Hello,
Welcome,
Welcome,
Welcome.
I'm Jocelyn,
And this is Learning to Walk the Grounds of Your Life.
And I'll give a little context to that in a minute.
And we're really gonna be talking about nervous system regulation,
But in a fun way.
And we're gonna experience.
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Different things that you can do on a daily basis.
The more you do it,
The more you begin to accumulate these things that you do for yourself.
It's more effortless in your life.
I have a bunch of tracks here on Insight Timer for yoga nidras,
Inner sanctuary yoga nidras.
I do have tracks on SOS when you're in emergency nervous system stuff and you just need to bring yourself down.
Like you can really feel the panic at a high and you just need something in the moment.
This is going to be about things that you can do every day that add up so you don't actually go to those really,
Really out of regulation,
Out of balance nervous system moments.
I am Jocelyn,
And I am a Yoga Nidra guide,
A soul art guide.
I work with the Akashic Records.
I work with soul shamanism.
And for many years,
I was an expressive arts therapist intermodal.
And what I find interesting when I do nervous system regulation lives,
I always think back to the fact that I was working with people as a therapist.
And I was never taught in my training any of this.
It took my yoga nidra training to begin to awaken this in me.
And so,
You know,
I'm kind of sad for the people I worked with for so long,
But so glad that I have it now.
And I found yoga nidra when I was in major imbalance with my nervous system.
My parents had just died seven days apart.
And over that first year,
I was having insomnia,
Panic attacks.
I was in shock.
I had all kinds of symptoms of PTSD.
And that was when I found Yoga Nidra.
And that was when I began to start to understand the nervous system.
And having learned all of that,
It has been such a gift to me,
To my kids,
To my family.
And some of it's so easy.
It's almost like,
Oh,
Yeah,
Of course,
Right?
Like,
Of course,
That would be something I would want to do.
But we don't think about it that way.
Where does learning to walk the grounds come from?
My book.
I had taken a break off of lives for a while while I wrote and published a book called The Midnight Carnival.
And that book is really a map of our inner landscape as human beings.
But it's kind of written fiction.
But each of the environments and tents all have different elements that we can explore within our inner landscape.
We are not simple human beings,
Right?
We are not simple.
We come with patterns and stories and nervous systems,
Right?
We come with challenges and all kinds of things.
And so in the book,
There's all these environments and tents.
And one of the tents.
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Is carnival row and that's like if you imagine going to a carnival and uh you know all the games all the lights all the sounds all the challenges all the objectives all you know everything that calls your attention the distraction all of that i imagine that almost is life Right?
Like there's so much outside of ourselves that are like flashing here,
Here,
Here.
We can easily get overwhelmed,
Right?
We can easily become overwhelmed and feel like we're putting in the time,
But nothing's changing.
Or we can feel that constant little anxiety underneath us,
Right?
And in Carnival Row,
There's a game called the pendulum.
And it really teaches the person reading about the nervous system.
And so that's why this is learning to walk the grounds,
Kind of coming from that book.
And thinking of the grounds of the carnival as your inner landscape,
Right?
Your inner life.
So we're learning to walk the grounds of this human life.
And what goes on inside.
We're not going to be forcing today.
We're not going to be demanding.
We're not going to push,
Push,
Push.
That's kind of what life does to us.
That's what we have going on all the time.
We're going to sit with awareness.
And it's amazing what awareness can do.
If you think about our bodies,
We're here and our body already gives us access to many ways of awareness.
You have what you see,
What you smell,
What you hear,
What you taste,
What you feel,
What you feel on your skin,
But also what you feel on the inside.
Side we have all of these sensations right and that in any we can place our awareness on any of those at any one time and we're building a library of understanding our body like understanding how our body takes in information how our body responds to things and the more you begin to do that through awareness the closer the relationship with your body becomes and the more safety you feel in your body And this is something a lot of us are feeling lack of,
Is safety in our lives,
Right?
If you want to get to a place of manifestation,
Of abundance,
Of all of the beautiful things that you want to transform and transition to,
Your nervous system has to feel safe.
