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

I'm Catherine Nikolai. Let's sit together for a few minutes. Make your body comfortable in

any position that feels good.

Consciously relax your shoulders and your jaw in any place you might be holding.

You just don't need to have your guard up right now.

Take a slow breath in through your nose and sigh through your mouth.

Again, all the way in and out.

And out.

Good.

If you are comfortable with it, close your eyes.

Let's spend a minute or two just working on concentration.

Any point of focus, anything that is happening now, would be a useful one.

For most of us, the breath is ideal.

It's constant and there are sensations to be felt, maybe even a sound to notice as you breathe.

So just breathe naturally and keep turning your attention back to it,

starting over, whenever you. I. I'm

I'm

I'm Thank you. Thank you. I'm taking a writing class right now.

And something the professor keeps saying that is sticking in my head is to hold things loosely as we write and make choices he encourages us to

hold them loosely to not get attached to any ideas we have along the way because it might all change.

And if we're fighting the change, our stories will suffer.

And since, you know, just about everything I hear, I think,

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