Finding Safety

This recording is designed to help you uncover what it feels like to be safe within your own body. We work with finding a memory or image and the sensations that accompany it that feel like safety to the body. This practice uses visualization techniques along with body scans.

Transcript

Hello and welcome. My name is Vinaya Crow. And today I invite you to find a sense of safety in your body. I'll start by asking the question. What does safe feel like in the body? For many people when I ask this question. They have a hard time answering. Many answer with, I don't know. I don't know if I have ever felt safe. So I will give you a moment here to see if you can find a memory. That represents safety. If not. We will move on from there. And try something else. But for this moment Take your time. And see if you can recall a memory that feels safe. If you are having a hard time finding a memory. I now invite you to. . . Imagine. Something. A place. That feels safe. Maybe it's something you read about in a book. To give you an example. The image that comes up for me. Is a river. Surrounded by trees The sun is shining. I can hear the birds and the flow of the river. And there's a hammock stretched out between two trees. And I'm able to just stay there. Underneath the trees. Beside the river. Soaking in the sun listening to the sounds of Mother Nature. This is the image that always comes to me. When I think about that sense of safety when we feel safe. We are able to relax. To rest. Just exist and be in the moment find in your imagination your place. Notice what you see what you hear. What you smell notice your sense of touch your sense of taste. Envisioning your safe place on every level. With all of the senses. As you do this I invite you to notice how it feels in your body. When we feel safe. Our muscles. Can release tension. The body softens the breath can become more full. It moves more slowly The heartbeat also slows. Maybe you even notice a sense of warmth in that heart space. To help our bodies feel safe. One of the things that asks of us. Is to reduce the amount of input that we receive. If we tend to be. In spaces that are crowded and loud and busy. It is important that we give ourselves time and places. That are the exact opposite of this. Places with space to wander quieter. Where things move more slowly You can create these kinds of spaces in your home. Or take a walk out in nature finding a cozy place to sit. And just be. Creating these spaces at home and mean. Gathering some of your favorite objects creating your own little cozy corner adding soft blankets pillows plants. Things that signal to the body that it's okay to rest. Creating a sense of safety in the body is so valuable. Not only does it help us be able to fully rest but it also gives us permission to play. Be creative. To explore. It creates opportunities for us to meet new people and try new things. And that feeling of safety does exist within you Give yourself the space to feel it. To cultivate it and help it grow. You deserve to feel safe. You deserve to feel at ease in your own body. I invite you to stay here for as long as you need or want to. Without rushing off to the next thing. Stay with that sense of safety that you found and created in your body. I say to you again you deserve. To feel safe.