Insulating Wards

Sit straight backed but relaxed
concentrate on the movement of your breath
how your stomach gently rises and falls.
Notice how your chest stretches too much accommodate
direct the focus downwards.

Recognize this as habitual over compensation
Know it is a response to having lost enough breath to flat line.
Accept that this truth is not the present before you, but the past
which you have long left behind you.

Direct the focus downwards
Plant yourself like roots in the earth.
Feel it blossom underneath you
connecting everything to itself
a root system of energy and signals
that are ordinarily ignored.

Remember to remain aware of your breath
sink into the sensation of being grounded
let the soil hold you until you are still.
Direct the focus to your center.

Feel this, oneness with breath
oneness with all
oneness with oneself.
Notice the subtle shift of atmosphere
as the circle radiates outwards
fissuring in clockwise fashion from whence you have conjured it.

Note the color
see how it follows the motion of your breath.
Ask it forth from the ground,
when it hovers like static smoke ring around you-
send it spinning.
Repeat until 3 rings spin a sphere of light about you.
Listen to the tinny sound it makes.

Draw a line outside the circle
notice the punchline to a centuries old joke
as you follow each corner with another line.
Alternate white and black.

Square the circle.
Triple it.
Draw these lines upwards and down
create walls
affix a floor somewhere beneath you in time and space
attach a ceiling.
Seal the joints with the steady rhythm of your breath.

Focus inwards
Let each chakrah bloom radiant and unfurling
Do not fight the sensation of energy being drawn to you this way
ask it to reside here, inside the walls of these three domains.

Fill the space between with enough light to blind you.
Repeat the mantra
"As above, So below."
cycle
expand
dismiss.

Thank the breath for remaining steady.
Ask the wards what it wishes to keep out most
Cry when it hisses her name and "danger" in the same breath.
Plead for guidance.
Hope for strength.

Pray that in the center of your being
the wards you crafted tonight will stick longer
than the last few.
Send each ring downwards one at a time into the earth.
Follow them counterclockwise with your eyes as they diffuse.

Stand straight backed but relaxed
concentrate on the movement of your feet across the carpet
how your feet gently rise and fall.
Notice how you move forward one step after another
direct the focus inwards.

Recognize this as habitual under compensation
Know it is a response to having lost enough loved to become jaded.
Accept that this truth is not the present before you, but the past
which you have long left behind you.