Anchoring With The Hands Pause

This mindful pause invites you to connect with the sensations of the hands to help centre and ground yourself in the present moment. If the hands aren't a helpful place to rest your attention, you can try my 10min anchoring meditation to explore other possible anchors or I have a short pause for using both the feet and the breath as an anchor for your attention.

Transcript

This is an anchoring with the sensations of the hands, Paws. So we're going to connect with the sensations of our hands as a way of settling and grounding ourselves in this moment. Whatever's going on in your life right now. So maybe adjusting your posture very slightly to be a little bit more awake, A little more dignified, Resting your hands in a comfortable position, But you may not need to even shift your position at all. Simply bringing your awareness to feel your hands in this moment. Sensing whatever's here to be felt in your hands right now. Maybe sensing the contact points with whatever your hands are resting on in this moment. Maybe feeling where your hands are touching each other. Bringing your interest to sense what's here in your hands right now jingles pulses. Any sense of aliveness in the hands. Maybe sensing the fingertips, Thumb tips. Lengths of fingers and thumbs. Palms of your hands. The backs of your hands. Keep reconnecting with the sensations of your hands whenever the mind drifts off. Knowing that's what minds do. Again and again reconnecting with this interested awareness. Of what you can feel in your hands right now. To reconnect you with your body in this moment help you to wake up. To the here and now. Awareness of your hands. With you at any point throughout your day. So you need to reconnect, Steady and ground yourself.