Welcome,
I'm Victoria Louise and this is a meditation for nourishing your nervous system.
So I invite you to lie down with a bolster or cushions under the knees.
Perhaps you'd rather have a cushion supporting your upper back and shoulders and head.
Make sure that you are so comfortable.
We spend our days in a busy world,
A world that is ever getting faster,
That wants us to move quickly.
It's easy to get lost in the noise,
To get caught up in it all.
We have this incredible design as human beings,
Our nervous system,
And it helps keep us in balance.
But when we need to stand tall and in our power,
We're there to fight.
However sometimes we can end up in this overstressed state without even realizing,
Feeling attacked or at threat by even simply daily tasks,
By email coming into your phone.
We also within the nervous system have the ability to rest and digest and come into harmony.
Both are important.
Both sides of this are needed and it's about exploring and watching it.
But for now,
Let's work on down-regulating and nourishing our nervous system to come back into balance.
It helps you to bring your hands gently to the sides of your ribs.
You can do that or you can leave them where they are.
Start to feel movement in the back and side of your ribs.
As you breathe in through the nose,
You're bypassing the chest,
Coming down deeper into the diaphragm,
Allowing it to move outwards and backwards.
Breathing in for the count of four and emptying out for the count of five or six.
When we extend our out-breath,
It's sending signals to our mind,
To our nervous system that we are safe,
That it is okay to relax.
It welcomes you into that state.
Now send your hands down onto your belly.
And feel the breath bypassing the chest,
Coming down into back and side ribs,
Into the belly.
Allowing it to soften and open with every breath in.
Feeling more deeply connected to your body,
Into the core.
And if it's available,
Go ahead feel for lengthening your out-breath even more.
Good.
Lastly,
Invite your hands to go onto your hip bones with your fingertips pointing down towards your knees.
Breathing so deeply now that you feel the movement of breath rising up into your hands.
And if you're not feeling their move then that's okay,
But feel for sending a deeper level of breath down into the hips.
Breathing so deeply now that you feel the movement of breath rising up into your hips.
And you can choose to stay here,
Breathing deeply for as long as you need to.
If you're doing this at bedtime you can do this as a way to fall asleep.
It's been a pleasure to be your guide.
Thank you.
