City of Clearwater, Florida Aging Well Center, 5 Nov 2020

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From YouTube: Virtual Meditation at Lake Chautauqua

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Join Debra for some relaxation and mindful breathing as the sun rises on beautiful Lake Chautauqua park in Clearwater. 🌿

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Hello, this is debra with the city of clearwater long center and aging well department, I'm going to do a little bit of meditation, but let's first, let's just kind of do some shoulder circles get some of the tension out of our neck and our shoulders before we get started.

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Let's turn our neck side to side, trying to get it to go towards the shoulder.

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And release nice big, deep breath and relax. When you do this meditation, you can either be seated on the floor. Laying down or in a chair I suggest not laying down you tend to fall, sometimes get a little bit too relaxed during the meditation and it's not as conscious, but make sure that you breathe that you try to stay in the moment. You really want to try to just concentrate on the inhale and the exhale of your breath that you can feel it.

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You can hear it and try to keep everything else outside. You can go back to it later and again. If you get distracted, always go back to your breath so get in a comfortable position.

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Your hands can be on your your knees wherever you like them, or you can bring your hands to heart center, close your eyes or focus on one place. Let's have a nice deep breath, inhale and exhale.

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Inhale through the nose.

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Exhale through the mouth start to relax your mind and your body inhale.

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And again, inhale and exhale.

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Bring your mind and your body in the present.

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Think about positivity beauty, kindness of giving it's very hard during these times with all that's going on in the world.

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But you have control of yourself as you take another deep breath and heal.

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Use the breath when you exhale, if there's any tight places in your body, say into your back, breathe into your back and release sure that breath goes down the throat into the lungs expanding your lungs.

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Give yourself a moment of quiet.

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Only focusing on your breath.

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Your breath is the center of your focus.

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In this meditation, we want to think what we're thankful for, not just in the present but there's many things in our past- that we're grateful for our family, our job, our friends, bring those good times to mind and reminisce as you do, your breathing inhale and exhale.

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Again, inhale exhale, take a moment to think of those good times to bring a smile to your.

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Then, let's come to present time think about what you're thankful for now or what you can do to be thankful for things that might make you feel good volunteering, helping a neighbor being kind saying, thank you to strangers or hello to strangers. So again inhale and exhale.

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Create a positive mind, positive body you're, the only one who has control of how you react to things.

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Spread kindness in this time.

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Continue to breathe in silence as you breathe in.

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Relax your mind and your body.

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As we come to the end of our meditation promise yourself to make this a good day, you do a good deed for yourself or someone else. Let's open our eyes, gently sit up nice and tall. Let's take a nice deep breath, inhale exhale again inhale exhale bring your hands together for energy and smile. Thank you.