So,
If you connect to your breath right now,
I'm breathing,
And then I exhale,
There is like a wave into the body,
And there's another inhalation,
And another exhalation,
And then I slowly slow down my exhalations a bit,
And as I breathe a bit slower,
I use my breath to connect to my physical body.
We can do that now,
Every time I exhale,
I drop a little bit deeper into noticing what is alive in my body right now.
Where am I present in my body?
Where do I feel pulsing,
Streaming,
Aliveness?
And see that,
If you can still stay just with the body sensations,
Which parts of your body are more vitalized,
If you feel a tendency to think about all kinds of things,
Just notice,
Bring the attention back to the sensations in the body,
And then as you are now more connected to what we would call your physical resources,
Or your body presence,
Or the open streaming parts of your body,
Once you feel anchored in those sensations,
You can see OK,
When I feel my current stress level,
On a scale of 1 to 10,
How stressed do I feel right now,
Maybe it's 1,
2,
Maybe it's 6,
7,
And everything that's arising is perfect,
Then see if you can connect to the current level of stress in you,
And soften around that stress,
Soften the way you feel the stress,
Softer,
More connected to the sensations of stress.
Sometimes it's easy to stay with those sensations,
Sometimes it's a bit harder because the thinking tries to kick in,
Every few seconds,
And we allow for the process,
Where we keep the attention,
The physical sensations of stress,
Keep the slower breathing going,
And I'm willing to feel the stress in my body,
Embrace it,
And also to relax it,
And from that place I can see if there's any emotional component,
Maybe stress is connected to fear,
Or any other emotional experience,
And then I include that too.
And again,
Just check in with how few minutes of the practice affect your inner space,
What's your current mind activity,
What's your current level of tension in the body,
Did anything shift or change,
And then take again a couple of deeper breaths,
And feel your entire body,
And slowly open your eyes,
Or come back,
And see again if you wanna,
On the one hand,
For today practice a little bit more awareness of your stress levels going through your day,
When is your stress rising,
When it's relaxing,
When is it relaxing,
And also a few times again throughout the day,
Even if it's just for one or two minutes,
To practice connecting to the physical body,
Ground yourself in physical sensations,
From that level,
That's the right floor of the building,
Where the physical stress lives,
And then we can meet your physical stress level,
And there we have regulation power,
And then we can keep the slow down breathing going,
Soften,
Sometimes getting harder means feeling less,
I mean softer means feeling more,
Slowing down means feeling more,
So I slow down a bit,
I make myself softer,
I feel the stress,
And I gently wait one,
Two minutes until it relaxes,
And just to notice,
Sometimes doing this exercise will trigger resistance,
Because when my stress level is at a certain intensity,
Relaxing is uncomfortable,
So if I try to avoid doing this practice,
Or this exercise,
And I go to the phone,
And look at some stuff on the internet,
Or keep myself distracted or busy,
Then I know relaxing triggers discomfort,
Because when I'm really stressed,
Relaxing at the beginning is uncomfortable,
Until it becomes pleasant again,
When we're in a good regulated nervous system space,
Then anytime I want to relax,
It's simply pleasant,
It's like enjoyable,
Like I feel stress,
But I feel it's nice,
It feels lovely to relax,
When I'm more stressed,
Then relaxing doesn't feel so lovely,
That's why I try to keep myself busy maybe,
But like that I stay on high stress levels,
So if I feel a resistance,
Then I know that I really need a practice like this.
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