Welcome to your Navigating Your Emotional Orbits practice.
If you haven't already,
I invite you to be in an environment where you are not going to be interrupted,
Where you have space to move your body,
Where you feel a sense of peace and safety.
We are going to start in a seated position,
Either on your knees or in a meditative posture.
As you come into a seated position,
I invite you to slowly start to focus on your breath.
Closing your eyes,
Allowing yourself just to feel a slow inhale and exhale,
Noticing how shallow your breathing is,
And noticing how deep your breathing is.
We're not going to try to alter your breath,
But just taking an audit of where your breath feels in your body today.
And slowly,
We're going to start focusing your breath on your womb,
Taking a few deep breaths,
Perhaps placing one hand on your womb,
One hand on your heart,
And asking yourself,
What am I feeling in this moment?
I encourage you to drop the story of what you're experiencing,
And really move into the language of sensations.
I'm feeling tense,
I'm feeling hot,
And gently noticing where these sensations live in your body.
Maybe at the back of your head,
The base of your spine,
Your right toe.
And then putting your palms and hands together,
You're going to breathe into your hands,
And place your hands at any of these locations in your body that are experiencing sensations.
And ask them for consent.
Are you open to having a dialogue with me today?
Are you open to having a conversation with me today?
And what we're doing here is we're not wanting to make any of these sensations and these feelings wrong.
We're wanting to drop in deeper to what the body is experiencing without drowning in the emotion.
So we're going to simply ask our body to communicate with us.
What do you need?
What are you desiring to express?
Allowing your body to answer.
Allowing the sensations to communicate to you as they are simply messengers for what's happening underneath your body,
Underneath your mind.
And you may start to notice these sensations or any feelings that you were having at the beginning of this practice being amplified.
Maybe before this practice you were feeling frustrated or you were feeling a particular flavor of grief and that's amplified even deeper.
And I encourage you to connect back with your breath.
Allow your breath to be anchored into the earth,
Anchored into your womb.
Allowing yourself to attune to the sensations that are communicating with you and where these live in your body.
Simply breathe with them.
Simply allow there to be a dialogue with them.
What are they needing?
What are they desiring to express?
And then whatever you're feeling in this moment,
I want you to start gently circling your hips.
Whatever overanalyzing you may be doing or trying to get to the root of it,
Of what age this is attached to or what experience this is linked to in your childhood,
Just put that down for a moment.
Just put that down for a moment.
Let's go a little deeper here.
Let's get out of the head and into the body.
Slowly rolling your hips,
Breathing,
Asking yourself,
How can I be in relationship to whatever emotion and sensation is occurring in your world?
And maybe reflecting on what part of you is making this sensation and this emotion wrong?
What part of you is labeling it as wrong or denying the full spectrum of your experience as a human being?
Extending yourself some grace and compassion here.
And you're going to bring one of your hands up to your heart if you haven't already.
And just start gently tapping your heart.
So gently tapping almost as if you were defrosting your heart or waking it up to feel a little more deeper here.
Activating the sensations of your heart to be more experienced in this practice.
And continuing to breathe,
Continuing to allow yourself to be in the fluidness of your body.
And with that open-hearted energy,
Going to gently invite whatever sensation,
Whatever emotion is present more deeply into your body.
You're opening yourself to experience this emotion deeper.
So perhaps if you're experiencing anger,
Allowing yourself to really inhabit that experience of anger.
And remember,
We're doing this in a healthy,
Contained way with all of the emotions,
With whatever emotion you're experiencing here.
So taking a few deep breaths and feeling it extend throughout your auric field,
Extend in every cell of your being.
And perhaps the way that it's desiring to express itself through you is gently shaking.
Or maybe that's a little bit of a more aggressive shake.
Perhaps if you're allowing yourself to experience your grief more fully,
Maybe you're allowing yourself to cry.
And remember that throughout this practice,
This is not about getting lost in the emotion.
This is about cultivating a relationship with them through an open heart and a strong spine.
So throughout whatever emotion you're allowing yourself to experience in a deeper way,
You're breathing into your womb.
You're breathing into your roots.
You're allowing yourself to feel the strength of your spine,
The strength of God,
The universe,
Yourself,
Earth holding you in this practice.
And the medicine is moving through your body to express whatever emotion is needing to be expressed as you navigate and move throughout your emotional orbits.
Watch where your ego,
Watch where the parts of you that are not in your full truth are trying to make yourself wrong from whatever you're experiencing.
And really be in relationship to whatever emotion is flowing through your body.
What does it look like to be in a conversation?
What does it look like to be in a dialogue?
What does it look like to really give this part of you what it needs in a healthy,
Contained way?
And being here for a few more moments,
Allowing yourself to amplify whatever expression you're experiencing.
Breathing deeply and slowly starting to come back to stillness,
Slowly starting to come back to a neutral space.
Taking a few deep breaths and letting out a big sigh.
Breathing in,
Deep breath,
Breathing out a sigh.
Breathing in,
Letting out a sigh.
And calling upon the energy of Mother Earth and the earth element to hold you.
Maybe bringing yourself into a posture position that allows you to experience deeper safety.
Maybe gently giving yourself a hug.
And know that you can always come back to this practice.
You can always take the framework of the practice and apply it into a longer one.
And now the real practice begins with asking yourself,
How can I be in relationship to my emotional orbits in a healthy,
Contained way?
What do they need?
How can I integrate what I've learned here into the most mundane moments of my life?
And slowly when you're ready,
You're going to start opening up your eyes.
Tingling and wiggling your fingers and your toes.
Maybe shaking out softly and returning to whatever space that you're in.
And after this practice,
I encourage you,
If you can,
To drink water,
Be in nature,
Go have a bath with salt in it.
Don't rush to be on a computer screen or Netflix or jump into work right away.
Really allow yourself to be in integration and to give your body what it needs.
