Hello,
Thank you to everyone who's joining me on day two of this meditation series.
To start off,
We're going to do three big breaths.
Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
In through the nose and out through the mouth.
Last one in and out.
Meditation is called practice because it takes time and it takes diligence and it takes a certain degree of willpower.
It's called practice because it's something you can get better at and more importantly you feel better,
But it can be difficult.
It can be easy to let the mind stray and easy to feel bad that you're not doing it right.
But daily meditation with just as little as two minutes a day has proven to have profound effects on the brain.
The main misconception of meditation is that it's a clearing of the mind that there's just nothing going on upstairs.
But that's totally ridiculous.
We are human and we have thoughts and distractions and worries and we make plans and we're happy and we're sad and we're all over the place and that's okay.
That's normal.
Thoughts and feelings don't just go away because we're meditating them away.
Meditation is teaching us how to manage these thoughts and distractions so we can process them differently.
One of the things that meditation brings to us and why it's so effective on the brain and health and happiness and focus and why it has effects on chronic disorders and psychological disorders as well as physical pain is because it lowers stress levels.
So if we can lower our stress levels we can simply be more happy.
That's how it works.
So today moving forward with our breath,
With our practice,
Is I want you to just simply notice the air coming in through your lungs and out of your lungs.
Feel the stomach expand and lower.
Feel the chest rise and fall.
Feel the breath in through your nose.
Can you feel it out through the nostrils on your upper lip?
Can you feel the different temperatures cooler coming in and warmer coming out?
So today every time you notice you're having a thought,
Take a big breath.
You can breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth or you can breathe in through the nose and out through the nose.
Whatever feels better for you.
So as we're listening to the sound bowl,
If you get distracted take a breath.
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