Listen to this audio guided relaxation whenever you want to rest while being reminded of your vastness, release resistance, and see the powerful potential within you...
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Discover the Power of Your Mind
Have you ever paused to think about the immense potential in our brains? The capability to grow, adapt, and change? Our nervous systems can form new connections while allowing old, unhelpful patterns to gradually fade away.
This potential is the key to moving forward and being at peace with ourselves.
Settling Into Your Power with Perspective
I invite you to embrace a feeling of vastness, freedom, and the ability to shape your own decisions. Feel that power within your body, your movements, your breath, and your responses. Know that you are supported, anchored in your own strength.
Try this simple exercise: rub your palms together. Once you feel the heat, gently place them over your eyes, directing warmth inward. Let your intuition decide where your hands roam next—if they move at all.
Take a moment to notice your sensations. Your body has this beautiful ability called interoception—it's your gut sense that translates inner sensations into emotions.
As you begin to relax, you might find yourself in a liminal space, gaining new perspectives. Feel as if you're not just a single drop but part of a vast ocean.
Focusing on What's Good
Explore your body like a curious adventurer, searching for places that feel good or neutral.
Find one spot, then seek out another. It might just be a tiny area, but focus on those points of ease, spots where you feel alive, joyful, or powerful. Picture these places as little points of light or stars across the constellation of your body. Connect the dots...
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Embracing Discomfort with Perspective and Presence
While it's important to acknowledge areas of discomfort, try not to make them the center of your focus. Instead, allow the places of ease to take precedence. Imagine these points of ease connecting, forming a constellation that radiates throughout you. Pull back and see yourself as a whole – a mesmerizing blend of comfort and discomfort.
If your mind drifts into stories, gently bring your focus back to your body, embracing both ease and discomfort. Look at these feelings with curiosity; they represent a sense of wholeness and balance. The Sukha (ease) and the Dukkha (discomfort) both form parts of your experience.
A Gentle End to Your Practice
Finish by wiggling your fingers, toes, or even your tongue; embrace self-hugs or stretches—whatever soothes you. Trust your body to guide you toward deeper rest or simply to complete this journey of self-awareness.
Remember, this exploration isn’t about perfection or bypassing discomfort. It’s about embracing your complete self in all its facets, finding harmony in both the ease and the struggle. In this way, we create space to breathe, change, and just be.
Transcript:
Understanding that our brains have potential, so much potential to continue to grow, to change, to adapt. We can make new connections. We can let the old patterns fade, the ones that are no longer serving us.
I invite you to settle into that feeling of vastness, freedom, power to make your own decisions going forward. Power over your body, what you do with it, how you move, how you breathe, how you respond. Have that sense that you are held.
You might want to rub your palms. Once your hands have experienced enough friction to feel hot, you might place those palms over your eye sockets, sending the warmth inward.
You can then allow your intuition to guide where your hands move next, if they want to move at all.
Notice how you feel. How your interoception, your inner organs are translating your sensations, your inner sensations to an emotion. Often as we begin our rest, we have a few moments of that liminal space where we have more perspective. As if we are not the drop, but the whole ocean.
I invite you to notice a place in your body that feels good or neutral.
And then find another one.
Explore your body with curiosity and find different points, even if it's the size of a fingernail. Places of ease, places that feel either neutral or you actually experience a sense of aliveness or joy or power. Go around and find more places in your body, front, back, sides, top, bottom. You might imagine little points of light throughout your body. And start to connect the dots.
We're not ignoring the places of discomfort or suffering. We're just letting those other places be our focus. Places of ease.
Imagine connecting the dots, like a constellation of points, getting brighter, spreading, expanding. Pull back for the perspective on your whole self.
See these points of ease, all glowing and growing and invite in the places of discomfort as part of your wholeness, get the whole picture. Pull back to have more expansive perspective.
If your mind goes into stories, come back to the present, to this body with the ease and the discomfort. Notice with curiosity that sense of wholeness, a sense of including
the ease and the discomfort. The Sukha and the Dukkha.
Feel free to wiggle your fingers, wiggle your toes. Maybe you want to wiggle your tongue.
You're welcome to hug yourself, let your body guide you through whatever stretches you'd like to do, or to a deeper, fuller rest.
If you enjoyed this practice, you'll love my private meditation podcast.
Stop Walking On Eggshells!
Gentle yoga to release your stress and shift your mindset about struggle.
If you get your buttons pushed often by other people's issues, you may be hypervigilant. You might feel it in your body as clenching, tension, or chronic pain.
You'll become more grounded in awareness of your body.
