and teaching us how to pray for and honor water. Thank you to the Ohlone people for the land where I sit and write. Please accept humble apologies for any misunderstandings of the teachings.
The desire may be experienced as a dryness in the mouth, an interest in the mind, a feeling of fatigue, or a cue -- of the morning, a meal, or a workout that reminds you of water.
Filling a drinking vessel with cold, room temperature, or hot water. Noticing the sound of the water as it fills your cup. Noticing how listening to the sound is experienced in the emotions and the body.
If you like, adding tea, lemon or anything else, or just drinking your plain, pure water.
Feeling the weight of the drinking vessel in your hand. Noticing the temperature of the water that is conveyed from the cup to your hand.
Looking at the water and seeing what you notice.
Telling your water, "I love you."
If you like, contemplating the sources of your water. Remembering or imagining where your water comes from to arrive at your cup. Does it come from a reservoir? Is it fed by a glacier, does it come from a river in the Sierras or other mountains? Noticing what you know and what you don't know. You may pray or send good thoughts to the sources of your water.
You may notice gratitude for being in that portion of humanity that has running water in their home.
Smelling the water and noticing what you notice.
Taking a drink and noticing the temperature of the water in the mouth and the temperature of the water as it travels into your body.
Noticing that the water in your cup joins the water you are.
With a deep bow to the Lakota Sioux teen girls and elder women, traditional allies of water through the flow, who are leading the way and teaching us how to pray for and honor water. Thank you to the Ohlone people for the land where I sit and write. Please accept humble apologies for any misunderstandings of the teachings.
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