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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to first this, a short mindfulness practice and message for any time. |
0:09.6 | I'm Catherine Nikolai, and I'm so glad you're here. |
0:16.5 | Please make yourself comfortable. |
0:20.6 | Sit or lie down. |
0:24.6 | And if it feels like you need to change position at some point, just do. |
0:30.5 | There's nothing wrong at all of that. |
0:46.3 | I'll take a slow, deep breath in through your nose, and sigh through your mouth. |
0:51.3 | One more time for now. Breathe in. |
0:52.3 | And out. One more time for now. Breathe in. |
0:57.0 | And out. |
1:21.5 | Good. If you're comfortable with it, close your eyes. |
1:33.3 | Each time that you do this, I settle and you draw your attention to your breath or your body, and then just sit with it for a bit. |
1:36.3 | It becomes just a little more natural and automatic. |
1:42.3 | It's a bit like walking a path. more natural and automatic. |
1:50.0 | It's a bit like walking a path through high grass. |
1:59.0 | Sometimes it's grown up so high that you can't even see where to put your feet. |
2:03.8 | But each time you walk it, |
2:07.7 | the path becomes clear. |
2:12.6 | And eventually it will be so well worn that your feet will just find themselves here. |
2:27.4 | If it doesn't feel like that yet, nothing wrong. |
2:30.5 | Just means you're still building up the path. |
2:41.5 | So let's work on that for a few minutes. Calm attention, placed on your breath, or any sensation in your body. And then just observing with no opinion. Thank you. Coming back, maybe you wandered. |
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