Anchoring With The Breath Pause

This is a short pause guiding you to connect with the sensations of your breath as a way to anchor and ground yourself in the present moment. This is a helpful practice for you if you find the sensations of the breath feel safe and a somewhat comfortable or neutral place to rest your attention. If the breath doesn't feel helpful, you can try my 10min anchoring meditation to explore different places you could rest your awareness, and also I have a short anchoring pause track for the feet and hands if you want to try those.

Transcript

Anchoring with the breath pause. I'm going to use the sensations of our breath as a way to settle and ground ourselves within the present moment. To refocus our attention to somewhere we choose it to be that offers us a sense of stability in this moment. So inviting you to bring your attention to somewhere in your body where you can feel the breath most clearly and comfortably in this moment. Either at the belly. Of the chest. Maybe placing a hand on one or both of these places to support bringing your attention here and feeling the rise and fall of the breath. Or perhaps you can sense the breath most clearly at the back of the throat or the nostrils. I don't need to change the breath in any way unless that's helpful to take a slightly slower deeper breath. There's no need to change the breath. We're simply bringing our attention to the natural flow of breath in and out. Whenever the mind drifts off into thinking, Planning, Worries. Daydreams Simply escort your attention back to the feeling of the breath moving in your body. Getting really interested in how your breath feels right now. Breathing the breath as it comes in. Pauses and flows out. Again and again, Coming back to ride the wave of your breath sensations. To support you waking up to this moment to recenter yourself. Remembering that your breath is with you wherever you go, Wherever you are, At any point throughout your day you can connect with the sensations of your breath to reconnect you with a sense of steadiness, A sense of centeredness, A sense of being right here in this moment.