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

I'm Catherine Nicolai. Come have a seat with me. Any position is fine, lay down if you like.

If you feel comfortable closing your eyes, do that.

Let your shoulders soften and take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Again, Phil and sigh.

Good.

Let your breath move naturally through your nose now.

Gently steer your attention toward the sensations that your breath creates as it moves.

There's nothing to do.

You're just gently touching the breath with your awareness,

like water flowing through your fingers at the river's edge.

Stay in contact with it.

But don't try to steer it.

You couldn't anyway, right?

Yeah. steer it, you couldn't anyway, right? And if and when you realize you're doing something else,

practice mentally shrugging your shoulders, a la, oh well, and starting again. Thank you. I have grief on my mind.

I have grief on my mind today

and honestly in my heart

and I thought we could sit together about it

because for the most part that is all could sit together about it.

Because for the most part, that is all that there is really to be done.

To abide with it. Would Would that it were a problem to be solved, but it isn't.

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