Try This Guided Meditation for Body and Mind
For this practice, you can sit or you can stand, or you can lie down. Just get comfortable, with your back relatively straight, your body relaxed and your heart open.
Noticing How the Mind Affects the Body
If just thinking about a lemon can make your mouth pucker, can you imagine how thinking about other things affects our bodies too? Take a minute to reflect on other ways that your mind changes your body. When you’re about to speak in public, do you get butterflies in your stomach? Or maybe your hands sweat a little bit? Or maybe your knees shake? When you’re stressed out or upset, do you get a stomach ache? Or a headache? See if you can make more connections like these, connections where even skeptics start to think ok, maybe there really is a connection between my mind and my body. Here’s the take away: while going about your day today, see if you notice other examples of mind-body connections, places where what you think changes how you feel. An audio excerpt from Mindful Parent, Mindful Child: Simple Mindfulness Practices for Busy Parents. Susan Kaiser Greenland, Sounds True. May 2019, Embedded with Permission.
