Bedtime Story Conservatory 87 28/06/2020
Good evening all,
Here is a small list of instructions for a bodily exercise I wrote a few weeks back during a course. I'm giving this to you because right now it something I feel like I might need to do, as I write this my shoulders are all tensed up as though I am expecting something to take hold of me, I was going to put a pillow behind my back to make myself more comfortable, but didn't. I had a conversation earlier today about how these small acts of self love, when not carried out, can build up and form a period of what feels like self-destruction. This cycle is difficult to escape from.
I have put the pillow behind my back now. Thank you for staying with this, your presence, without which this small act of making my back a little comfier, and making this experience a little brighter, wouldn't have happened in this moment. I hope you enjoy this-
1. Lie on a surface on your back, with no head rest.
2. Raise your right hand into the air and drain the fluids from your right arm into the chest.
3. When it reaches the chest, stand up straight, and let the fluid drain down into your feet, it should fill your feet and ankles and rise to a point approximately 20cm from the ground.
4. Lie back down in the same position as the first instruction and repeat with the left arm.
5. Stand up, rotate with your eyes closed and count to 10, when you get to the number 7, stop and open your eyes, and speak the name of the thing that is in front of your immediate line of sight.
6. When saying the word, the throat will open and all the fluid from your head will fall through and down your chest cavity and into your legs, joining the fluid from the arms.
7. This should fill approximately another 40cm. Your legs and half of your torso should now be filled with 80cm of fluid.
8. Lie back down, put your feet against the wall and crawl up the wall with your feet until you are as upside down as your body allows.
9. The fluid should naturally fall out of your eyes, nose, mouth, nipples, ears, genitals and hair follicles.
10. Lie back down, no head rest, under a source of natural light.
11. If you still feel fluid inside you, don’t panic, it is necessary fluid.
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Today's reading is The Cobweb 1986 by Raymond Carver (1938-1988). It's very short and beautiful, this recording is only 01:25 minutes long. The poem was written in the writers later years. Carver was an American short story writer and poet, who's work mostly focused on the lives of ordinary people.
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Warmest wishes today, lots of love,
Sam
