Short Body-Awareness Meditation

This mindfulness of the body meditation can be practiced as a formal meditation or as a practice for bringing awareness to your experience at any time during the day.

Transcript

This is a short body awareness meditation that you can do as a formal practice or take a few minutes to do at any time during the day.

Begin by pausing whatever you've been doing and come into stillness sitting comfortably.

Let your eyes gently close or keep them half open with a soft gaze a few feet ahead of you.

Bring awareness to your body and whatever sensations are present.

Feel the contact with the surface beneath you opening to whatever sensations are present.

Hardness,

Pressure,

Heat,

Tingling,

Pulsing.

Feel the contact of your feet with the floor and any part of your body with another part.

One hand on the other or in your lap or on your knees.

Feel the sensations in your chest and belly breathing into whatever is present.

Bring awareness to your breathing and notice whether it's relaxed or tense or somewhere in between.

Meet it as it is and invite a relaxing of the breath and the body.

As you bring awareness to your body,

Sense if there is any stress,

Tension or anxiety associated with the sensations and meet whatever is present with a kind and friendly attitude.

Stay with whatever sensations are present and watch them come and go.

Eb and flow.

Stay with whatever sensations are present and relax.

Sitting in a way that's relaxed and alert.

Meet whatever is present with a kind and a friendly and a non-judging attitude.

Just letting this moment,

This feeling be just as it is.

As the poet Dorothy Hunt says,

Peace is this moment without judgment.

This moment in the heart space where everything that is is welcome.

Reviews

Lovely 🙏 bite-sized somatic practice.

Thanks for a short body-awareness opportunity, Hugh. The best to you in 2023!

Hugh Byrne’s flowing voice takes you through a grounding, relaxing meditation ending with the perfect poem to bring you fully into the present moment. All this, in just 5 beautiful minutes.

Nice and short, but effective in helping be aware.of.my body

Good meditation to do with my morning streches/yoga. Helps me to be aware of what body part needs the stretching most upon awakening. Thank you, Hugh.

Your kindhearted voice is so gentle yet puncturing! The short minute of silence came and felt as a breeze!! That truly amazed me (because silence can be a torment for me at times. ) Thank you sincerely 🦋

I recommend it to anyone who want to make a friendly initiation and want to create a silent environment within!

Your meditations are very powerful and compassionate. My wife and I always look forward to “joining” you each day!

Thanks for another wonderful meditation, Hugh. I'll carry this with me throughout the day: "peace is this moment without judgment." 🙏

Really great short meditation with ample pauses, not trying to pack too much in. Helpful on busy days where you're already an hour late and really need to ground for a minute, for example. 🙏🏻

" everything that is is welcome".

Loved the part of the poem at the end

Perfecf for a quick meditation

Perfect short break.

Loved this short reprieve! Thank you.

That was amazing

"Every feeling and sensation is welcome" 👌🏻

Thank you. I will bookmark this for sure.

Lovely simple short meditation to reflect over on a busy day. Thank you. Namaste ??

Get relaxed by the excelent tones and words in it!