Welcome to your morning meditation.
Find any easy position where you can sit comfortably with your spine lengthened and hands resting on your knees or in your lap.
Checking in with the body here,
Releasing any tension in the forehead,
The jaw,
The neck and shoulders.
Maybe stretching the arms overhead or rolling the shoulders back and down a couple of times.
Allowing any yawns that want to come.
Letting the body naturally settle into a gentle stillness.
Allow the chest to float.
The hips are soft and anchoring down into the earth.
The legs and feet relaxed.
Remembering that we practice meditation not to judge,
Change or make anything happen but rather to practice coming into the present moment without judgment and in doing so to open the heart and allow yourself and all that is a moment to be.
Begin taking three deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
With each breath,
Breathing into the length of the spine and breathing out slowly,
Feeling a connection to the support underneath you,
Whether it's the ground or a cushion.
As your breath settles,
Bring your awareness to the sensation in the palms of your open hands.
Notice the softness of your open chest.
Notice the crown of the head.
Notice the breath,
Breathing into the length of the entire body.
Just for today,
May I know that I am held and supported.
Just for today,
May I remember my breath.
Just for today,
May I remain open and kind towards self.
And may I remember that I can always return to my breath.
