Hello and welcome to Mind the Mind with Sound. So beginning this practice with an intentional shift out of the everyday mind wandering, being busyness, by FOF BOC: feet on floor, bum on chair… and perhaps closing your eyes, bringing yourself in closer to your experience in this moment; the here and the now. And in this practice, we bring our awareness to sound.As if bringing our mind into our ears and our ears acting like a sponge, soaking up noise.So, in this moment, hearing sounds… the pitch, the tone, volume… sound, and spaces between sounds. Perhaps starting with sounds close to you; the sound of the breath in the nose. Sounds emanating from the body. Sounds around the body; sounds in your place: a clock ticking, a whirring from the computer, music downstairs. Sounds further away: sounds from outside, traffic people, birds.Taking in sound as sound: light, sound, deeper sound, loud sound, quieter sound - simply taking in sound. In this practice purposefully using sound as an anchor for mind. Cultivating a practice of mindfulness, minding the mind.Hearing sounds now… sound and no sound. As we hear sound, we can naturally tend to want to label it - to like it or not like it, and these are very natural. But as we do that, we may tend to get lost. So in this practice, as we hear sound as: volume, tone pitch… we stay with it in that way. And when we notice we've got drawn to labeling, wondering, liking, not liking. We notice that no big deal it's what minds naturally do; and we bring it back to sound. This sound, this word, this space.Sound as an anchor, a place to bring the mind at any time.So as we bring this short practice to an end, take it away with you and at any time bring your mind. Mind, your mind with sound.