Dr. Nicole LePera

Our breath is always available as a beautiful embodiment practice, shifting focus away from everything else and just beginning to pay attention for the next minute or two to your breath. Others, you can choose and maybe practice all of them and determine which one you resonate with most. Feel yourself grounded. This is a grounding practice.

Our breath is always available as a beautiful embodiment practice, shifting focus away from everything else and just beginning to pay attention for the next minute or two to your breath. Others, you can choose and maybe practice all of them and determine which one you resonate with most. Feel yourself grounded. This is a grounding practice.

What that means is if you're standing somewhere, maybe feel the weight of the heels upon the earth beneath you. If you're sitting or laying, maybe turn your attention to all of the different contact points, your thighs, your lower back. If you're laying, your entire body supported by the furniture of the earth beneath you.

What that means is if you're standing somewhere, maybe feel the weight of the heels upon the earth beneath you. If you're sitting or laying, maybe turn your attention to all of the different contact points, your thighs, your lower back. If you're laying, your entire body supported by the furniture of the earth beneath you.

Just spend a moment noticing your body in contact and supported by the earth beneath you. Another final hook or check-in that you can do to embody in this moment is by taking a quick second and going through your senses, noticing what you can smell. Are there aromas? Do you smell the coffee that you're maybe drinking? Are there sounds in the environment around you? Is there any texture?

Just spend a moment noticing your body in contact and supported by the earth beneath you. Another final hook or check-in that you can do to embody in this moment is by taking a quick second and going through your senses, noticing what you can smell. Are there aromas? Do you smell the coffee that you're maybe drinking? Are there sounds in the environment around you? Is there any texture?

Is your shirt textured if you are having your hands upon it or maybe the chair that you're sitting in? Are you noticing a texture or the blanket that's over top of you? Is there any taste in your mouth? And of course, if your eyes are closed, you might gently want to open them and do a quick Sight check-in. What do you see? Are there any vibrant colors?

Is your shirt textured if you are having your hands upon it or maybe the chair that you're sitting in? Are you noticing a texture or the blanket that's over top of you? Is there any taste in your mouth? And of course, if your eyes are closed, you might gently want to open them and do a quick Sight check-in. What do you see? Are there any vibrant colors?

Anything that you didn't notice in your environment that you are noticing now? Again, all of those areas, your breath, the fact that it's ever present, you're always breathing, can be a beautiful place to shift your focus of attention. The support, we're always being supported by something beneath us. We always have access to our senses and making that empowering choice.

Anything that you didn't notice in your environment that you are noticing now? Again, all of those areas, your breath, the fact that it's ever present, you're always breathing, can be a beautiful place to shift your focus of attention. The support, we're always being supported by something beneath us. We always have access to our senses and making that empowering choice.

in many moments throughout the day of course I just took you through the exercise right now but setting that alarm practicing one time and then maybe two times will give you that space of overhead illumination that I keep talking about

in many moments throughout the day of course I just took you through the exercise right now but setting that alarm practicing one time and then maybe two times will give you that space of overhead illumination that I keep talking about

That is the first step. Then we can choose to notice those repetitive narratives that I've been talking about throughout. What are those meanings that we're assigning? What about those sensory signals that my body is sending? Maybe adding to that check-in. We already did the breath one, how we're breathing. If it's quick, if you're holding it, your body might be stressed.

That is the first step. Then we can choose to notice those repetitive narratives that I've been talking about throughout. What are those meanings that we're assigning? What about those sensory signals that my body is sending? Maybe adding to that check-in. We already did the breath one, how we're breathing. If it's quick, if you're holding it, your body might be stressed.

Maybe expanding that focus to your muscles. Is there tension that you're carrying? Noticing in those moments that the messages that your mind is receiving or your brain is that your body is stressed, making it even more likely for those reactive cycles to continue.

Maybe expanding that focus to your muscles. Is there tension that you're carrying? Noticing in those moments that the messages that your mind is receiving or your brain is that your body is stressed, making it even more likely for those reactive cycles to continue.

I think just something I want to add there too, not hyper-focusing on giving language to what you're feeling. I think so quickly we shift focus in a way from the sensory experience of what we're feeling because then our mind is trying to find the emotion that we can label it. Am I sad? Am I angry? Right.

I think just something I want to add there too, not hyper-focusing on giving language to what you're feeling. I think so quickly we shift focus in a way from the sensory experience of what we're feeling because then our mind is trying to find the emotion that we can label it. Am I sad? Am I angry? Right.

So instead, if we notice that tendency just to practice focusing on the sensations, is there a tightness? Is there a heat? Is there a chill?

So instead, if we notice that tendency just to practice focusing on the sensations, is there a tightness? Is there a heat? Is there a chill?