This four and a half minute meditation is taken from Steven Levine’s book, A Year to Live. Levine invites readers to an experiment: live the next twelve months of your life as if was the last year year.

Throughout the book he offers meditations that cultivate somatic (bodily) awareness, bringing readers to the here and now, helping us be receptive to the direct experience of living.

Initially I recorded this meditation for myself—I hold a lot of tension in my belly—but I’m sure there are a few readers who do as well.

Before you listen, find a quiet place and a comfortable posture, which can be any of the following: sitting. walking, standing or lying down.

Wishing you Joy in this Season of Light and Many Blessings in the New Year!