Stress is a physiological experience.
It's an experience in the physical body,
In the energetic body,
In the mind,
In the mental body.
In this moment,
Begin to invite in your level of stress and how you are experiencing stress in this moment.
Noticing if the body is physically tight,
Tense,
Feeling clenched.
Notice if there's any movement,
Rapid or slow or even non-existent,
As far as the breath moving into and out of the body.
Noticing what's happening in the mind.
Are there thoughts,
Worries,
Fears,
Repeating,
Playing out,
Being generated and felt as an experience in the body,
Cascading from the mind.
Inviting in this noticing,
Allowing for whatever's present to be present and then drawing your awareness,
Drawing your awareness to wherever you might be in this moment.
Noticing your environment.
If you're at home,
Noticing what's around you and the space that you're in.
If you're in an office or your car,
Just noticing your environment and surroundings.
Noticing colors,
Sounds,
Textures,
Any particular smells.
Being aware of your environment in this moment.
Allowing your eyes to be open or closed.
Allowing the backside of your body to be sitting or lying back.
Noticing in with your feet on the ground,
On the surface beneath you.
Begin by drawing your awareness to your feet,
The soles of your feet and repeating to yourself in this moment,
My feet are connected into the earth.
I am safe.
Drawing that awareness further up into the legs,
The calves,
The knees,
The upper legs.
Saying to yourself in this moment,
My legs are connected into my ankles and my feet.
My feet are connected into the earth.
In this moment,
I am safe.
Drawing that awareness back up from the feet into the legs,
Into the hips.
Noticing the left hip and the right hip.
And then following that awareness back into the legs,
To the feet.
Noticing your feet connected into the earth and saying to yourself in this moment,
I am safe.
Drawing awareness into the belly and the abdomen.
Noticing any sensation in the belly and the abdomen.
You simultaneously maintain that connection of your feet into the earth and saying in this moment,
I am safe.
Drawing awareness into the lower back.
Feeling sensation in the lower back.
Simultaneously still connecting into your feet,
The ground,
The earth.
Noticing sensation and saying to yourself still in this moment,
I am safe.
Drawing awareness back into the front of the torso.
Noticing the upper chest.
Noticing sensation in the upper chest.
Drawing awareness back down.
You feel that connection of your feet into the earth.
Noticing again in this moment,
I am safe.
Noticing the upper back,
Shoulder blades,
The upper back.
Noticing sensation present in the upper back.
Simultaneously still inviting awareness of your feet connected into the earth and saying again to yourself in this moment,
I am safe.
Draw awareness into the cervical vertebrae,
The neck,
Noticing sensation in the space of the neck.
And yet still too drawing awareness back down,
The feet connected into the earth,
Saying again in this moment,
I am safe.
Awareness now in the face.
Notice sensation in the face,
Sensation in the ears,
The mouth,
The jaw,
Sensation in the nose,
Sensation in the eyes,
In the forehead.
Noticing what's present and then simultaneously drawing awareness back down into the feet.
Noticing that connection into the earth and saying once again,
In this moment,
I am safe.
Allowing that knowing,
I am safe to be part of what permeates your entire body in this moment.
Allowing that connection to be felt.
All the feet connecting into the earth along with the awareness that in this moment,
I am safe.
Noticing how just this connection and awareness allows you to be with the body,
Be with sensation,
Be with the mind in a way in which you could be with your experience in this moment.
I am safe.
If you had your eyes closed,
You could begin to blink them slowly back and forth,
Allowing light to return.
Once again,
Noticing your environment,
Your surroundings,
Allowing the thumb and the pointer finger to connect,
Saying I am safe.
Allowing the thumb and the middle finger to connect,
Saying I am safe.
Allowing the thumb and the ring finger to connect,
Saying I am safe.
Allowing the thumb and the little finger to connect,
Saying I am safe.
Releasing the hands,
Allowing the breath to move into the body with awareness.
Allowing the chest,
The diaphragm,
The belly,
And then allowing it to move out as a full exhale,
Taking with it anything you no longer need.
One more time,
Allowing the breath to move into the body,
Inhaling into the chest,
The diaphragm,
The belly,
Exhaling out anything you no longer need.
Allowing your awareness to rest into this space.
Allowing the energy to shift in your body,
Allowing yourself to move from this space,
I am safe.
