Good morning and welcome to your session.
Meditating before you start your day is a powerful method for aligning your body and mind.
So often when we wake up from a night's rest,
Our mind will be on the move before our feet hit the floor.
Rehearsing the to-do list,
Recalling situations from the day or week that's passed,
Exploring our hopes or perhaps our fears of the unknown future.
This uncontrolled mental activity can activate subtle stress responses and set your mood before any attention is given to all the reasons why you can and will have a great day anyways.
By interrupting the pattern of thought first thing in the morning,
You slow the mind down,
Bringing it back to the present moment.
Releasing the stored stress and conditioning that pops into the mind throughout the day.
Priming the mind to be less reactive and more responsive.
Creating more space within to feel and share goodness.
So let's step into your stillness.
Taking a deep,
Grounding breath in and releasing.
Another slow sip of air in and sighing it all out.
One more inhale,
Raising your shoulders to your ears.
And releasing.
Following your natural pace of breath.
Feeling it flow in and out of your body.
Let's bring your awareness to your forehead.
Feeling any sensations in the space.
Any tension.
Relaxing the brow.
Bringing that awareness down to your jaw.
Creating space in your jaw.
To help with this,
You can rest your tongue on the roof of your mouth.
Moving on to those shoulders,
Putting them back down in their space.
Unclenching your hands.
And unknotting your torso,
Allowing it to expand fully as you breathe.
Resting deep into your hips.
Allowing them to support you.
And releasing that nearly undetectable tension in your thighs,
Calves,
And feet.
Keeping your awareness on your breath.
Watching it flow in and out of your body.
Remaining present in the now by feeling that subtle sensations of breath.
When a persistent thought arises,
Acknowledge it.
It wants to be seen.
Perhaps you can even say,
I see you.
Holding space for it and then accepting the thought as it is by tuning the mind to the body to identify the way the thought makes you feel.
Feeling the subtle physical sensation that accompanies the thought.
And when you find it,
Perhaps saying,
I feel you.
Moving forward still to mend the pattern by releasing the thought and sensation with a breath.
Taking that nice slow sip of air and gently exhaling all the way.
Relaxing the bottom of that breath.
Relaxing the point of tension you've detected.
And directing the mind back to your natural pace of breath.
Seeing it flowing in,
Flowing back out.
Feeling the sequence whenever needed and remaining to be the silent witness.
Continue to follow your breath.
Following it into that present moment,
Sinking into that stillness.
And now watch the clock.
Connect yourself and peoples hearts.
Taking a nice slow sip of air and sighing it out Resting here with your eyes closed Bringing your awareness to your fingers and toes Wiggling them to reawaken your body Inviting any movement that feels good Gently opening your eyes when you're ready Thank you for giving yourself this time to align with your stillness before starting your day Namaste
