Welcome to your session today.
My name is Shanna Moyer and you are joining me for a meditation in breath and releasing emotion.
As you sink into your body,
I welcome you to close the windows of your eyes,
To drop your chin ever so slightly and let the weight roll off of your shoulders.
Sink down into your space,
Feeling supported by the earth beneath you and know that there is nothing that demands your attention right now except for your breath.
Breathing in and breathing down and starting to envision your emotional body.
As you breathe in,
I invite you to bring your attention down to your feet and consider what emotions might be stored here.
As you breathe,
As you sink in,
Start to envision that they are releasing themselves from your body with each exhalation of your breath.
Every time we breathe in,
We move to a new body part.
We start at the feet but then our attention and our awareness goes up into our ankles.
What emotions are there?
We call them by name and we recognize them and then on our exhalation,
We let them go out of our body,
Out into the space.
And then on our next inhalation,
We bring our awareness up even a little bit further into our calves and our shins,
Exploring the space of the lower leg,
Validating and acknowledging the emotions that are stored there and releasing them with our exhalation.
Breathing in to the space of the knees,
Calling our emotions by name and then mindfully with that exhalation,
Letting those emotions go.
It almost takes a bit of a wave pattern of in and out.
It's gentle and it's done with such beautiful loving kindness.
Breathing up into the space of your thighs,
Your quads,
Your hamstrings.
What emotions are here in this incredible powerhouse of your upper leg?
You might need several cycles of breath here and that's okay.
Breathe into it,
Call it by name and on that final exhalation,
Let it go.
Bringing the awareness up into the hips.
Spend as many cycles of breath as you need here.
What emotions are here?
What are you holding?
What are you carrying?
What is giving you pause today?
Breathe into that space and then ever so gently,
With your exhalation,
Let it go into your root,
Your pelvis.
What emotions are here?
Validate and breathe into them,
Then exhale and let them go.
These emotions are neither good nor bad.
Every single one of them are neutral.
They are simply just taking up space in the body.
None of them are more important than the other.
They simply are just there.
Breathing up in through your torso,
Your ribs,
Your lungs,
Your organs,
All of that space in your core.
What emotions are here?
Breathing gently,
Holding yourself with compassion and on that final exhalation,
Letting them go.
Breathing up into your chest,
Your heart.
What emotions are here in this space?
Breathing into them and validating them,
Acknowledging their existence and with your exhalation,
Letting them go.
Now moving into your shoulders and your arms.
What emotions are you carrying with your hands?
What emotions are weighing on your shoulders?
What do you bring into spaces with you?
Validate it with your breath and with your exhalation,
Let it go.
Moving up into the space of the neck and the jaw,
Seeing how quiet you can make these spaces with your breath.
Breathing into them,
Exhaling and letting it go.
Exploring the face,
The space behind your eyes,
The space up at your crown.
What emotions are there?
Exhaling and letting them go.
This big release of emotion might have you feeling heavy.
There might be a sense of dissociation here,
A weightedness.
There might even be a sense of dizziness or confusion.
And having let go of your emotional body,
Reassure yourself that it's okay to let go of those emotions.
It's okay to call them by name and give yourself permission to put them down for a while.
Sometimes we don't need to tell the story associated with the emotions.
We simply need to acknowledge that they take up space and sometimes we need to exhale and let them go.
Bringing your awareness back to your feet,
Starting to introduce movement,
Wiggling fingers and toes,
Maybe a big body stretch if that's something that you feel called to do.
We acknowledge on the inhale and we release on the exhale.
When it feels right to you,
Allowing the windows of your eyes to come back open,
Back into your present moment.
You have the power and the authority over your own physical and emotional body to acknowledge how you feel,
To validate your emotions,
To understand that they are simply just taking up space.
And if you want to clear that space and make room for the introduction of a new emotional body,
All you need to do is exhale.
