When anxiety hits today, where are you physically placing your awareness to stay rooted?
The soles of your feet?
Your tailbone?
Your breath?"
Take a Stance
Today, every hour during your workday, take a "stance." Get up from your desk, grab a glass of water. Mindfully and gratefully hold your glass in your hands, breathing slowly, blessing your cup and its contents.
Bring it up to your heart, again in gratitude. Then drink the whole thing, really feeling all it touches in you--your tongue, your throat, the way it moves down your esophagus into your stomach. Feel the thirst of your cells and let them be quenched. Feel the thirst of your legs, your thighs, letting them be enlivened, feeling the blood circulating through them. Feel the thirst of your feet, the ground beneath them; notice how you stand, all the ways you make contact with the earth--and how you water your roots.
Put down your glass and stand in Tadasana, mountain pose: spine elongated, shoulders and neck over your hips; chin slightly tucked, hands down and palms facing out. Notice your stance.
Notice what holds you and how you are held.
Write:
When I stand, I ____________________.
Today, I stand to___________________.
When I breathe into my feet_______________.
What do you feel? Tell me.