Wisdom From Your Negative Experiences

This is a practice that was created with the purpose of observing your body's reactions to your negative memories, observing them, and learning to transform that negativity into a relaxed state, letting go of the past.

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Body Awareness Guided Meditation Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.

Inhaling deeply into your stomach and relaxing your breath as you exhale.

Focus on your body,

Allowing your breath to be calm,

Your mind to be clear,

And your heart to be open.

Take a deep breath.

Inhaling deeply into your stomach and relaxing your breath as you exhale.

With your next breath,

Enter into a memory of a negative or fearful experience that you've had.

Observe your body's reaction.

Where is the tension concentrated in your body?

Keep holding your breath.

Take a deep breath while still contemplating that experience.

Take another deep breath,

Calming your body,

Allowing the energy to flow,

Allowing yourself to grow and change and collect wisdom from your experience.

Calming yourself further,

Relaxing your body,

Shift your awareness to a happy time and place in your life.

Observe your body.

Continue to focus on the emotions you felt.

And also observe any longing you have to recreate what you experienced.

Remembering to be in relationship with that feeling and with the feeling of paradise.

Knowing that in the right now,

This feeling exists for you.

With your next breath,

Say to yourself,

This feeling exists for me right now.

Observe your body's reaction and receive.

When you are ready,

Take several deep breaths.

Returning to your body.

Stretching,

Moving.

Opening your eyes and writing down your experience in your journal.