Connecting To Softness In Challenging Times

This track gently guides listeners through a mindfulness exercise about connecting to softness even in challenging times. It offers simple somatic ways to connect to softness. Listeners are invited to pause and connect to resources they find around them in their everyday lives.

Transcript

Softness is not something that needs to be achieved in some kind of perfect way.

And certainly the world can make it very difficult at times to connect to softness,

To allow us to soften even a little bit.

So instead of gunning for some sort of perfect version of softness,

I like to talk about and think about on ramps to softness.

So that might mean touching your yoga leggings that you're wearing and realizing that they're soft and letting that softness be on your body.

Finding a soft texture that's around you.

Touching your animals ears if you have a pet nearby and they allow you to touch their ears.

Just finding a way to connect to softness.

These little bits,

These little glimmers,

They really do matter.

So right now in this moment,

Wherever you might be,

Whether you are walking or sitting or laying down,

Can you find just a little bit of softness?

Without working too hard without efforting,

Finding that softness around you might even be just rubbing the tips of your fingers together,

Or touching the inside of your own arm,

Finding some softness and just taking a breath into that space.

Imagining that the softness can just enter your body.

Does it invite your shoulders to drop just a little bit?

Does it invite your jaw to soften just a little bit?

Inviting in that softness,

Finding those on ramps wherever you can find them,

Whenever you can find them,

Knowing that they will not be perfect,

But also knowing that they matter that you connecting to softness in this world in this life in this body of yours really matters and that the glimmers the little moments have a cumulative effect.

Wishing you so much connection to softness wherever and whenever you can find it.

Reviews

Such beautifully powerful words, thank you. You’ve given me a powerful clue to my wellbeing ♥️