Hello and welcome back to pregnancy JSJ meditations,
Where you experience a new form of meditation that includes a guided practice through a highly developed form of acupressure called JSJ,
Which is the main focus,
Along with breath and relaxation awareness,
Emotional freedom techniques,
Affirmations,
And more.
And as always,
I invite you to find yourself in a comfortable position for today's meditation,
And you can practice these holds lying down,
Sitting,
Standing,
However you are most comfortable right now.
And today I find myself lying down on my left side,
The usual position that I practice when I'm pregnant,
This encourages my body to relax,
And it signals to my mind and spirit that this is a time taken out of the day just for me and my growing baby.
And the first position that we will be in is very simple.
You take your right hand and you hold your left wrist,
So you take your right fingertips,
Wrap them around your left wrist so that your right fingertips are touching the outside edge where that wrist bone points out.
So for me,
My first and middle finger are resting on this wrist bone on the outer edge,
And then my ring finger and pinky just follow that outside edge of the wrist beneath that.
Now if your hand is going over top of your wrist rather than underneath,
You might have your pinky and ring finger on the wrist bone rather than the first and middle finger.
But as long as any or some of your fingers are touching this outer edge of your wrist,
You are in the right spot.
And with the JSJ practice,
Our focus is always brought back to our exhalation.
So once you find yourself in that comfortable position,
Let the muscles in your arms go.
Release the tension that's in your physical body and just let your body melt into the space that you're in and let's all take one full breath with a nice long exhalation that feels good for you.
I encourage you to follow your own breath and what feels good to your body,
What your body needs right now.
Your exhalation might be quiet,
Might be loud,
Might be soft,
It might be forceful.
But whatever exhalation feels good and you can practice with different kinds,
Breathe out your nose or breathe out your mouth,
Breathe slowly or let out a quick exhale.
Everybody is unique,
Everybody's experience that they're going through right now is different.
And let's just take one more nice big breath to relax into this position and into this moment.
And as your mind wanders,
We just let our thoughts pass.
And if that seems difficult for you to do,
Don't even stress about it.
Just continue to have a nice exhalation and keep your fingers in this position and you will be doing so much benefit for you and your baby.
This particular spot helps our nervous system to calm down,
Among many other things,
But it helps us just to relax.
And when we calm our nervous system,
Our baby senses this,
They feel it.
Our babies are so pure and full of light and love,
They instantly feel when we're calm and then they are calm.
They instantly feel a sense of peace,
A sense of bliss as our babies float around in their perfect new home,
Their womb created within your body perfectly.
Your body knows how to make the perfect womb,
The perfect first home for your baby.
So relax into these thoughts,
Or you could even visualize your baby just in there,
Perfectly content and perfectly happy,
Just floating around and exhale.
Exhale into this moment,
Into this wonderful space and time that you're giving to yourself and your baby.
And now we will switch positions and hold our right wrist in the same fashion.
So just simply change positions with your hands so that you're holding your right outer edge wrist with some or all of your left fingertips.
I disentangle from any worry that I may be feeling at this time.
I reintegrate now.
I realign with feelings of peace,
Trust,
And stillness.
Realign now.
Realign with wholeness and infinite self.
Realign now.
Exhale fully and completely.
I disentangle from resistance and I reintegrate now.
I realign with acceptance,
With fluidity,
With ease and grace.
Realign now.
And exhale fully and completely.
I disentangle from attaching to the thoughts in my mind and I reintegrate now.
I realign with observing the thoughts as they pass and letting them go without chasing them and I realign now.
I realign with stillness,
Wholeness,
And peace.
Realign now.
I disentangle from any feelings of stress and I reintegrate now.
I realign with feelings of relaxation,
Peace,
Stillness.
Realign now.
Realign with wholeness and infinite self.
Realign now.
I disentangle from tension and I reintegrate now.
I realign with relaxation,
Softening of my muscles throughout my entire body.
Realign now.
I realign with melting into this moment.
Realign now.
And exhale fully and completely.
Now let's bring our awareness to our face and the muscles around our face.
Let's think about the muscles around our eyes and consciously release those muscles if they're tense.
Let's think about our jaw and let your jaw muscles release tension.
And then bring awareness to your tongue and relax your tongue if there's any tension there.
And take another full and complete exhalation.
And I invite you to take a few deep breaths as you bring awareness back into your body and back into the place that you are resting.
Take some deep breaths and stretch or wiggle around.
You can blink your eyes open slowly and just observe how you feel.
Observe your breath or your body or your mind or your spirit or all three.
Let's take a few deep breaths.
