When Fibromyalgia Flares - For Pain & Fatigue

When fibromyalgia flares, even resting can feel difficult.

Created from my own lived experience with fibromyalgia, this gentle 20-minute meditation is for the days when your body aches, your energy is low and everything feels like it asks a little too much of you.

Rather than asking your body to relax, change or feel differently, you'll be guided to notice where you are supported, make a little more room around difficult sensations, and meet the body you have today with care rather than pressure.

Listen lying down, curled up somewhere comfortable, or in whatever position asks the least of your body.

There is nothing to push through and nowhere you need to get to.

Let your body be a body that needs care, not a problem to solve.

Music by Mo Medeiros from Pixabay

Transcript

Welcome. If today is a harder day in your body. You don't need to pretend otherwise here. You don't need to push through. You don't need to make the most of these next few minutes. And you don't need to use this meditation to make yourself feel better. For now. You can simply be here. Find the position that asks the least of your body. You may be lying down, Curled on your side, Supported by pillows. Sitting somewhere soft. There is no meditation posture you need to hold. That comfort matter more than form. Before we turn our attention towards your body. Notice something outside of it. A sound in the room. The feeling of fabric against you. The temperature of the air. There is more to this moment than what hurts. You don't have to deny the pain to notice that. We are simply widening the space around it. Now, Notice where your body is being supported. Not where it hurts. But notice where it is held. Maybe the mattress beneath you. The chair against your back. A pillow beneath your head. The ground beneath your feet. Find one place where your body doesn't have to hold itself up. Let your attention stay there for a while. Nothing to soften. Nothing to release. Just support. If your body feels heavy today. Let it be heavy. You don't need to lift yourself out of that feeling. If your muscles ache. You don't need to convince them to relax. If your energy feels almost completely gone. You don't have to find more. Meet the body that is actually here today. Not yesterday's body, Not the body you hoped you'd wake up in. This one. And notice if there is any part of you that has been arguing with them. I should be doing more. I was supposed to get that done. Why am I this tired? I don't have time for this. You don't need to make those thoughts disappear either. Just notice how tiring it can be. To her. And then fight yourself for hurting. For these few minutes, See what happens if you put down the argument. Today is a harder day. That's enough information for now. Bring your awareness back to the place where your body is supported. Feel what is beneath you. Let it take your weight. Imagine that you could make a little more room around the sensations in your body. Not pushing them away. Not trying to breathe through them. Chest, Breathe. Pain can make our awareness become very small. It pulls us towards the places that hurt. So gently notice something beyond those places. A sound. The air. The surface beneath you. Your breath moving on its own. The discomfort can be here. And there can also be this. You don't have to choose between acknowledging your pain. And notice something gentle. Both can belong to this moment. And now ask yourself quietly. What would make this moment a little kinder. Don't search too hard. Let your body answer in whatever way it can. Maybe there is something. Maybe there isn't. Either is okay. For now, Let being here be enough. There are days for doing. There are days for moving. There are days when your world becomes smaller and your body asks you to move differently through it. A slower day is still a day of your life. You are still here within it. So for the next little while I'm going to stop talking. There is nothing you need to practice. Nothing to count, Nothing to visualize. Let yourself be supported. And let this time belong to you. And slowly notice the room around you again. There is no need to get up when this meditation ends. There is no next step hidden inside this practice. You can stay exactly where you are. And if the rest of today needs to be smaller than you planned. Let it be smaller. You don't need to measure this day by how much you manage to do. For now, Let your body be a body that needs care. Not a problem to solve. Take whatever time you need before moving again. I'll leave you here with nothing else required of you.