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First This

Sitting In Your Own Fire

First This

Kathryn Nicolai

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

4.9701 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A tricky skill, but let's learn it together.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to First This, a short mindfulness practice and message for any time.

0:09.0

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

0:11.5

Please make yourself comfortable, and any position is fine.

0:16.3

Don't overthink it.

0:19.0

Do unlock your jaw.

0:28.2

Relax your shoulders and just generally let your guard down.

0:38.0

If you're holding some resistance to doing this today, just acknowledging that might help you set it down.

0:45.9

Breathe in deep through your nose and let it out.

0:51.5

Do that again. Breathe in.

0:56.0

And sigh.

1:00.6

Good.

1:08.5

Bring your attention to the top of your head.

1:16.6

Just noticing any and all sensations that you can feel there

1:20.6

through your scalp.

1:26.6

Maybe you can feel the touch of your hair, you know, if you have hair on your head.

1:36.3

Maybe you can feel the temperature of the air, the pressure of the atmosphere.

1:47.0

The pressure of the atmosphere.

1:53.0

And for the next minute or so, just keep returning to this, to the top of your head,

2:01.6

on what you feel there.

2:06.6

And if you don't feel much, even if you don't feel anything,

2:11.6

nothing wrong, just observe that. Thank you. Thank you. I'm I'm

3:58.3

I'm

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