Mindfulness with Leia - 02 Aversion

How anger or irritation manifests in the body. Welcome to the second video in our exploration of Aversion. Today, we look at how aversion shows up in the body—because long before we think “I’m annoyed” or “I can’t stand this,” the body already knows.

Anger, irritation, and frustration often appear as tension:
a clenched jaw, tight fists, a furrowed brow.

Sometimes it’s heat—a flushed face, a rising heart rate.
Or a contraction in the chest or belly.

These physical signals are not the problem. They’re messengers.
The body is saying, “Something feels off. Something’s not safe.”

Mindfulness gives us space to pause and feel.Instead of reacting to the story in the mind, we return to sensation: What’s actually happening in the body, right now?

Today, we’ll use movement and breath to explore this. Not to escape tension, but to meet it gently. To invite softness where we usually tense up. To notice—without judgment—how aversion lives in us.

Is there tightness in the neck, the hands, the shoulders?
You don’t need to fix it. Just stay with it.

Scan gently from head to toe. If there’s tension, greet it with awareness.
This is how aversion feels in the body. Let that be enough.

If the mind starts to push something away, just notice that too.
Come back to breath. back to presence.

Today we will close with the intention to meet irritation, not with judgment, but with curiosity and care.
Leia

These videos were filmed in the temples at the foot of the Wudang mountains in China