Hello,
Welcome to another mindful performance practice.
Sitting comfortably,
Making sure your spine is straight.
If you're comfortable,
I invite you to close your eyes.
Start to become aware of your breath.
Just the rise and fall of it.
Become curious about where you first experience the breath entering your body.
Don't try and change the breath.
Just allow it to find its own natural rhythm.
Be an observer of the breath.
Often in life we try and change things that aren't ours to change.
When we do this,
It creates stress and tension,
Resulting in frustration.
And when it involves other people,
Conflict and relationships.
Fighting against your own self-esteem.
Fighting against what's happening is a source of real stress at work.
And today we're going to explore what it feels like to be agile.
So once again,
I invite you to take a deep breath in.
Hold at the top and let it out.
We're going to tap into our mind's unique ability to simulate reality.
Did you know that?
That your mind is a really powerful simulator.
It allows us to experience things in the future as well as relive things from the past.
This can be really helpful,
But it can also be a hindrance.
Today we're going to use this ability to help us explore what it feels like to be agile.
So with that said,
I'd like you to bring the word agile into your mind.
Agile means to be elastic,
Movable,
Flexible,
Malleable.
However you define agile,
I just want the word to be present in your mind and start to experience the feeling as it emerges in your mind of being agile.
Allow the breath to remain calm in its natural rhythm.
Allow it to just do its thing.
Allow the breath to remain calm in its natural rhythm.
This is not a practice of forced thinking.
This is simply a practice of experiencing the feeling of agile as it naturally emerges in your mind.
What I'd like you to do with this feeling is scan through different areas of your life,
Exploring them for where you are perhaps not being as agile as you could be.
It may be in conversations at home,
The way you think about this mindfulness practice,
The music that you're hearing,
What you wear,
Words that other people use,
Ideas that other people have.
To find where you're not being agile,
Look for areas of resistance or blocks in your life.
Do this in an unattached way.
By unattached I mean don't make yourself wrong or beat yourself up,
But just be curious.
Where are you not able to be agile in your life?
I'm going to allow you two or three minutes to do this scan.
If you get lost,
Just return to the breath and start again.
I'm going to allow you two or three minutes to do this scan.
If you get lost,
Just return to the breath and start again.
If you get lost,
Just return to the breath and start again.
If you get lost,
Just return to the breath and start again.
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What I'd like you to do is choose one area where you're really stuck,
Where you're not being agile.
I'd like you to bring that into your mind.
Got it?
Great.
With it clearly in your mind,
What I want you to start doing is if you had hands inside your head,
Start pulling at it,
Stretching it,
Maneuvering it,
Making it malleable.
I want you to play with it as if it was pizza dough.
Stretch it,
Pull it,
Move it.
Experience the tactile feeling of that thing that is blocking you.
Answer is agile.
What I'd like you to do now is fold it into a little ball and then just put it down in your mind and let it spring back into its natural form.
How do you feel about this area now?
It still looks the same,
But do you feel more flexible about it?
Do you have a different perspective?
You see,
Perspective is what gives us the ability to be agile,
Particularly in the face of things that are not changeable.
Positivity allows us to be agile.
Continuing to breathe normally,
I'm going to leave you to ponder this feeling for about a minute.
Cool.
Slowly now take a deep breath in.
The practice is over.
Take one more deep breath in and when you're ready,
Open your eyes.
I'm going to leave you with this.
There's a saying that the most agile person in the room has the most power and influence.
They're also able to maintain strong connections and relationships.
Why do you think that is?
Stay agile.
Thanks for hanging out.
