30 Day Meditation | Day 20 | Bringing Stillness to the Mind

Hi friends and welcome to day 20 of your 30-day meditation. Let's find a few moments to find your comfortable position today in a safe, secure, quiet space. That may be sitting upright in an easy seat on your mat, sitting on a block, a blanket. You may even choose to lie down today with a bolster or pillow. Whichever way honors your body today, follow that and just be sure that you're able to fully relax in this posture for the next 10 minutes. Let's start with a deep inhalation through the nose and a long open mouth exhalation. Let's find a nice bear hug, squeezing your shoulders up by your ears. Deep breath in and exhale. Gently release your grip and roll your shoulders down your back, softening your grip and letting your arms and palms melt down by your sides or they can rest softly on your knees. And as you come to settling into your space today, you might choose to place one hand on your heart and one on your belly or maybe even both hands on your heart and just allow your gaze to move inwards and soften, allowing your eyelids to fall heavier and relaxing your facial muscles, your brows, releasing your tongue from the roof of your mouth, fully relaxing your jaw, parting your teeth. You may begin to feel your chest rising and falling, bringing more awareness to your body and the life within you, the breath within you. Just exploring this moment of stillness and silence and as you feel comfortable, you can begin to release your hands down by your sides or to your knees with your palms facing up or facing down and let's begin. Allow your mind a moment to pause, removing any analyzations, judging, thinking. Right now is the perfect time to draw a blank and give yourself permission to simply rest and relax. Inhale and exhale. Let go of your body and let go of everything you know. Just find yourself in this very moment, sending any thoughts and all of your attention directly to your breath. Draw some awareness maybe even to the stillness around you or maybe even the non-stillness. You may hear some cars passing by or some dogs barking, birds chirping, maybe you hear a conversation faintly in the distance. That's all right, just absorb these moments of life around you as you continue to shift your attention deeper and deeper inwards within yourself, finding an inhalation here and an exhalation. If your mind begins to wander to other tasks that you know you need to accomplish off of your mat, this is very normal and it's totally okay. Don't feel discouraged, you haven't failed your meditation. Just take a deep breath in to acknowledge it and when you're ready, let it go on the exhale. These thoughts are simply soft clouds in the sky. They drift in and they drift past. You notice that they're present but you don't spend a lot of time really trying to decipher and understand what they're about and just bring your mind right back into your space, your stillness, your peace. Find another deep inhalation and an open mouth exhalation. Find some time here to be with your stillness as I leave you with your mind and your internal peace. Know that you attract love and with your eyes closed still, you can begin to also gently turn your head from side to side. You might find a few neck rolls here if that's comfortable to you. Bringing your palms together to your forehead to remind yourself that your mind is so very powerful and everything starts right here. Your thoughts can manifest very quickly into your physical being and life. Bring your palms to your lips to remind yourself to speak positively to others and even more importantly to yourself. Your words are so very powerful as well. And lastly, to bring your hands to your heart to remind yourself that we love on others because God first loved us. You are loved and you have a purpose, a reason for your existence here. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You may flutter your eyes open. Thank you friends for joining me in our meditation today. I pray that you feel empowered and know that you are blessed and can laugh without fear of the future. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye!