THE CRONE STORIES

A few of you have asked whether you could get The Sittings on their own.

Fair question. They live at the end of each episode, which means if you want to come back to one you have to scroll to find it, and that is not much use when you are already lying down.

So I have started putting them on YouTube as their own videos. They are gathered in one place, in a playlist called The Sittings.

An honest word about that. I would love to have them as their own podcast feed, and I am not there yet. This is a first season and I am learning as I go. For now, YouTube is where they are, and it works.

KIMBERLEY'S SITTING

If you asked me which meditation to learn first, out of all of them, I would tell you this one. The body scan.

You lie down or you sit, and you move your attention slowly through your body from the top of your head to your feet. That is all. You are not fixing anything. You are not trying to relax, which is a strange instruction anyway. You are just noticing what is there.

It fits Kimberley's story completely. She learned through somatic therapy how to begin listening to what her body had been telling her, and the body scan is one of the ways in. It is not the fastest thing, and it is not dramatic, but it does something the thinking mind cannot do on its own.

And if you do not want it in the middle of your day, try it at night. Body scans are very good for sleep. Most people do not get to their feet before they are gone.

If you missed Kimberley's episode, it is here.

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In love, light and laughter — Karen