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Good morning Friends and Happy thursday.
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Welcome to today's mindful mornings where we are practicing the art of mindfulness
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and mindfulness also means paying attention to your body and what you feel
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so that you are able to choose what to do with your body,
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what to say, what to think and how to react to whatever is going on around you.
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So for today's mindfulness activity
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we will be doing some muscle relaxation so that you can pay attention
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to every feeling of each part of your body.
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You will be mindful
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of the feelings
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that you're having.
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So we will start by sitting comfortably in our chair,
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take your deep breath in through your nose
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and out through your mouth,
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so in through your nose
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and out through your mouth.
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And we're gonna go ahead and start with our fingers and our hands.
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So go ahead and squeeze your hands,
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go ahead and squeeze those hands
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and then you're going to let go
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Squeeze one More time,
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let's go.
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I'm noticing that my fingers
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are almost trembling
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and that's me being mindful
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of how my hands feel
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after squeezing
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and letting go
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next, we're gonna move on to our shoulders.
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So go ahead and squeeze your shoulders up to your head,
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squeeze those shoulders
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and then you're going to let go
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squeeze your shoulders.
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Be mindful of what the squeezing feels like.
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And once you let go
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be mindful and pay attention to the feeling of once you let go
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of those,
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they were going to go ahead and move on to our legs. Friends,
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we're gonna move on to our legs.
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So go ahead and tighten those legs tighten,
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tightening
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and being mindful of what it feels like
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to tighten those legs
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and then let it go.
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Does that feeling of letting go?
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You're right
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When we moved to our toes, you're tightening your toes,
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scrunching them up like this, tightening those toes
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feel it
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and let's go.
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Some of us can last longer
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and some of us last shorter
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when we're squeezing our toes.
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The important part is to pay attention to your body and what it feels.
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So one last time you're gonna tighten your toes,
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tighten them toes
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and let go.
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And muscle relaxation is something you can try friends
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when you're not really sure what you're feeling,
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your body is going to be the one to tell you.
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So, let's move on to our affirmations for the day.
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Go ahead and repeat after me.
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I am confident
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I am confident
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I
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am responsible.
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I am responsible.
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I
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am respectful.
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I am respectful.
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The last one. I
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am unique.
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I am unique.
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So thank you for joining me on today's Mindful mornings Friends.
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I hope you have been learning so much from these mornings from these affirmations.
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Remember to be mindful for today and I will see you next time