Mindfulness For The Workplace - Three Conscious Breaths

This practice helps you connect with the breath. The breath is a direct anchor in the present moment. Three conscious breaths can create some space in which you can respond vs react when things feel overwhelming and stressful, take a broader perspective and make better decisions.

Transcript

The first micro practice is called three deep breaths.

Beginning by taking the attention to the feet,

Sensing the contact of the feet with the ground and the earth beneath.

What are some sensations in the feet?

What do you notice?

And now gently taking the awareness to the sitting bones in contact with the seat we are sitting on.

Perhaps noticing the pressure of the weight of the body against the surface of the chair.

Slowly now taking the attention to the hands.

What's happening here?

Are the hands warm or cold,

Tingly or soft?

What do they feel like?

What do they feel like?

And now taking three deep breaths.

Noticing the air flowing in and flowing out.

Slightly extending the out breath,

Breathing out long.

Dropping down into the body on the out breath,

Letting go.

Finding ease and release on the out breath.

What do you notice?

What do you notice?