Welcome to this meditation for knee pain with me,
Kusaya Gibbons.
Please make yourself comfortable for this practice,
Supporting yourself as best you can and using your furniture and cushions,
Any blankets,
To really make sure that the position you're in is supportive of you and the practice.
And then allowing yourself to settle in to wherever you're resting,
Allowing your body to be supported by the surface and allowing yourself to be mentally present for the practice.
So if there's anything else that has been occupying your mind,
Just leaving that aside for now,
Knowing that you can come back to it when it's more appropriate.
Just bringing your attention to this moment and to your breath.
So starting off by simply observing your breath,
Noticing as you breathe in and out,
Noticing the rhythm and depth of your breath and then beginning to intentionally breathe a little bit more deeply.
So just making that breath slightly longer and if you can feel where in your body the breath is going down to,
Perhaps sending it just a little bit deeper and now imagining that you're breathing all the way down to the knee.
So breathing in,
Imagining that breath coming in and reaching down all the way down to your knee and as you breathe down to the knee,
Just allow your awareness to travel there along with your breath,
Taking your awareness downwards,
All the way to the knee so that it's as if you're inside your knee,
Experiencing the breath as a great,
Deep wave of safe,
Holding energy.
Continuing to breathe down into the knee and experience the breath from inside the knee and with your awareness there,
Can you take the breath and send it through the whole knee,
Allowing the breath to be both supportive and strong,
Allowing the breath to take any weight or tension that the joint has been holding.
Continuing to breathe down deeply into the knee and just allowing the joint to soften,
Knowing that as you relax,
So the knee becomes stronger and more flexible.
Continuing to breathe down into the knee and giving the knee permission to rest,
Breathing all the way down to the knee and thanking the knee for all that it does,
Allowing the breath to come in gentle waves and you might wish to visualize or just intend for the synovial fluid to flow freely within the knee,
Lubricating the joint.
Continuing to breathe all the way down to the knee,
That supportive breath and as you breathe out,
Allowing some release in the knee and you might even imagine that any inflammation is released along with the breath.
Breathing in,
Waves of gentle supportive breath.
Breathing out,
Releasing any inflammation and letting the out-breath carry it away,
Imagining the synovial fluid flowing where it needs to and if there are any parts of the knee that you know are damaged,
Just filling any gaps with the breath and there might be a light,
A colour,
A sensation or a sound attached to that,
So you might put some cushioning on the joint if that's what is needed or a protective layer,
Just allowing the breath to flow to the knee and allowing the knee to take the breath and use it to build whatever it needs and then just resting here a little longer,
Allowing that process to continue,
Breathing deeply,
Allowing the breath to flow where it needs to and if you want to doze or rest here a little longer,
That's fine and when you're ready,
You can allow yourself to come round gently and take your breath with you about your day.