You have to feel safe within your body,
Right?
So with awareness,
We can begin to cultivate that safety,
Begin to cultivate for ourselves that sense of security within us.
And how we respond to life.
I do have a course that I just put up called Carnival Row,
Learning to Walk the Grounds.
And in that,
It goes over all different ways to begin to work with your nervous system.
The last three lessons,
There's a really beautiful inner sanctuary yoga nidra.
There's a beautiful breath work,
And there's a great visualization.
So those are like the last three lessons once you've kind of gone through it.
And the other piece to that is I also work in human design,
Sacral session.
A sacral session being listening to your sacral yes or no.
Before we go any further and we are going to get into practices and we're going to be feeling and bringing awareness in and feeling what it feels like in our bodies.
But I want to just give a little background on the nervous system.
And I want to use that pendulum that I was talking about on Carnival Row,
Right?
The game of the pendulum.
Think of the pendulum hanging down and it swings from one side to the other.
I want you to think about what that looks like if we think about it as our nervous system.
On one side of the pendulum is our sympathetic part of the nervous system.
And the sympathetic part is the fight,
Flight,
Or freeze.
Instinctual part that kept us alive,
Right?
That kept us safe.
And we go to that when we were in danger.
But right now,
So many of us don't feel the safety and a lot of things are pulling us to that fight,
Flight,
Or freeze.
And it could be so many things.
It could be feelings of lack.
It could be feelings of insecurity.
It could be feelings about your own self,
Your abilities,
Your body,
Right?
It could be lack of sleep,
Really.
So we go up to that sympathetic nervous system.
Again,
That's fight,
Fight or freeze.
So that's one side of the pendulum.
And that's where you're going to feel that anxiety.
Ah,
Right.
That panic that all of a sudden that burst,
You want to see almost like of cortisol in the system,
Right?
So that's,
And that's on that side.
If you,
If you take it around to the other side of the pendulum,
That's the other side of our nervous system.
And that's the parasympathetic nervous system.
And that is called rest and digest.
That's when we bring everything down,
Rest and digest.
That is a beautiful place to be.
But,
And this sounds silly to say,
You don't want to be there all day long.
When you are always in a rest and digest,
What that brings us to is depression,
Sluggishness,
Not having the energy to move through your life,
Right?
So we have on one side,
Keeping us out of danger.
And we have on the other side,
Like,
I just need to relax.
I need to get to that delta brainwave,
Right?
We have both sides of it.
And where we want to live in life,
As in most things,
Right,
In that balance,
Where we maybe swing one side to the other side,
We work both sides,
But we don't stay elevated at one side or the other.
We don't want that massive swing.
We also have the vagus nerve.
There's lots of parts to the nervous system,
Lots of things you can do.
I'm just going to start here with some basics,
But we'll also tap into the vagus nerve for just with a little bit of voice,
Another part of the nervous system.
And of course,
We have all kinds of things in our body.
You know,
We have a tight fascia that can create stress that can make it even worse,
Right?
We're going to work on different ways to bring us down.
From that fight,
Flight,
Or freeze,
Right?
And I do want to say one thing.
When you work with the nervous system through techniques like we're going to do today,
It is not a spontaneous,
You're not going to feel a spontaneous instantly,
Like everything's great,
Right?
But you will feel the ease in your body.
You'll feel if your body likes it,
If your body doesn't like it.
It's not like popping a pill and all of a sudden my anxiety is gone,
But it does lessen it and it does stop it from rising,
Right?
And the more that you create and work with these tools,
The more that you swing not as high.
And you become aware when you're starting to edge towards that fight,
Fight,
Or freeze.
The more that you become aware and you know your body,
You can feel it happening.
So you begin to stop it before it rises too far.
And you can begin to bring awareness to it.
Since I've been doing this,
My life has,
I have felt more ease in my life,
More effortlessness in my life.
I've had the best sleep of my life.
My family has had wonderful experiences with all of this as well.
And I would take that over anything because doing this kind of work for yourself is long lasting.
