Welcome to the fourth practice I'm going to offer to you. This is the practice that will really help you to manage yourself. If you are someone who can get easily triggered, or tends to repress feelings, because the thing about feelings is we don't want to repress them and don't necessarily want to express them and throw them out at somebody, just get them out. There are times for that, definitely. And what I'm suggesting is it's really useful to be a choice. So I can be with my feelings or I can share my feelings with someone because what I want to bookmark is that your feelings make sense, your feelings make sense.
So in this practice, which is a repetitive movement practice, we're going to learn how to just manage our feelings. And I want to say that this is one of the best practices you can do for any and all of the relationships that you are in. Because in relationships, especially our closest relationships with our partner with good friends and family members, those are the places where many of us tend to just let it all hang out. And we just let loose and we let stuff fly and once it is out, cannot take it back. So this is like preventative care for your relationships. Being able to To be with.
So in the previous segment, we learned to track our sensations, which you, I hope will practice. So this is repetitive movements. So I'm going to suggest that you pick a gesture. Now I'm going to just pick this gesture. So again, sitting, standing, lying down, you can do this as big or as small, the picking a gesture that you can maintain. So we're just gonna maintain and I'm gonna suggest keeping your eyes open for this one.
So you can be my partner here. You can look in my eyes. And of course, you're always at liberty to take your own guidance. If you take my guidance, I'm leading you somewhere. So by doing this practice of repetitive movement, you're cultivating the ability to focus and to manage yourself. Because again, we move so quickly, we live in this digital age where things go so fast, and we can scan around and search around in our computers and we're driving here and there.
And this is actually the antithesis, antithesis of that antithesis of that is being able to notice, so we're layering it in, we're breathing. We're in these amazing bodies, that are their temples that were inhabiting And we're sensation tracking in a tight structure, what I'm going to call a tight structure. So the possibility here is to find freedom in the structure. So you are welcome to do any gesture that you would like. In my experience, and I have done this practice for many, many hours, sometimes hours and hours on end. It can be useful to start with a very simple, very small gesture.
I'm going to suggest a breed in and out through your nose. So you're learning to focus the mind To focus the body because you can train your mind, you can train your body and you cannot train your emotions. They're just not available for that. And what you can do is you can learn how to be with, you can learn how to manage your feelings, how to digest and metabolize discomfort, anger, fear, upset, even anxiety. And this practice, probably initially, you're going to want to do it for a minute or two minutes because anything more than that might be too stressful. So just feel what's happening.
You might be starting to get bored. You might be wishing that I would go faster you might say hey Padma, can you speed this up? Going on to this day with a with it for just a little bit longer. You might feel sensations arising. feelings, emotions, energy is rising. And can you stay with yourself?
This is cultivating an incredible discipline really Incredible discipline. And when you're disciplined, you can do anything. And you're doing it with kindness, kindness and care coming from the body as a temple and held back gravity. I belong here on the earth. I belong my body in this moment. Great.
So that's probably long enough to begin with. And so you can just relax the gesture and see if you can keep the focus of your mind. Because sometimes the tendency can be Why just shake it off? And what if you stay because, in my experience, this will really calm your mind. Calm your body. And I've had experiences of doing this when I was in a little, you know, a little moment with someone.
And because I practiced this, and because I could digest and metabolize, I didn't just blurt out something that I would later regret. So this is really a wonderful practice for anyone who's in any relationships of any kind, work personal, whatever they may be. So repetitive movement, and it could be as simple as this could be as simple as two fingers and you can also layer this in To your breathing practice, if you would like, because you're making a deposit, in your stillness account that you're building, you're building you're growing their capacity, to be still to be with what is to be uncomfortable, you can be uncomfortable, and you don't need to lash out or pull back or try and fix it sort of various styles have relating some of the various styles, broadly put. So this is the end of a segment on the mindful practice of repetitive movement.
And I really suggest practice it on a regular basis as with all of these exercises,