Meditation From Learning To Stop Strategizing

So finding,

Finding your comfortable posture for right now,

And you know,

The posture that you can move your body into and then not move,

Become still for just 10 minutes,

And sensing into the body,

Just the weight of the body sitting in the chair,

Or maybe you're on a cushion or maybe you're in your car,

Couch,

Laying down,

Just that sense of the body being held to our beautiful blue planet by gravity,

This force that grounds us,

And doing a little body scan.

So starting at the top of the head,

Bringing attention to the top of the head,

And then letting the attention flow down through the head,

The neck,

And the torso,

And the arms,

And the legs,

And the feet,

And seeing if there's any relaxation that you can bring to the moment,

Any additional letting go that you can offer yourself,

Maybe again,

Scanning the body from the head down through the body to the feet,

Letting go of anything that's not necessary right now,

Any ways in which you might be solving for something difficult,

Strategizing to feel better or be better,

And if another body scan would be supportive,

Then go for it,

And if it would be more supportive to bring the attention to the breath,

Then simply attending to each breath as it flows in and out of the body,

And noticing as you pay attention to the breath,

The body,

Is there any holding,

Any clenching,

Any trying to strategize or to make the moment a little bit better,

A little bit more comfortable,

Is anxiety present and trying to solve for anxiety,

Restlessness present and trying to solve for that,

And if so,

And you can just let go of the solution piece and stay with what it feels like to be restless,

To be anxious,

To be fearful,

Keeping in mind or noticing that these feelings arise and pass away,

They're not permanent,

They come and they go,

And so we don't have to label ourselves as an anxious person or a fearful person,

We can flip the syntax and just say anxiety is present,

Frustration is here,

Seeing what each of these states of mind,

States of heart,

How do they feel,

What do they feel like,

And remembering to do that with a lot of love,

A lot of self-compassion,

Because it's hard,

It's hard to turn towards my fear,

My anxiety,

My anger,

And then for today or for however long,

Take that peace with you,

Take that love,

Take that self-compassion with you,

That these hard moments,

They just arise,

And we can be there for them,

And they pass away and open up into joyful moments,

And we get to be there for those as well.

Thank you everyone,

Thank you so much for being on the wake-up call today,

I'm still traveling so I don't have my bell,

So imagine you're hearing a bell and fluttering the eyes open if they're closed.