Settling into this beautiful time that you've gifted yourself with today and letting go of any expectation of the next few moments.
Just knowing that all we need to do is simply be,
Allow.
So as we allow the eyes to close bring our attention to the breath and just give gratitude here in this moment for the fact that the breath just happens.
It just comes and goes without us having to think too much about what's going on.
And so we focus the attention now on where we can feel that breath the most.
Maybe it's the rise and the fall of the chest.
Maybe it's in the warmth on the top lip.
We're not trying to change or edit the breath,
We're just going with the flow,
Just allowing it to be.
The beauty with focusing in our attention on something like the breath as an anchor point for meditation is that in those moments where the mind starts to wander,
Just like a playful puppy decides to run away with us,
We can just bring it back.
And so as we settle further into this practice today we just allow the shoulders to drop.
We soften the forehead and the eyes and clench any tension in the jaw and just sink deeper into this moment.
There's a tendency to really want to rush this moment,
This practice because we get so caught up in the doing that we forget about the counterbalance of simply just being.
And so what I want you to do today is to with a gentle curiosity practice that bringing back the coaxing back of the wandering mind.
Each and every time it decides to run away with you,
We just bring it back and focus in on the anchor point of the breath.
The mind will want to wander because that's what it does the best and we just acknowledge,
We let it go,
We bring it back.
We acknowledge,
We let it go,
We bring it back.
Just remembering we're not trying to modify the breath here,
We're not doing anything special.
We're simply just noticing.
And so with the next out-breath we just sink in just a little deeper and we notice some of the thoughts that start to arise and with a gentle curiosity just taking note of where those thoughts are taking us.
They're pulling us into the future,
They're pulling us into the past.
We notice that right here,
Right now,
None of that really matters and we anchor back into this present moment.
For a moment we think about how we can use the practice today as we walk through today,
How we can utilize those skills of coming back into the present moment and just addressing what is right there in front of us and how that's going to serve us today.
So bringing our attention back into the room,
Becoming aware of the space around us,
We take a nice deep inhalation and on the exhale we wiggle the fingers,
Wiggle the toes and come back into the room.
