Don't Be a (Knee) Jerk

First This

Kathryn Nicolai

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relaxation, Kathrynnicolai, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Nothingmuchhappens, Meditation

4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In the tiny space between something happening and you reacting, there is a chance to choose.

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0:00.0	Welcome to First This, a short mindfulness practice and message for any time.
0:09.4	I'm Catherine Nikolai. Thanks for sitting with me today. I appreciate your company.
0:16.7	Please settle your body into any shape that suits you. You just want to be able to breathe freely and be relatively comfortable for a bit.
0:27.6	Take a deep, slow breath in and sigh it out.
0:35.6	Again, in. and sigh it out.
0:40.3	Again, in.
0:45.3	like a sigh.
0:50.3	Good.
0:53.3	Natural breath now. In and out just through your nose if you can.
1:03.6	Let's point our attention towards sensation away from thought.
1:13.6	And this is really all that we're doing.
1:15.6	Turning toward what you feel,
1:19.6	tilting away from what you think for a bit,
1:24.6	to see what is going on inside.
1:29.9	And each time you realize you've been swept away by a thought, that's totally normal,
1:35.7	nothing wrong, just start again.
1:43.5	Notice what you feel in your lower abdomen as you breathe.
1:47.0	The touch of your clothes on your skin, the temperature of the air. Thank you. Thank you. Here's one of the ways that
3:55.6	This one of the ways that this practice can help us live more comfortably.
4:00.3	Right now we're building a little space between what you feel and how you react to it.
4:15.7	We're just wedging open a little bit of space where you get to decide what you do next
4:23.4	so that your life isn't just a series of knee-jerk reactions.
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