Five Minutes Of Mindfulness

This short mindfulness exercise assists you to connect with your body and your breath. While this mindfulness exercise only takes a few minutes out of your day, it will create many more useful minutes within your day, assisting you to feel more focussed, calm, and relaxed.

Transcript

This mindfulness exercise assists you to shift a mind from busy in thinking to one being present and sensing.

Inserting mindful minutes into your day can help maintain a more balanced and calmer mind.

Make yourself comfortable.

You can sit or lie.

And perhaps close your eyes to reduce distraction so you can focus on the one thing that you need to right now.

Focus on yourself.

And begin by bringing awareness to your mind and body.

Noticing any sensations that you are feeling right now.

Whether pleasant,

Unpleasant.

Just notice.

If your mind was an ocean,

What would be the condition?

Stormy?

Turbulent?

Calm?

Serene?

Just notice.

Not trying to control or change anything.

Just being open to how you are feeling.

Being accepting of the conditions as they are.

You can just let them be.

And now bring your awareness to your breath.

Follow the breath from when it enters the body all the way through to when it leaves.

You don't need to change the breath.

You don't need to control the breath.

Simply watch the breath.

Following its path as it moves in and out of your body.

If thoughts arise,

Gently move awareness back to the breath.

Back to your breathing.

And now,

Keeping awareness on the breath.

Begin to notice how the breath changes your whole body.

Notice as you breathe in that the body rises,

Lifts.

Notice as you breathe out,

Your body sinks,

Settles.

No need to change anything.

Just being the observer of sensations as you observe the breath.

The breath moving the body.

And the body moving the breath.

To close,

Bring awareness back to the space that you're in.

Bring a little movement to your fingers and toes.

And when you are ready,

Open your eyes and gently move back into your day.

Thank you.

Reviews

A calming brief meditation to just pause and notice what is present. I particularly liked the prompt to think about how my body and mind feel using the imagery of the ocean. Thank you Anne 💙

Simple yet beautiful. Your voice is absolutely perfect! 😁. Thank you for a straight forward meditation that connects us to our breath.

Beautiful 5 minutes of grounding to break up the day nicely, thanks Anne 😊

As always, Anne's steady, calm, voice and cadence provides a safe and comfortable guided approach. Thank you for sharing your gift and your time so generously. 🙏🏼

Thank you 🙏🏻 for this relaxing and short meditation!

Lovely pace, calming voice and easy to follow instructions. Thanks for a great start to my day. 🙏

Thank you for this calming meditation helping bring calm to the storm ☺️✨🙏💖

What a perfect, quick, settling and calming lovely meditation🙏

Namaste

Thankyou:-)

Beautiful track! Perfect for the morning.

Nice

Wow, I am truly speechless at how well this mindfulness worked for my mind and body. I tend to find during mindfulness my mind wanders too much for me to relax but found your brief pauses between instructions and sentences helped me alot. I aim to continue using this exact guided session regularly throughout the week. Thank you very much for putting your energy and vibrations into this. Bless.

Very good practice. Thank you!

Love this centering meditation- ha, the lightening quick bell, with immediate white-noise cut off (end of recording session), was enough to allow my “idealistic” mental savvy, and nerve jolts to kick back in at the end of this meditation. It also generated a smile - and my Sweetheart’s verbal respond. But the flow, pace, words, and ease of this meditation more than makes up for this “human-here-now” moment 🙏🎈😊🙃❤️🧬

Thank you!

Love! This is one I'll do throughout the day. Thank you!

Good practice. Some work needed on ending sound though.

It has made such a ddifference in how I feel now! Thank you so much, dear Anne 🙏🌏🌞💖🙏

Wonderful Mini-Meditation. 💮 Full of love and softness. Made a tender focus and is very soothing 🤗Very helpful. Many thanks for sharing 🙏💝