Day 2: Feeling The Body

In this meditation, you’ll be invited to reconnect with your body through direct awareness of physical sensation. Beginning with a comfortable posture, the practice gently guides you into noticing areas of contact, movement, and subtle sensation.

As attention settles into the body, this can support a deeper sense of grounding and presence. Rather than thinking about the body, you’re simply feeling it from the inside, allowing awareness to become more steady and embodied.

This meditation is part of a 30-day series designed to support a consistent daily practice, whether you are new to meditation or returning again.

There’s nothing to figure out here. Just an opportunity to come back into the body, one moment at a time.

Transcript

Welcome to day two of our 30-day meditation challenge. Today, We will be practicing feeling the body. Let's go ahead and begin by getting into a comfortable position. That allows you to be both alert and also at ease. That could be seated, Lying down, Even standing up. And you can begin by closing your eyes if that feels supportive, Or you can also just cast your gaze down. And just a few feet in front of you on the ground with a soft gaze. Not staring at anything, Just. . . Allowing that gaze to be nice and soft. And really allowing the body just to settle into stillness. And we can encourage the body by resting. Into each arriving breath. So begin by taking this next breath deep into the lungs from the nostrils. And then letting it go, Exhaling through the nostrils. Today we'll be practicing bringing attention. To feeling the body. Often our attention lives mostly from the shoulders up. We're often in our thoughts during the day. Lost in thought. And we're not always very connected to the experience of our body in real time. But the body is always here. So let's bring our attention into the inner body. Starting with noticing the feeling in your feet. So you might notice sensations of temperature. Vibration. Tingling. Paying close attention to the points of your feet that are making contact. Either with the ground. Or with your legs if you're seated cross-legged. Just noticing the feeling of the feet. And now bringing into your awareness the weight of the body resting in gravity. You don't have to imagine anything. You're just feeling the sense of your body in space. So you might notice any place that the body is making contact. With the surface that is supporting you. Could be the back of the legs. The buttock. The back. Your feet. Bringing your attention into these places that are making contact. And noticing what sensations are there. And now bringing attention to the experience of the breath in the body. Feeling the places where the breath touches you inside your body. So perhaps noticing the breath touching the low belly. Causing it to expand. On the inhale. And contract on the exhale. You might notice the subtle lifting and lowering of the shoulders. Or the rising and falling of the chest. You might also notice the sensation of breath. On the lip. The upper lip. Or the outer edges of the nostril. Just feeling the body. Thank you for practicing with me on day two of our meditation challenge, And I hope you'll join me again tomorrow. Namaste.