Good morning.
Thank you for being here for this quite short morning meditation to just give ourselves a moment to start the day right.
So right now you might still be feeling sleepy,
Maybe there's a little bit of heaviness in the eyes,
The mind,
The body,
That's totally okay.
I invite you to find a comfortable position,
Whatever that means for you in this moment.
You can experiment a little bit,
Moving around,
Maybe stretching slightly,
Gently,
Before you find your way to sit or lie down for this short mindfulness practice.
So here we are,
The hard part is done.
You decided to start your day with intention,
With a little bit more calm,
That's wonderful.
So let's do that.
First,
Just notice your body sitting here,
Lying here.
Notice the contact of your body with the surface you're sitting on.
Notice if the next long exhale you can let go a little bit more.
Allow yourself to melt a little bit more into the mat,
The floor,
The cushion.
Every exhale is an invitation to relax,
To let something go,
To invite more softness.
And every inhale,
If you now gently guide your attention to the next inhale,
Next deep inhalation,
It's an invitation to recharge yourself with fresh energy,
Fresh air.
You can imagine fresh oxygen streaming into your body,
Into every cell,
Waking you up,
Bringing some lightness,
Some clarity for this new day.
Very good.
And as always,
If you notice your mind jumping around,
Like the Buddhists call it,
The monkey mind,
Doing its thing,
That's okay.
The goal of meditation,
If we can call it a goal,
Is not to stop our mind.
In my understanding,
It's changing the relationship we have with our busy monkey mind so we can have more space,
So we disidentify a little bit more from its dynamics.
So when you notice your mind worrying about the future or thinking about something that happened in the past,
Just know that's the nature of the mind.
And you can take a step back,
Come into the seat of the observer,
And keep on returning to the sensations of your breath moving your body or the physical sensations that you notice sitting here,
Lying here,
Because our breath is always in the present moment,
And so is our body.
So by giving our busy monkey mind something to hold on to,
Something to return to,
Like the mind tethering,
Like a tether to the breath or the physical sensations of the body,
Then we can find more presence no matter how often we need to return to it.
It's a whole part of the practice.
So let's just try this for another moment.
Just being here,
Noticing the movement of your breath,
The liveness of your body.
Very good.
And before we close this little practice,
I invite you to set an intention for this day,
An intention that would support you,
Guide your attention towards whatever it is you want to see happening or the quality with which you want to show up.
So just for yourself,
Set an intention.
Trust that it will be with you throughout the day.
Remember that we can create little islands of mindfulness whenever we remember to feel our feet on the floor as we walk from one appointment to the next,
Whenever we remember to take a deeper,
Fuller breath.
And with the next deep inhale,
Start to wiggle your toes,
Wiggle your fingers,
And in your own time,
When you're ready,
Open your eyes.
Thank you so much for sharing this time with me.
I'm Sarah,
And I wish you a wonderful day.
