Looking Inwards

Instilling the passion and skills to meditate for life is my drive here at Looking Inwards! I loved spreading how meditation can be a way to richer quality of living in ourselves. Like one of my first meditators Chloe, who shared that having "techniques to utilise in day to day life" helps us feel "calm" as we walk through our days!

Access to a real-life, in-person meditation and mindfulness teacher is one of the keys to a meditation practice that has longevity. It's what I've found in all my mentors and teachers who stoke the flame of my self-awareness, and I'm just blown away to be told by my students, like Chloe, that our meditations have such an impact 🤲

My 60 Days of Still-mind meditation course promises just that: skills and techniques for a lifelong meditative and mindfulness practice! If you're curious, please see:
https://www.lookinginwards.org/stillmindcourse/
And register your interest to stay in the loop for the next course.

Tracy 😊

"An ocean", "a campfire", "petting my animals." These were all student's images shared in our smiling meditation this week. One meditator dropped so deep they said "I lost my arms and legs". They became more unaware of their body in their depth of stillness! This smiling meditation awakens our joyful selves, a heartwarming practice for our first session this Autumn term 🥰

To do the smiling meditation 〰️
Close your eyes, breathe deeply into your body with your hand or fingertips over your belly to feel the wondrous movement of your breath. Feel the softness in your muscles deepen as you breathe. After some time, bring to mind an image in your mind's eye of you doing something you completely love.
Sit with this for some time, allowing the colours, textures and temperature of the scene and place to be rich and real in your mind. Now breathe into your body once more and find, savour, the feeling this loved activity brings you.
Notice how easy it feels to sit with this. To finish, let go of this image and bring a light smile to the corners of your lips. Just gently.

Being at peace is your true and better nature. Take time to remind yourself every day. ☀️