Unplug The Thinking Mind - 5 Min Daily Insight

This short meditation works to unplug the thinking mind & relax the body for a lovely body-mind "chill" that you can experience at any point in the day. Some people use it before sleep, others appreciate how it can alleviate stress, and others use it before making decisions or doing a creative task.

Transcript

Welcome to the daily insight and this special practice.

My name is Stephanie Nash and in this practice we will find a resting place for body and mind.

Let's start with the body.

Sitting in a comfortable position,

Notice how you feel right now.

And then take a nice,

Deep,

Pleasurable breath in and a big luxuriant sigh out.

Did something let go?

Do it again and really tune into any sensation of release or letting go on the breath out.

Feel it?

Now,

Maybe on a breath out,

Let your jaw drop,

Maybe even breathing through your mouth,

Letting the face be soft.

Let your shoulders drop back and down,

Opening your chest.

What does the release feel like?

Let the belly be soft.

Let the breath just easily drop down into a soft belly.

Feel this release.

These are all flavors of release,

Letting go,

And relaxation in the body.

So for the next few moments,

Soak your awareness into these or any other flavors of release in the body.

Or you can hold the whole body in awareness,

Feeling how these different release sensations tend to soften the whole body.

And you can use the label release,

Release,

Release.

Now,

Allow any relaxation that you may feel to naturally continue on its own.

The body will want to do that and move your awareness to your visual experience with your eyes closed.

Maybe you see images or pieces of images of your body that you feel are moving.

And then let your body be images or pieces of images from the thought process.

Maybe you see colors or geometric patterns.

For now,

Look through or around any of that to what you physically see that the mind did not create.

What's always there.

And for this,

For most people,

It'll be blobs or patches of lighter and darker areas,

Maybe that move like a lava lamp,

Or maybe it's all quite still.

And for now,

Ignore color and just notice lightness and darkness,

Like on a grayscale.

And allow your awareness to park in this relatively blank field of lightness or darkness,

Whether at one spot or covering the whole field,

Whatever is easiest,

Keeping as continuous contact as you can with ease.

So just rest your attention in that blank field with or without the label blank.

Blank.

Blank.

Blank.

Now stay with blank,

But for the last few moments,

Maybe allow some of your awareness to also notice the relaxed body,

Those sensations of release.

Blank.

Release.

Blank.

Release.

Release.

Now allow any restfulness in body and mind from this meditation to continue after this meditation and become a restful part of your moment to moment experience.

Reviews

Short great for the mind.🙏🙏💯👍

Great delivery and audio quality. Not sure about labeling for then I am doing something... open to it but more research needed.

Definitely will keep it in my toolbox for a quick fix when driving in South Florida traffic. Thanks again

I really adore how actionable and soothing your guidance is for finding ease and equanimity. Thank You so much for this wonderful practice!

That was nice. "blank" and "release" were helpful cues

Such a unique and relaxing meditation experience packed into a brief session. Loved this one!