2 Minutes Of Stillness (Disrupting The Daily Race)

Take 2-minutes to disrupt the high tempo activity of the mind and body through stillness and breathwork. Try this instructive audio to get comfortable with the very simple practice of sitting in stillness, then explore how you might bring short periods of intentional stillness to the rhythms of your day. Integrate breath work, open awareness, body scan, and other mindfulness skills as you explore periods of intentional stillness in your day.

This is a disruption skills practice. We use this to disrupt habits of moving quickly through our day. We can also use periods of stillness to develop new meditation and mindfulness practices. For example, if we want to build a morning meditation habit and really struggle to make it happen, we can start with this simple 2-minute skills practice every morning. Doing this builds the foundation for a morning meditation habit, and we can hold the intention and possibility that we can shift from stillness to meditation as we practice stillness.

Transcript

Two-minute sit in stillness.

This practice is designed to disrupt the high-tempo activity of the mind and body and simply observe what emerges with stillness and breath work.

This is also a practice that may facilitate the development of a meditation habit.

You might try adding five minutes of meditation to this two-minute sitting in stillness.

We begin by sitting comfortably and maintaining an awareness of what's happening around us.

Set a timer for two minutes.

Take a few intentional deep breaths and sit in stillness observing what emerges in your awareness of body and mind.

This is a practice of observation,

Cultivating an inner awareness while simultaneously paying attention to your surroundings.

You might find it helpful to take a deep breath now and again.

And we'll finish this practice with sound.