Everyday Practices
The Deeper Practice
For Longer, Deeper Sits
US$6 2 practices · 5 tracks · listen or download
Get the pack · US$6Sometimes a few minutes isn’t enough. We want to sit for longer and get to know what’s going on inside a little better.
These practices are slower and longer. They give the busy mind time to settle, so we can step back and look at our thoughts and feelings, rather than looking at the world from them. As one of them puts it, ‘What I am the witness to, I cannot be.’
One is a morning practice, to help you start the day grounded and choose how you’d like to meet it. The other takes you down into the body, through your feet and hands, until you find the stillness underneath.
There are two tracks here. Going Deeper comes in two lengths, and Today Is the Day in three, down to a short morning version of under six minutes.
What’s inside
Going Deeper
2 versions
Full version · 17 minShorter version · 14 min
For settling properly into the body. You picture a huge magic jug with ‘relaxation’ written on the side, pouring over you like fairy dust or a warm, slow liquid. After a short countdown you rest your attention on your feet, then your hands, noticing pressure, warmth or tingling, and choose the anchor that’s easiest for you. ‘The more in your body you are, the less in your head you are.’ It ends in the stillness around you and within you. The shorter version finishes after the body, before the stillness.
Today Is the Day
3 versions
Full version · 20 minShorter version · 10 minMorning micro version · 6 min
For a mindful start to the day, at whatever length you have. It opens with the bell, ‘This moment is a sacred moment’, and the words ‘I choose me now’. You watch your thoughts, then your feelings, ‘pleasant, not so pleasant, some neutral, or maybe nothing’, then the sounds around you, and rest with your breath. It closes with the intention that today is a day where you continue to grow. The shorter version leaves out the breath, and the morning version goes from the opening straight to the sounds.