It's not like you have to keep taking that pillar,
Keep doing that thing,
Right?
It's like I'm building a habit that supports me through my lifetime.
All right.
So,
And all of these things that I'm going to show you are simple.
They're not long.
They're not like a half hour long.
They're all different things that I want you to try with me today and say,
Okay,
I like this.
And you can say,
Nah,
I don't like that one,
Right?
You go with what feels good for you.
I'm going to give you lots of options.
So yeah,
So awareness is what calms our system.
Awareness creates safety and relationship with our body.
OK,
And we are going to start by just.
Finding ourselves here.
So wherever you are,
No closing your eyes right now.
Just feel where you're sitting.
Take a breath in through your nose.
And then just sigh it out.
Give it a little bit of voice if you want.
Breathe in again.
And open your mouth and sigh it out.
And all we're going to do is wherever you are,
I want you to use your head in your eyes and look around.
And I want you to find things in your space.
That are supporting you.
Now,
I don't need there to be a story.
Like the story might be,
Well,
The floor.
The floor and the story might be,
Oh,
It's keeping me from falling down to the ground,
Or it's holding me up,
It's supporting me.
I only need you to name it.
The floor.
The ceiling,
The story might be,
Oh,
Well,
I'm not getting rained on,
But I don't need the story.
Just name a few things in your space that are supporting you,
That give you a sense of safety.
I can say the windows and the plants.
Like,
I know the story for that,
But I only have to name them.
Things in my space that just.
.
.
Support me so go ahead and do that for a minute look around you know you can even it's always good to stretch your neck a little stretch your shoulders as you're looking you can't do this wrong Just finding things in your space that support you.
You can name them silently.
You don't have to say them out loud.
I forgot to say that.
And then for a minute,
This time,
Close your eyes and you're going to go into your body.
And I want you to just peruse the inside of your body and find the things that are supporting you in your body.
They might be organs.
They might be like systems in your body.
Again,
No story,
No judgment.
Just what is supporting me in this moment in my body?
Like my story might be,
Well,
My heart is supporting me.
It's beating.
My circulatory system.
Right?
My lungs breathing.
Whatever it be.
My ear is hearing,
Right?
Just name two or three things in your body that are supporting you.
It can be anything in your body.
I like to close my eyes because it keeps my awareness in.
And what this is doing is orienting you to the space as well as giving you a little bit of a sense of safety and also orienting you to your body.
So just by having your eyes look around,
You're orienting to your space.
You're like,
Okay,
I'm here.
This is where I am.
And we're working on things that keep us safe and secure.
As we're in our body,
Okay,
We're in our body.
Wow,
These are systems in my body that support me.
Okay,
Beautiful.
And that's just one thing you can start with.
You know,
It's funny when I wake up every morning,
That's what I do before I get out of bed.
I look around the room and I am very grateful for all the things that support me in the room.
And then take a nice breath in through your nose.
And out through the mouth.
Now,
There are a few breaths that can support us with the nervous system.
We're going to go over,
We'll go over three.
One is just a deep breath,
Just a deep breath to inhale and notice and be aware of what's filling in your body and what is emptying.
Like,
Do you feel it in your chest?
Do you feel it in your ribs,
In your stomach?
Do you feel it just kind of even,
Maybe you can feel it in your throat,
Like expanding as you're breathing in,
Whatever it be,
There's no wrong answers.
Through your nose.
And out through the nose or the mouth,
Doesn't matter.
And feel The filling.
And the emptying.
Just a few more times inhaling whenever you're ready.
And exhaling when you're ready.
You might even notice the temperature of air as you breathe in.
You might notice the flow of air.
You might notice where your body is moving.
All right,
One more time,
Inhaling.
You might notice you want to move a little.
Like I'm noticing,
Oh,
I think I might want to dance tonight.
My upper shoulders want to just really move today.
And exhaling.
And this is just learning to keep your awareness on something.
When our awareness is on something with our body or what we're doing,
Our awareness is not in the past.
It is not in the future.
It is in the present.
