Welcome to this baby loss meditation.
My name is Lucy,
I'm a mindfulness for loss teacher and I'm here today to take you through a gentle breathing anchor meditation.
So allowing the body to settle.
Bringing yourself into a position that feels relaxed,
Supported.
And acknowledging now that this short meditation is your time.
Your time to stop and to rest.
Your time to give your mind a small break,
A small pause from the chaos,
From the scattered thoughts.
So I want to invite you just to focus on one thing today and this one thing today is your breath.
When we choose to place our attention on the breath it helps to anchor us into the present moment.
By focusing on the in breath and the out breath it gives us a small time to pause.
It creates some space between us and our thoughts.
Now we're not trying to stop thoughts from coming in because they will.
In this meditation what we are doing is just noticing the breath,
Choosing to place our attention on our breathing and when thoughts do arise,
Which they will,
Instead of jumping into those thoughts we're just noticing that we are having a thought and then gently returning back to the breath.
So turning your awareness then towards your breath,
Where do you feel your breath today?
As your body breathes,
Where does the breath enter and leave?
The body.
For me today I have strong sensations at the nostrils when I breathe,
So I'm choosing to place my attention there today as a focus.
Focusing the in breath and the out breath.
Movements in your chest.
Movements in the back of your body as you breathe.
Movements in the side of the body.
Notice how the breath gently rocks the body as you breathe.
Breathing gently,
Expanding and subsiding with every breath.
Knowing what it's like to breathe.
We spend so much time in our thinking minds,
Thinking about all the things that have happened,
All the things that might happen.
And for many of us,
Our thinking mind causes us much distress.
It causes us to suffer.
So by focusing on something,
Be it the anchor today which is the breath,
It helps us to create some space.
Because rather than being caught up in our thinking mind,
Which can actually cause anxiety in the body,
Instead we are choosing to be with something neutral.
Instead we are choosing to be with the breath,
Just noticing those sensations of breathing.
The breath without its complication,
Without its stories,
Without its imagined futures.
The breath is just the breath.
The breath goes in and the breath goes out.
Everything goes into the present moment.
Helping to stimulate that relaxation response in the body that's much needed right now.
So really noticing that breath as you breathe,
Noticing those sensations,
Noticing the movements in your entire body.
Even for me sometimes when I sit in meditation practice,
I can feel movements in the hands as I breathe,
Just small micro movements but all the same they are there.
Noticing the breath like it's the first time you have ever noticed your breath,
The curiosity.
But also with an acceptance of however this experience is for you.
Just being okay with exactly everything as it is in this moment with your breath.
And so gently now you can bring this meditation to a close or you can continue to rest for a while after this recording has stopped.
Continuing on with the meditation in silence,
Noticing the in breath and the out breath.
So if this is what you choose you can gently open your eyes,
Your eyes have been closed today.
Move the body in any way you need to move the body,
Take a stretch,
Have a drink.
And really acknowledging that the breath is available to you every waking moment.
Whenever your mind feels scattered and dispersed focus on the breath.
Just a few cycles of following that in breath and the out breath can really really help even if it's just to provide a little bit of ease in this awful truth that we all bear together.
Sending all my love wherever you are in the world,
Whoever you are,
And you take care.
