So just start by taking a comfortable seated position or you can find a chair or you can lie down.
Just pick a posture that feels most supportive to you in this moment and give yourself a moment to just settle into that.
Sometimes even picking a posture,
We can overthink it a little.
So just go with whatever first comes to you.
If you need to change,
Move around,
That is welcome in this meditation.
And so as you settle in,
Just start to pay attention to your natural breath.
Oftentimes as we bring awareness to our breath or our body or our thoughts,
We might have this urge to want to change it.
In some way make that better,
Fuller,
Deeper,
Less agitated,
Less painful.
And this of course is natural to want to do that.
But for this meditation,
Just bring your awareness to your natural breath.
Try to be with it exactly as it is.
Just noticing as you breathe in,
You might be breathing in through your mouth,
Through your nose,
Through both,
As you breathe out.
And feel the rise and fall of your torso,
Your belly,
Your chest.
As you notice that inhale and exhale,
As you continue to breathe,
Letting go of the urge to change your experience.
And so as we gain more and more awareness of the inhale and exhale,
As you're really with it,
You might start to notice that it's just changing on its own.
It might be lengthening.
It might not be.
It might be orienting itself in a different part of the body.
So just continuing feeling,
Seeing the breath as it is.
So it can be really challenging work to just be with your experience as it is.
And even in mindfulness practice,
Meditation,
Yoga,
For many people,
Our pattern is bringing awareness and then wanting to fix,
Wanting to change.
And so for today,
Continuing to just cultivate awareness and acceptance of what's happening.
And as you practice,
Using the breath,
And this meditation,
You can do it with your thoughts,
Your physical sensations.
Just practicing that awareness of what is happening.
Being compassionate with whatever's coming up for you in that experience.
Allowing a little bit of a release of control to change,
To manipulate,
To control.
Noticing the inhale,
Noticing the exhale.
Maybe even noticing the patterning to want to change it,
To shift it.
And just bringing a natural acceptance to that if that's coming up for you today.
And as you continue with this natural breath,
Just place a hand to your heart center,
A hand on your belly.
And we'll seal this meditation,
Seal this practice with the breath together.
So inhaling,
Exhaling.
