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Chapter 1: How can meditation help bring you back to the present moment?
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Chapter 2: What techniques are used to shift awareness inward during meditation?
Take a moment to find your most comfortable position. One that doesn't require you to think. One that just feels natural and easy for you. When you're ready, you may gently close your eyes and just scan throughout your body, releasing any muscles, any tension, any holding, letting it all begin to soften, to release.
as you do this gently begin to gather your awareness and shift it inward letting all of your attention fall on your breath as we begin by just noticing it Just observing the in-breath and the out-breath. The feeling of prana moving in and out in this cycle of rejuvenation and release. And beginning to notice all of those tiny sensations that we often look over in the body.
The rise and the fall of your chest. The beating of your own heart.
Chapter 3: How can you observe your thoughts and feelings without attachment?
The flow of energy that's moving throughout you and sustaining you. Just observing it. And now just noticing the state of your mind today. If you could step out of your head and look in, how does it look today? You are not your thoughts and you are not your feelings. They are temporary visitors and teachers. You are so much more than they are. You are the space that holds them.
You are the witness behind them. But you are not them.
Chapter 4: What visualization is used to experience weightlessness in meditation?
Can you feel that?
Now I want you to gently imagine your body transforming into a soft weightless cloud floating in a wide open sky. And just this beautiful white fluffy cloud. There's no other clouds in the area. It's just you. Against this endless backdrop of blue expanse and endless space, there is nothing. Clouds can be beautiful. They can be useful. They can be fascinating to witness.
But you don't need to be any of that right now.
Chapter 5: How can you deepen your connection to the present moment?
You can just be the cloud. You can just be there. You can just be in this space. And in this vast expanse, there is no past. There is no future. There is nothing tugging or pulling at you. There is only this moment of weightlessness. There's nothing to define you. Can you let go of the need to be anything other than you?
Can you simply be?
Chapter 6: What practices can enhance your mindfulness in daily life?
And staying connected to this beautiful energy of life
of this present moment?
And can you deepen into the texture of this moment, fully immersing every one of your senses into what it means to be here now? Noticing how good it can feel when you just let yourself be. Letting yourself be nowhere. No body. No thing. Can you just be? And in the next few minutes, you may wish to silently repeat to yourself, I am simply because I am. I am simply because I am.
Once you feel ready, return to your breath. Return to the presence of your body and the space that lies around you. Understand that life is really just a series of these moments of now, of presence, of being. And the deeper and more intentional you can engage with them, the more meaningful life can be. You can be kinder to yourself and more present with yourself and with others.
And what a gift that can be, truly. To yourself, to your experiences, and to all of those in your life and around you. once you feel ready you can ever so gently begin to bring some movement into your body by wiggling your fingers and your toes and slowly ever so slowly opening your eyes as you return to your day wishing you peace and love
Namaste.
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