This short, but very sweet, morning meditation to help ease anxiety and stress.
You can also use it as your everyday meditation. Since the meditation is short, only 10-minutes (although it can be longer if you wish), it helps you stay consistent with very low time commitment.
The Practice
We begin with some simple breath awareness to help calm your senses and shift your attention inwards. Then, we go into a powerful breathing visual to build focus and stillness.
To practice the visual, you bring your awareness to the very tip of your spine and visualize a point of light there. As you breathe in, visualize the light travel up your spine to that space between your eyebrows. As you breathe out, visualize the light travel down and back to the base (like an elevator going up and down in a smooth, slow, and controlled motion).
Then, keeping that visual, you’ll add a count back to the breath which is truly the icing on the cake. Basically, every time you exhale (when that light comes down through the spine), you count backwards. So for example, breathe in (light goes up), breathe out (light comes down) 10, then you do the same thing for 9, and so on.
Remember to sit comfortably wherever you are.
