Welcome to this short mindfulness practice to help reset the mind and the body.
Take a moment to settle into your body.
Feeling a heaviness,
A weightiness in your body as your hips ground down into the earth below.
Feel a lengthening through your body as you stretch your spine.
Perhaps rolling your shoulders back and down and tucking your chin slightly.
This just helps to open up the chest,
Create more spaciousness for movement of energy and of breath.
Now begin to close down the eyes if it's available for you or simply soften the gaze.
I want you to tune into what it is that is on your mind in this moment.
So just notice the thoughts that show up when I ask this question.
You might be arriving to this practice with lots of thoughts swirling around.
Oftentimes we seek to push them away.
My invitation is for you to allow them to be known.
Ask for one thought in particular to show itself.
I'd like you to give this thought a one-word title and an image.
Almost like the front of a movie cover.
Imagine it in your mind's eye.
A one-word title and an image.
Allow it to take up space.
And in its own good time,
You'll notice that it naturally drifts away or dissolves.
When that one thought is complete,
Allow another to be seen,
To be known.
Give that thought a one-word title and an image.
Allow it to take up space.
And then in its own good time,
It will naturally dissolve or drift away.
If you find that your mind is very busy,
You might have many more of these thoughts to move through.
When we push our thoughts away,
They become more persistent.
The purpose of mindfulness is not to stop thoughts,
But rather to place awareness in them.
To be present with what is.
And that often includes what's going on in our mind.
So then,
Rather than trying to stop everything,
To get quiet,
What if we allowed the thoughts in our mind to simply be what they are?
And what if they have a message for us?
Now tune into the body for a moment here.
Tune into the breath.
And just notice how this short practice of paying attention,
Of being mindful,
Has already started to shift.
It has started to change your breath.
It has started to change your experience in the body.
I invite you to spend as much time here as you'd like.
We are ready to close this short practice.
You can do so now by becoming aware of the edges of your body and opening your eyes when you're ready.
