The Thing

First This

Kathryn Nicolai

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

4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you're waiting to find the thing that is going to make everything make sense, you're losing a lot of now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to first this, a short mindfulness practice and message for any time. I'm Catherine
0:09.6	Nikolai. Please make yourself comfortable. Find a posture that allows you to breathe easily
0:17.4	and mostly not move for the next 10 minutes or so.
0:23.2	If you're okay with closing your eyes, you can do that now.
0:29.7	And then take a deep breath in and sigh.
0:38.9	One more time time fill it up
0:40.8	out with sound
0:44.8	good
0:48.8	lips together
0:54.1	breathe naturally through your nose lips together.
0:58.2	Breathe naturally through your nose.
1:02.5	Feel your shoulders soften. See that you aren't trying too hard.
1:18.7	This is meant to really be the simplest thing that you can do.
1:24.5	So truly you don't need to tighten up to do it.
1:29.3	Soften instead.
1:35.3	Let your attention rest on the rhythm of that natural breath.
1:56.1	Feeling it coming and going through your nostrils. It's a little cooler as it enters.
2:03.6	A little warmer as it leaves.
2:08.6	A little warmer as it leaves. Probably moving a bit more through one nostril than the other.
2:26.3	See if you can detect that. And there's so little to do now that people often ask, what is this it?
3:00.6	Yep.
3:05.6	We're just attending to the present moment.
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