❂ Some exercises suggest you sit in a chair. I recommend an upright chair that will support your spine, but it comfortable. It helps to wear loose-fitting clothes and perhaps use a shawl or blanket to prevent you from feeling cold - often, when we meditate, we become more relaxed and our body temperature tends to drop a little, just as it does when we get ready for sleep.
❂ Sit with dignity - neither upright and rigid like a soldier, nor slumping over. Sitting in this way helps you to be focused and aware of any sensation as it arises, and connect with this sensation - temperature, sound, or your breathing, for example - as an anchor of awareness, to prevent your mind roaming and ending up in some anxious train of thought.
❂ Each time you get ready to practice any of the exercises in this book, take a few moments to 'check in' with yourself. Always feel free to continue the practice if that feels best for you at the time.
❂ If your body is not able to do any of the movement postures, just sit comfortably and run through them in your mind. Please never do anything that causes pain or discomfort. Less is often more.
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