And that is where we don't have the same anxieties,
Right?
We're keeping it here in the present.
So that's one breath.
Another breath,
My favorite.
Anyone who's been with me before has definitely heard me speak about the physiological side.
The physiological sigh was studied with the HeartMath Institute and they had amazing results with it.
You're inhaling through your nose in two gentle sips and then you're opening your mouth and you're sighing it out.
It sounds like this.
It's very natural to human beings.
Watch a toddler have a tantrum when they're done.
What do they do?
No,
I exaggerated that.
But that inhaling through the nose,
Exhaling through the mouth and the sigh,
That is so natural to begin to calm our nervous system down after we've had like one of those swings.
So let's do just a few,
Okay?
Inhaling through your nose,
Two gentle sips,
And you can do them at your own time.
You don't have to follow me.
Two gentle sips in through the nose.
Open your mouth and sigh it out.
And even on that side,
You can imagine just letting it out.
You can imagine just,
Right?
It's fine.
Inhaling two gentle sips.
Sigh.
Sigh.
And maybe one more.
Sigh.
And then just close your eyes.
And notice what your body feels like.
Does your body like that breath?
Does it feel good?
I always feel a little tingly,
But a soft,
Gentle tingly,
Not like an energized tingly.
I always feel a little bit like I just feel the movement from that.
Everything is kind of shifting back into place.
So just notice for yourself,
How do I feel with that breath?
Did I like it?
Make a mental note.
Did I like that one?
Maybe I could go back to that one.
My whole family uses this one.
My nine year old who has a lot of,
You know,
She has a lot of moments where she's like,
Ah,
When she's at that point,
She knows to start breathing like this and conversations start again.
You know,
It's amazing.
So that's a physiological sigh.
If you're going to do a physiological sigh in a moment of like,
Okay,
I feel that coming up.
I feel myself maybe going way towards that fight,
Flight,
Or freeze.
Then I usually do nine rounds,
If not three rounds of nine.
The more I do it,
The more I settle in.
And I can feel that.
But it's one of my favorites.
It's not everyone's favorite.
All right.
The next one we can do is an elongated exhale.
And I like these because they don't require counting.
Some people like when they have their nervous system out of balance.
They like the counting.
It helps keep them there.
So you might be one of those people who wants to count inhale to four,
Exhale to six or eight.
It doesn't matter if you want to count or not.
You might be one of those people that like that.
But we're just going to inhale and then exhale longer than our inhale.
So we're going to inhale through our nose.
And you have a choice here.
Exhale.
You can exhale through blowing a cool stream of air through your lips,
Like you're blowing at a candle,
Or you can exhale through your nose.
So either way works.
So let's just try like three of those.
Inhaling through your nose.
And then exhaling through your mouth or through your nose,
But longer than your inhale.
Inhaling again.
Exhaling through your lips or your nose.
And one more time,
Inhaling.
I often do this at night because I like to enter the dream state with my nervous system,
Like really in that rest or digest.
So before I go to sleep,
Me and my daughter will do this breath.
And I like to do a gentle cool stream through my lips at night.
And of course,
You can add to this a hum.
And a hum is where we bring in the vagus nerve.
So when you inhale through your nose,
Instead of exhaling through your nose,
You'll exhale with your teeth apart,
Your lips together.
Now,
The beautiful thing about this is also it gives you vibration to keep your awareness on.
Like you can keep your awareness hunting for how deep that vibration is.
You can keep your awareness on where you feel that vibration from the hum.
So we're just gonna inhale.
And then hum.
I can feel itchy on my lips.
One of my favorite games to play with myself is to see how deep I can feel the vibration when I hum.
So try that,
Breathing in through your nose.
Right.
And really,
If you pay attention,
That's an elongated exhale.
So that's like a two for one.
All of these things,
When we breathe and we bring our awareness to it,
It doubles down on it,
Right?
It doubles down on bringing our nervous system into balance.
So just for a minute,
After doing all that breathing,
Just stop,
Close your eyes,
And bring your awareness in.
See what your system feels like.
