A 2-Minute Reset When Letting Go Feels Unsafe

If you’ve been holding everything together, if softening feels unsafe, or if letting go makes your body tense, this 2-minute reset is for you.

In this gentle somatic practice, you’ll guide your nervous system out of bracing and into a felt sense of safety. Together we use a simple coherence breath:

Inhale — I trust my power.
Exhale — without needing control.

This meditation helps release the patterns of tightening, anticipating, and over-holding that come from living in survival mode. It offers your body a moment where safety doesn’t come from control, but from presence.

Use this anytime you're overwhelmed, anxious, or carrying too much. Repeat it as often as your system needs.

You’re safe to soften. You’re safe to trust yourself again.

Transcript

If you've been holding everything together.

If letting go feels unsafe.

If it feels like the moment you soften,

Everything might fall apart.

This is a one-minute reset for your nervous system.

If it's comfortable,

Place one hand on your heart.

And if the breath ever feels too strong,

Just slow it down and return to your natural pace.

This is meant to support you,

Not strain you.

So many of us learn that safety comes from control.

From bracing,

Anticipating,

Tightening,

Performing.

But your body can't receive support,

Clarity,

Or abundance when it's preparing for everything to go wrong.

Let's teach your system a new truth,

Gently.

Inhale for five.

I trust my power.

Exhale for five.

Without needing control.

Inhale for five.

I trust my power.

Exhale for five.

Without needing control.

Inhale.

I trust my power.

Exhale.

Without needing control.

Inhale.

I trust my power.

Exhale.

Without needing control.

Last two.

Inhale.

I trust my power.

Exhale.

Relief.

Without needing control.

Last one.

Deep breath.

Inhale.

I trust my power.

Exhale.

Settle it into the body.

Without needing control.

You just gave your body a moment where control wasn't required for safety.

Where softening didn't equal collapse.

Where receiving didn't depend on effort.

If this helps settle something inside of you,

Save it,

Share it with someone who's holding too much to.

Or put it on loop as many times as your system needs.

You're safe to soften.

You're safe to trust yourself again.

One breath at a time.

Together we rise.