Welcome to mindful meditation just before eating.
Allow yourself to find a comfortable position or a place in which you can connect with yourself for the next few moments.
Once you've found that space,
Allow yourself to come into stillness.
And here,
Please give yourself permission in order just to let everything go.
So anything that may have happened before you arrived here or anything that you're worrying about or have to do later today,
You're welcome just to let it all go for this moment.
And then ground down and root into the earth and the support that's beneath you.
So noticing how your body is connecting with the space that you're in at this moment.
Perhaps noticing the sensation of either sitting in the chair or perhaps noticing the connection of your feet on the earth beneath you.
Just see if you can notice and ground and connect to that supported earth energy.
And notice how this feels.
Perhaps notice how your body feels at this moment.
And then bringing our intention and focus to our breath.
I invite you to find a nice calm,
Even rhythm breathing in and out through the nose.
And then on your next inhale,
Let's take a nice deep inhale in through the nose.
And then breathing out through the mouth with a sigh.
We'll do that again.
Breathing in through the nose.
And then breathing out through the mouth with a sigh.
And one more just like that in through the nose.
And releasing everything out through the mouth.
Beautiful.
So hopefully that allowed you to release some tension and find some nice calmness and stillness within the space that you're in right now.
And I'd like to invite you to discover your presence here and notice your awareness within yourself.
This is your opportunity to listen to your own inner voice,
Your own inner guidance,
Listening to your body and how it may feel at this moment.
Perhaps you'll be enjoying a meal shortly and so your senses may be giving you information about that meal.
You may smell or hear or maybe even your mouth may be watering because of the meal that you're about to enjoy.
I'd like to invite you to not engage with those senses at this moment and to actually consciously choose what you're going to set your focus and your intention on.
So each and every day we have the power to choose what is going to grab our attention.
And so instead of focusing on those thoughts or feelings or emotions that may arise because they always do,
Instead I'd like you just to focus on the feeling and the presence of being here in this space right now and also that sense of breathing within your own body.
So just noticing the rise and fall of your breath,
The in and out of the inhalation and the exhalation.
And that's all you have to do in this moment.
Just connect and be present and aware.
And then as we did at the beginning of the practice,
Let's go ahead and take another deep inhalation through the nose and then release it out with a sigh.
Again in through the nose,
Releasing out through the mouth with a sigh.
And one last one just for you this time,
Breathing in through the nose and just let everything go.
Let it all out.
Beautiful.
And now to close our practice,
I invite you to bring one hand over your heart and one hand over the belly.
Just check in with yourself here and notice how you're feeling.
Perhaps you feel a little more settled,
A little more at ease than you did when we began the practice.
And then bringing the hands up to our heart center,
Bowing the head forward ever so slightly to our hearts,
Allowing yourself a moment of gratitude and appreciation for your taking care of yourself,
For your taking the time to honor and nurture your body and thankfulness and gratitude for the meal that you're about to receive.
I hope you have a beautiful rest of your day.
Thank you for joining me.
Love and light.
Namaste.
