Mindfulness is a practice that we live.
It's a practice that we embody.
We live mindfully to experience life in far more beautiful ways.
Here I'll guide you in a mindfulness meditation practice that I hope will become a foundational teaching that you live for the rest of your life.
To see,
To witness the beauty of what is all around you in all moments,
Is to practice mindfulness daily.
Living with mindfulness is how you experience happiness and joy.
It is the appreciation of what is here in this moment that allows you to feel ease.
Contentment,
Happiness,
And overall a state of being of pure awareness.
We can use our breath as a point of focus because it is the one physiological process of the body that is always occurring.
It is voluntary and also non-voluntary.
Breath is something that we can attend to and also gently guide.
We can change the rate at which we breathe.
We can increase our breathing rate.
We can slow it down.
Also,
It is the one thing that is occurring at all moments,
Even when we are not attentive to it.
In your life,
Your mindfulness practice can be as simple as recognizing when you are not in the moment,
No longer present to the moments before you.
And you can use this awareness as a cue to bring your attention into now.
Let me show you.
Wherever you are,
And it's important to know that you can be standing,
You can be waiting in line,
You can be sitting in your car,
You can be traveling,
You can be walking.
Wherever you are,
Allow yourself a moment simply to witness your breath.
Your eyes can be open or closed.
Allow yourself three deep,
Conscious breaths.
You can do this now,
Here with me.
Anchor yourself in the present moment with these breaths.
As you bring attention and awareness to each breath and to your breath cycle,
Simply notice.
Notice how it feels to breathe with awareness.
Notice any sensations in your body.
Notice any feelings.
Be a witness to your experience.
From here,
You can begin to notice your surroundings.
As you continue to breathe with deliberate awareness,
Mindfulness,
Take in your surroundings.
Smell the air.
Listen to what you can hear beyond your physical self.
Sense what you are aware of.
You can gently return to mindfulness of yourself as you allow for awareness of the quality of the breath you breathe.
And then to return to your surroundings.
Be mindful here of what you observe.
If you have your eyes open,
Allow your gaze to gently inform you.
Be a witness to what you observe.
Above all else,
As you take everything in through your sensory modalities,
What you hear,
What you see with your eyes and sense with your heart,
Allow yourself to be right here,
Now,
Free of judgment.
Simply aware.
Notice the beauty in now.
Live in this practice of mindfulness.
Notice the beauty in now.
So well done.
Thank you.
Namaste.
