Mood Alert

This audio is a practical exercise designed to show you how completely your thoughts affect your physical body. The guide acts as a baseline, prompting you to observe immediate shifts in your face, breath, and muscles as they guide you through three distinct mental triggers: a high-stress scenario involving a mounting inbox, a heartwarming mental image of a small animal, and a frustrating situation that provokes anger. The track wraps up with a visualization exercise that uses calming scenery like a forest or ocean to physically trigger relaxation and bring your body back to a peaceful equilibrium.

Transcript

This is a mood alert meditation. It's really to give you some experience of how the thoughts that we're thinking have that physiological response in our body. So you might notice what's happening to your facial muscles or your breathing or the response in your body generally. So just noticing that as it comes up, But not too much thinking. Thinking, Just noticing. So getting yourself comfortable, Sitting up, Alert. Let's begin. Okay, So just starting with that tuning into the present moment, Just feeling your feet on the floor. The weight of your body on the chair. Sense of gravity. And just start by noticing your breath coming in. And your breath going out. And the first thing we're going to bring to mind is that sense of stress. So it might be overwhelmed or too many things to do. Perhaps you're looking at your email inbox and you see lots of new emails that have come in. And just at a glance, You can tell that there's a lot of things that you're going to need to do. Result of that. Just noticing how that impacts on your body. Okay. And now moving on. Just imagining something that's really sweet. It might be a nice puppy or a sweet little kitten. Or even a baby. Just something that kind of makes you go, Oh! Just imagining that right now. Just noticing how your body has responded. With this thought. And then the next thing. Something that makes you quite angry. So it could be someone disrespecting you or some kind of road rage if somebody cuts you up. In the road. It might be you're shopping and you're in a queue and you're really in a rush and something's happening at the till or perhaps people are pushing in. And with this one, I'd just like you to clench your fists. Just feel. What that does and maybe even pulling a face, That kind of angry face that you get. I'm noticing what's happened to. . . You're breathing. And the rest of your body. We're just going to finish with some calm. So when you hear that word calm, Can you imagine a scene that would bring you calm? So perhaps being by the sea, Watching it lapping against the shore, Maybe hearing the waves. Or perhaps just being in a forest. Trees all around you. Or a beautiful mountain or lake. And picture yourself being there, Or just the scene. And just noticing how your body relaxes now. Okay.