From Overwhelm To Grounded To Soften The Tension

This guided meditation helps you move from overwhelm into a grounded state of inner calm and safety.
Through gentle awareness and body-based guidance, you’ll calm the nervous system, release tension, and return to steadiness when stress feels constant.
It’s a supportive practice for shifting out of survival mode and back into presence, whether before Shavasana, breathwork, cold exposure, or simply when you need to reset and reconnect with your body.
Love,
Harrison

Transcript

Welcome beautiful beings back to another guided journey and meditation from my heart to yours. Today's intention is to help you drop into groundedness, Shifting from overwhelm in a fast-paced, Fast-changing world and reconnect back into inner safety. So closing our eyes if they're not closed already and taking one big powerful breath in through our nose into our belly holding at the top and then breathing out good and one more time breathing in through your nose into your belly holding at the top and breathing out letting go as you come back into your natural breath whether you're lying in shavasana or seated or getting prepared to really drop into your body know that we're not here to fix anything we're here to acknowledge and be seen as we are on any given day we receive a lot of input a lot of responsibility a lot of shifting and changing and as we move through all of this we take it on internally take it on internally and mostly unconsciously so as you start to drop deeper and deeper into an internal sense of safety and support allow yourself to name that you've been holding on to a lot you've been holding on to a lot of what is mostly not yours so with your loving awareness here in this moment with me as i hold you in my energetic space helping you to soften helping you to breathe more easefully bring your awareness to where exactly in your body you are holding on to this overwhelm you're holding on to this energy of the day of the collective around you so maybe this intensity this energy this overwhelm is holding in your chest your belly around your forehead and eyes in your jaw maybe in your pelvic area your your lower abdominal floor so just for this moment as you breathe more gently more softly bring awareness without judgment and let us breathe into this space of overwhelm breathe into this space of tension in through your nose into your belly holding at the top shifting your beautiful awareness down into your feet even if you're lying down imagine your feet pressing into the earth feel your body your buttocks your lower back your upper back your head feel their weight feel the gravity dropping you down dropping you down now into this present moment through your body that holds you letting your breath drop deeper into your belly and with me we're going to breathe in for a count of four and we're going to exhale for a count of six breathing in for four three two and one holding at the top and breathing out for six five four three two and one going again breathing in for four three two one breathing out for six five four three two and one so coming back to your normal breathing rhythm and noticing the shift in your nervous system simply with that quick but long breath shift a breath shift that gives your body a reminder that you are safe noticing how your jaw your shoulders your brow your chest has softened has softened into your own sense of inner safety so let us together here expand this safety this inner sense of support imagining a warm powerful steady flame growing in your belly this warm steady flame is not dramatic it's not performative see this flame representing your grounded presence reminding you here beautiful heart that even though the world outside of you may move fast this flame that is yours this flame that is you does not rush so let us breathe into this flame making it stronger breathing into our belly and as we breathe out spreading its warmth throughout our vessel going in again breathing into this flame and slowly breathing out expanding it through our vessel one more time breathing into this flame and breathing out spreading it throughout our vessel feeling its warmth spread throughout your body throughout the areas that if you've been practicing yoga or just moving today in general throughout the areas that have opened and are ready to receive you have so much capacity and capability to not just hold yourself stable to hold yourself grounded in this world but to also step out into it out into the intensity and to take it to move through it to move through the conversations the deadlines the decisions the uncertainties the fear and instead of bracing against what can sometimes feel unpredictable here in this moment with me I invite you to notice how grounded and protected your system is notice how maybe in the past your body would have instinctively tightened and when anticipating something stressful something fearful something new and out of the ordinary notice past tightening and here in this moment you get to soothe that tightening with your grounded presence so here with me repeat to any parts that still feel closed intense repeating you do not have to brace you do not have to brace I am grounded I am stable in my presence I am stable in my presence and breathing deeply into this reality shift and extra slowly out going again breathing into this reality shift and extra slowly out you may see yourself moving through any upcoming intensity whether it's physical emotional mental see yourself moving through this intensity with this new grounded center this new stable center placing your hand on your chest now and feeling your heart beating feeling your center calming the rest of your being feeling how different it is to remove and move from a place of groundedness feeling how different it is to remove the resistance and the fear and the tension stay connected to your center noticing how your body feels strong yet soft noticing how your heartbeat has slowed and is holding you in all that you are there is so much outside of you that you cannot ever hope to control ever hope to manage or to securely claim as something that you understand but everything in this internal world that you own this internal world that you now feel stable within everything is in your control and this simple shift today coming home to yourself to your grounded safe and secure self is the deepest choice you can make towards that state so with me closing this experience today with gratitude for choosing our grounded self, For choosing our stable self taking three slow mindful and loving breaths to complete this nervous system grounded cycle breathing in and extra slow breathing out going again breathing in and extra slow breathing out and final time today going as deep as possible into our new grounded state breathing in and breathing out extra extra slow gently beginning to bring your awareness back into the room back into the waking state wiggling your fingers your toes feeling your body on the mat if you're in shavasana feeling the weight of your being in whatever other pose you've found yourself in and when you're ready with slowness and grace you can open your eyes ready for whatever intensity is coming in your day ahead and ready with a new sense of inner safety and grounded support