This is Mindful Reflection Number 1.
I'm Steven Scattini.
Make yourself comfortable.
Take a breath.
And feel your attention guided inwards.
Being aware of your own body from the inside.
Allowing your breath to slow you down.
To be aware of this present moment.
What's going on?
And how does it feel?
This is your life.
Being aware of the breath makes you aware of your body.
Being aware of the breath makes you aware of your body.
And feeling it,
Weighing it and being it.
When you bring your attention here to this present moment you're dealing directly with your own experience.
You're taking away much of the interpretation,
The expectation,
The attitude of control or of defensiveness.
You're taking away the fear and anxiety.
You're simply seeing this moment for what it is.
So bringing your attention to the present moment is liberating.
And for now,
For these minutes,
This is all you have to do.
Just pay attention to your breath.
Be aware of the moment in which your breath takes place.
And that includes everything you hear,
Touch,
Everything you see,
Everything you feel and think.
This is all experience.
Whatever touches your body-brain-mind is your experience.
And watching it quietly from the inside like this is surprisingly peaceful.
Just feeling yourself breathe.
Perhaps listening to yourself.
Listening to your thoughts without following them.
Listening to your feelings without being caught up in them or wanting them to stay.
Especially if you feel upbeat,
Happy or peaceful.
You want to hang on to that.
But hanging on doesn't work.
The present moment is always shifting.
You have to keep up.
Staying with the breath,
Staying in the body,
And feeling out the whole body,
Not just the breathing parts.
Feel the weight,
The mass of your body.
The shape of it,
A long torso,
Four limbs and a head.
All connected.
All you.
People recognise you.
You recognise you.
But in the present moment there is new experience and there is new you.
And mindfulness keeps you open to experience that.
Instead of just seeing what you expect to see,
You sometimes see the unexpected.
So it pays to be attentive.
Staying with the breath and with the body,
You ask,
How do I feel?
How does this moment feel?
What sort of experience is this?
And of course to put experience into words is like trying to put the sky in a bottle.
But to be aware of that difference between the experience of the present moment and the thought and the ideas that we spend so much of our time with.
They are quite a contrast.
So appreciate this moment in which you can be still in your body.
And take three more breaths.
Thinking that mindfulness is not just something I do quietly,
Listening to a recording.
It's something I will continue to do for the rest of the day.
It's fun.
That's all for now.
Mindful reflections are thoughts for a mindful mood.
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