The Clarity Pause: Finding Stillness in the In-Between

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This is your mindful mornings start your day with peace and clarity podcast.

Good morning and welcome back to mindful mornings. I'm Julia Cartwright and I'm so glad

you're here with me today. You know there's something about early March mornings isn't there

that in between feeling when winters grip is loosening but spring hasn't quite arrived.

A lot of us feel caught in that same mental space right now too.

Caught between what we're leaving behind and what we're moving toward.

Maybe you woke up today with your mind already spinning through your to-do list.

Maybe you felt that familiar flutter of anxiety before your feet even hit the ground.

If that sounds like you, take a breath. You're in exactly the right place.

So let's set ourselves up for success today. Find a comfortable spot where you can sit for the

next few minutes, somewhere that feels safe and relatively quiet. It doesn't have to be perfect.

I'm sitting at my kitchen table right now with my coffee cooling beside me.

This is real life and that's exactly the point. Once you're settled, let's just notice what's

happening in your body right now. Not to judge it, just to meet yourself with curiosity.

Feel your sit bones connecting with the chair or cushion beneath you.

Feel the weight of your body being held and supported.

Now, we're going to practice something I call the clarity pause and it's deceptively simple.

You're going to breathe in through your nose for a count of four, imagining that you're

breathing in a cool clarifying mist. Hold it for a count of four, letting that clarity settle

through you like fob over a morning lake. Then exhale through your mouth for a count of six,

releasing any tension, any hurry, any heaviness that's been weighing on you.

Let's do this together. In through the nose, two, three, four. Holding, feeling calm, move through

you, two, three, four. And out through the mouth, two, three, four, five, six, releasing. Again,

breathing in clarity, two, three, four. Holding, settling, two, three, four.

Breathing out whatever isn't serving you today, two, three, four, five, six.

One more time, in, two, three, four. Hold, two, three, four. Out, two, three, four, five, six.

Beautiful. Notice how you feel right now. That's your baseline for clarity today.

Carry this pause with you. When you feel that mental spin starting again, come back to this breath

in with clarity. Hold it out with what you don't need. Thank you so much for spending these few

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miss tomorrow's practice. You deserve this piece. Now go have a beautiful day. Make sure you hit

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