Sitting With Sadness - Emotional Support Meditation

By using this short but powerful meditation you can learn to feel ok just sitting with your emotions. This meditation is working with sadness, but the same process can be used with all emotions. Sitting with our emotions rather than suppressing them is a very healing practice. It allows us to let go of the fear of feeling, to be ok with processing our emotions, and to build confidence in our own abilities to cope and deal with what life brings!

Music
Title: Healing Meditation Loop
License: Individual License, Commercial
Composer: Jordan Jessep

Transcript

My name is Cori. Let's sit down and take a few minutes to meditate together. You can either lay down if you prefer to be more comfortable or take a seated position. Close your eyes. Take a big deep breath in all the way down to your tummy. A nice big clearing breath. Breathe out when you're ready. Imagine this next breath is like a sweeping breath through your body. Cleansing, Preparing, Getting you ready to just relax for a few minutes and do this meditation. So take a big deep breath. Bring it all the way in. Imagine it sweeping through your body. Breathe out and release. Resume a breath that feels really comfortable for you. One that's slower than normal but it's not strained in any way. With your eyes closed, Start to feel into your heart space. Feel your physical heart and feel the space where your heart chakra would lie right there in the middle of your chest. Take long, Slow, Deep breaths and just feel what's going on inside of your body. Since we're focusing on the emotion of sadness this meditation, You may be feeling sadness like a weight. So check into your heart and see if that part of your body feels heavy. Sadness is heavy. The vibration of sadness is heavy. So when it's present in your body, You normally feel heavy. Your chest may feel tight. It may feel like it aches. Like a yearning, A physical yearning in your chest. It may feel painful and uncomfortable. See if you can really feel into all of those different sensations I'm suggesting as you exhale. Breathe out nice and slow and see what you feel. If you had to put a color on your heart right now in the feeling of sadness, What would the color be? What color is drenched through your heart and your heart space right now? Can you feel the residue of your heart in your throat, In your shoulders, In your back and down your spine? Are the feelings that you feel inside of your heart present on your face? Can you feel your eyebrows burrowed? Can you feel the tightness around your eyes? Just be with your sadness as much as you can feel it. Keep taking long, Slow, Deep breaths. Keep breathing into the sensations and the emotion. Everyone feels sad sometimes. It's okay to feel exactly what you're feeling right now. The good thing from doing this meditation is that you're not suppressing these feelings, These emotions, The sensations. You're not suppressing any of it. You're not resisting any of it. You're being brave enough to just sit with it right now. You're acknowledging your sadness by being a witness to it. You're allowing it to be seen, To be felt and know that this too shall pass. Namaste, My friend.