What does it feel like?
Is it happy with all of that?
Does it feel calmer?
Does it feel more energized?
Yeah.
Here's another way to use your awareness.
I invite you to close your eyes for a minute because we're going to go inward.
And I do this sometimes when I feel the beginning of getting anxious or nervous about something.
Like I have,
I get a lot,
Sometimes I'm in the house,
Right?
And I know I have 15 things to do on my to-do list.
And I noticed that I'm doing things sloppily.
I will sit down and do this and it will bring me right back to the present moment.
But when I go back into my to-do list,
I noticed that I have much more ease with the whole process.
And I'm like,
Oh,
That's what I wanted to do.
Okay,
I can do this.
It's da-da-da-da-da-da-da,
Right?
It's so easy to be overwhelmed these days.
With your eyes closed,
Just,
I want you to bring awareness to the shape of your body.
Can you notice?
The spaces.
Like the space between your toes.
Or your fingers.
Can you.
.
.
Bring your awareness to the shape that your whole body is creating.
Maybe you can bring your awareness to the angles that your body is making.
Can you find like.
.
.
Sharper angle that your body is making.
Maybe you can find the more curved area of your body right now.
We are orienting to our body.
In the present moment because you are here and you are safe.
Can you sense with your eyes closed?
Where your weight is in your body are you more leaning in one direction with your weight is it evenly distributed One of my favorite things to do is to place my awareness on the back of my thighs.
And feel the weight of my thighs against a support.
Because that feels steady and sturdy to me.
Now everyone's going to have different things that feel that safe and secure to them.
For me,
It's the back of my thigh.
Can you notice any sensations across?
Your body.
With your awareness in,
Do you notice maybe a sense of lightness?
And a sense of weightedness.
Maybe a sense of expansiveness or contraction.
Do you notice that anywhere in your body?
And then notice what's supporting you,
What's underneath you.
Notice where your body is touching the support beneath you.
And then notice where the air touches you.
Or where the fabric of your clothes touch you.
Choose one.
Just start to notice yourself.
In this moment.
And your body.
And then when you're ready,
Just open your eyes.
Notice.
How your body feels with your eyes open.
So we've gone through just inner awareness,
Right?
Awareness in our environment,
With our eyes,
With our bodies.
We've done some breaths.
Now,
Another thing that you can do for your nervous system to balance,
Another thing you can practice is touch.
Touch.
Now,
I'm going to give you three options.
Y'all choose whatever one you want.
All right,
So you can tap anywhere on your body.
You can just tap.
You can tap.
One of the things I used to love to do is like the raindrops on my skull.
And I think I got that from doing it for my kids before they went to sleep.
Just raindrops.
You can tap like that.
I'm going to tap here.
This is the collarbone point.
Always a good one to know for general stress.
Or you can give yourself a hug.
And I always,
It's so funny,
I always bring one arm around because I feel so supported by that.
Another thing you could do is like find an area and you can.
Do a circular rub you can hold your own hand or massage gentle pressure yeah so pick one thing you're going to do with your body and touch And I'm going to actually do this because I really like tapping here.
And I want you to just close your eyes.
And place your awareness in your body receiving that touch.
Just place your awareness in your body receiving that touch.
What does it feel like if it's pressure or like a massage kind of movement?
What does that feel like?
Can you let go into it?
If it's tapping,
Can you feel the vibration?
If it's a hug,
Can you feel the warmth of your own hand?
And what do you notice?
Sometimes I'm just doing this.
I have my hands on my thighs,
And I'm just kind of going back and forth,
Creating friction and heat.
And it allows me to just keep my awareness and attention on a part of my body.
So just notice for yourself,
Is that something that feels good to you?
We're just playing with bringing our awareness to all different elements.
I'm going to walk you through now a little bit of a body scan.
Body scans a little bit more than just noticing and bringing your awareness in,
But I'll walk you through it.
It's not long.
And this is something you can do before bed.
A body scan is fantastic before bed or when you wake up.
