The first step in relaxing is to stop all activity and let your body be quiet. That’s half way there. The next step is to actually allow yourself to be no where but exactly HERE, not foraging through the past or planning the future. Even the future minute is too far ahead. Let the mind that wants to think encounter itself, see itself, know itself in the present moment ~ now you’re there. This is a space that can open up and become a very engaging experience. The mind can drop into the body and see what’s up, the heart, the gut, and the physical body from the inside. Hello Body! Hold to this place of observation allowing yourself to witness how the mind wants to reengage with time and specifics. See if you can stay on the banks of that river and watch those thoughts float by. There’s no need for perfection here. Only seeing and returning to seeing just the experience you’re having right now. This kind of stillness and attention is a kind of down time that few of us give ourselves. It is true refreshment.
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The first step in relaxing is to stop all activity and let your body be quiet. That’s half way there. The next step is to actually allow yourself to be no where but exactly HERE, not foraging through the past or planning the future. Even the future minute is too far ahead. Let the mind that wants to think encounter itself, see itself, know itself in the present moment ~ now you’re there. This is a space that can open up and become a very engaging experience. The mind can drop into the body and see what’s up, the heart, the gut, and the physical body from the inside. Hello Body! Hold to this place of observation allowing yourself to witness how the mind wants to reengage with time and specifics. See if you can stay on the banks of that river and watch those thoughts float by. There’s no need for perfection here. Only seeing and returning to seeing just the experience you’re having right now. This kind of stillness and attention is a kind of down time that few of us give ourselves. It is true refreshment.
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AuthorSusan Aiken is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Los Gatos, Ca. She has been working in the field for over thirty years with parents, couples and individuals on a variety of issues: parenting, divorce, marriage and relationships, intimacy, commitment, childhood wounds, family dynamics and communication. She is in the process of publishing her first book: The Itty-Bitty Parenting Book available soon from Balboa Press. ArchivesCategories
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