Hello and welcome.
This is a very simple but powerful practice that we can use to help us grow our ability to feel relaxed and at ease with our feelings,
No matter how big,
Charged or overwhelming they may initially be.
This practice can be used moment to moment,
Throughout your day,
But it can also be used as a formal sitting meditation practice.
It allows us to develop a friendly relationship with feelings that we may perhaps learnt as feelings that were bad or wrong or unwelcome.
And in learning to have a friendly relationship with our emotions,
We learn to have a friendly and relaxed relationship with ourselves.
This type of practice allows us to leave behind the constant tension that is born of self-resistance.
So finding a comfortable position,
With the spine straight but relaxed,
And bringing the eyes either closed or just soft,
Whichever is more comfortable for you.
And turning your awareness into your body,
Go into the container of the body and find whatever feeling is most present,
Is most strong,
Is most charged.
Whatever the feeling is that you're having a hard time working with,
Be it fear,
Panic,
Stress,
Anxiety,
Anger,
Rage or grief.
Whatever it is,
Turn in towards it,
Locate it in your body and just feel it for a moment as it is.
Feel the energy of it.
And as you remain aware of that feeling,
Become aware of your breath,
Noticing the cool,
Refreshing inhale,
And noticing the soft,
Soothing exhale.
This is not an invitation to breathe away your feelings,
Let the feeling be there.
And begin to feel the breath become a little deeper,
A little longer than it usually might.
And as you breathe in,
Begin to feel a sense of that inward breath,
Breathing around the feeling of it,
As though you create a spacious bubble for the feeling to float in.
Allow the in-breath to create room for the feeling.
Feel the body with space so that the feeling sits within it.
And as you exhale,
Connect with a sense of the front of your body opening and softening.
Inhaling the breath around the feeling,
Creating space,
Exhaling opening and softening through the front of the body.
Stay with that.
And then let it all go.
Release the breath,
Release the instructions,
And take a moment just to notice how you feel.
Take one deep breath in through the nose,
And sigh it very slowly and softly out of the mouth.
And when you feel ready to,
Come back.
Thank you for listening.
Www.
Mooji.
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