Expand Your Chest

Pema Chodron's advice: sit, stay. I remember a number of years ago, I was sitting at a meditate and I was really in the beginning of that session. And what I noticed before getting caught in that story was everything that I began to run through the list of the things that might be making me anxious was in fact making me more anxious. So then I said, what does this anxiety smell like? Which was a really weird question that I could not answer. But it forced my mind to focus on my body. Within five minutes, the anxiety had completely passed. He never forgot that experience. Later, he think in those moments where you wake up contracted,