Or if I know I'm going to be doing something that I don't like that causes me anxiety,
Or if I start feeling anxiety,
If I can do a body scan and then I find that place in myself that feels secure and safe,
It will alleviate a lot of it.
So a body scan is we're just going to bring our awareness in and just travel.
We're going to bring our awareness internally and externally in our body.
So just close your eyes one more time.
And just bringing your awareness to your jaw.
Just bringing your awareness to your jaw,
The hinges of your jaw.
The bones of your jaw.
The muscles that support your jaw.
And when I say bring your awareness to it,
I mean like you're gently laying a blanket.
It's like you're tucking in a child,
Right?
Gently like bringing and laying a blanket over that area of just softness.
Awareness alone will bring a release.
It will start the release of stress and tension.
So just the awareness.
You have nothing to do other than lay that blanket over that area of your awareness.
Think of it like softness.
So all across the jaw.
Maybe even down to the chin.
You might even bring in the inside of the right cheek and the left cheek.
All in that area.
And then bring your awareness to your throat,
Maybe the back root of the tongue.
The center of the throat.
The right side of the neck,
The left side of the neck.
The back of the neck.
Just bring your awareness and wrap your throat and your neck.
That softness,
Right?
That softness.
Of awareness.
And then let that blanket of awareness be laid across your shoulders.
Maybe across your collarbone.
Out to the front of your shoulders.
The shoulder joint.
The back of your shoulders and your shoulder blades.
All the muscles in the shoulders and the tendons in the shoulders.
Just laying that blanket.
Awareness over it,
Tucking it in,
In a sense.
And then bringing your awareness to your chest.
The upper rib.
The heart space.
Maybe the back upper ribs and the front upper ribs.
On the right side,
On the left side.
And then the heart space.
Bring your awareness across the heart,
The front of the heart,
The back of the heart,
Both sides of the heart.
Bringing your awareness down to your belly and your lower belly.
Laying that blanket of awareness over gently.
And going down to the pelvic bowl and the hips.
The crease of the hips.
Front of the hips the glutes back of the hips Even that tailbone is in that area,
Right?
Just gentle awareness across that area.
Down to the feet the soles of the feet each one of your toes on your right foot your left foot the tops of your feet.
That blanket of awareness.
Gentle and loving.
And maybe even your hands,
The palms of your hands.
The backs of your hands,
Each knuckle,
Each finger.
Even the spaces between your fingers.
Under that blanket of awareness.
And letting your awareness shift now to looking across the body for that place of safety,
That place of security.
Where in your body right now do you feel a sense of home?
A sense of security,
A sense of safety.
Your home.
Your inner life,
Right?
That's home for your inner life.
Where in your body do you feel it?
And it will be different for everyone.
And it will change for you from one day to the next.
Where do you feel that sense of home?
And wherever you find it,
I want you to inhale into it,
Expanding it.
Exhale,
Contracting it right to its very little pit in the center of where that sense of home is.
And one more time,
Inhaling,
Expanding that area,
That safety,
That security.
And then exhaling.
Contracting right back to the center point of that's part of home for you today.
And just take a breath in through your nose.
Sigh it out.
That's a little bit of a body scan.
You can scan through the skeleton.
You can scan through the muscles.
You can scan through different body parts.
You can scan through the organs,
Through the chakras,
Through the energy centers.
But just bringing your awareness to a bunch of different places.
Sets you up beautifully for amazing rest.
A little effortlessness.
Going to do a quick visualization.
And like I said earlier,
When I say learning to walk the grounds of your life,
It does come from my book.
And my book is about a carnival and the grounds of that carnival being different elements of our inner landscape.
We're not going to rush.
We're not going to rush through this visualization.
Don't feel like you have to go fast.
Don't feel like you have to push.
We're going to open up our senses,
But we're going to go to that.
Place where you are at the entrance of your own inner world everyone's is going to look different mine is like this midnight carnival but what does yours look like so we're going to go into visualization to the entrance of the grounds of your own inner world Okay,
And we're not necessarily going to go.
