Hi,
This is Dr.
Jo Harchi with Soft Heart Psychology.
Let's get really comfy in our seat as we stand,
Lay,
Or listen to this in the background.
Let's just get real comfy here for a second together.
Before we dive into the meditation and close our eyes and do those soothing deep breaths for the parasympathetic nervous system,
The calming of the nervous system.
Before we dive into all that,
I'd like us to do a gentle imagining.
When we go back to the inner child,
We don't actually go back because the inner child is within,
Right?
So we are going to imagine an inner child who aligns with you today.
For folks with gender dysphoria,
I want you to do a gentle imagining.
Again,
One that aligns with who you are today.
So as you do this,
We'll take a couple of slow breaths together.
We'll breathe in through the nose,
Hold,
And out through the mouth.
Let's take a deep breath in together and out.
We'll take our longest,
Slowest breath here.
As you keep doing slow,
Long breaths,
I'd like you to relax any tension in your forehead,
In your jaw,
Neck,
Shoulders.
Relax any tension in your heart space,
Back,
Core,
Arms,
And legs.
Taking deep breaths in,
Holding,
And releasing.
As you continue to breathe slowly and at your own pace here,
Let's thank any protective parts who may pop up during this meditation,
Either to distract or maybe even mock the meditation.
It's totally understandable.
These protector parts may give us something of a distracted mind or try to take us somewhere else even through criticism.
We want to thank those parts for feeling so much pain at certain points in our lives.
We want to thank them even for showing up in this meditation.
We can also ask them if they feel safe to sort of step to the side for a moment as we do this gentle imagining together.
If your parts allow,
Let's access a recent time when you felt emotional.
Please choose a time that wasn't the most activated or charged for you,
But still brought up some feelings in your body.
As you remember this recent incident that brought up some charge for you but not too much,
Let's go to the little you in this memory.
So maybe feelings of abandonment,
Concern,
Feeling not grounded.
That might have been the little you,
The inner child within.
Let's go to that little you in the corner.
Maybe you can see them or feel them.
And now as we continue to breathe slowly from that place of slow quiet breath,
Let us imagine your kindness most calm self sitting near a little you in the corner with all their big feelings.
Rather than question or soothe little you,
Let's have a seat next to little you as they feel those big feelings.
And sometimes folks want to ask little kids,
Why are you crying?
Why are you nervous?
We're not going to ask little you any questions.
We're just going to let them be in their body in this moment for a second here together.
In fact,
Let's do that right now.
Let's have you be in your body for a second here together.
You'll hear my voice again when we can complete this time with little you for today.
Now as we close,
I'd like you to send in your thoughts.
Send any healing light from your heart space to little you letting them feel their big feelings in their body for a minute or two here together and then bringing some closure with a healing light from your heart space to little you.
I'm sending healing light from my heart space to your little you.
I want to thank your protector parts,
Your inner child,
Any other parts of you today that let us meet for a couple minutes here together.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for being present with you.
