Welcome to first this, a short mindfulness practice and message for any time.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

Please make yourself comfortable.

There are no bonus points for forcing yourself to sit perfectly still as your feet fall asleep. I tried it for years,

and it didn't bring me enlightenment. Comfort can actually be a wiser move. You're more likely to

do this again tomorrow if it feels pretty okay today. Once you're situated, draw a nice deep breath in through your

nose and sigh. One more fill all the way up. And release it.

Good.

So lips together.

Let your breath move through your nose, if possible.

Let's spend a few minutes practicing, pointing your attention in one direction. probably at your breath, but it could also be the

sensations you feel in your body. It just needs to be something that's happening now to you.

And like a bowling ball, rolling down the lane,

we're just installing some of those bumper things

to keep it going in the right direction.

Patiently, good-naturedly,

with an O-Well attitude redirecting

when it's time to start over. Thank you. Thank you. I was thinking today about a discussion I heard once from our poet laureate at the time, who was talking about how to bring poetry to people's lives in a way that sort of snuck up on them.

Because he said, if you told someone you are about to read or hear a poem,

they would deploy their anti-poetry deflection shield.

Most of us have like a knee-jerk reaction to it.

And I could relate.

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