Mindful Connection To Your Stress

Creating space to connect to your stress with mindful awareness is essential for living a fully connected life. This meditation allows you to gain awareness and move into curiosity with your past conditioning and the current stresses in your life. Allow this gentle awareness and curiosity to help you move forward in your life.

*This meditation is excerpted from mindfulBliss' Burnout to Bliss.

Transcript

Allow yourself to get comfortable in a seated position. Today is all about connecting to your stress. Don't worry, Don't run away. Allow yourself to truly get comfortable where you are. Maybe grab an extra blanket to add to your comfort. When you're ready, Close your eyes and settle into this time and space for you. Begin by connecting to your breath. Feeling the breath in your body. Connecting to each inhale, Meeting the exhale. And follow this breath and be present with this breath for a few moments. Now allow your awareness to move to you in your beautiful wholeness. And I ask that you get curious about your life, Your expectations on yourself, And your past conditioning. These past conditionings can be the shoulds and the coulds that you live by today that enhance your day-to-day stress, That enhance and create the expectations that you have on yourself each and every day. With this gentle, Mindful awareness, Again, Free of judgment and criticism of yourself or on others, Simply getting curious with what is at this moment within you. It is hard to change something that you are not aware of. So allow yourself to be aware of what is at this moment within you. And allow yourself to become mindfully aware of you in this moment. Getting curious about all of the pieces that come forward for you that either create a stress response in your body or in your mind. Do your best to stay here for a few moments, Continuing with this gentle curiosity of how stress plays into your body, Mind, And life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now allow yourself to get curious with how you handle this stress. Get curious about if your ability to handle stress has changed over time. Why do you think that is? Do you find that certain areas of your life carry more stress than others? More stress in certain areas of your life is harder to deal with than others. So once again, Sit with this open curiosity and let yourself be aware of what is at this moment in your life. So once again, Sit with this open curiosity and mindful awareness for a few more moments, And I'll bring you back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. To your breath, Bringing with you all of the insight that you gained from this mindful awareness of stress. All of this beautiful information that you gathered today will allow you to connect to your stress and become aware of your stress. This awareness and this curiosity allows you the opportunity for change, The opportunity to do better for you today. We cannot change what we are not aware of. So allow all of this insight to hold value. Allow yourself to gently open your eyes and take a nice full breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. Allow this to be a beautiful connection to your body. Allow this to be a beautiful connection to you. Have a blissful day. Thank you.