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

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

Well done, just being here, doing this for yourself.

Settle in, sit or lie down, legs up the wall, whatever feels least distracting to your mind.

Let your jaw relax, your shoulder soften, and draw a deep breath in through the nose and sigh.

Again in, let it out.

Good.

Let's find a point of focus. It just needs to be something happening now that you can feel.

So your breath,

sensations in your body,

even the sound in the room,

sound is just touch from a distance, right?

Then tune into it

and keep tuning in.

Start over when you wander.

I have patience Start over when you wander.

I have patience with this process.

Your mind likes to swing like a monkey from branch to branch.

And this might be a new skill, and we have to practice to get better at it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm I'm

I'm

I'm just thinking now about how many things I've quit because I wasn't immediately good at them.

Like in fifth grade band, I always joke that I played ninth chair flute and there were only six of us.

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