Mindful Minute: Intuitive Touch

This 2 minute mindful practice reconnects you with your body, giving gentle touch, massage and movement, to heighten awareness, release tension and energize yourself. This is an ideal practice to take during the work day or anytime when you feel you need a little boost.

Transcript

Hi,

This is Barbara Bottilotti of Be Alive and Well,

And today's meditation is intuitive touch.

Most times,

You may give your body some healthy touch without consciously thinking about it.

So as we fall still with a nice deep breath,

Tune into your body.

Notice where there might be some tension or where your body calls for a little attention.

Maybe your hands are cold or you've been typing a lot.

Massage your hands.

Just let this be intuitive.

Go with what feels good for your hands,

Your fingers,

Maybe even your wrist.

And sometimes it feels good to take your fingertips and massage your scalp,

Like what your hands or your hairstylist does when you get a shampoo.

You can even move this into your temples or forehead,

Rubbing down your cheeks,

And especially massaging the jaw line.

We can hold a lot of tension in the jaw.

If your back is bothering you,

You might want to massage the area of discomfort or you might be holding stress at the top of your shoulders,

So rub that out of your neck and your shoulders.

Remember to breathe as you intuitively massage your body.

This is a quick and effective way to calm the nervous system,

Relieve some built up stress and re-energize your entire body.

This is Barbara Bottilati with your Meditation Minute.

Take care.

Reviews

Perfect, quick and effective

Thank you very much!

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Very cool reminder of simple actions I can do right now to relieve stress in the body! Thank you.

Concise & Effective!
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That’s awesome. Thank you so much. A great tip I can use at work.

Super and effective thank you.

Thank you so much, Barbara! This is exactly what I needed this moment. Distressing and regrouping, now feeling energized. Namaste!
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This was great for beginning work. The stress of students is overwhelming to me, but this was my minute to reset my emotions and spirit. Wheeeew.

It's nice to take a minute to tend to achy body parts.

It did work! Excellent! Short but powerful! I loved it
Thank you so much
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People rarely take the time for self-care—there’s no excuse not to do one minute! And this is a well led minute! Thank you.

Short and best,👨🏻

Short and effective. Thank you.

A surprisingly effective and efficient use of 60 seconds. Definitely bears repeat listening.

(Absolute beginners could certainly use this, but if you like the technique it might be beneficial to listen to a longer recording so you get a deeper exposure. That said, this is a pretty great intro.)

Very nice. Refreshing and indeed intuitive. It does seems to work for me. Thank you for sharing.

Good quick reminder about the power of touch 🙏

An important reminder that we can help ourselves with gentle touch and self massage even when we don’t have a lot of time. It works! 🙏💕

very helpful thank you and Namaste