My name is Corrie.
Let's meditate together.
Make sure that you're laying down or you're seated and you're comfortable.
Close off your eyes and just check in internally with your body.
Assess whether you need to soften your jaw.
Relax your shoulders just a little bit more.
Straighten your spine.
Just checking in with different parts of your body to make sure that you feel completely comfortable.
So your body isn't distracting you from your meditation practice.
It's actually taking you deeper.
Pulling your attention and your awareness on to your breath.
Start to feel the way that you're breathing.
Notice your inhales and your exhales.
Feel them.
Notice the sensations that they're causing inside of your body.
Listen to your breath also.
All your different senses are focused purely on your breathing and the way that it sounds and feels.
The different emotions and energy that it stirs up inside when you focus on what your breath is doing inside of your body.
It's like being a detective of your own breathing.
Doing this will allow you to start to relax naturally.
It slows down the outside world.
Making your point of focus and complete attention so much simpler than all the other distractions that we normally have around us.
Lengthen your breath now and make it longer and slower and deeper.
Make the pace of your breath very even.
Don't strain too much when you breathe in or when you breathe out because that becomes uncomfortable.
Make your breath feel pleasurable.
And you'll know when you find that sweet spot because you start to instantly relax your muscles and you start to get that inner peace feeling flowing through your body when you've got the right pace with your breath.
Imagine that time is standing still on your everyday life.
Everything.
Absolutely everything can wait.
You're practicing being present in this moment.
Just feeling the pleasure of your slow smooth breathing.
Enjoying that quiet stillness that's starting to fall over your body and your mind.
You're not trying to achieve anything else right now in this moment other than just being still and quiet and enjoying your breath.
Be aware of the different thoughts that pop into your mind.
Your brain won't ever stop thinking.
There is no such thing as this complete silence that you can achieve in meditation.
It's impossible because while ever we're alive in our human experience,
In our physical body,
The brain always thinks.
But you are capable of not making attachments to those thoughts.
Just being a quiet observer of the type of thoughts that pop into your mind while you meditate.
Observe if you get pulled into a certain type of thought.
Notice that that's when you've made an attachment and then the thought leads to another thought that's connected to that thought and then before you know it you're writing out maybe your whole shopping list for the day or you're going over the chores in your mind of what you need to do.
That's when you know that you've made an attachment to your thoughts.
So to stay unattached from the thoughts that pop into your mind,
You just observe with no emotional connection.
You observe and watch your thoughts as if you're watching the ocean bringing a wave of the shore towards you and then because you didn't hold on to the wave it just naturally pulls back into the big vast ocean or where your thoughts are concerned the big vast collective consciousness.
So you observe,
You sit,
Try and have an internal smile that's present with you through your practice.
Connect to the pleasure of your breath if you need help with the smile.
Feel your breath,
Feel how good it feels and how calming it feels flowing in and then with that pleasure that you notice see if it can help you to form that very subtle smile maybe on your face or that internal smile that you can feel.
Inside of your body observe your thoughts.
Notice how some thoughts definitely bring strong emotions with them.
Just be aware of the emotion and feel it,
Feel its presence inside of your body.
But know that it's just an energy,
Particles,
Atoms that come along with that particular thought that you can feel the material aspect of inside of you.
Some thoughts feel really heavy,
Some thoughts feel prickly,
You get a sense and an urge of irritation,
Some thoughts feel really pleasurable.
So just be the observer of your body constantly feeling and watching and listening to what your thoughts bring into your presence.
Moment to moment observe how they change so quickly.
Nothing stays the same for very long in your mind.
Sometimes you'll become aware of your body talking to you.
Maybe if you're seated,
Your sit bones are starting to ache or your ankles or your legs are speaking to you.
Sometimes if you don't go to the restroom before you meditate,
Your bladder starts to speak loudly to you.
All subtle distractions,
All to be observed from moment to moment.
For the next five minutes or so just observe everything,
Observe your breath,
Observe your thoughts,
Your feelings,
Your emotions.
Listen to your body communicating with you,
Your physical needs,
Your physical voice.
And know that there's no right or wrong,
Just practice making no attachment to any of it.
And so it is.
Namaste,
My friend.
