Take time to pause today, even for a minute, and follow your breath into your body. Allow the mind to be still as you simply breathe and become nothing more than your breath. Each breath you take becomes a reminder of your spirit because each breath is your spirit moving inside you. Become your own breath; become your own spirit.

Let your body accept that it is a mere vessel of this important self, this spirit self. Let it acknowledge its secondary function as vessel even as it must be equally present and equally attended to and cared for. Treat the whole self with the same reverence that you treat the spirit self. As you follow your breath, treat the body and mind to calm detachment knowing that in each breath the only thing that matters is your awareness of your breath as sacred spirit. In this way find your core essence, your life force, your connection to all beings and to life itself.

Remain open to messages from your spirit. Continue giving breath so its life may flourish and become more clearly ascertained as living inside you, its desires and talents more fully realized and actualized. Who is this spirit self that you speak so often of, that you seek connection and union with? It is you without body and yet it is you in-body. You are a unit of two and as such each part must be given care and attention.

As you prepare your body to wake up and greet each day, do not send your spirit back to sleep but prepare it as well. It will give your body the energy and insight it needs and light your path if you give it what it needs. Attention and intention are required if you are to hone its presence and its skills. Breathe consciously and you will discover your spirit’s residence, its warm cave, its home in your body. Just keep breathing with awareness and feel your spirit breathe back, saying, “Yes, I am with you. I am you. We are good together. We are one. Let me live with you more fully now and all will be well.”

Know your body more deeply, intimately and thoroughly. It is your chariot through life, your vessel of life, your traveling companion, container of the breath of life. Find its centering abilities, its function as your anchor and its familiar tendencies and quirks that make it unique. Look at it and figure out how your spirit resides so easily in it, accepting of its place; yet does your mind allow such ease of containment and acceptance?

Allow the mind’s conjuring thoughts about your body to ease a little today as you feel only your conscious aware self inside you. Devoid of the usual messages allow space for breath and the essence of the life force inside you, your spirit life, to simply be. Be only breath today—only spirit—and see what happens.

We stand now within the inevitable. Our times are times of complete change. Do we fight it? To what end? It is happening. In such situations the warrior knows that acquiescence is the only action necessary and yet acquiescence must come with a measure of consciousness and awareness that transcends the mundane and embraces the wholeness that lies within. The wholeness that lies within is the calm eye of the storm and this is where the warrior retreats to in times of acquiescence.

Sit now within the calm eye of I, within the Self. In heart-centered awareness wait, knowing that the inevitable is inevitable and that you will not only survive but learn the immeasurable. Though you may perceive this as a time of loss, it is actually a time of great abundance. Embrace that.

Remain true to the self today. With feet firmly planted, with steady gait, stay focused upon your path of heart. Seek calmness within and radiate it out, even as you withdraw your energy from the world outside of you, from the people who inhabit it, and from the issues that have come to a head. Steadiness is called for and must be cultivated so that you stay rooted and sane in the face of all that is pending.

The energy of now continues building, yet each of you must build stability and calmness within so that your path remains clearly defined and your way clearly exposed. If you project anything today let it be the calm and radiant self within. Your own inner light will guide you if you let it.