Good morning from your girl,
Jax.
Before we begin,
I want you to know something.
Whatever it is,
That thing you've been thinking about,
The conversation,
The decision,
The uncertainty,
The money,
The email,
The situation you wish was already resolved.
It's probably still there.
For the next few minutes,
We're not trying to solve it.
We're simply remembering that you exist outside of it.
So let's go through this together.
Find a comfortable position.
Bed,
Chair,
Yoga mat,
Couch.
I want you to find a place where you feel like you can let your body settle and that distractions are out of the way.
We're going to do some breath work.
We're going to inhale for four and exhale for six.
Come join me.
Inhale for 1,
2,
3,
4.
Exhale through the mouth for 6,
5,
4,
3,
2,
1.
In for 4,
Out for 6.
Continue at your own pace,
Breathing in for four,
Breathing out for six.
Doesn't need to be dramatic,
Doesn't need to be forced,
Just a quiet signal to the body saying we're okay,
We're here,
We're not in the future,
We're in this moment.
One more round,
You got it.
Now allow your breathing to return to normal.
Notice the body being breathed.
There's no effort required.
No management required.
Just breathing.
Just being.
Let's get into the body.
Notice where your body meets the surface beneath you.
Start to feel the body.
Feel the weight of your legs,
The weight of your arms,
The weight of your head.
Let the surface below you support you.
Knowing that you don't need to do everything.
So let your body soften,
Soften the jaw,
The eyes,
The eyebrows.
Allow the face to just be expressionless here.
And perhaps you notice that thing again,
That stress,
That situation.
The mind may want to pull you into that room and that's okay.
We're not fighting it.
Instead,
Can you just imagine that you're placing it on a shelf nearby?
So you're not throwing it away,
You're not pretending it doesn't matter.
You're just setting it down for a little while.
Because I'm here to remind you,
You don't need to carry it every second of the day.
Let's keep staying present in this moment.
Notice the sounds around you.
My voice,
Sound near or far.
Then start to notice the temperature of the air.
Can you feel it on your skin anywhere?
Maybe your face or your arms?
Can you feel the clothes against your skin?
Can you feel the rise and fall of your breath?
And this,
This is your actual life right now.
Not the imagined future.
Not the worst case scenario,
Not the rehearsed conversations,
Not the problem-solving loop,
But this,
This breath.
This body.
This present moment.
And then I want you to gently ask yourself,
What is actually happening right now?
So not tomorrow,
Not later on today or next week.
Right now.
Perhaps that's just you lying down,
Breathing,
Listening.
Perhaps nothing's actually demanding your attention in this exact moment,
So notice that.
Notice how often the body reacts to imagined futures as though they're occurring right now.
And notice that right now they're not.
Feel the breath moving through the chest,
The belly,
The ribs.
Each inhale arriving on its own.
Each exhale leaving on its own.
Life is happening without your constant supervision.
The heart beats,
The lungs breathe,
The earth spins,
And the morning arrives.
Not everything depends on you.
We're going to do a little bit of visualization.
To help us zoom out and see the bigger picture.
So I want you to imagine that you're standing beside a river.
And the water carries leaves downstream.
Each leaf represents a thought.
What if this goes wrong?
That's a leave.
What if they think this that's a leaf?
What if I can't handle it?
That's a leave.
What if everything falls apart?
Another leave.
You don't need to jump into the river and wrestle the leaves.
You can simply watch them pass.
Thoughts or events occurring within awareness.
They're not instructions,
They're not predictions,
They're not even reality.
Thoughts are thoughts.
And finally,
I just want you to bring your awareness to something simple.
Maybe it's the sensations of your hands.
The feeling of the breath at the nostrils,
The sensations of your feet.
So just go ahead and choose one thing.
And I want you to rest your attention there.
Not perfectly.
Just gently.
And every time the mind wanders into future stories,
Kindly return.
Here,
Now,
This breath,
This moment.
Again and again.
And not because you're failing,
Because that's the practice.
Coming back to the present moment again and again.
You can care without caring everything.
You can prepare without living in the future.
And you can meet life as it arrives.
Feel those words settling into your body.
There may still be uncertainty,
And that's okay.
Peace is not the absent of uncertainty.
Peace is remembering that uncertainty exists alongside this breath.
This moment in this life unfolding right now.
As we begin to close,
I just want you to remember the thing you're worried about still might be waiting for you.
But you don't have to meet it with an exhausted nervous system.
You don't have to spend the morning rehearsing every possible outcome.
You don't have to earn this moment of peace.
It's already available.
It's right here.
And you clicked on this track today to find your peace.
Man,
That's something to celebrate.
Take one more deep breath in.
One more deep breath out.
Feel the body.
Feel the room around you.
With all your fingers and your toes.
And as you move into your day,
See if you can carry that one simple question with you.
What is actually happening right now and then return to the answer again and again and again You got this and you are never alone on your journey.
Please come back to this track or any of my other tracks here on Insight Timer.
I also have yin yoga videos available on Insight Timer to support you.
This is your teacher Jax and I hope you have a gentle rest of your day and leave me a comment.
Let me know how you're feeling and I'll see you soon.
Peace.
