Today I want to take you through a somatic practice to let go of any tension or rupture that you might be feeling in your body because of something that happened that created that tension and discomfort in your system.
Get into a super comfortable seating position.
If you're on a chair make sure your feet are nicely planted on the floor.
If you're on the ground make sure your bum is touching the ground beneath you allowing yourself to be fully anchored through those touch points and let yourself fully arrive into this moment.
Start noticing your breath,
Noticing your body in this space.
Now focus on the thoughts that are anxiety provoking or tension causing that is resulted from anything that happened,
A meeting,
A relationship rupture or a conversation that didn't land that well and that for whatever reason triggered you.
Let those thoughts come to your attention.
Instead of feeling that you need to be avoiding them or discrediting them create a space to allow them to come up to the surface.
Think about that and now notice all that you're feeling in your body as if you want to track the thought and notice where that thought lives in your body,
Where that tension lives in your body.
How does your body respond to that thought?
How does your body respond to that incident or whatever that created this sense of trigger or tension or discomfort?
Instead of feeling that you need to bulldoze through your body's sensation can you allow yourself to be with the sensation that you're feeling in your body?
And allow your breath to softly breeze through that area of the body and a relaxed exhale out and keep that soft breath coming in and going out.
Keep becoming more intimate with this feeling that you're sensing in your body.
Now notice a part of your body that feels relaxed,
That feels soft,
That feels neutral.
Bringing all of your attention and presence and awareness to that part of your body.
Now allow that softness beginning to expand and spread throughout your body moving up or down or to the sides to meet the part of your body that feels tense,
Dense,
Or uncomfortable.
Feeling the softness wrapping that part of you all around it,
Maybe moving through that density,
Moving through that intensity.
And allowing that tension to soften and noticing yourself.
And the space that the softness and the tension meet.
Can you hold the space for this meeting point?
Can you allow yourself to hold paradoxes,
The softness,
The tension?
Maybe you can put your hands on the part of your body that feels that tension,
That feels that rupture.
What is happening?
Can you feel a sense of softening washing over that part of your body?
If you feel a little bit of a change but you still notice that tension there,
You might want to come back to this practice frequently so you can create space for your body to fully process whatever that is that your body needs to process.
Take another soft breath into that area of your body.
If you've had your eyes closed,
Now open your eyes,
Look around your broom.
Notice your body in this space.
Notice the texture and the details of everything that is in the room.
And in this witnessing,
Can you remind yourself of your safety?
Can you look at something in the room that resourced you to do this?
Support you,
Nourish you,
Bring you joy.
Remind you of your goodness.
Remind you of the gifts that you've been provided for in this lifetime.
And can you let yourself feel that,
Sense that?
Now slowly bring yourself back.
Slowly bring gentle little motion into your fingertips,
Into your spine,
Into your body.
Maybe take some notes of what came up for you.
What did you experience?
