This meditation can be helpful mid-day or moments when you feel your mind falling into the trance of thoughts. The mind has a tendency to push-and-pull us around all day, getting caught in loops of thought or stuck in overthinking. By allowing thoughts to pass like clouds in a sky and switching on our awareness of the body, we become less caught in the mind’s powerful current.

“In those moments when you’re lost in thought, what if you could pause and say, 'OK, it is just a thought' That is revolutionary.  That can change your life! 

Now, the key is that we approach this with a gentleness and kindness. Each time we recognize thinking and come back into the present moment with gentleness and kindness, we are planting a seed of mindfulness.  We are creating a new habit—a new way of being in the world.  We quiet down the incessant buzz of thoughts in our mind. We take refuge in what is true—the aliveness and tenderness and mystery of the present moment—rather than in the story line of our thoughts.” — Tara Brach

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