Quick Meditation For Self Care

Take 4 minutes for yourself today. Relax and listen as I guide you through a short meditation to restore vitality, reduce stress, and help you practice self-care. This meditation will draw your attention to all the good things that happened today and help you feel gratitude for them.

Transcript

Our first meditation together is just a very simple meditation. You will sit in a comfortable position whether it's in the chair or on the on the bolster like this. Make sure that you have a blanket nearby. You could lay down if you want. Okay make sure that you have a blanket nearby because your body temperature does tend to go down a little bit like it did in Shavasana. And you can sit with your hands in Guhyana mudra which is the pointer finger and the thumb together. And if this is with your palms facing up then it means you are ready to receive whatever the universe has to give you. If your palms are facing down then it's a symbol that you're going inward. So you choose which of these you would like to use for this. A lot of people talk about how difficult it is to meditate and Dr. Wayne Dyer talks about how or did talk about his past talks about how when you meditate you want to get into the gap. That's what we're all trying to get in that in that space where okay here's a thought and then there's nothing and here's a thought and here's nothing and then here's a thought and here's nothing. We want to be down in those nothingness okay and we want to he calls it the gap. So we want to elongate that space between thoughts. So he want our goal is to have thought nothing and then maybe a thought nothing and so on and so forth. And so there are different ways that we can train our mind to slow down but a couple of key things. One love yourself through this. Two don't get frustrated if your mind starts erasing okay just very gently bring it back. So a lot of beginners need some kind of mantra or some kind of technique to bring them back to the meditation. So one of the things that I practice is that I if a thought comes in I practice okay high thought goodbye thought I'm not wasting my time with you. Sometimes when I'm meditating I have brilliant ideas and I do keep a notebook nearby that that I can stop and write them down in. But so for this meditation you can choose which mudra Guyan Mudra whether you want it up to receive what the universe is offering you today or if you want it down if you really want to go inside. And so the phrase that I'm going to give you to come back to today to pull yourself back in is so hum. This is one of Deepak Chopra's favorite meditations I think. So hum means I am okay. So you can say it in your head your focus is going to be on your third eye this point right just a little bit higher between your brow right in the center right here and you're really when you close your eyes you're going to focus those focus your gaze through your eyes into that center point and so what that does is that exercises all of those nerve endings right in there your occipital lobe and it's so so so beneficial. So we're going to meditate for five minutes and you're going to silently say so hum or you can say it out loud if you want you can be so hum so hum or you can be silent you can whisper it if you want so hum so hum or you can be silent. Don't try to control your breath let your breath be as natural as it can be. Again your focus is on your third eye. You you you you you you you you you you you and then bring your awareness back to the present keeping your eyes closed Whenever you're ready slowly open them Hands in prayer position Namaste you