Softening The Grip: A Supportive Stress-Relief Meditation

This is a calming, warm and supportive meditation, helping you to acknowledge the grip of stress sitting in your body, and inviting a gentle softening and release. Chronic stress has a tendency to accumulate and sit in the connective tissue of the body. It can manifest as persistent tension, tightness and discomfort. Taking just a few minutes to gently encourage the mind to quieten and the body's muscles to soften, is enough to begin to ease the stress out and invite calm back in.

Transcript

This is your time to pause to soften the grip of stress and choose just for a few moments to let go. Take your time to find a space where you can be quiet and comfortable for a few minutes either seated or lying down using a cushion or a blanket to soften any places that your body could do with some extra support. Allow your hands to rest gently where they naturally fall and if it feels ok allow your eyes to close slowly. Feeling the weight of your eyelids over your eyes and let's begin here. Take a long slow breath in through your nose or your mouth if that's more comfortable and gently sigh it out and again breathe in slowly and feel the release of your breath. Allow your breath to be your anchor. Notice the gentle rhythm of air slowly moving in and out of your body. There's nothing to fix nothing to change you're simply arriving in this moment just as you are. Begin to notice where your body feels tense right now, Tight or where it feels like it might be holding on. Perhaps your jaw, Your shoulders, Maybe your belly. Just notice with kindness and now in your mind's eye imagine stress or tension as something that you're holding on to perhaps like a clenched fist or maybe a backpack that you've been carrying all day and with your next exhalation imagine releasing your fist or setting down your backpack. No need to force it just allow it to be a gentle invitation to release. Allow your breath to help you with this as you inhale you feel your breath arrive as you exhale you soften and you let go. If there are thoughts pulling at you that's okay just acknowledge that they're there allow them to be and gently bring your attention back to your breath. Breathing in, Breathing out. I invite you silently repeat this little mantra to yourself. I choose to let go. I choose to let go. I choose to let go. Bring a hand to your heart and feel the warmth and steadiness there and remember that you're doing enough. You are enough. In this moment it's safe for you to soften to let go of what you don't need to carry right now. Even just for one moment. Even just for a little. And take your time now as you begin to return to the feeling of the surface beneath you. The surface. Take a deeper breath in now. And a nice long sigh. If your eyes are closed gently blink them open. Notice the light the colors and the space around you. Have a little wiggle through your fingers and your toes. Rotate your ankles and your wrists and if it feels welcome enjoy a full body stretch. And as you move back into your day or your evening know that this choice to pause and let go is always here for you. A quiet safe place within where you can return whenever you need. Thank you for allowing me to guide you today.