Embrace Your Body: Healing And Connecting Meditation

This is a ten-minute journey of positive attention to your body, shifting any focus on perceived defects or symptoms to appreciation and gratitude. Remember, the moment your body feels seen, heard, understood, and welcomed with all its reactions, impulses, needs, and wisdom, it begins to soften its protections and defenses allowing you to soften yours and feel comfortable.

This guided practice reminds you that your uniqueness is a gift to this world. Your body, with all its individual qualities, is a blessing. Let go of comparisons and embrace your distinctiveness.

Transcript

Let's take a few minutes so that you can embrace your marvelous body. This can be really helpful for when we're hyper focusing on symptoms or perceived defects which we all do sometimes. Remember that the moment the body feels seen and welcomed and appreciated it feels safe and it softens its protections and defenses and we soften those attitudes towards ourselves that make us feel uncomfortable. So let's begin. Settle into any comfortable position allowing your body to feel supported. Take a deep breath in filling up and then exhale slowly and fully feeling yourself land here feeling a release and a relief. One more time for one more conscious breath and let your face soften, Release your jaw if it's been clenching, See if your shoulders can drop a little or a lot, Let your skin be soft, Your breath be soft so that you're softening towards yourself now. Start by acknowledging that your uniqueness is really a gift to this world. No matter what you've learned or been told the truth is that your body with all its individual qualities is always a blessing not just to you but to others. When we let go of comparisons and embrace our distinctiveness we feel our wholeness that's always there. Say to yourself now my uniqueness makes me beautiful. I honor my body for the incredible experiences it has given me. There may have been difficult experiences but remember the good ones. Look at your arms that have reached out and touched and held people who are precious to you, Held loved ones close. Notice your eyes that have witnessed the beauty of oceans and mountains and big green trees and all the wonder of the world. Appreciate your legs that have carried you through your longest journeys and have led you through all sorts of adventures. Feel your belly that has laughed, A real belly laugh with joy and digested some of the most beautiful food and also the most beautiful experiences. Acknowledge your feet that have been grounding you and always will and that have made new footprints on your path and supported you on your hardest days. Go ahead and give your toes a wiggle. Remember your smile that has expressed joy and gratitude and kindness countless times. Take a big breath in and as you exhale release old expectations for perfection or to be different for your body. And say to yourself I respect my body for all it has done for me. My body deserves respect and I will give myself that respect now. Notice any tension coming up for you in your body, Any bracing and see if you can soften through that with your breath especially a long slow exhalation and a letting go of holding. Reflect on how your body has served you even today. Did your hands reach out to hug a loved one or give a gift or claim one? Did your eyes take in beauty around you? Which parts of your body were loved or appreciated today? Which parts helped you? And affirm to yourself now I love my body for all it allows me to do and experience. Take a breath in and a full beautiful exhalation. As we come to the end of this time remember that feeling comfortable in your body often starts with the way you approach it. Just taking a few moments to look upon your body not for what's wrong with it but for the moments and experiences it has given you. It's so powerful and so truthful and honest and when I say not for what's wrong with it I mean in your mind or in ways you've been taught nothing is wrong with your body in the big picture and it's yours and you can claim it no matter what. Let's close with one final affirmation. My imperfections are beautiful and unique. And then filling yourself with gratitude for your body take a final deep breath in and as you exhale feel negative self judgments fading away. And I wonder what can come into that space inside you instead. This is a daily journey often and it might take a while but it does make a difference. We can always have newfound appreciation for anything or anyone and especially for ourself and parts of ourselves that we may have neglected or been unkind to with our thoughts and feelings. You've just experienced a powerful tool in shifting focus here and a real movement towards your body's wisdom and capabilities. So as you bring yourself back carrying this energy with you as much as you can appreciate and recognize that and that you gave that to yourself and please know that your body is listening. That it heard your messages. And it's grateful. It's grateful for the closeness it's experienced and I'm sure it would love to experience it again. Until next time bye for now.

Reviews

This came out at a perfect time for me, as I am investing in a tender, respectful relationship with my body realising how many emotions it still stores, for the first time in my life.

How wonderful to start the journey with such a loving and sacred 'conversation' with my body. Alison, once again thank you for providing the language to make this possible. 🙏

I felt a shift to feeling refreshed and content after this mediation. I’ll come back to it during the day to have a ten minute break and reset. Thanks Alison. Another wonderful meditation !

Thank you dear Alison
Waking up to this loving awareness meditation of my body and sending gratitude for all my body has enabled me to do is very empowering and really has given me a new found appreciation of all I have been able to feel, hold, touch throughout my life.
Many blessings and love
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Thank you for this meditation! My body responded to the loving and nourishing thoughts. 💗🙏🏽