A Mindful Meeting Starter

Before you begin today's meeting, take a pause. A powerful pause that reminds us that everytime we slow down, mindfully, it enables us to move forward faster, more intentionally and yields stronger results. 

This is a great meditation to do on your own or with your team before a meeting - especially on those back to back days or an important meeting.

Transcript

Before you begin today's meeting we are going to take a pause.

A powerful pause that reminds us that every time we slow down mindfully it enables us to move forward faster,

More intentionally and yield stronger results.

Take a deep breath in and you are welcome to close your eyes or simply lower your gaze and allow your breath to find a natural easy rhythm.

Although you may be sitting in a room with other colleagues or on a phone or a video call this moment is for you.

To breathe,

To reclaim your energy,

To arrive in this moment in your day,

To center yourself,

To reconnect with your breath,

To calm your nervous system,

To let go of any stress,

Tension or assumptions that you are holding about this upcoming meeting.

This moment is for you to extend yourself and the people around you the grace of knowing that there is so much more going on in our lives alongside this meeting and acknowledging to yourself that those other priorities,

Action items,

Conversations that need to be had,

They don't magically go away.

So when this meditation ends you may need to send a quick email,

A text or jot something down in your notepad to clear space in your mind so that when this meeting starts you can fully show up,

You can be present,

You can deeply listen and receive from others and you can access clarity of thought to express your own ideas.

Take a deep breath in feeling the sensation of the breath coming in through your nose,

Feeling up your lungs and slowly easily leaving your body through the exhalation.

Making the choice today to let go of your expectations,

To use your voice and to allow others to be heard.

When you are ready you can gently open your eyes and come back into the space that you are in.

Taking one final deep breath in and beginning this meeting from a state of calm,

Focus and clarity.

Reviews

I plan to save this and use this in my meetings in person

This was the perfect, short, before meeting starter. I particularities the acknowledgment of the things people have going on in their life outside of the meeting and work. Well done.

Used this during my workday, and it helped clear my mind before done important topics. Thank you!

Looking forward to add this one to my meeting tomorrow!

First time taking the time to center myself before a meeting. I loved her guidance and now I am ready for that call😊

Very helpful. Thanks so much.

Great. Stay present

Concise and practical!

A great meditation for quick mind re-set🙏

That was so beautiful. I will definitely be referring to this before future meetings to ground myself. Thank you.

Effective AF 🙏

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Fantastic as always! I really appreciate you, Tess. As a busy attorney, all of your meditations resonate with me!

This is very helpful, thank you

Nice, calming way to start a meeting - thanks!

Nice list to mentally walk through before a meeting. Thanks for the keeper 🙏

Mahalo for sharing your energy 👑

splendid…thank you

Nice vibe. Thank you. Will have to try it this afternoon. ☮️🕉💟☮️