Ground and Release

Hi, welcome back to your Daily Mindfulness. In today's session, we're just going to do a short practice that you can use to reground before proceeding into other moments of your day. So I'm not sure what time you're listening to this. It may be the morning, the afternoon or the evening. But let's just take a moment to stop and be still.

And see if you can feel that the momentum of the day washing through you. You know, the momentum of the day, right? That feeling of previous moments sort of pushing us into the next moment. It's one of the things that can keep us very future oriented and on this, what can feel like a treadmill, just going, going, going. So just notice if there's a sense of that for you right now. You don't need to stop it or clear it, but just see if you could create space for that to wash through you rather than pushing you into the next moment.

And as you start to feel into this, you're welcome to close your eyes or keep them open. Just see if you can feel a sense of your inner ground, that part of you that is steady and centered, amidst the chaos and momentum of your life. Recognizing that in this moment, there's nowhere else you need to be, no problems you need to solve. And no better version of yourself. You need to become.

And just let your attention rest here in the present moment. Noticing sounds. Maybe feeling a sense of your body on the surface beneath you. And if your eyes are closed, you can let them open again. So this simple practice is something you can do many times throughout the day.

I tend to like to stop and feel that momentum that's moving through me, and that's the primary practice here. Just taking a moment to be still and noticing how much we can be caught in the flow of our life without even realizing it. And there's something powerful to not having to stop that or change that, but just let it wash through you, almost like an energy moving through you or a gust of wind moving through a clear screen. When we give it the space to move through us, we can actually start to drop beneath it, find a deeper rest and reconnect to a sense of presence in this moment. So try this out throughout the day and maybe throughout the week.

Thank you for your practice. And we'll settle into some more practice for today's meditation.