Pause for Connection

..Pause for Connection..

ONE WAY TO PLAY

1. Set your Pause
Pick your practice; 1min, 2min, 5min, a whopping 10 min; pick your practice that works for you in your life.

2. Create your PAUSE cues
What will have you remember to PAUSE? An hourly alarm, transitions, sticky notes on walls and doors, lipstick on the mirror, car rides, every time you stand up; what will have you be present to the pause, what will work WITH YOU?

3. Time to Pause for Connection
Pick your connection goal. Connection to yourself, connection to your environment, connection to your person, connection to your body, connection to your commitments, connection to now; you choose the connection.

4. BREATHE
A slow deep inhale, a releasing exhale, breathe into your body, through your body, a deep belly breath.

5. Pick your NOTICE
So many things you can notice, you say! Notice your breathing, in and out through your body, notice your body, your jaw, your shoulders, your muscles, notice the smell, the taste, the sounds, the textures on your skin, notice the room, the environment, the pulse, the people, your person, notice their eyes, their face, their greatness, their strengths, their commitments, their interests, their bodies, their state, allow yourself to be filled up to the brim with your love for your human.

6. BREATHE
Yes breathe again 'cause you can't get enough great present breaths, allow and release all that is right here.

7. Thank you
Thank you moment, thank you body, thank you mind, thank you senses, thank you breath, experience and acknowledge your thank yous.

8. Close with LOVE
Hug yourself, hold yourself, squeeze yourself. If appropriate and you have consent, hug or hold (or squeeze shoulder, arm or leg)

Repeat as often as can remember.

*REMINDER TO ENJOY!
This is a game to play to raise awareness, presence, connection and have you be in a practice of awareness and calm. Please be GREAT with yourself! It gets to look any way!

ADDITIONAL WAYS TO PLAY
-Call in a friend and play this game together
-How many pauses in a day? Track and count your PAUSEs.
-Play as a family and share what you are each noticing.
-After each Pause journal, write what your experience is or anything right there for you.
-Bring the Pause into meal times or transitions WITH your family and build them as part of your family rhythms.

Thank you for Playing with the Pause,
NeuroPride (aka Szara) from the Divergence Zone

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