Hello and welcome to your short,
Bind in the mind audio practice.
So you can use this any time that you start to feel really stuck in your head.
Maybe the energy is just looping,
Maybe it feels overwhelming,
Maybe it's just really noisy,
Or maybe you just want to find a little bit more space in your mind,
In your head.
So for this practice,
You want to be either seated or standing up.
You're going to start by bringing your hand,
Your palm,
To the top of your head.
Just resting your palm on your skull and taking a few really full,
Deep breaths.
On the exhale,
Inviting you to make some sound,
Any sound that wants to come out.
A few more breaths,
Nice and full.
And continuing to breathe in whatever way feels good.
These deep breaths might feel really good.
And you're going to start to allow some movement in the face.
So keeping your hand on your head,
And just allowing some continuous movement.
Moving the skin,
Moving the eyes,
Moving the face,
The tongue,
The jaw,
The lips.
It might feel silly,
It might feel weird.
You can continue to make sound if you want.
But we're just starting to kind of move the energy in the head,
In the face.
Continuing to breathe.
Then you're going to release the hand,
Release the movement,
And bring your other hand now to your forehead.
Just placing the palm over the forehead.
It might even feel nice to take the other hand and place it behind the head,
To just feel this container of the skull.
Taking a nice easy breath.
And once again,
If it feels right,
You might let out some sound on the exhale.
And then you're going to release the hands.
And we're going to do some eye exercises.
So looking straight out in front of you,
Just on that horizontal plane.
Keeping the head still and just moving the eyes.
You're going to let the eyes slowly start to travel up.
When they reach as far up as they can look,
Start to slowly travel back down to center.
And then start to let them look all the way down,
Taking your time to get there.
And taking your time to slowly look back up to center.
And then moving your eyes to the right,
Nice and slow,
Letting them travel all the way to the right.
All the way back to center.
Continuing to breathe.
And letting them move to the left now.
Nice and slow,
All the way to the left.
And nice and slow,
All the way back to center.
Just moving through that pattern one more time on your own,
Continuing to breathe as you let the eyes travel up,
Down,
Side to side.
And when you've finished,
Closing your eyes.
It might feel nice to rub your palms together and place them over your eyes.
Maybe even letting your head rest a little bit.
Holding your eyes,
Holding your face.
Maybe allowing any other touch to your head.
Maybe even some sound or buzzing or humming or singing.
Anything else at all to bring some vibration,
Some life,
Some attention to this space.
And then you're going to start to allow the rest of the body to move.
So it might feel good to wiggle your shoulders,
To move your hips,
To feel your legs,
To press your feet into the earth.
You're going to start to bring the rest of your body online.
When we're trapped in our heads we can be really cut off from the rest of our body.
So you're going to move your fingertips,
Your toes,
Your hips,
Your legs,
Your belly,
Your back.
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Just allowing some intuitive,
Continuous movement in your body.
Continuing to breathe.
Paying close attention to the feet.
I feel nice to really press them in or to step or to stomp or to wiggle.
Really waking up the feet.
You can even look down,
Finding them.
When we find our feet we know where we are.
I am here.
This is where I am.
This is my body.
I am here.
Just noticing what it's like to be here.
Moving your body.
Breathing.
What is it like?
And then you're going to gently just tap out the rest of your body with your hands.
Just gently waking up your legs,
Your hips,
Just gently patting with your hands.
Energizing the skin,
Energizing the body.
Making sure you get everywhere.
Your arms,
Your belly,
Your chest,
Even your face,
Your head.
Feeling the container that you live in.
Feeling your skin.
Feeling your body.
This is mine.
This is my body.
And it is here.
And doing anything else here that might feel good to complete this practice for today.
Just following your intuition,
Giving your body what it needs.
And taking a few moments here to really notice what it's like to be you now.
What the energy in your body feels like now.
What the physical sensations are now.
What the mind and the head feels like now.
Taking a nice sweet full breath into all of it.
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And then closing out this practice in whatever way feels right for you,
Giving yourself exactly what you need.
And this completes your practice for today.
