Mindfulness And Intimacy With Self
by Li Meuser
We begin by taking time to calibrate our brains and nervous systems. Throughout the rest mediation we slowly keep leaning into knowing our simple experiences, without judgement or analysis or managing, through gentle allowance. Sometimes it can be challenging to connect with breath, so in this rest meditation we take our time and slowly get to know breath in very simple and mundane ways, as we lean into getting to know this moment, and our relationship with it. We also lean into simple mantra in this rest: "I know that I am breathing in. I know that I am breathing out." And then experiment with other mantras or phrases which might personally help us to be slow and simple with our experiences of this moment. Finally, we move into gratitude and compassion for the simplicities we're connecting with and experiencing, extending that compassion towards ourselves with challenges we may also be experiencing.
