Prompts and mantras

Be here now

Be

Inhabit your body

• Be aware of your whole body

• Be aware of your breath

• Be aware of the blood flowing through your body

• Be aware of the different parts of your body

• Be aware of which parts of you are demanding your attention

• Be aware of which parts do not normally receive attention

Inhabit your identity

• Be who you are

• Be comfortable with your diversity

• Be aware of the different 'yous'

• Be who you are becoming

Be here

Inhabit your location

• Be part of your environment

• Be aware of your location in space

• Be aware of your movement through space

• Be aware of your contact with your surroundings

• Be aware of the things happening around you

Be here now

Inhabit the moment

• Be aware of the present moment

• Be aware of when your mind is — past, present or future?

• Be present

Be aware

What can you see around you?

• What colours?

• What shapes?

• What details?

• What patterns?

• What have you not noticed?

• See a symphony of movement.

• Be the movement

What can you hear?

• Listen to the music of the world around you.

• What notes?

• What rhythms?

• Be the music

What can you feel?

• Feel your clothes against your skin.

• Touch something.

• Savour the texture

• Feel the movement of the air against your face.

• Be the sensation

What can you smell?

• Scent the familiar and the unfamiliar

• Sense beyond pleasant and unpleasant

• Be the aroma