Longer Meditation To Reduce Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion often tied to inner turmoil and apprehension about the future. While fear is a natural response that helps protect us, anxiety is a prolonged reaction to fear that can affect the body without clear causes. This meditation is designed to help you stop fighting your anxiety, welcome its messages, and then release it with love and understanding, knowing that resisting anxiety only strengthens it.

This meditation acknowledges the role of the amygdala, our brain’s center for processing fear and anxiety. By practicing this meditation regularly, you can help regulate your body’s response to anxiety, bringing balance and peace back into your life.

Throughout this guided meditation, you’ll be invited to connect with your body, focusing on areas where anxiety might be held, such as the chest, throat, or stomach. By breathing deeply into these areas, you’ll allow yourself to release tension and bring love to those spaces.

Transcript

Meditation to reduce anxiety. Anxiety is an emotion often attached to a sense of inner turmoil and dread about future events. Some people often confuse fear with anxiety. Fear is an automatic emotion that helps our conscious be vigilant about our safety. Anxiety is our reaction to fear. Anxiety can be confusing to our bodies because we can feel anxiety from something in the past, Present, Or the unknown without identifying any specific trigger. Anxiety can result from avoiding core emotions and personal needs, Such as suppressing sadness. It can also be linked to childhood. This is not a promise, However, University studies have shown that within eight weeks of meditation, An overactive amygdala, Which is responsible for hijacking the brain and causing anxiety, Can be controlled. During this meditation, We will allow the anxiety to exist, Bring the messages we need to hear, And then leave. We will no longer fight it because what we resist persists. Would you allow it just to be there? Let's start. It's best to do this meditation lying down. Find a comfortable place. You can also sit with your back against a solid surface, But a comfortable place. Take a look at the door of the room before closing your eyes. Take a deep and slow breath. Inhale through your nose. Exhale through your mouth. On the next breath, Inhale through your nose. Feel your back against the solid surface. Exhale through your mouth as you say to yourself, I am safe, I am safe, I am safe. Inhale through your nose. Feel your butt against the solid surface. Exhale through your mouth as you say to yourself, I am supported, I am supported, I am supported. Inhale through your nose. Place your attention in your heart. Exhale through your mouth as you say to yourself, I am love, I am love, I am love. Inhale through your nose. Place your attention in your heart once again. Exhale through your mouth as you say to yourself again, But this time, Feel what it feels to be loved. I am love. I am love. I am love. Feel what it feels to be love. Place your attention on your body. Find a part of your body where you feel the most anxiety. Notice it's in your throat, Gut, Heart, Belly or chest. Focus on that part. Breathe by inhaling air through that part of your body. Exhale through that part as you say to yourself, I am open to receive. Keep breathing through the parts of your body where you feel the anxiety most active. If you can't pinpoint it, Select one area. The head, Jaw, Neck, Throat, Heart, Chest and stomach are the most common areas in which we have anxiety. Breathe by inhaling air through that part of your body. Exhale through that part as you say to yourself, I welcome your messages. Keep breathing and saying to yourself, I am ready to hear the messages. I avoid it. I am ready to let it go. I am ready to heal. I allow love to take over. I am writing this time with love in my heart. I am love. All my cells are love. Love. Love. I allow love to reside within me. Be open to any messages you receive and follow your joy by indulging yourself in everything good that comes to mind. Please do not stop taking your medication and follow your doctor's advice. Thank you for meditating with me. This is Ana Borreto signing off.