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

I'm Catherine Nikolai. I'm glad to be here with you today. Even through the Wi-Fi, we can

be a support to each other. So I'll get comfortable if you will. Sit or lay down or put your

legs up a wall, whatever suits your body right now. Deliberately relax your shoulders and jaw.

Let your eyes close if that is comfortable for you.

And let's take a deep breath in through the nose.

And sigh from your mouth.

One more time, breathe in and let it out.

Good.

Just natural breath now.

Let it flow in and out at its own rhythm.

We'll just watch it come and go.

We'll notice watch it come and go. We'll notice how it feels in your nostrils and abdomen.

And when you realize you're not doing that anymore,

nothing wrong.

Just start again. Thank you. Thank you. I. I'm

I'm

I'm Thank you. Thank you. Still there, just feeling breath come and go. When I was in college, I had a minor in linguistics.

And I remember my first linguistics class, the prof introduced the idea of prescriptive

versus descriptive linguistics.

She said, a prescriptive approach told people how they should use language, focused on what was right and wrong,

and that those linguists usually got off on it a little on telling people how it was supposed to be.

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