Hi Earth Angels!
This is an easy to follow but powerful practice.
It is designed to shift your nervous system from a place of survival into a space of safety.
In just 10 minutes your nervous system is going to recalibrate itself and this is where true healing can occur.
Let's begin by closing the eyes and tuning in to our breath.
We will first move through a breath designed to interrupt the pattern of your nervous system,
Allowing it to move from survival into safety.
Exhale the breath out.
Take a deep breath in and hold it at the top once you have filled your chest,
Your belly with air.
Hold it.
Exhale.
Release it all.
Again,
Inhale.
Hold it.
This time for a little bit longer.
Keep holding.
Exhale and soften.
Continue for a few more rounds.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Hold it.
Maybe this time you squeeze every muscle in your body.
Squeeze,
Squeeze,
Squeeze the fingers,
The toes,
The hands.
Keep holding the breath and squeeze,
Drawing that energy up,
Up,
Up,
Up.
And then exhale.
Release.
Release the muscles and soften.
Again,
Inhale.
Hold and squeeze,
Drawing the energy up,
Up,
Up.
Squeezing.
Holding.
Exhale and soften.
Inhaling in.
Exhale.
Hold it.
Squeeze.
Tighten all of your muscles from the toes,
The thighs,
The glutes,
The stomach muscles,
The hands,
The fingers,
Even your face.
Scrunch it up.
Keep holding the breath.
Exhale and slowly release.
Allow your shoulders to soften.
The muscles in your face to relax.
And feel the difference just this little interruption in the pattern can make.
Signaling to your body that it can let go.
It can enter into safety.
Allow your breath to return back into its natural rhythm.
Every exhale softens your body that much deeper.
We were taught that calm comes when life becomes easier,
When problems disappear,
When we are finally in control of our life.
But the truth is,
Is that inner calm does not come from controlling the outside world.
Calm comes from stabilizing your internal world.
Your nervous system is constantly responding to the signals you send it.
When your mind is racing,
Your body tenses up.
When your thoughts slow down,
Your body begins to soften.
Calm is not something you wait for.
It is not something outside of you.
It is something that you create from within you.
And as you take a breath,
Allow this realization to settle in.
Peace is not outside of you.
Peace already exists beneath the noise of the mind.
It is your natural state.
Now bring your awareness gently into your body.
As you scan your body from the top of the head all the way down,
Notice the places where tension may still be held.
And once you have felt this tension still lingering,
Take a slow breath in.
And as you exhale,
Imagine that tension dissolving.
Every breath you take is a release.
A surrender.
Releasing the pressure to control everything.
Releasing the need to rush through your day.
Releasing the belief that you must always be doing something to have value in this world.
Let it go.
Give yourself permission to hand over the weight of the world.
Give yourself permission to breathe into softness.
Let your breath be the signal to your nervous system that you can let down your guard.
You can soften it safe.
Breathe.
Allow yourself to slow down.
Now feel the gentle wave of calm spreading through your body.
It starts in your chest.
And it moves through your shoulders.
Down into your arms and your fingertips.
Through your stomach.
Flows over and down your legs.
All the way to the toes.
And this wave spreads over you until your entire body feels relaxed and steady.
A state where your nervous system remembers.
Remembers that it's safe to be.
Remembers that you can release control.
A state where you can return to inner balance.
Repeating these words in your mind's eye.
I allow calm to be my natural state.
My body is safe to relax.
Peace lives within me.
And just simply feel the quiet stability of this state here and now.
A space that you can return to throughout your day.
Simply by breathing.
Feeling.
Releasing control.
And every time you return back to this space.
Your calm becomes stronger.
More natural.
More familiar.
Taking one more slow breath in.
And gently exhale.
Feeling the calm settling your body down.
The steadiness of your breath.
The quiet sacred stillness within you.
