Trauma-Informed Anchor Meditation

This trauma-informed anchor meditation is a powerful meditation to help connect you to a center of calm within you. If you are working with releasing stress, anxiety and fear and welcoming clear, confident energy, this meditation can help. With time and attention, you can be free of anxious thoughts and feelings and create a positive state within. Try doing the meditation daily and tracking how your mind, body and emotions shift. Enjoy!

Transcript

Today we'll be doing the trauma-informed anchor meditation.

So let's go ahead and get started by making yourself comfortable and close your eyes if that feels good to you.

And if it's not comfortable closing your eyes,

Go ahead and maintain a soft gaze where you're looking at nothing in particular.

Bring your attention to the present moment,

Just noticing your body in space in this present moment.

Now focus on your breath.

Notice your breath coming in and out of your nostrils,

The temperature,

The pace.

Notice your stomach or your chest rise and fall with your breath.

Just noticing your breath and keep noticing.

Now tune your attention into your body.

Notice any sensations in your body,

Whether they be uncomfortable,

Discomfort,

Or pleasant,

Or even neutral.

Notice the different sensations in your body at this time.

And just keep noticing.

Now begin to notice sounds around you in your environment.

Notice pleasant sounds and you can notice the silence in between sounds.

Keep noticing.

Now return to the anchor of breath,

The anchor of sensation or the anchor of sound,

Whichever was most helpful for you to relax and fall into ease within your body.

So return to that anchor that feels best to you,

Breath,

Sensation,

Or sound,

And allow yourself to have just a few more moments with your attention focused on that anchor.

And you can use this anchor meditation regularly when you need a moment to be present,

Following that anchor that helps you be most present with yourself at this very moment.

And the more you practice it,

The easier it will get to both tune into the anchor and into yourself in this moment to be connected to your present moment.

So take one more breath in deep into your body.

And as you release anything else you don't need,

You can gently open your eyes,

Move around in your body,

Wiggle things out and enjoy the rest of your day or your evening.

Many blessings to you.

Thank you.

Reviews

Lovely and brief mindfulnesss guidance emphasizing finding an anchor that works best