Allowing Space to Simply Feel and Be (Guided Meditation)

My name is John Fargo. It's a pleasure to welcome all of you. This is intended to be a safe space for everyone to practice being present with our experience in a gentle way. I um founded mindfulness exercises about 10, 11 years ago, really as a free resource for people to develop their own mindfulness and emotional intelligence and meditation practice. And it has continued to grow over the years, largely because we have such a wonderful community of practitioners and mindfulness teachers. And so we co-create this community together. We've had a lot of guest teachers over the years, like Gabor Mate and Rick Hansen, and Byron Kitty and teachers who've been around the block, and they continue to comment that our community just feels very supportive, sincere, carrying. It's one of the things that I really delight in is our sense of connection with each other. So I just want to thank you all for coming. Thank you for your mindfulness practice. Thank you for your interest in being mindful in the world and influencing those around you with a calm, grounded presence, or at least an intention to bring gentle awareness to your moment-to-moment experience. So we can begin as we normally do by doing a brief practice together. If anything feels you know overwhelming or like too uncomfortable, please just back off, you know, sense into a safe part of your body, sense into breathing, you know, resource yourself, maybe take a little while break, take care of yourself as needed. We're not going to do a deep dive into anything intentionally intense, but just wanted to share that we have options just in case something does arise. Today's meditation, offer some invitations, some guidance that we can practice with, and there'll be quite a bit of time here for just a simple question and presence without my voice getting in the way too much. I hope all of you are doing well, and I know that you know life is also very challenging. So I offer this in a spirit of care and a gentleness so that we can be with our experience with a little bit of grace, a little bit of patience, and hopefully inviting a sense of ease and some spaciousness. So sensing into this experience. And the rest of our lives. Survey the body for any predominant sensation. Simply noticing what's here. Not trying to feel a certain way, but really just noticing what's here without an agenda. Sensing into the layers of sensations, noticing a predominant like emotions surface, sensing into those, and really just allowing ourselves to be however we are. So we kind of weaved in a few different kinds of mindfulness meditations if you want together. And I'm just allowing space for us to feel to be.