When You Need To Come Back To Your Body | Somatic Meditation

There are moments when we find ourselves living almost entirely from the neck up. The mind becomes busy, the body feels far away, and before we realize it, we've drifted away from ourselves.

This guided somatic meditation is a gentle invitation to return.

Through slow awareness of the breath, the ribs, the belly, and the deeper foundations of the body, you’ll be guided back to the quiet steadiness within that has been there all along.

We move with breath, contact, and weight, so you can feel the part of you that time moves through but doesn’t take.

You don’t have to leave your life to feel your life. You can take this with you.

For overthinking, numbness, disconnection, and the days you need to come home to yourself. No visualization. Just body, breath, and the steadiness of the ground beneath you.

Transcript

If you're here, It means you've drifted far from yourself. And it's not because you did anything wrong. It just happens. We go up into our heads. And we end up living there for a while. And let's be honest, It gets noisy up there. It's fast. There's a lot moving around. And it's easy to forget what steadiness even feels like. But the way back to the body isn't complicated. You don't have to take multiple steps. And you don't even have to try too hard. You just have to let yourself become heavy again. So close your eyes if you haven't already. And take a breath in. And let it go. Again inhaling and exhaling. You don't need to fix anything right now. You can just be here. For this one breath. You Let's start coming back toward the center of yourself. You can bring your hands to your ribs if that feels right, Or somewhere else on the body. And let them rest here. You're not holding anything. You're just making contact. Feel the warmth of your hands on your body. And underneath your hands. Feel your ribs moving. You Notice that they rise when you breathe in. They soften when you breathe out. Rising. And softening. We're not forcing anything here. Just let all of this happen on its own. You you breath after breath. Your body starts to gather itself back in. You And this isn't happening because you're making it happen. But because you're connecting to the denser parts of you. Now let your hands come down to rest. And let your attention drop a little lower. Down into your belly. This place holds more than just food. It holds the things that you couldn't say. The tension from the days where you couldn't rest. You And you don't have to do anything with that. Just let whatever's here be here. You and move your attention lower into the bowl of your pelvis. This is a deeper place within. A lot gets held here. Like creation, Desire, Fear. The things that we don't want to talk about. You don't have to open anything. And you don't have to heal anything. Just let your attention rest here. And let your legs become heavy from here. Feel your feet resting on the ground. And underneath all the noise and the managing. There's a steadiness within your body that you didn't create. It was here before the overwhelm. And it'll be here after too. You don't have to look for steadiness outside of yourself. You simply have to stop running from it. You So stay here in the body. In the part of you that time moves through but doesn't take. You And when you're ready, Start to gently open your eyes. As the room comes back into focus, See if you can stay with this feeling. And just know you don't leave yourself behind to go about your day. You don't have to leave this to go back into your life. You can take this with you. This body, This breath. The steadiness. Is always yours. Welcome home.

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I’ve been out of sorts and this helped me reconnect