Take a moment to find a comfortable position for this meditation on the senses.
This practice can help you come back to yourself,
Find some peace and calm within,
While you travel in full awareness of your senses.
You can practice this meditation at any stage of your pregnancy or after the birth of your baby.
You could be holding your baby,
Feeding your baby,
Or maybe you are taking a moment of rest and your baby is laying by your side.
So once you have found a comfortable position,
Allow for the eyes to close and bring your awareness on your sense of hearing.
Start to listen to the sounds coming from around you,
The sounds coming from the distance.
The sounds,
The sounds of life happening outside of the room or the building you are in,
Maybe the sounds of nature.
Allow your awareness a little closer to hear the sounds coming from close to you.
Maybe you can hear your baby breathing,
Maybe there is a clock or any other sounds.
And then start to listen to the sounds of your own breathing,
Just noticing the little music of your breath.
Maybe it sounds like the waves of the ocean in the distance as the breath caresses the back of your throat on the in-breath and the out-breath.
And as you hear the breath,
You now sense your breath entering the body through your nose and connecting now to your sense of smell from the nose.
Start to notice any sounds or aromas coming from around you.
Wonderful and travelling from your nose deeper into the space of your mouth to connect to your sense of taste through your tongue.
Notice maybe acidity,
Sweetness,
Saltiness,
Aware of your tongue and activating your sense of taste.
Feel your tongue becoming a bit more vibrant and from your mouth travel now to your lips.
Feel your lips lightly touching and activate now your sense of touch.
And as you feel your lips gently closed or lightly touching,
Activating your sense of touch.
And move now your awareness to the eyelids and notice the light touch of the eyelids together.
Notice now the touch of the fingers together,
The touch of your toes together.
Maybe your hands are holding your baby,
Maybe your hands are resting on your pregnant belly.
So noticing your sense of touch through the presence of your hands.
And now notice the sense of touch through the whole body,
Through the whole of the surface of the skin of your whole body.
The whole of your skin receives that sense of touch,
The light touch of the air onto your bare skin,
The touch of your clothing,
The touch of the surface you are resting upon.
Maybe the touch of your baby's body against you or within you.
And go back to your eyelids to notice again the touch of the eyelids together,
That velvety sensation of the eyelids coming into contact.
And from there,
Notice your sense of sight from behind your closed eyes.
Notice what you can see as if you were looking at a wide cinema screen.
Allow for any images,
Shapes or colours to come to your awareness and let your sense of sight be very present right now in your body.
And then notice the breath entering the nose again.
And notice that soothing music of your breath,
Calming,
Relaxing.
And you can stare there for a few more moments,
For as long as you would like to,
Fully aware of your whole body and all five senses.
Awaken.
And whenever you feel ready to close this meditation,
Simply open your eyes in your own time.
