5 Minute Morning Meditation to Reduce Anxiety
A 5 minute morning meditation to reduce anxiety when the day already feels tight before breakfast. Feet, seat, longer exhales. Anxiety lives in the future. This practice lives in contact.
Before you begin
Sit. Feel the feet. Keep the long exhale beside the first cup of whatever you drink.
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If this morning already feels tight, you are in the right place.
Sit. Whatever that looks like for you.
When the body feels ready, you may softly close your eyes.
With your eyes closed, feel the feet. Feel the seat.
Anxiety lives in the future. Live in contact.
Longer exhales. The body understands this language.
What else is tight — throat, belly, hands?
Name: morning, breath, a body doing its best.
Do not solve the day before breakfast.
Let the shoulders drop as if the night were finally over.
You can start scared, and still start kind.
And let both be true.
Continue now with one long exhale, then another.
No diagnosis. No promise. Only this next leaving of breath.
What do you notice as the exhale lengthens?
Just contact. Accept. Allow. No solving.
Keeping your eyes closed, include the floor under you.
Keep the long exhale beside the first cup.
Nothing to fix before you begin. Nothing to win from tightness.
If the chest stays busy, that is okay. Return to the feet.
Stay with contact, the long exhale, this morning body.
Let the tightness be here, without making it the whole day.
Now let attention travel back. Keep one long exhale.
Open your eyes. Start kind. That is enough for now.