When You Only Have 5 Minutes

Go ahead and find a comfortable seat.

Make sure that your spine is elevated.

Feel a lift through the crown of your head and feel weight in your seat.

So feeling grounded through the bottom of the body and elevated from the chest and up to the top of the head.

Take a nice deep inhale and a long steady exhale.

Exhale and again nice deep inhale and a long steady exhale.

Feel yourself arriving in the body,

The mind slowly turning inward,

Releasing distractions from the world around you,

Releasing thoughts of the past or the future.

Just allowing yourself to arrive in the present moment with a lovely long inhale and a smooth steady exhale.

Relaxing down through your shoulders,

Allowing your eyes to grow soft,

Releasing any tension between the eyebrows and the jaw.

Feeling a sense of lightness lifting through the top of the head.

Take a deep breath in and out of the head.

Long steady inhale.

Smooth slow exhale.

Allowing the attention to rest gently on the breath.

Just watching the breath moving in and out of the body.

Breathing in and out of the body.

Allowing yourself to be present on this moment and this inhale arriving and this exhale following.

Remaining open across the heart.

Relax through the shoulders.

Feeling held by the earth beneath you.

Steady inhale.

Slow steady exhale.

Feeling connected,

Aware and present in this moment when the exhale arrives.

Just let it go.

Every exhale an opportunity to just let go and sink a little bit deeper into how you feel right here,

Right now in the present moment.

Granted,

Aware,

Relaxed.

You feel you've arrived in that sensation of being gently present to what's happening right here,

Right now.

You can take a deep inhale.

A long exhale.

Gently blink the eyes open and be ready for what your day has in store.