Tension Release

Welcome to this practice which is going to be a short tension-release micro practice, something you can bring into your day at regular intervals. To begin with, let's settle into whatever position we've chosen, sitting, standing, lying. And seeing if we can allow our awareness to drop deep in the body. Taking a big breath in. And on the out-breath, settle down, even more, feeling it to the points of contact between the body and the surface you're resting upon.

And can you give the weight of the body up to gravity so it's held and supported? And becoming aware of breathing and the whole body. Perhaps, particularly the belly, deep and the body. Swelling on the in-breath, subsiding on the out-breath. Making sure you allow the out-breath to go all the way out and then the in breath to flow in, in its own time. If you find your awareness keeps bouncing back into thinking and worrying, planning, ruminating, in the noticing of that, you're having a moment of mindfulness and you can choose to shift your awareness back deep in the body, inside breathing.

Doing this again and again. As we begin to bring the practice to a close, reflecting on the effect and perhaps forming an intention to bring this micro practice regularly into your day, to pause, stop, settle. Thanks so much for practicing with me. And we really hope that it helps you on your mindfulness journey.