Welcome to this 10 minute guided meditation for detachment from overthinking.
Begin by finding a comfortable position.
Your feet are resting on the floor,
Nice and grounded.
Your hands are resting softly in your lap and just allowing your eyes to gently close down.
This is where we're going to begin.
Paying attention to your breath.
Just checking in with yourself and noticing how you're feeling right now.
Just noticing any thoughts that are coming up and just allowing them to melt away.
Is it body settles down?
Just paying attention to your breath.
Just noticing how your breath is flowing in and flowing out.
Regardless of anything coming up for you right now.
Just paying awareness to the ebb and the flow of your breath.
Connecting to your breath.
And so we start with this meditation.
Just noticing the air coming through your nostrils.
Going all the way down through to your lungs.
And then on the exhale out.
Out of the lungs.
And through your mouth.
As the inflow of air comes in,
Just visualise it nourishing all your beautiful cells in your body.
Your body reacting.
Just a simple action of noticing the breath in.
And on the exhale out.
Just noticing how the body relaxes just a little bit deeper.
Maybe just bringing your awareness now towards the tip of your nose.
Just noticing the breath flow in and flow out.
Or perhaps it's you taking your awareness towards your lungs.
And noticing them expand with a breath in.
And then with their exhale out.
Perhaps it's observing your diaphragm and watching your belly expand with a breath in.
And then deflate with a breath out.
As your awareness here is on your breath.
Just recognising any thoughts that are coming up for you.
And like the breath,
They flow in and they flow out.
And just being aware that these thinking patterns,
They don't define you.
If one thought pattern comes up for you,
You'll notice it will stay for a moment.
And then it just passes through.
Just taking a moment now to imagine or visualise that you're sitting by the ocean.
And just noticing the waves as they come up and touch your feet.
And they flow back.
Some waves are small and some waves are large.
But what they do have in common is that they come and they go.
And as you sit on the edge of the ocean,
You're just observing these waves come in and go out.
And as you sit here and observe the waves just coming and going.
Just feeling a sense of calmness and being content.
There may be a time when you find yourself getting caught up in one of the waves.
And being okay with that and just bring yourself back to the edge of the ocean.
And just enjoying this view of the waves just as an observer as they flow in and they flow out.
They're always coming but they're always going.
And ebb and the flow of the waves.
Part of having a full life is feeling all of your emotions.
Both pleasant and unpleasant.
Sometimes we are beaming with joy and feeling our heart is full of gratitude.
And sometimes it's also feeling disappointment or sadness.
And just letting yourself sit there with these feelings and just letting them go.
Like these waves of the ocean.
Some of them are going to be pleasant and some of them are going to be unpleasant.
And not getting too caught up in it.
Just being mindful of the ones that you want to give more attention and focus to.
And now just bring your awareness in towards your body.
Becoming aware of the environment around you.
Being aware of the sensations in your body.
Awareness of your chair or the floor and how your body is resting here.
Feeling your feet,
Your hands starting to move.
Feeling any sounds around you.
Just feeling the temperature on your skin.
And gently moving your body.
Breathing and stretching.
Very gently doing a beautiful shoulder roll.
Just noticing your shoulders are nice and relaxed.
Your eyes are soft.
There's a gentle smile on your lips.
Take one last beautiful nourishing breath through the nose and out through the mouth.
And when you're ready,
Just gently opening up your eyes and welcome back.
Thank you for meditating with me today.
