1.4 – How to call yourself home (suggested & recorded practices)

Simply put: You bring your attention back to what’s happening in you right here, right now. You eliminate judgment of yourself in this moment. You approach it with curiosity.

This is the practice of mindfulness with a specific focus on returning to you. This is important in the context of healing and care-giving because we can be incredibly mindful and presence-focused with those who need our care, but when this is our only portal into presence, we start losing our own north star.

We need time with low stimulation to process our lives. The phone impedes us in doing this over 90% of the time. Putting it away is crucial.

Anchors that are always available are the body & the breath. You can use them in a micro or macro way.

Simple every day micro practices:

• Feel the sensation of your bum on the chair as you sit down.
• Pay special attention to the feeling of water over your hands when you wash them.
• Go for nature walks alone & without your phone.
• Place a hand on your heart or womb or thigh and internally whisper “hello”.
• Take some conscious breaths every time you’re waiting in line.
• Turn the phone off for a few minutes or hours every day.
• Imagine your energy as strings that you pull back after your time at work/in a crowd/with extended family.
• When you come home, dust off your body, sweeping away the energy of anyone you came in contact with. Throw the energy into the Earth.
• …an infinity more. Get creative. Come up with 3 you’ll try this week. If you can, measure their impact.

Recorded Practices

Choose 1 or several to try this week.

Welcome back home to yourself (15-min)

Scan the body with your own healing presence (15-min)

Scan the body with your own healing presence (3-min)

Calling your energy back (2-min)

Calling your power back (5-min)