Hello,
My name is Jen Edwards,
And today I will be guiding you through a mindful moment.
A moment of holding.
A moment of recovery and respite for your overactive body.
Your perhaps over-reactive system.
We are trying to kick in our parasympathetic nervous system,
Allowing our body a moment of recovery as it begins to shift over into a more soothing,
Grounding,
Supportive state in our bodies.
So wherever you are,
Reminding yourself to arrive here without judgment and without criticism.
To arrive with grace and compassion for this moment just as it is.
To arrive in your energy body and your emotional body to allow flow,
To allow release.
Begin to notice without altering the pace of your breath,
How your breath is moving,
How your body feels as breath travels in through your body and as it leaves your body.
Feeling the movement,
Feeling the expansion and the contraction of your body as the waves of your breath travel through every cell of your being.
The movement allowing yourself to have full awareness now in the inhales and the exhales.
Perhaps lengthening your breath,
Lengthening the space and filling the capacity of your body following your breath.
Full awareness in the movement of your inhales and the movement of your exhales.
Now gently begin to bring awareness into the pause of your breath,
The period in your breath sentence.
These pauses occur at the top of the inhale and the bottom of the exhale.
With full intentional breath traveling through your body,
Full awareness on the pauses.
Now gently begin to bring awareness into all four points of your breath.
Your inhale,
Pause.
Your exhale,
Pause.
Your awareness traveling along through your body as it follows the four points of your breath.
Now we will try and shift our breath cycle to a pattern where we will be inhaling,
Pausing at the top,
Exhaling and pausing at the bottom.
So when you are ready,
At your own pace,
Following along and if it feels a bit challenging for you,
Allow yourself to move your breath however feels best in your body.
Beginning with an exhale,
Inhale full,
Pause at the top.
Exhale,
Pause at the bottom.
Inhale,
Pause.
Exhale,
Pause.
Inhale,
Pause.
Exhale,
Pause.
Inhale full as you can,
Filling yourself completely.
Pause and open your mouth and exhale.
Let it all go and allow your breath to become natural,
Allowing your body to feel the full sensation of the shift in your body,
The full support of your nervous system coming in to settle you,
Coming in to ground you,
Feeling the steadiness throughout the cells of your body and the grounding.
I hope you carry on throughout the rest of your day with this mindful steadiness,
Reminding yourself that you have the ability to utilize your breath at any moment to help create safety throughout your body.
Sending you so much love.
