Welcome to Day 23 of the Mid-Year Reset here on Insight Timer.
Your daily moment to pause,
Reflect and return to yourself.
Consistency is where real change begins.
Enjoy today's session.
Welcome to your grounded guided meditation.
This is a root chakra meditation and the result of this is that it's very grounding and helps to reduce overwhelm,
Excessive thoughts in your head and anxiety.
It also by stabilising the root chakra enables the other six chakras up in your chakra system to be more stabilised and secure by having the foundation of all your chakras stabilised.
Think of this like the foundation of a house,
Without laying that strong stable slab the house becomes unstable no matter how well you build it.
So giving some attention to your root chakra is an important part of being stabilised in our life.
You'll find as a result of doing this on a regular daily basis more stability,
More security and increased levels of abundance.
To do this meditation you want to sit on the floor,
Ideally leaning up against a wall,
The sofa or the end of your bed.
Extending your legs out in front of you with your back supported and upright.
This will create an L shape with your legs out in front of you and your back upright.
Move your hands onto your knees.
This now creates an A frame so your arms are extended out in front of you.
This is a very supportive posture.
Now sitting there with your spine upright and legs out in front of you and hands on your knees,
Slide your attention down into the pressure in your buttocks where your buttocks are pressing into the ground.
Start to notice there is some pressure there in your buttocks and the back of your legs where your torso is being pulled into the earth.
All we're going to do is slide our attention out of our head down into this very base area of your body.
Keep your attention on the pressure in the buttocks and the back of the legs pressing into the floor.
Whenever the mind drifts away,
And it will do that at times,
Come back and just simply become aware of the pressure in the buttocks pressing into the floor.
If you wish to,
Flex your pelvic floor muscles to bring more awareness and attention to that area.
There's a saying,
Where the attention goes,
It grows.
We're very top heavy in the way we live our lives.
We think a lot.
We listen a lot.
We talk a lot.
And all of this is up in the head.
So now we're going to bring our attention down,
Down,
Down into the pressure of the buttocks and the back of the legs pressing into the floor.
You'll find this very calming,
Very soothing,
Letting go of the need to think about anything else,
Letting go of going into the future,
Into the past,
But just be here now,
Surrendering into the pressure of your buttocks,
Surrendering everything and just being aware of the pressure of the buttocks pressing into the ground.
Now your mind might become a little bit dissatisfied with this,
A little bit bored with this,
As it goes off searching for more dopamine.
Your meditation here is to continually bring the mind's attention back to that single point.
You'll notice a calmness come over your body.
A peace will start to prevail.
Continue to stay in that single position,
The attention on that one location.
You can continue on for up to 10 minutes with this meditation,
But if you feel your time is complete,
The next stage is to lie down horizontally completely on the floor in rest pose,
And you can stay here for up to 5 to 10 minutes,
Again just lying still,
Grounding into the floor.
This is a very healing,
Grounding and soothing experience for the mind,
The body and the nervous system.
And when you're ready,
You can conclude your meditation,
And ideally try and do this twice a day,
And you'll find yourself much calmer and much more grounded.
