Episode 7: Mindfulness | Touch

11/09/2023 8 min Episodio 7
Episode 7: Mindfulness | Touch

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Did you enjoy this guided meditation? Rate + Review + Share The Meditation Well.For more information on meditation, mindset, and mindful movement services Jess offers, visit www.yogastorynow.com.Thank you for meditating with me today!Meditation Script:Seated or lying down, comfortable and alert, focus on yoursense of touch. Notice the air on your skin. Does the air feel warm or cool. Doyou feel goosebumps rising on your skin in response to the air touching you. Observewhat areas of the body are exposed to the air. What areas feel warm or cool.Observe the dryness or humidity on the air. Does your skin feel dry or damp or somewherein between. Notice the texture of your clothing or any covering over you. Observerough, soft, silken, fuzzy, tightknit, close-knit, observe the looseness or fittedfeel of materials over your skin. Observe the heaviness or lightness. Notice the softness or firmness of the support beneath yourbody. Do you feel supported, lifted, or surrendered and sinking in? Observedifference in sensation of the parts of the body touching the floor or chair orsome other support compared to the parts of the body that are untethered fromdirect contact to a support. Where do you notice tension? Focus on one area oftension. Imagine breathing into that space, imagine warm air moving into thespace of tension as you breathe in. As you breathe out, release whatevertension you can from that space. Invite loving acceptance to whatever tensionremains, then bring your attention to an area in the body that feels relaxed.Continue to breathe into that relaxation. Imagine warm air moving into thatrelaxed space as you breathe in. As you breathe out, can you relax even more?Invite loving acceptance to that relaxed space. Observe, without attachingvalue judgment, inviting loving acceptance, your whole-body sensory experience.Perhaps you notice the coolness at the tip of the nose or fingertips or toes orthe warmth of your cheeks, the softness or dryness of your lips, the pressureor softness behind your eyes. You may observe a connection between touch, thephysical sensations, your visceral experience with your mental and emotionalspace. Whatever thoughts arrive, whatever emotions come up, notice, perhapseven saying “I am thinking” or “I am feeling,” then return the mind to agentile scan of the body. The toes, feet, ankles, lower part of the legs,knees, thighs, hips, belly, chest, low-mid-upper back, shoulders, upper part ofthe arms, elbows, forearms, wrists, hands, fingers, the neck, jaw, lower lip,upper lip, nostrils, cheeks, ears, eyes, forehead, back of the head, the verytop or crown of the head. Breathe in, aware of all sensation throughout yourwhole body. Breathe out, leaning into your whole body’s internal and externalsupport. Rest here, or softly opening your eyes, placing left hand over yourheart, right hand over left, touching the source of your life, then withincreased body awareness, feel into your day.