12-Minute Mindfulness Meditation For Rest

Hi,

Thank you so much for joining me for this guided mindfulness meditation to let your heart rest.

Hmm letting your heart rest this is what your practice is about and I invite you to find your posture for this practice that can be lying down if you feel a lot of heaviness and a deep exhaustion a deep need for rest in this moment or maybe you want to be sitting up elongating your spine maybe using a cushion to support your posture settle in and when you're ready you can close your eyes as we arrive here fully we leave the frenzy and the busyness and the running around getting things done behind us for this practice for this pause that you deserve so very much to let your heart rest not only the heart right we're letting the mind rest relating the body rest and so let's just begin by taking deep full belly breaths together breathing in through the nose and sensing how the breath travels through your body expanding the lungs expanding the belly and maybe noticing the little pause between the inhale and the exhale and then letting the breath stream out of your system long slow exhale let's take another deep inhale and let the breath flow through your body with the next exhale you can imagine melting into the surface you're sitting or lying on seeing if you can invite a sense of softness and relaxation go and maybe realizing that this very moment is life itself what happened in the past is over the future hasn't happened yet but right here in this moment feel how alive you are because this is your life in this moment your heart beating your body breathing sensing the connection to the earth the contact with the floor the touch of the air on your skin and see if you can let yourself rest in that knowing that in this moment you're safe you're allowed to just be nothing to do nowhere to go you're right here and see if you can bring the sense of calm curiosity to your experience because your body the magical body breathes without you forcing or controlling the breath so we can let that go right now trusting that our body knows how to breathe without our mind intervening and then bringing this calm curiosity to our heart space and noticing that our heart is beating all by itself we can listen that beautiful rhythm there's nothing we need to do you can relax to that trust and your body's working for you and let go and let be give yourself this pause taking another moment soaking up this sense of presence of peace you can take it with you to the rest of your day or the night and then when you're ready very gently very slowly begin to deepen your breath again slowly begin to wiggle your toes your fingers bring some gentle movement into your body and then slowly open your eyes look around you maybe notice what changed in your perception compared to before you did this little practice maybe you feel more awake more clear more calm thank you so much for sharing this practice with me I'm sending you so much love and presence and light take good care and I hope you join me for another practice soon