So whatever is comfortable for you,
Find that position.
I'm going to use a pillow and I'm going to sit on the edge of the pillow to help keep,
There we go,
Like right off the bat it just helps to help keep my spine long so I can sit without low back pain.
And once you've found your position,
Sitting,
Lying,
Standing,
Whatever that looks like,
If you're comfortable,
Close your eyes.
And feel free to roll your shoulders down your spine and rest your hands on your knees or your thighs and take some long slow deep breaths in and long slow deep breaths out.
Let's just focus on that for the first few minutes.
And as I will say until I'm blue in the face,
It takes about 90 seconds for the nervous system to stop being like,
Am I going to die?
Am I going to die?
How about now?
How about now?
How about now?
And so if you don't start by really settling into your breath and centering to this practice,
To where we are,
To what we're doing,
Then you're not able to really absorb because you're still externally checking in all the time with your own survival.
We really are in a society of monkey mind,
Right?
We live more in our heads than we do in our bodies.
And this is how you can tell if you're thinking,
You're in your head.
And honestly,
Bob Proctor says it's not really even thinking,
It's just repeating mental processes.
And you said all the same things yesterday in your head.
And if you're in your body,
Then you're feeling and truly all your wisdom is in your body,
Not your head,
Not your not that voice in your head.
That's your nervous system.
This is,
This is like survival.
The wisdom is in your body.
And yoga speaks of this all the time.
This is why I'm in love with the Koshas and Yoga Nidra.
So can you feel?
Can you notice how you feel in the position that you're in?
You notice if there's any tense areas.
And if there's not,
That's awesome.
Keep breathing long,
Slow,
Deep breaths in and out.
And if there are some tense areas,
Bring your attention to the area.
And then focus your breath.
Like when you breathe in,
You're breathing in right to that spot.
And when you're breathing out,
You're releasing some of that tension.
Some of that storage,
Some of that it's,
It's really it's like a locked pattern,
A locked emotion.
This is why the body is so brilliant.
And so what we're really doing is acknowledging and releasing.
And we're doing that with our breath and our awareness.
I have chronic pain in my shoulders.
Most of the time it's it's I'm just used to it.
It's doable.
But when things get really stressful,
It gets really painful,
Like enough to get my attention.
And what I've noticed over the last few days is like,
Well,
I've noticed this a lot.
I've done a lot of healing on the shoulders,
But I like that's where I store my trauma,
My tension,
My stress,
My emotions,
Like everything just goes there.
And I noticed it increases when I drive,
So I get pretty stressed out when I drive.
And it really has been a way for me to look at a pattern of tension.
I really,
I tense up,
I tense up before I have conversations with people.
I tense up before I drive.
I really am in a state of survival on the regular.
And it's it's like times 1000 when I drive.
And so if I can notice that while I'm driving,
Then I can notice the less obvious tension right before I have a conversation.
It's like I'm armoring,
I'm protecting.
I'm sharing this to offer you some insight to wherever your tension is,
To maybe have a conversation with it.
Like,
What are you holding?
Why are you here?
What are you trying to share with me?
All the while,
Long,
Slow deep breaths in,
And long,
Slow deep breaths out.
What can you let go of?
What do you no longer need to carry with you?
What is your body?
Trying to tell you.
And I say this to my clients all the time,
Right?
The body,
It doesn't speak English,
Or whatever languages you speak.
Right?
The body speaks body,
The body speaks energy.
And so often when the body is speaking to us,
And we don't speak its language,
Then we start to fight the body.
And we start to repress some of the sensations and the feelings that we have.
Anxiety,
For example.
Anxiety is the body telling you,
Hey,
We're out of authenticity,
We're out of integrity,
We're out of something,
We're out of alignment.
And we're never really out of alignment,
We're always in alignment.
The question is,
What alignment are we in alignment with?
But that's a whole nother meditation.
And because we don't understand,
Like,
Hey,
You're,
You're out of authenticity,
We feel a sensation in our body we don't like,
And we want it to stop.
So we try to shut it down.
Meds,
Addictions,
Whatever they may be,
Chaos,
Drama,
Shopping,
Alcohol,
Drugs,
Sex,
Relationship,
Which brings us more out of integrity,
More out of authenticity,
And the sensations get louder,
Like that the body's like,
I'm trying to tell you.
And we're like,
What,
Like,
We hear so the,
The body can communicate with sensations and visions and images.
And internal conversation.
And so what that requires is for us to get quiet,
And to be with ourselves.
So we're going to do that now.
I've spoken enough,
Take a few more breaths.
And I offer you the opportunity to start a dialogue internally.
And you may speak in English,
But your body may not respond that way.
So dive really deep into the lessons,
The sensations,
The conversation.
Okay,
With your breath.
No answer is okay.
Right now we're like establishing a line of communication.
Sometimes it takes a few tries,
And that's okay.
Sometimes it increases your discomfort or your tension.
That's okay.
Meditation is a practice,
Not perfection.
Few more breaths.
Come on back,
Start to wiggle a little bit back and forth.
Take a moment to thank your body.
Wiggle your fingers,
Wiggle your toes when you feel ready.
If your eyes are closed,
Open them.
So one of the practices that I have daily is setting an intention.
So I offer you in this moment to set an intention really related to feeling as opposed to thinking.
Remember to feel,
Remember to feel,
Remember to feel.
And when you're in your body,
Everything changes so quickly.
So try for today to be in your body,
To feel,
To continue that conversation.
And I thank you for coming today.
