Listening To Where Your Attention Goes

Begin your day by reconnecting with your breath and noticing where your attention naturally goes. This mindfulness practice invites you to observe your thoughts with curiosity, release physical tension, and return to the steady rhythm of breathing. As awareness deepens, you'll reflect on your intention for the day, explore the motivation beneath it, and notice how those intentions are experienced in the body. The practice concludes with an opportunity to form an aspiration before resting in open awareness, helping you carry greater presence into the day ahead. This recording comes from a live Journey You Own Meditation Gathering, so natural pauses and gentle references to shared practice may be present.

Transcript

Let's start with a few deep breaths. Just noticing how the breath enters and exits the body. Noticing where you might be carrying some tension from the night or earlier activities and inviting the breath to these parts of your body. Experiencing the breath as relaxed awareness. To offer some insight into the experience of the body. Take a moment to notice where you feel the breath. Strongly in your body. Recognizing that the breath is something that we can return to throughout our day. Now leaving the experience of the body, Let's turn to the mind. And I invite you to set an intention for your day. Or do you want to show up for yourself and others? Notice what the underlying motivation might be. And where your mind's attention is being drawn. As you're noticing your mind. Intention, Motivation and attention. Drop into your body. And feel that experience in the body in this present moment. Notice if there is an aspiration or new conversation that you're entering that you want to place out to the universe. And after having done so, Clear your mind. And rest in open awareness. Take a few more deep breaths and then return to your day.