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

I'm Catherine Nikolai. Let's settle in, sit or lay down, or stretch out with some cushions.

If this feels good, I bet it'll be easier to do again tomorrow.

Plus, you deserve to feel good.

Now draw a deep breath in through your nose and let out a sigh.

Again, breathe in and out.

Good.

Let your breath be natural now.

Just flowing at its own pace, probably through your nose.

We need a point of focus here, and it can be your breath.

For a lot of folks, that works great.

But it can really be anything that is happening now that is detectable with your senses.

So maybe the movement of your belly, if there's a consistent sound in the room like a fan, that works too.

Just start to tune in to the sensory experience of that focal point. and you're going to keep pivoting back to it when your mind wanders it is totally normal

for your mind to wander.

That does not mean that you are doing this wrong,

or that you can't meditate, or that you're bad at meditation.

That just means you have a functioning human brain.

And we're just building a new habit.

We're trying to teach it to do something

it doesn't do a lot.

So patience. Thank you. Thank you. Thinking today. thinking today about how doing self-improvement stuff, which can be sort of seductive and

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