Getting Started - Meditation Warmup

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This is a warmup exercise. As much as your body needs warmups before strenuous activity, so too does your mind need a warmup to get it ready for meditation.

Find yourself a safe space, where you won't be disturbed. It begins as you commit yourself to achieving a state of peace, as you let yourself imagine what peace feels like inside. Eyes open.

As you let yourself visualise peace within you, a spot within you that is the most relaxed, and you take a deep breath, in, then out, as you release your breath you find yourself noticing that relaxed spot within you.

Let that relaxed spot catch your attention. What is its size? Does it have a colour, a temperature, a feel like a sensation? Explore what that relaxed spot is, and contrast how the rest of your body is by comparison. Find yourself focusing your attention on a part of your body which wasn't relaxed. And move to another part. And another.

Take your time focusing on different areas of your body which aren't relaxed. Really pay attention to them, and ask why this part is not as relaxed as the relaxed spot elsewhere in your body. Let the tense part of your body you are looking at come into contact with the relaxed part, and discover to your surprise that the relaxed part is helping the tense part of your body to relax.

And the next. And the next.

And now, you can take a step back, for a moment, and come back in the room, and feel that relaxed core, wherever in your body it is. And focus once again on how it feels, if it's bigger, if it's changed position, or colour, or temperature, and if it's even more relaxed than before. Mind blank.

Which means you can let it capture your attention again, as it deepens its relaxation, and you can feel that relaxation spreading out to contact those parts of you which have been relaxed before.

And now take a deep breath, and surface, and feel how relaxed your whole body is becoming, and you let that relaxation spread and deepen, and how wonderful it feels to sink deeper into that relaxation, and you are even letting it draw you down deeper with it, because it's so good to drift, and focus your full attention on doing nothing but relaxing your body and mind. Eyes open.

Which means that when this is happening to your body, you find that it is happening to your mind, too, and your attention is focused on how your mind can feel when it relaxes as much as your body.

And try to come back to the room, but you can find that your body and mind are enjoying these feelings, and it's so easy to just let it all go, isn't it, which means you can let that sense of physical, mental, and emotional peace reach out and pull at you, and let you sink.

And when you discover how you're knowing where you're going with this, because it's so good, then you can let it all go, and take that deep breath in, and let it all go.

Deep breath out. Eyes open.

And it's all gone.

Which means you're going further down, because it's good to drift, and drop.

And let go.

And when you are ready, you can follow this link here, and deepen the peace and relaxation even more. Just remember that when you've finished visiting those open tabs, you can close them afterwards and come back here.