Grounding Practice: Bringing Ourselves Into Our Body

This is a short, five minute grounding meditation. In this practice, we will bring attention to the contact of our body, with the space in which we are sitting or lying. We have no where to be and nothing we need to worry about, simply let your mind relax into this restful practice.

Transcript

Let's start with a short mindfulness practice that helps to bring us here into the body in this moment.

We call it a grounding meditation.

To begin you'll hear a bell.

Bringing a comfortable posture with both feet on the floor.

Allowing the eyes to close gently if that feels okay.

Or just lowering your gaze.

Now bringing attention into the areas of contact that your feet are having with the floor.

Feeling into the feet.

Feeling how firm the ground is under your feet.

Maybe feeling where your shoes are in contact with your feet.

Now moving on to the thighs and seat and noticing where they have contact with the chair.

Just allowing the ground and the chair to hold and support your body without you needing to do anything.

Now moving the attention to your back.

Where does your back touch the back of the chair?

Can you feel the difference between where there is contact and where there is none?

Now moving the attention to your hands.

Feeling into your hands.

Maybe noticing the position of your hands.

Maybe noticing what they are touching.

Perhaps a chair,

Your thighs,

Or maybe the other hand.

You can ask yourself,

How do I know I have hands without looking?

You just know,

Right?

We can feel the hands from within.

Now opening the awareness.

Feeling your entire body sitting here in this moment on this chair.

And now bringing the attention to the body,

To the breath.

If you like,

You can make the next couple of breaths a bit deeper so you can really feel the breath.

Ask yourself where you feel it the most or where the sensations are the most pleasant.

At the nose where the air comes in,

At the back of the throat,

In the chest,

Or maybe in the belly.

And noticing the breath and using that place as the anchor for your attention.

This is where you come back to over and over whenever the mind wanders off.

Now letting the breath just breathe itself.

No need to make it any other way than it wants to be.

And when you notice your attention is somewhere else,

Gently bring it back to the breath.

In a moment,

I will ring the bell and that will end our short mindfulness practice.

Reviews

Lovely, simple grounding exercise! This is perfect for moments during the day when I need to hit my reset button between tasks.

A great mindfulness practice for when one is short of time, it begins and ends properly and your voice is very soothing; thank you, Leslee, for sharing it 🙏🏻🙏🏻

That was nice. I enjoyed the grounding awareness, thank you.

A peaceful grounding meditation. Very soothing guidance.

Simple and effective.

Nice, short and sweet. Thanks

thank you✨

Thank you for sharing

Feels good to be grounded in a mindful way.
Thank you! Namaste!

Very nice. A short and simple refresh.

What a sweet voice. Very gentle, short and simple. Perfect for an easy start or break. Thank you. 🙏🏼

Concise , clear and effective. I liked the simplicity. Thank you 🙏

Short and practical. I felt some of the chaos around me settle.

Nice, thank you. Let's pray for the guy who rated this as only 1 star. I'm always amazed by that kind of review, especially when the session is objectively good. I'm just guessing he's having a tough day..

Very nice, thank you!

Short and sweet. A nice way to end my day.
Thank you 💜