Moving Into Life on a Monday

The Wake Up Game

Part One:
We wake up in bed.
Gads, and we "don't wan to get up"
or "don't want to move"
or "want to go back to sleep"
blah, blah, blah

The robot is pretty strong when the lazy sweet half dead
comfort
of the bed beacons us to stay on, and on

And how to wake up
inside the covers
and outside of sleep?

Try this:

1. Slowly move your head to the right and the left
Yes, yes, at first you can move like a robot
and then
wake up:
notice your neck
notice your breathing
notice the rest of your spine (yes, indeed, the "neck" is a word, the spine is 24 vertebrae)
notice the change in sensation where the back of your head presses into pillow or bed
notice what you are doing with your eyes

Rest.

2. Do that again and play with at least these variations;
   a. Eyes closed
   b. One eye open, and then the other
   c. Both eyes open
   d. One and both eyes moving the same way as you move your head
   e. One and both eyes (different times, right) moving the opposite way as your head

Rest

3. Move your feet right and left like a windshield wiper
rotate at the hip joint
feel your heels move in where they touch the feet
feel the sensation of feet against sheet as the move
feel your hip joints
feel your knees
feel your pelvis
feel your spine

Rest

4. Imagine combining the head and the feet,
sometimes imagine head and feet going the same way
sometimes imagine them going opposite

Now, "do" this in the real bed
and notice what you forget

Imagine it again

"Do it" again:
notice how your spine,
in between your head and feet
starts to wake up in this

Rest

5. Imagine 3 or 4 ways to roll out of bed

Try one

Roll back in, sensing yourself in the "reverse" move

Now roll out of bed another way

6. Sit at the edge of the bed

Sense your right leg, fully,
from five toes to foot to anke
to calf
to knee
to thigh
to head of top of thigh
to hip bone

Sense your right arm fully
fingertips
to shoulder blade

Sense the right side of you,
with emphasis on right arm and right leg

Sense your left arm from shoulder blade
down
to fingertips

Sense the first three all at once:
right leg, right arm, left arm

Add on the left leg
Sense all  four: two arms and two legs

Add on the spine, your spine

Sense all five at once:
your right leg,
your right arm,
your spine
your left arm
your left leg

Sense the all of you
add on all other bones, breathing, organs,
anything "real" you can sense in the moment

enjoy

Then add on hearing what you are hearing

Then add on opening your eyes and seeing what you see

Then rise to your day
and enjoy, today and all week,
starting the day with the five line excercise
and staying in sense, look and listen
in the now
mode
all day

hey,
what have you got to lose?