Mindfulness Of Thoughts

This brief practice will allow you to take a step back from unhelpful thoughts and dwell in the clear blue skies of your mind.

Transcript

Allowing yourself to settle down into stillness.

Settling into your posture.

And closing down your eyes.

In this practice you'll be providing yourself with the opportunity to notice your mind's habit of running off into the future and going over details of the past.

Rather than latching onto these thoughts,

Building stories or narratives,

As best as you can,

Seeing if you can simply allow your thoughts to pass just as easily as they came in.

So beginning by drawing your awareness to rest on the gentle rising and falling of your breath.

Allowing your breath to ground you here in the present moment.

And as you stay with your breath,

Seeing if you can sense into your mind as if it were a clear,

Vast,

Blue sky.

Understanding the sky of your mind as if it were clear and limitless.

The intrusion of thoughts.

Seeing if you can allow yourself to rest into the spacious openness of your mind.

As you continue to experience the rising and falling of your breath.

Then after a while you'll start to become aware of your thoughts like clouds passing through the clear blue sky of your mind.

As best as you can,

Just allowing your thoughts to be there as they are.

Not needing to change anything,

Without building stories or narratives.

Not getting caught up in planning or analyzing or problem solving.

Simply noticing that thoughts are there.

And as best you can,

Allowing them to continue to float on through the clear blue sky of your mind.

Allowing yourself to foster a sense of non-attachment to your thoughts.

Letting your thoughts be transient and cloud-like.

As best as you can,

Continuing to return your awareness to the gentle rising and falling of your breath.

Noticing that thoughts are there.

And allowing them to float on by just as easily as they came in.

Allowing to come home to the experience of your breath.

And then taking your time to draw your breath in a little bit deeper.

And noticing the sounds going on around you.

Drawing your awareness back into the outside world.

When you feel ready,

Lightly blinking your eyes back open.

And doing so again.

Revealing the Self.

Reviews

You have a beautiful voice and nice relaxed pace. Thank you.

Lovely start to the day. Thank you for your guidance.

Perfect tone, speed and content. Really enjoyed it and feel relaxed. Thanks 🙏😁

Such a great practice! My mind feels so still now. 🌞

That was a good session. Thank you. Have a great day.

Ever grateful for the relevance, efficacy and nurturing of the moment in yet another fine practice with you, Meg. Much appreciated. 🙏🏻

Mind like clear blue sky. I like that. Thank you 🙏

This was a really good practice. I have to work on not becoming attached to my thoughts as they pass by. I d it. Thank you for sharing your gift with me.

Nice blue-sky guidance, well paced and friendly!
Thank you, Meg!
Donna

Love all of Meg's. This was especially nice and helpful for first thing in the the morning. Good message to give yourself and carry with you for the rest of the day. Thanks, Meg. 🙏❤️

A beautiful meditation and work that I wish to do to experience peace

Love this practice so much! This will be one I keep coming back to I reckon. I only hope you create another with longer pauses inbetween the calls back to prescence. Many thanks 🙏

Awesome way to start my Sunday morning off! Thank you 🙏 I had a goal set by my therapist of 21 days of unbroken meditation and today I hit my goal! Woohoo 🎉 Did not think I could do it and now I look forward to my time for me! I not only do it in the morning but sometimes when I feel stressed or having trouble falling to sleep - I will do it again! I also sharing this awesome app with my family and friends! Thank you for helping me with my journey! 🙏🙏❤️❤️

I need to do this again because I love the concept and your voice and pacing is perfect.

Hard to believe this was a mere 11 minutes with the space it created for me. One of my favourite thought focussed mindfulness meditations for a good while. Thank you, Meg! 🙏🏽😊

Terrific and relaxing! I love your soft and slow approach. Many teachers talk way too much for a supposedly guided meditation. You have the perfect balance.

Such excellent content and cadence. Thank you Meg. May you be loved, may you be free from pain!

Thanks for this journey in a really calm and limitless place

Hard for me to realize that I don’t allow thoughts to go easily; this gave me some respite from the pressure of analyzing each one. Thank you!

Such a soothing voice and the music is really relaxing too. Just the right length meditation, to allow calm to return to the mind after a stressful day