keeping small

Meditation is practicing gentleness with the body, gentleness with the mind. I start the day gentle with my body, gentle with the mind. It is a practice of letting go. There are so many things that I carry in my body, in my mind. Unnamed burdens that keep my stomach on edge. It’s muscles angry and twisted into a fist. Every slow and purposeless breath a letting go. Setting the weight down. Casting the irons off. So, that I may be free.