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Commute Reset, 5 Minutes
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Created bySean Fargo
A five-minute reset for the commute — recorded in Sean's own voice.
In Sean Fargo’s own voice5 min
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After work, as you make your journey back home, it's often tempting to replay the day's events and conversations over and over and over again. Even though you're no longer at work, you still carry work with you in your head. There's so much energetic momentum from work that it's natural for the mind to carry it home after work, to figure things out, to replay those conversations, or to plan for the next day.
That's why we can use this precious time going back home, this transition or buffer period, to allow ourselves to regroup, to recenter, to process any strong energies before reentering home life or personal life with our loved ones or friends. Since some of you will be driving, walking, standing, or sometimes even flying, I'll lead you through a quick mindfulness meditation that you can either do with your eyes open or closed. But please be safe and alert of your surroundings as you do this exercise.
So you can start by simply noticing any strong sensations in your body, the currents of strong emotions or physical tension in your belly, your chest, your shoulders. Stress can manifest in the body and in the head in very different ways, so see if you can sense into the physical nature of stress in your body right now. Just sensing into your belly, what does your belly feel like right now?
Just noticing what it feels like in your chest or the physical sensations in your shoulders or the energies in your head. Just simply noticing without judging anything to be good or bad, right or wrong. Just simply noticing what it feels like in the body.
We're not running away from anything or distracting ourselves. We're bringing mindfulness to our stress. Now see if you can soften around these areas of stress or tension, physically softening around these areas, breathing into them with full, deep, cooling breaths that allow a little bit of spaciousness in the body and in the mind.
Loosening your jaw, relaxing your belly, maybe even cracking a smile or a smirk. And now as you continue breathing, relaxing your body, softening any areas of tension, see if you can notice the weight of your body on the ground underneath you or on your chair, sensing into the heaviness of your body, just feeling a little bit more grounded. Now see if you can notice any sounds or smells around you.
And feeling more connected to your body and your senses, noticing your belly move up and down as you breathe, noticing how your body feels when you breathe as you relax on your way home. This is the work of being present. This is the work of being mindful.
And may you carry home this kind of work with you and share your full presence with others
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