5-Minute Daily Meditation for Wellbeing During the Holidays (82)

Ready to unwrap the BEST present you can give yourself this holiday season?! Give yourself the gift of mindful compassion. This episode will guide you through a five-minute meditation practice to use every day from now until Christmas.

Download the episode and join the challenge by practicing every day to support your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This episode will guide you through the techniques of equal-part breathing, creating a balance within your body and mind. 

• 01:57 Meditation begins

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:00

Hi everyone and welcome back to how the Wise One Grows. Today I have a gift for you, and it is the best gift that you can give yourself between now and till Christmas. So find a space that feels safe and supportive for you and let's get started. So it is the most full time of the year right now. In episode 81, I shared all about the holidays and ways that you can take care of your mental well-being during this time, ways you can set boundaries and resource yourself before, during and after the holidays. And today I have a very special meditation for you. We're going to have a five-minute meditation today that I want you to do every single day from now until Christmas. So that's 26 days, and this is the very best thing you can do between now and Christmas, the best gift you can give yourself. So I want this to be a part of your daily ritual. My recommendation is to practice this when you first wake up in the morning, maybe it's you get out of bed, you grab a cup of coffee and some tea, and then get back under the covers or sit on the couch with a cozy blanket and give yourself this five-minute gift. This is how we're going to just make sure we are holding space for ourselves as we move through the holiday season during this very full time of year.

Speaker 1 1:42

So in the show notes there is the time stamp for the exact beginning of this episode.

Speaker 1 1:48

So download this episode so you don't even have to think about it.

Speaker 1 1:52

You can just start at that time stamp and start your morning with five minutes of the best gift that you can receive this holiday season. So take a moment to find a space that feels safe and supportive for you and take a deep breath in and a deep breath out. Now just gently rest your eyes or soften your gaze at a point in front of you. Just start to notice your breath as it moves in and as it flows out of the body, and then slowly begin to deepen your breath. Practice inhaling for four counts and exhale for four counts, starting to practice a Samvri tea in equal part breath, bringing a sense of balance to the body and mind. Notice if the mind has wandered or if you've lost track of the breath. Just gently bring a hand to your heart or offer yourself some gesture of compassion and begin again. Inhale for four counts and exhale for four counts, not pushing away anything that arises here, just get curious about what's alive for you right now and make space for all of it, breathe with it and meet it all with compassion.

Speaker 2 5:20

Inhale for four counts and exhale for four counts. Inhale for four counts and exhale for four counts.

Speaker 1 6:31

Inhale for four counts. Now release any control over the breath, return to where your body makes contact with the earth, notice how you feel and slowly open your eyes as you return to this space. Remember you can take this five minute pause anytime you need throughout your day, and let's keep practicing from now until the holiday, until the next time. Let's keep taking it one breath at a time.