Welcome to your ✨Monday Moment✨

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Take a deep breath in. Hold it. Exhale.

Pick a colour 🔴 🟠 🟡 🟢 🔵 🟣

Find the moment below with that same colour.

Take a moment to….

🔴 … put your hands together palm-to-palm. Interlock your fingers and squeeze your hands together tightly as you take a slow deep breath in and count to seven. Now slowly breathe out as you release your fingers and slowly part your hands away from each other. Bring your hands back together and repeat. Notice the freedom your hands feel as you release. Use this technique to help free yourself from tension. Breathe into the feeling of tension, then breathe it all out and release it.

Take a moment to….

🟠… ponder the the quote by the 31st US President, Herbert Hoover, “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity” Do you agree? What does freedom mean to you?

Take a moment to….

🟡… savour the Baz Luhrmann song “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” that was based on a hypothetical graduation speech written by journalist Mary Schmich. What songs make you feel most free? Make yourself a good playlist for when you need to feel liberated.

Take a moment to….

🟢… think about some foods that take you away for a moment. Foods that remind you of a happy memory or just tickle your soul from the inside out – like a bubbly drink, popping candy or a nice sticky cloud of cotton candy 💗 What’s your favourite?

Take a moment to….

🔵… imagine you’re holding a huge bunch of balloons (eco-friendly ones that biodegrade, of course 😊). On each one is written something that is weighing on your mind right now. Take a deep breath and as you exhale imagine letting go of them and watching them float away.

Take a moment to….

🟣… think about the people in your life. Who do you feel the most free to be completely yourself with?

Now take another breath. Hold it. Exhale. We are lucky to be free in so many ways in life, but it’s ok if you don’t always feel that way. Be kind to yourself, find your freedom within no matter what is going on 💙

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