35+ Community Check in January 14th 2022

Hi Eveyone, Hope your New year is going well.

This weeks check in is about 15 minutes of meditation can help us focus our minds.

As we become more familiar with practicing mindfulness, we can begin to enjoy it as an opportunity to simply be—to inhabit our body and be wherever we are without having to do anything in particular.

No question that simply being is equally as challenging because some scary thoughts might crop up. But as we become more familiar with the process, we realize we don’t have to fully engage those thoughts or get caught up in them.

So, in this longer meditation practice, let’s take the time to enjoy being here.

1. We begin with our seat.

We can begin just by settling into a comfortable posture, whatever that posture is for us right now.

2. Now, simply pay attention to your breathing.

Check in with your body. What does your body feel in this moment — are you holding tension in any places?

3. Pay attention to body and breath together.

For the next few minutes we’ll play with working with cravings. Once we’re settled and anchored in this body, just bring to mind something that really gets our juices flowing, whether it’s a food or something else we really like. We’re also bringing to mind those itches that we feel like we have to scratch. What does it feel like?

4. For a little while, practice returning to the breath when the mind wanders.

As we identify where it is in the body, we can dial up the curiosity. What does it feel like? Perhaps even naming to ourselves the physical sensations that are most predominant. We can even explore how this feeling shifts and changes as we bring this curious awareness to it.

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