Navigating Change

Welcome to day one of change. Now, whether we like it or not change is inevitable. Everything is changing all the time. Whether it's externally, the things around us the places, the people or whether it's internally, our emotions, physical sensations, our thoughts, everything is continually changing, shifting, moving, but we tend to have this idea of change only as a concept as an idea in the mind. It very rarely does it filter through into our sense of being. And so there's always this sort of conflict between how we think we should deal with change and how we actually do deal with change. So this exercise just helps us to move from a place of concept to a place of experience. We're actually living that idea of flow and change from moment to moment. To begin with today, just take a moment to get yourself comfortable whether you're sitting on the chair on the floor starting with the eyes open, a nice soft focus with your eyes. And when you're ready, just taking a couple of deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. And with the next out breath, just closing the eyelids as you allow the breath to return to its natural rhythm. You just started to become more aware of the weight of the body. The physical points of contact, physical sensations and any sounds within your awareness right now. And as you just bring the attention back to the body now, just checking in to see how the body is feeling and is particularly important with this exercise in noticing change and just noting and acknowledging how the body feels as you scan down through the body from head to toe, noticing the areas that feel comfortable, any areas that feel uncomfortable and perhaps just starting to get a sense of what the general mood at the mind is right now. I haven't got a better sense of how the body's feeling and the mind's feeling. This being clear in your intention as to why you're actually doing this exercise that I so important that the motivation is clear in the mind. So important that it acknowledges not only the benefits to ourselves when we do this exercise but also to those around us as well. And just bringing the attention back to the body. Now, if you haven't done already this starting to notice the breath and the movement of breath in the body. It became, we just noticing where in the body you feel it most strongly, a rising and falling sensation and just noticing the natural rhythm of the breath. And then she continue to follow the breath in that way. Today, just starting to notice how everything is always changing, shifting, moving whether it's in the body or the mind the only place of stillness is the awareness through which we watch the movement. So continuing to follow the breath, if you like you can count the...