This is a brief mindful check-in.
Come into this practice however you are,
If you're laying down,
Seated or standing.
Just allowing attention to drop in,
To drop onto the body.
Noticing any points of contact with the ground or the surface that you're resting upon.
Feeling that contact,
Connection and pressure.
Bring in this sense of being supported,
Being held by gravity,
By the ground.
Allowing breath to come into awareness.
Just noticing the breaths that are there for a moment or two.
And then bringing attention down towards the feet.
Feeling the ankles,
The legs,
The hips,
The torso,
Shoulders,
Arms and hands.
Being aware of the neck,
The throat,
The head and the face.
And bringing our attention through this whole space of the body now.
Just noticing whatever's here with me.
How I'm feeling and how close this is.
So that might be a sense of pressure or we might be able to pick out an emotion like sadness or happiness.
Just noticing whatever's here,
How this is for me,
If I can label it or not.
And how close it is.
If it feels like it's crowding me,
Then I can just ask these feelings,
These emotions to back off a little bit.
To just give me some room and perhaps be alongside with me for the rest of today rather than perhaps front and centre.
And knowing that whatever I'm feeling is okay,
Even if it doesn't feel okay right now.
And then bringing awareness back out to those points of contact and connection once more.
Feeling that pressure.
Being aware of the breath again.
And then getting ready to exit this practice.
Becoming aware of the room around.
The temperature of any sounds.
And just very gently allowing the eyes to open.
Taking in the light,
The shapes and the colours that are in the space around me.
And perhaps just noticing as we exit this practice how the body is and any requests that it's making.
Or anything that I feel I need right now.
And moving on into your day,
Perhaps with a little bit more mindful awareness.
