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Welcome to Your Nervous System Reset
Welcome to Your Nervous System Reset 🫁 I'm so glad you're here. If you found your way to this community, I'm guessing something in you is ready for a change. Not the kind that comes from white-knuckling your way through another productivity system β€” but the kind that starts when you come home to your body and realise the peace you've been looking for was never that far away. That's what this space is for. My name is Damien. I'm a fellow traveller, not a guru. I've walked through addiction, trauma, and more spiritual detours than I care to count. What I found β€” what actually worked β€” is the practice of embodied mindfulness. Not as an idea. As a felt experience, right here in this body. I wrote Resonant Mindfulness to share that framework with you. This community is where we put it into practice together. Your first step is simple. The Resonant Breath β€” the practice that anchors everything else. Sit comfortably. Touch your thumb to your index finger as you inhale. On the next inhale, your middle finger. Continue through all four fingers, then cycle back. One minute. That's it. Try it now if you like. Then come back and tell us β€” what did you notice? We're glad you're here. May you be happy, may you be healthy, may you be safe. πŸ™
1 like β€’ May 14
Thank you Damien it kept me present to do the exercise i'm Ruth from the UK Thanks for creating this group i've just bought your book and will spend some time having a look around here
1 like β€’ May 16
@Damien Hooper 😊Thanks again for creating this group i think its brilliant
How do you actually come home to yourself?
Most of us spend the day living about six inches above our bodies. We're in our heads β€” thinking, planning, worrying, replaying. The body is just the thing that carries us from one thought to the next. And the longer we live this way, the more normal it feels. Until we notice the tension in our jaw we didn't know was there. Or the shallow breath we've been taking for the last hour. Or the vague feeling that something is missing, even when life looks fine on paper. That gap between you and your body? That's what we're here to close. The practice I want to share with you today is the simplest thing I know. It's called the Resonant Breath, and it's the foundation of everything in this community β€” every gateway, every practice, every insight in the book comes back to this. Here's how it works. Sit comfortably. Close your eyes if you'd like. As you inhale, gently touch your thumb to your index finger. On the next inhale, move to your middle finger. Then your ring finger, then your little finger. When you reach the end, cycle back to the beginning. That's it. One breath. One finger. Moment to moment. The finger touch is an anchor β€” it keeps your awareness in the body instead of drifting back into thought. The breath does the regulating. Together, they create something your nervous system responds to immediately: a felt sense of coming home. You don't need five minutes to start. You don't need quiet or a cushion or a special time of day. You can do this right now, sitting where you are. One minute is enough to feel a shift. Your practice invitation for today: Try the Resonant Breath for just one minute β€” right now if you can, or the next time you feel yourself pulled into your head. Then come back here and share if you noticed anything? Even the smallest shift counts. P.S. If you'd like to see me demonstrate the Resonant Breath, here's a video I recorded a few years back β€” this is where it all began for me. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1VjAexHqcG/
1 like β€’ May 14
Thanks Damien
Texts on Presence read by Jayasara
Namkai Norbu - Advice for Establishing Presence and Awareness - Dzogchen http://bit.ly/4n0Q3jS Resting as Presence Meditation - The Three Statements of Garab Dorje https://apple.co/41HJ1sb Wei Wu Wei - Total Presence http://bit.ly/45xRIaP Namkai Norbu - The Presence of Awareness http://bit.ly/47HOrXE Brother Lawrence - The Practice of Presence http://bit.ly/45vhv3g
1 like β€’ May 14
Thanks Damien
Adyashanti Books
Enjoy - from one of my favourite spiritual teachers.
1 like β€’ May 14
Thanks Damien
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