Mindfulness with Leia - 05 restelessness

Welcome back to the fifth day of restlessness and our 30-day mindfulness challenge. Today, we are going to look at restlessness that people on the spiritual path often feel. They want to achieve awakening, so they try harder. They change teachers. They do a different practice, another method. They buy five books, but they don't complete any of them. They keep thinking that it's somewhere else, in another place. I see it here in China. They come to this school, then they want to go to that school. They want this master and that master. But in fact, all that is, is agitation. What spiritual achievement looks like is connecting with your breath, repeating the same movements again and again, sitting quietly persevering that's when you start to obtain spiritual awakening sticking with it and being present and practice every day and sometimes it's boring but you still practice those are the days when you make the most advancements when you're bored you're lazy you're tired and you just don't feel like practicing but you practice anyways you don't need a new teacher, you don't need a new method, you don't need a new book. Now let's sit with that and contemplate that and see where it shows up for you. Maybe it's showing up for you right now in this challenge. Let's start by sinking the chi. Drop the hands, collect the energy and open the central channel. Now clasp your hands together and bring them behind your neck. We're going to do a back of the neck stretch, squeezing the elbows together, moving the neck and only the neck. Come up and breathe. Don't round your back. Keep your back straight. Breathing out and in. Again. Breathe in. Breathe out. Let's do 12 today. Open. Just remember you can take as long as you want. Once you've memorized these moves, you can take as long as you want in contemplative meditation in between the moves. Your monkey mind starts to get too agitated a little bit of movement your monkey mind and come back to your breath let's move the tongue around 36 six times each way then we will have built up saliva that we will swallow in three swallows you ready the Chi hands on the belly let's begin our contemplative meditation you know your belly moving under your hands and just realize and recognize that that is the path to spiritual awakening through the breath they say the belly is your second brain it knows all the different spiritual practices come back to the same origin and just interpret them in different ways pick one stick with it practice it every day and manage your spiritual agitation let's take a moment in silence to make room for this agitation to make room for the restlessness because it's a part of us focusing only on your breath the sounds you hear around you smells whatever you can feel with your senses stay in the present moment okay drop the hands hug all the beautiful love energy coming from everybody share your love energy with everybody and take it all back in and put it in the belly thank you for showing up again today and exploring this other facets of restlessness. Does this come up for you? Have you been on a long search for just the right spiritual practice? Share it in the community so we can share our connection with humanity. We all do it. Thank you for showing up.