Are You Ok? Checking In With Yourself - 2025

Before we start our day we can take a moment and just gauge how we are feeling, what emotions mat be with us. If we develop an awareness for how we feel this feeds into our emotional intelligence. We can then decide what to take on and what to postpone. This practice also identifies your emotional weather report.

Transcript

So we're exploring are you okay and we're actually doing the practice around that and we're following that same similar vein of that inner critic and firing neurons that we haven't fired before and getting rid of that old tired critic that's been in our minds for so long. I'm sitting cross-legged on a couch but you can choose any seat that you like whether you want to sit in a chair with both feet firmly on the ground that's fine too. Just making sure that your back is straight that your hands can be crossed in your lap or on your knees that's fine and just feel comfortable. We are relaxed but alert okay good. So we're just going to do a lovely breath practice three just calming beautiful deep breaths breathing in through the nose and slowly exhaling it out the nostrils and again breathing in through the nose and gently exhaling it out the nostrils deep breaths are like love love notes to your nervous system. Breathing in again open your mouth and gently sigh that breath out relax now on a normal breath and we can feel that breath in our body and feel it either in your abdomen or in your chest you can just choose one place where you can really feel that breath as you breathe you can reflect on gratitude gratitude for yourself for being here for giving yourself the space you push pause well done and as we relax on the breath it's important to ask ourselves a question am I okay you can check in with yourself maybe around a weather report I'm partly cloudy I'm stormy I'm blue skies well maybe you give yourself a number one being I'm pretty low and ten being I'm feeling really high and if you're feeling a bit low that's okay as we have been saying it's okay to not be okay if I'm a low scale today then today I look after myself today I don't take on more meetings today I postpone if I'm feeling amped and good then today I can take on more I can reach out and help more knowing how we are shines the light on our state of mind and what we need for the day maybe we don't need much and maybe we do but a lot of the time we're not even aware and as I sit here the sun is coming out behind the clouds sunset afternoon and the clouds are always there our emotions sometimes they stormy sometimes their little fluffy white clouds but they don't never they never stay they always move on they temporary impermanent they're not who we are we are more like the blue sky because beyond the clouds is always blue sky that's that's who we are and if we're not okay that's okay it's temporary it'll pass if we're clear and sunny then that's also fine but that might change too we don't identify with the clouds this is who I am no it's just something that passes by my awareness is like the Sun my nature is like the blue sky and the clouds and like my emotions that just stay and then move on and as I breathe calmly it's like a gentle breeze blowing in the blue sky let's take a nice deep inhalation breathing in through the nose and exhale it out the mouth and if you'd like to push pause or carry on with this practice you're welcome to you don't have to stop at any time you can extend it the more we practice the better we feel this is one of my favorite favorite practices thank you for practicing with me tomorrow we explore the last practice in the series of it's okay to not be okay but this was really about checking in and I love the weather beautiful sunset going on in the cradle of humankind thanks for being here with me