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

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

Please make yourself comfortable.

Any posture is just fine, including laying down or swinging your legs up a wall.

We're just trying to sort of stop throwing stones in the pond for a bit

and let the ripples smooth out so we can catch a glimpse of our own stillness.

And any posture that helps is good.

Take a deep breath in through your nose.

Sigh it out.

Once more, breathe in.

And breathe out.

Good. Good.

Now let your breath find a natural rhythm.

And step back from doing.

We're going to let your thoughts run out of momentum. What happens if you stop prodding them forward? Find a point of focus, your upper lip or your belly, any place in your body where you can feel something.

And for the next minute or so just keep pointing your attention back at that spot

patience when you wander

nothing wrong

it's part of the process Patience when you wander, nothing wrong.

It's part of the process. Thank you. Thank you. I'm thinking today about the idea of sitting with emotion and also wondering how to spot when you might slip from there into being stuck or ruminating.

If you're running from difficult feelings, if that's a habit that you're trying to break,

well, you're probably trying to learn to sit with them.

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