Growing Your Sense of Trust by Kirsten Dossel,
Still Potential This session is best done lying down in a comfortable place,
Perhaps even out in nature.
Ensure that you can be fully relaxed and focused on yourself,
Not feeling that you need to be alert to any possible intrusions on your privacy.
This is a very important aspect of setting up with this particular session.
You must know that you will be secure and uninterrupted for this time.
Although being outdoors can be very enriching,
It may be that a bedroom offers the best private and secure space.
Find yourself a position of comfort.
No need to be symmetrical,
But do feel fully supported.
Take a moment to settle in and make adjustments to your position.
You are honouring your body as you find just the right position.
Micro-movements to find ease,
The practical expression of kindness to self.
Imagine sinking and settling down into the supportive earth.
Perhaps you can imagine or actually feel warm sand or soft grass.
Now drop further into your support.
No time pressure here.
Slowly and luxuriously scan down your body.
Drop,
Release,
Soften any tension.
Let go into the support.
Surrender to gravity.
Let your body know the safety of this place and position.
I am safe here now.
Be supported.
Feel trust that the support of this surface can hold you.
Even if you are in a building,
Sense the earth supporting your body.
Receiving your weight,
Your shape,
The imprint of you.
Rest in.
Let go in those spots where you hold tightness.
All is well right now.
Allow this body knowledge to seep into your bones.
Into your belly.
Into your being.
Held safe.
What more can you let go of?
Scan through your body and allow yourself time at any habitually tense spots.
Allow them to unwind.
To melt.
Sense the letting go.
And notice that associated sense of trust.
Trust that all is okay.
All is well right now.
That protective tension is not needed here now.
I am safe to let go.
Easily notice your heart space.
You may wish to place your hands on your heart or your belly.
If you sense a fragile shell around your heart area,
Can you melt that barrier?
Can you unwind the tightness?
Notice your breath.
The ease of expansion.
The drop of expiration.
You may wish to imagine the lungs gently hugging around your heart with expiration.
Lungs expand with your easy breath in.
And hug your heart with the breath out.
Simply watch your breath.
Your body breathes itself.
Your heart beats itself.
No need for your concern.
Wander your awareness now to the area between your eyes.
Let your attention rest here.
Nothing to do.
Nothing to seek.
Here,
Honor your intuitive self.
Gently offer a greeting to your own wisdom.
Acknowledge,
Perhaps even sense that you can trust your inner wisdom.
Trust yourself.
Take your meandering awareness to your Hara.
This area just below the belly button and slightly internally.
The center of gravity.
Gut brain.
Gut wisdom.
Hello Hara.
Just hang out there in your awareness.
Do you perceive a sense of safety?
Trust.
Groundedness.
Expand your awareness now and feel a greater connection to a larger intelligence.
Sense being held.
Sense connection.
Know that if the need arises to respond to an unwanted event,
Your body will do so.
Sense well-being,
Safety.
Feel comfort.
And the sense of trust in this place,
In your body.
In your body's intelligence.
Feel the calming of your nervous system.
From this place of rest and relaxation,
Healing and rejuvenation can occur.
Soothe yourself into trust and notice how this sense of trust feels.
No fear.
No alerts required.
If you feel that it is appropriate to do so and if you're comfortable to do so,
Take a breath in and sigh out with the sound.
The sound of relaxing into your body.
In your own time,
Enjoy three of these slow and expansive breaths in and sounding out with a sigh.
Enjoy this feeling of trust in body,
In your mind.
In your mind and in spirit.
Trust.
Absence of fear.
A sense of all is well.
Notice how this feels in your body.
Draw in a deeper breath again and begin to transition out of this session.
Inviting some movement of fingers and toes.
And know that you can return to this experience.
Gently opening your eyes.
Orientating yourself.
To your location,
Your time space.
And gently moving back into your day.
Go well.
Thank you.
