Living Life Mindfully
Hello and welcome to 'Mindful Living for Professional Women,' the podcast where we explore empowering ways to navigate life's challenges with grace and mindfulness.
I’m Becca Reay, a mindfulness teacher, practitioner, and clinical EFT therapist. With over 30 years of experience in helping women find balance and peace, I’m here to guide you on a journey to a more mindful, fulfilling life.
This podcast is tailored for professional women educators, especially those navigating the transformative stages of peri-menopause and menopause.
Join us as we dive into topics like managing stress, understanding emotions, enhancing communication, overcoming procrastination, and setting meaningful goals. Each episode connects these topics with mindfulness practices and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to support your journey.
Whether you're looking to cultivate daily habits that foster emotional awareness or seeking tools to handle anxiety and stress, this podcast offers practical advice and guided exercises to help you thrive personally and professionally.
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In our next episode, we’ll be discussing the power of gratitude and how to integrate it into your daily routine for a more positive mindset.
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Living Life Mindfully
Connecting to the mind and body
Tuning into to how we feel when we connect both the mind and body together through sensations, feeling and emotions.
Connecting to the mind and body.
Settling yourself into a posture that's comfortable and dignified and respectful for this practice. Either sat in a chair with the feet on the ground or on a cushion or laying on a mat or a bed. Wherever you feel comfortable. You can either close your eyes or you can gently lower your gaze to a couple of feet in front of you on the floor and just relax.
For this meditation we're going to be noticing how our body and mind connect together. Rather than being in two separate entities working on their own. So focusing on where you feel the breath the most in the body, either in the nose as it enters and leaves, or as the rising and falling of the chest, or as the expansion and contraction of the belly.
Just focusing on where you feel the breath the most in your body.
And I'm inviting you to set your intention for this practice. And our intention is to practice mindfulness daily and to recognize how our mind and body work together in connection, noticing all our feelings, thoughts and emotions as one. And your motivation for this practice, well that's your motivation.
What brings you here today to practice your mindfulness practice?
And becoming aware of our breath as it enters and leaves the body and I'm inviting you to place a hand on the part of the body where you feel the breath most.
On the throat, chest, belly, shoulders, wherever you feel it the most. Just gently place your hands in that area.
Notice what you're feeling.
What can you become aware of? Is it the warmth of the hands as it touches the skin? Or is it the rising and falling of the breath?
Or are you noticing any thoughts popping into your head? Any feelings and emotions in the area?
Can you connect to the energy from the hands into the skin? Are you noticing any tingling, any pulsing?
Can you feel from the inside out, from your hands, or from the inside out of your body? Are you noticing that you are as one, or can you feel two connections? The skin of the hands, and the rising and falling of the breath.
We all feel things differently. Just focus on the area, allowing your breath to breathe gently and softly,
and to become aware of the thoughts that are arising. And allow them to float on by as if they were clouds in the sky. You are the sky and your thoughts are the clouds. They're temporary and they pass on by quite easily.
Feeling your feet on the floor or supported by the bed or the mat on the floor.
Notice the weight
and the pressure and the contact.
Becoming aware of your feet allows your mind to be connected into your body. Recognising the feelings and sensations. Bringing your awareness to your hands again,
the connection between the mind and the contact of the hands with the skin and the body, and the rising of the breath, all working together as one.
Feeling your whole body breathing, rising and falling in a gentle rhythm.
Feeling any sensations in the body and becoming aware of them,
allowing the mind to focus on this area,
acknowledging any sensations.
connected as one.
Breathing in and breathing out, allowing the thoughts to arise and fall away. All thoughts are temporary.
We try not to get entangled up into the story
and taking a long deep breath in and releasing it. And as you release it, allow your breathing to come back to a normal rhythm, relaxing your shoulders and your body,
reflecting on our intentions for this meditation to recognize how our mind and body work together. Noticing our sensations, feelings and emotions, and not judging them.
And taking one final deep breath in,
and releasing it very slowly, and bringing your awareness back to the environment. Gently opening your eyes, and allowing yourself to take a drink of water,
and to enjoy the rest of your day, connected to your mind and body, and enjoying every task with a calmer and more peaceful point of view.