Love Your Calm: Mini Meditations
Mini meditations to help you slow down and find your balance in this fast-paced world.
If you have been feeling stressed, overwhelmed or even disconnected, you're in the right place. If you are focusing on personal growth, committing to a consistent self-care plan, or even making an effort to reconnect with yourself, you're in the right place. Sometimes it feels like there isn’t enough time in the day to tend to your own needs. These short, soothing meditations can help.
Meditation doesn't have to be intimidating. Anyone can do it. Give it a try. Most of these meditations are around 8 minutes and will help you feel calmer. Relax into this award winning guided meditation podcast led by mental health therapist and coach, Hannah Castillo. You'll love the sense of calm that exists within.
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Love Your Calm: Mini Meditations
Inhale. Exhale. Repeat
Hello and Welcome!
This week's meditation is about taking a few minutes to slow down and breathe.
It is so easy to get stuck on auto pilot. This short guided meditation helps you take a few minutes to check in with yourself. To include a few minutes of self-care in your day. It will leave you feeling more calmer, more relaxed and ready for whatever is next.
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Hannah Castillo: Welcome to the Love your calm podcast mini meditations to help you slow down and find your balance in this fast paced world.
Hello and welcome. I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm going through my day doing one thing, thinking about the next thing, and I suddenly realize I'm holding my breath. Or maybe I've been breathing more shallowly. I think I catch this more quickly now, but there definitely used to be days where I don't think I took an intentional breath the whole day.
So today's meditation is focused on slowing down to connect with your breath, on giving yourself permission to pause here for just a few minutes and breathe.
Let's get started. Find a position that feels comfortable for you. Take any movement you may need today to settle into the space around you. You can be sitting in a chair, feet flat on the floor, spine straightened, or sitting cross legged or even lying down if that is more comfortable for you today. If it feels good for you, you may close your eyes or maybe just soften your gaze.
Once you are settled, I invite you to begin to turn your attention to your breath. Maybe this is the first time you've checked in with your breath today. Maybe for a few days. It's easy to get stuck on autopilot and forget to check in with your breath.
So let's do that now.
Inhale slowly, breathing in the nourishment you need today, and exhale fully, allowing any stress you may be experiencing to flow out freely.
Let's do that again.
Maybe even consider placing one hand on your stomach and the other on your heart. Inhale completely, feeling your stomach rise gently as your lungs fill with air and exhale as your stomach slowly falls. Take a couple of rounds of breath like this, feeling your stomach rise and fall under your hand, noticing the steady rhythm of your heart as you give yourself permission to rest here, connecting with the breath, allowing it to fill you, to replenish you. As you settle into this pause.
When it is comfortable for you, take one final round of breath, taking note of the sense of calm you have created.
Begin to bring yourself back to the space around you and when you are ready, slowly open your eyes. Take this opportunity to take any movements or stretches you need as you prepare yourself to begin to return to your day, carrying with you the awareness that you can return to this practice anytime you need it.
Thank you for joining me today for choosing to spend a few minutes of your day with me. My name is Hannah and you've been listening to the love your calm podcast. If you enjoyed this practice, follow along so you don't miss next week's meditation. Consider leaving a review. This can help others find the practice. And as always, thank you for telling your friends, for helping me spread the word that just a few minutes of meditation can make a big difference.
Until next week.
