Welcome to Sensing Safety.
Thoughts and physical sensations that we experience when we feel safe are different to those experienced when we are on high alert.
Sometimes high alert and stress response are totally appropriate and very helpful.
But when they are an unuseful habit,
It may help to teach your body a different way to be.
Repeating this routine often may help to create a new habit of calm.
Begin by letting go of your breath.
Allow all the air to release from your lungs.
Helping to empty fully by tightening your tummy muscles as if you were trying to blow out the last few candles on a cake.
Now release any breath effort and observe your body breathe in.
Repeat.
Allow all the air to go out of your lungs.
Release the effort and allow the breath in.
Find where the tension is being held in your body and let it soften and dissolve.
Check your head,
Shoulders,
Neck,
Jaw and face,
Throat,
Spine,
Belly,
Arms and hands,
Buttocks,
Legs and feet.
Drop and let go.
Melt and release again.
And breathe.
Ask yourself now,
How would I feel if everything was okay?
How would it be in my body and mind if I knew that all was well?
How would it feel to know that I had nothing to worry about?
Just let yourself imagine for a moment how it would feel.
Perhaps light in your chest,
Calm in your belly,
Clear in your head.
Just imagining all is well.
Let your body and mind sense how that would be.
Is there a word that comes to mind that describes this feeling for you?
Stay with that if you can and now come back to your now and notice that in fact you are safe here now.
Note to yourself at this very moment,
I am actually safe going about my daily activities.
I am okay.
I can let my guard relax a little.
I am safe to be calm.
Return now to your day with my best wishes.
