Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thanks so much for listening today.

Every few episodes I like to take a pause on the content and go into some deeper practice.

It's that time today.

The topic is heartfulness.

I'll say a few words before we get into practice.

Words have their power to call this practice mindfulness already sets up our expectations to relate to the practice in a certain way.

Mindfulness is a nice word. I like it. I use it a lot. And it is a misleading word, like all words.

So I want to explore the practice today. What happens when we refer to it as heartfulness?

When we relate to the practice as a practice of heartfulness,

do we learn something new?

Let's find out.

Okay. Thank you. Wherever you are, whatever you are, whatever you're doing, take a moment to gather awareness in the physical body.

Finding awareness on the inside of sensation. You can notice the ground beneath you.

The support of your seat, if you're sitting, or the feeling of lying down, the feeling of standing,

feeling of moving, whatever you're doing.

Notice this river, this flux of sensation. Thank you. When you're ready, you can shift to a subset of sensation, feeling the breath, especially through the torso expanding, contracting.

Breathing in, the torso expands. Breathing out, the torso

contract.

Be as present as you can for this process.

Just feeling.

Just noticing. Thank you. And as you build some momentum, you can have an intention to notice the expansion and contraction

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