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Into it we're gonna be with it we're gonna be present with it and whatever comes up no judging no judging remember we are not simple people we have things we have ancestral stuff we have collective stuff we have family stuff we have so much going on so we're not judging it we're just being present with it okay so we're going to go into the entrance of the grounds of your own inner world so i invite you to close your eyes Take a breath in through the nose.
You can exhale that out through your nose or through your mouth.
One more filling up in your body and inhale.
And exhaling out.
And I invite you to imagine.
That you are standing at the entrance.
To the grounds of your own inner world.
Looking through the entrance.
There's no.
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Rushed to be anywhere?
We're not holding any judgment,
Just witnessing.
Just witnessing a path into your own inner world,
Your own inner landscape.
What do you notice?
Take a moment to open up to your inner vision.
What do you see?
Maybe you see colors.
Textures.
Objects.
Maybe you see people.
There's no right answer here.
What do you see?
Maybe you see symbols or words.
You might notice what the quality of light is in this beautiful grounds of your own inner world.
You might notice movement.
Or still death.
For a second,
Open up your sense of smell.
And notice if there's any aromas.
In the air.
What do you smell here?
Maybe it's something.
That normally comes from a kitchen.
Or from nature.
Just notice if there are any aromas for you to pick up in the air.
And for a moment.
I invite you to open up your inner ears.
Listening for the sound.
All around you in this place.
You might hear them in the distance,
Inside that beautiful inner world.
Or they might be closer to you.
Maybe they're sounds of nature,
Of people,
Of things.
Maybe it's a distant melody.
A song.
Maybe it's in a language that you don't know in this life.
Opening up your inner ears to what you hear.
I invite you to notice.
How your skin feels here?
Do you feel a breeze?
Does it feel warm or cold?
Does your body feel pulled in any direction?
Notice any emotions coming up Notice any sensations across the body.
And as you're standing,
At this entrance.
I invite you to notice.
At the entrance,
A lantern.
A lantern with a warm inviting glow.
Steady.
Glow.
A lantern that you can pick up and bring with you onto the grounds of your own inner world anytime you want.
And you know,
This lantern is here.
To protect you through the time you go into your inner world.
So just sit.
With this lantern allow yourself to look at the lantern to see the light to bring the light into you Breathe with its flicker.
To enter our inner world.
And these grounds,
We don't have to abandon our body.
Stay in the awareness of that warmth,
That light.
Breathing it in.
And quietly,
I invite you to ask yourself,
What quality?
Do I most want to bring with me?
As I walk the grounds of my life.
What quality do I most want to bring with me?
As I walk the grounds of my life.
And when you're ready,
You can take a nice deep breath,
Feeling it in your body,
Feeling it move your body.
I like to sigh out with voice.
It brings everything back into my body.
Inhaling.
Exhaling you might wiggle your fingers you might tap on your chest you might give yourself a hug You might blink your eyes open.
I just want to say that if we want to.
Create meaningful change in our life if we want to explore the depths of the coolness of who we are as human beings and what we bring into this life which is Truly amazing.
If we want to do that,
We have to find safety in our nervous system.
We need to find safety in our body because if we're out exploring all of that awesomeness.
And we don't have a tether back to safety in our body.
It becomes scary.
And sometimes we won't go back there.
So creating these little pieces of safety,
You could do any of the things we talked about today for five minutes a day,
Maybe five minutes every other day.
And every time you do it,
You're building,
You're building that library.
The more you do,
The more you practice,
The easier and more effortless it becomes and the more safe you begin to feel.
It doesn't happen all at once.
But it is a beautiful practice that adds to itself.
And it adds to itself in a most beautiful way.
As we learn to walk the grounds of our life and we get to explore all of the beautiful challenges and obstacles and all the depths of who we are because we are amazing,
Just awesomeness.
We're amazing beings.
And this is what I have learned truly.
And when we find safety in our bodies and we can go there,
We can go there and see our own beauty.
It's not scary we actually have a safe place within our body my friends thank you so much for joining me today i hope you have a beautiful rest of your night or day whatever time it is thank you so much namaste
