Day 5: Listen to Your Heart

Welcome to day five of 10, let's settle right into a comfortable seat, letting the eyes close or finding a soft gaze, resting the hands wherever you've found their most comfortable. Back in with your physical seat, even on the sit bones, tall through the spine, lifting all the way up through the crown of the head, through the base of the skull, and then letting the shoulders ease back and down. Let your awareness observe the fluctuation of thought, noticing what's there for you in this moment without getting wrapped up in it, just notice. Let the awareness move to any sensations in the body, again simply observing what's present for you here now, and awareness of the breath, the quality of your breath today. And then we'll invite the awareness to move to the heart center with a lot of space, a lot of kindness to yourself, begin to observe what you may be feeling today, what the heart is holding.

And if there are strong waves of emotion, see if you can sustain a larger awareness while gently moving into them. And rather than following any storyline they may be attached to or related to, see if you can observe the physical quality of the emotions, maybe the heart is tight, maybe there's a sharp or a dull ache, hot, fiery, notice the physical sensation, and just as you did with the movements of thought and the physical sensations, watch the waves of emotion shift, sustaining a connection to your breath. Thank you for your attention, thank you for your attention, thank you for your attention. Coming back to the breath over and over and gently listening to the wisdom of the heart, paying attention to what's there. Thank you for your attention.

Thank you for your attention. Grow gently with yourself as you emerge from your meditation, the eyes are closed, let them open slowly, coming back into the space around you, here for work, congratulations on completing half of the challenge, I look forward to seeing you for day six, namaste.