Daily Mindfulness

In today's session, Rhonda Magee will teach you about the significant impact that a short but daily mindfulness practice can have on managing your stress levels. Rhonda will then guide you through a gentle, mindfulness-based meditation practice through which you learn to sit still and observe your breath. Regularly doing so will enable you to become better at noticing stress without reacting to it.

Transcript

As you settle in for this meditation, Notice the points of contact between the body and the ground beneath you whether you're sitting on the ground in one of the traditional meditation postures or seated in a chair with the chair providing support and an interconnection between your body and the earth through the floor simply rest in this seated position and take a few moments just to Check in with yourself in this moment allow the thoughts of the day to rest simply noticing what thoughts may be arising and then inviting them to simply fall away for the next few moments as you just practice sitting and breathing so whether your eyes are open or closed if the eyes are open pick a point of contact in front of you that will allow you to at least lower the eyes and Support you in turning inward in these next few moments minimizing the stimulus of the visual resting in these few moments in the sensations of sitting and Just simply breathing in and out settling the attention on the sensations of breathing not Thinking about breathing just gently sensing some place perhaps in the body where you can feel The impact of a gentle in-breath following it all the way to its natural culmination in the desire to release in an out-breath it may help if you're just beginning your meditation practice to allow the support of Not only a particular point of focus in the body where you can feel the in-breath perhaps at the nostrils simply coming in the flow of air over the nostrils into nasal cavity flow of the out-breath perhaps a just a bit warmer having entered the body and now being released if you find that you might appreciate a little more support Perhaps gently counting beneath in each in-breath in each out-breath silently noting one two At a pace that's comfortable for you Perhaps if you count up to five or ten and simply begin again Because we're not trying to get any place in particular, But simply to have support in these few moments of meditation practice We're concentrating the mind on the sensations of breathing as much as possible Gently bringing our attention back if the mind wanders And again and again as often as is necessary Simply beginning again if you notice that the mind has wandered off as it will mindfulness practice is an opportunity to very gently notice what has arisen and with kind of kindness simply redirect gently redirect the intention and attention in this case back to the sensations of simply breathing in and out in the seated position so focusing in on the sensations of breathing and allowing that to focus to support you in concentrating the mind in this moment resting in this moment in the sensations of the sway the swing of the in-breath the sway and swing of the out-breath Sense into the support that exists for you in this moment from the support of my voice guiding you in focusing inward and resting in these sensations including the support of the breath itself with every in-breath and out-breath cleansing opportunity for renewal for sensing into the support that exists in and around you in every moment Sense into what is well within you in this moment and as we prepare to close See if you can notice something about the impact of these few moments of meditation some way in which the sense of being in the body may have shifted perhaps develop an intention for some way in which you might carry this sense this experience forward on this day's journey May you be well. May you be well. May you be well.

Reviews

Great introduction to meditation

This meditation is really more of an instruction on how to develop a mindful practice, which I still very much enjoyed.

That was a wonderful meditation.

Thanks

Loved the preamble to the session and the explanation you provided of mindfulness as intentional and deliberate focus and noticing.