Being Still Meditation

Here’s a Sample of the “Being Still Meditation” Guided Meditation Script:

Find a quiet place in which to take a comfortable seat
Sit up tall and close your eyes
Breathe patiently and fully, yet gently and quietly
In and out through your nose

Give yourself permission to do nothing
Give yourself permission to embrace this moment of stillness
In which there’s nothing at all that needs to be done
Other than staying here, relatively still, watching the breath

As you watch breath with an easy, relaxed, spacious mind
Place some small amount of attention on what else the mind or the body is feeling

Notice your own discomfort in simply being present, doing nothing

Notice if the mind would rather run off towards the future, a to-do list, or planning

Notice if the mind would rather busy itself with reviewing the past, or thinking

And each time you notice, acknowledge the pull of movement, of distraction
And then with the loving patience of a compassionate elder
Give your mind permission to rest

Help the mind settle, be at peace, be still
By guiding towards awareness of body and breath

Without thinking of breath
Present with breath

Without thinking of body
Present with body