Navigating Transitions: Feeling Your Feelings

When navigating transition or change in our lives, it can be easy to want to push aside, skip over, or resist what we're feeling. This practice invites us to simply stop, notice, and feel our feelings so that we can return to presence with more ease.

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Welcome to this practice on feeling your feelings. Oftentimes when we're going through moments of transition we can have different emotions or sensations or feelings that arise and we can often want to push them away or suppress them, Pretend that they're not there. There's a lot of different strategies that we can have when these difficult or less pleasant emotions or feelings arise. And at the same time the more that we can turn towards what's arising with a sense of kindness and curiosity and just allowing what is to be, The more that we're able to move forward and move through what's arising with more ease. So for this practice we're going to play with feeling our feelings. So I'll invite you to find a comfortable spot wherever you are. You can do this practice sitting or standing or lying down. I'll invite you to find that comfortable spot. So allowing your eyes to close if that feels comfortable or gently looking down in front of you. Allowing your spine to lengthen if you're sitting and just bringing that sense of dignity into the body. You can relax or rest the shoulders, Allowing yourself to bring a sense of ease into this moment. Last but not least, Feeling our feet on the ground or feeling the seat or the ground beneath our our seat. Just allowing ourselves to feel the support of the earth beneath us. And if it feels comfortable, I invite you to bring your attention to your breath. Breathing in, Just noticing the breath coming in. Breathing out, Just noticing the breath moving outward. And if at any point the breath feels uncomfortable, You can find an anchor to return to. So maybe the feeling of your feet on the ground or the feeling of your seat on the chair. Just allowing yourself to return to the breath or your anchor, Bringing your attention into this moment. And then let's start with checking in with bringing our attention to our headspace. Just noticing what thoughts are present. Again, No need to change them or do anything with them. Just noticing and noting. And then bringing your attention to your heart. How is your heart in this moment? And if there was a feeling that was present in your heart space, What would that feeling be? Again, No need to change what's arising. No need to push it away or fight it or deny it. Just noticing what is present in your heart in this moment. And then let's bring our attention to our whole being, Our whole body. And what is your body saying in this moment? If your body could speak to you, What would your body be saying? And again, No need to change it. Just welcoming whatever is present with that sense of kindness and compassion. Allowing what is. And taking just a few more breaths together, Feeling the inhale and the exhale. And you can close this practice maybe by thanking your body for the information that it's given you. Whatever it's shared, Just saying thank you. Let's take one last breath in together. And on the exhale, Just gently opening the eyes if they were closed and returning to our day. Thank you.