From the course: Mindfulness at Work: The Basics
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Mindfulness of breath
From the course: Mindfulness at Work: The Basics
Mindfulness of breath
- [Instructor] In this session, we will focus on the most universal of mindfulness practices, awareness of breath. Breath is fundamental, and this ever-changing breath connects you with the exhaling and inhaling of trees and the wild and cool winds that sweep across the land, and all the people with whom you work and live. We breathe together with all that lives. Becoming mindful of our breathing can calm and steady our attention, and improve our ability to focus on whatever we're doing, even amidst the chaos we sometimes experience at work. Throughout time, athletes, musicians, midwives and healers, martial artists and leaders all have learned how to use the power of conscious breath. During these next four sessions of Mindfulness Daily at Work, we will focus on this very important foundational skill, supported by the presence and kindness that we learned in the first sessions. Later, we will use this same focused awareness…
Contents
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Introduction38s
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Pausing for presence11m 18s
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Conscious relaxing13m 51s
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Coming back to your senses11m 32s
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Attitude of friendliness11m 9s
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Mindfulness of breath10m 31s
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Calming and steadying with the breath11m 33s
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Counting the breath10m 29s
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Deepening the focus11m 59s
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Mindfulness of the body11m 26s
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Feeling from the inside out13m 5s
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Body scan13m 11s
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Naming sensations12m 57s
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Working with intense sensations12m 9s
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