Good morning,
My name is Sadie and we're going to do a morning meditation designed for a person that feels like they don't have enough time to meditate because they are too busy or just feeling like there are so many things to do they can't quite figure out where to begin.
So this meditation is perfect to have a pen and paper handy so that when you think of something that you need to do today,
You can just jot it down and then return back to your meditation.
We'll begin.
Closing your eyes and getting into whatever position will support you as you sit here for some time,
Just grounding yourself before you get started on your day.
And if any thoughts swirl up and tell you about what needs to be done after this meditation,
Feel free to just jot those down and resume back to your mindfulness practice.
You can take a few deep breaths.
Transitioning from A lot of neck up activity,
A lot of mental chatter,
Cerebral cognizing all day.
To use the breath to go neck down,
To kind of slowly go back into the body.
Breath is our route to the body.
It's our vessel to becoming embodied.
But you'll notice if you start to get more still,
Have a more evenness of mind,
That thoughts will show up.
And again,
It's not a problem.
There's no anxiety about it because You have your pen and paper and you can just jot down anything that needs to be done and then feel like you can return back to your center.
Just doing that practice over and over.
It's okay if there is a lot of thinking happening right now,
Or a sense of restlessness that you shouldn't be sitting and doing nothing,
But you should be up and about and getting things done.
Recognize that taking this time for you is such a sincere application of self-care and doing something good for the mind,
The mind that then is going to support you throughout the day.
As you move through all your tasks.
This is like having glass of water for the mind or taking a deep breath for the mind that this moment that you're giving yourself is like medicine for the mind.
And if you notice that there's a thought that comes up that.
You should get up.
You shouldn't be meditating.
See if you can just simply notice that that thought showed up and.
Allow it to linger,
Maybe just kind of let it metabolize.
You don't have to follow that.
And then pay attention to the body to see how that thought interacted with the body.
And see if you can sit a little bit longer so that you are just developing a new skill set that doesn't habitually follow the dictation of the thoughts,
But instead there's another knowing that kind of makes the more wise decisions,
The observer.
And if you notice the thought kind of continues to return,
Well then that's something you can follow.
Because it seems like maybe that might be best for you to get up and get moving and to be grateful for what you have done.
And so you can kind of play with that a little bit,
But maybe for the first or the second thought about.
Shifting gears and going into the doing,
See if you can instead settle back down and practice just being with the anxiety.
Or some angstiness that maybe shows up,
Feeling that by spending this time simply being that that maybe isn't optimizing your time,
Just work with that anxiety or that tension a little bit.
Okay,
Good job.
You did it.
You took care of your mind today.
And the reason that it's so important to take care of your mind,
First and foremost,
At the start of your day,
Is because it's really the forerunner of all things.
So everything you do today,
All the things you may feel,
Through all the manifestations and the expressions of the mind.
And you gave the mind an opportunity to be balanced and even.
To have bare attention.
To the present moment.
And so I hope today is the perfect blend of productivity and relaxation to be loose and focused today.
Thank you for letting me be a part of your morning practice.
Namaste.
