Long Covid Healing Meditation

This meditation is based around softly speaking some simple, positive words to yourself to help bring your dysregulated nervous system into a calm, para-sympathetic state, from which you can heal.
We're using the affirmation 'I am healthy, whole and complete, just as I am' and speaking to the core of who we are beneath our current physical symptoms.
I used this meditation most days and could literally feel my system calming & re-balancing from the state of fear that Covid can leave you in. I hope you find it helpful on your journey back to health too.

Transcript

Hello,

I'm Alice and welcome to this meditation to help you heal and recover from long COVID.

This is the mantra meditation I use daily to help myself recover from long COVID and I found it really comforting to practice.

In this meditation we'll gently and kindly send messages of calm and safety to our nervous system.

Helping it move from fight and flight into rest and repair.

From sympathetic to parasympathetic and from fear to safety.

And this is the space of healing for our hypervigilant nervous system and for our physical symptoms.

Bringing yourself to a comfortable position,

Either sitting tall in a chair or lying down.

Allowing the weight of your body to be held by the surface beneath you.

And taking a moment here to make sure that you're as comfortable as you can be.

Taking the time to make any small adjustments to your clothes or posture.

This is important.

Showing yourself care and attention.

Giving yourself this time to settle.

When you're ready,

Gently close your eyes or lower your gaze.

And you could try placing one hand on your heart and one on your belly.

If this is too tiring,

Rest your hands wherever feels most natural.

Bringing your attention to your breath now,

Not trying to change anything,

But simply noticing the cool air travelling into your nostrils and the warm air travelling out.

And if it feels okay to do so,

Gently closing your lips and breathing in and out of your nose as softly and quietly as possible.

Slowing down your breathing to a comfortable and calm pace.

And breath in and even breath out.

Same length in,

Same length out.

And noticing your face gently relaxing.

Your shoulders gently releasing any tension.

Your arms and hands settling.

Your chest and back spacious and calm.

Your legs relaxing.

Your feet releasing.

Any tension or sensation in your joints,

Bones or muscles releasing and calming.

And now bringing attention to your chest and your belly.

The area of your heart and the area of your gut.

Repeat these words softly to yourself as many times as you wish.

I am healthy,

Whole and complete just as I am.

I am healthy,

Whole and complete just as I am.

I am healthy,

Whole and complete just as I am.

And feeling this to be true and to be right,

Don't worry if you don't think you are any of these things yet.

Saying these words softly to yourself as many times as you wish.

Gently reminding your brain and your nervous system that you are a healthy,

Whole and complete being.

And feel your nervous system listening.

Feel your body accepting your words.

I am healthy,

Whole and complete just as I am.

I am healthy,

Whole and complete just as I am.

Allow your words to wash over you.

I am healthy,

Whole and complete just as I am.

And bringing your attention back to your breath again now.

Gently deepening your breath.

Slightly longer inhales,

Slightly longer exhales.

Noticing once again the cool air coming into your nostrils and the warm air flowing out.

And begin to bring a little movement back to your body.

Noticing your fingers and your toes.

And then gently opening your eyes.

Going back to your day.

Reviews

unexpectedly calming to my body - beautiful mantra ! thank you.

Although the introduction part is a little bit longer, I like this track and will put it in my playlists. I am sure it can help with many health problems not only with (Long) Covid.
Your soothing voice and the background music is wonderful and helped me calm down from the first second. Where can I find this piece of music?
Thank you so much for this 🫂🤍🙏

This was short and sweet. I am going back to work today after a nasty bout of covid and trying to avoid long covid, so this has left me nice and calm and relaxed!

Thank you for this meditation. I am struggling with long covid and often feeling quite hopeless. Your nice voice helped me relax a bit.

I don’t have long Covid but I do have anxiety and fibromyalgia. I found this to be a useful meditation. . I would have preferred not to have the closing bell because I found it a bit jarring. I found the teacher’s voice and background music soothing. Thank you for offering this. P.S. thank you for removing the bell

Thank you so much, more help is needed in helping people with post-covid symptoms. Such a key message to educate folks that our hyper vigilant nervous systems need calming down.

I'm in long covid recovery, so thank you for this 🙏 Very peaceful and gentle

I love it and make it almost daily, thank u so much for this ♥️🙏🏻

Calm, peaceful, mantra and meditation. Hope this helps my LC. Thank you 🦋🙏🏽🦋

Lovely meditation, very nurturing.

I felt an energetic release down my entire back and legs listening to this. Listened to feel a sense of release and closure from the experience of Covid and the pandemic in general. Glad I did; it was helpful.

Lovely voice and such nice piano music that calmed me down.

Lovely, super helpful to hear as I deal with Covid for the first time. Much gratitude.

Just what I needed thank you

I found this helpful, short and sweet. Could listen to it again and again!

Thank you so much for sharing this meditation, it feels very supportive on my journey to recovery from long covid. I struggle with how loud the music is though as I am sensitive to sound which I think quite a lot of other people with long covid also struggle with.

Peaceful and a bit less fog in my mind and body. 🙏

Feeling frustrated about my covid healing process and this is so helpful. Thank you 💜

Thank you for this Alice, I really needed to try something to deal with the fear of the stress storm coming. I’ve never done mantras but I’m open to trying!

I’m glad I came across your meditation as I am currently suffering with Covid. Thank you for the reminder that I am healthy, I am whole, I am complete. 🙏🏻💕❤️✨