Hello and welcome.
This is a five minute guided meditation to help you connect with your body,
With your breathing,
And with this moment here and now.
Sit comfortably and take a deep breath in and exhale out.
Take a deep breath in as you sit tall and lengthen the spine.
As you exhale,
Soften your eyes,
Your jaw,
Your shoulders.
With each inhale,
Feeling the fresh air invigorate and liven your body.
With each exhale,
Gently relaxing any parts of you that feel tense or stressed,
Allowing yourself to soften and settle.
Breathing in,
Breathing out,
And just noticing the way it feels to breathe,
How your body feels as you inhale,
The subtle movements that happen within your body,
The expansion,
And then the subtle shifts and movements that happen as you exhale.
And just get really curious about what it feels like,
What it looks like,
Just to breathe.
The feeling of the inhale,
The feeling of the exhale.
Just taking a few more slow deep breaths,
Allowing yourself this time to simply focus on your breathing,
Knowing that this is enough for right now.
There's nothing else to do.
We don't always have to be doing or achieving or moving.
Sometimes it's okay just to settle and be with ourselves and be in a quiet space.
And in fact,
If we can give this time to ourselves every day,
Then the doing part,
The acting part of our days tend to flow more easily,
More smoothly,
Because we've set a positive and calm tone for ourselves.
And we can act from that space more often.
We can act from a place of feeling resourced and calm and grounded and easeful,
As opposed to feeling like we're acting from a place of stress or tightness,
Tension,
Anxiety.
When we give ourselves this gift of peace and quiet and stillness and presence and simply breathing,
Simply breathing,
We just get to be a little bit more present with our lives.
Take another deep,
Big,
Beautiful breath in and out,
Noticing how that feels.
And as you continue on throughout your day,
Remembering that you can always tap into how you feel right now.
Just taking any part of this that resonated with you and remembering that you can always tap back into it,
Especially if you find yourself rushing or anxious.
Just coming back to the breath,
Coming back to the present moment.
It is always here for you.
You can always tap into it at any time.
Thank you for practicing with me.
I wish you a beautiful day.
Until next time.
