Good morning.
Before you do anything else.
Before the day begins to ask for your attention.
Take a moment to arrive here.
Let your eyes rest softly or gently close them.
And allow yourself to settle into this moment.
Take a slow breath into your body.
And let it go.
Take another breath.
Feel the subtle motions as you do.
One more breath.
The slowest,
Most nourishing breath of your morning.
This moment is yours.
You do not have to earn this time.
These couple of minutes,
This stillness,
Is just for you.
Let your shoulders gently drop.
Soften the muscles of your jaw.
And the skin around your face.
Soften the space between your eyebrows.
Notice the tenderness of the morning around you.
Quiet.
Saw.
Still held in that hush before everything begins.
You don't need to be anywhere yet.
You don't need to think about what's coming.
Just feel this.
The body you're in.
The breath that's moving.
The stillness that's holding you.
Take a slow,
Deep breath in through the nose.
As you exhale.
Let go of anything you're already carrying.
Thoughts of the day.
The list forming in your mind.
Let it wait.
Take another slow breath in.
Visualise drawing in stillness from the roots of the earth.
And breathe out.
Softening any tension from your body.
One more soft breath in through the nose.
And as you exhale.
Allow yourself to soften a little more.
Into your seat.
Gently.
Begin to come back to the space that you're in.
Feeling the surface beneath you.
Feeling the air on your skin.
You are allowed to begin your day gently.
From a place of peace rather than rushing.
Meeting the day slowly.
Around it.
Take one more breath.
Slow and full.
And as you exhale.
Maybe something in you softens a little more.
And now slowly.
.
.
Gently.
Without rush.
Begin to blink open your eyes.
Letting the outside world in.
Back in.
May you move through this day remembering that this place of unhurried stillness is always here.
Waiting for you to return.
