This meditation technique can help you rise above stress and manage life with calmness and courage and less anxiety.
Stress is of course very real.
The pains you have experienced are also quite real.
However the power of the mind to rise above stress and anxiety is also very real.
If you practice this relaxation on a daily basis you will have exchanged an old pattern of ruminating on stress and anxiety with a new pattern of rising above all that has tormented you in the past.
It will help you to face any stressful event with courage and confidence.
This technique can be used by anyone anywhere regardless of their religious or non-religious beliefs except for driving a car or operating machinery.
Listen to this somewhere where you feel comfortable and relaxed and won't be disturbed.
The results for those who practice this relaxation on a daily basis will be profound change in your ability to succeed by leaving the paralysis of stress for the power of your own thoughts.
Just give yourself fully to this process.
You will actually feel the sensation of rising above life stress and worry.
At the end of this relaxation you will feel a wonderful sense of calmness and peace despite any real difficulties going on in your life.
And a sense of courage regarding situations that previously may have frightened you.
So find somewhere comfortable and close your eyes and scan your body.
Notice if there are any tension in any muscles are you stiff?
If so just focus on these muscles and notice the body's natural ability to choose to relax these muscles.
Notice how the lightness of relaxation begins to soothe your tense muscles helping you to relax even further.
Now focus on your breathing and let it become slow and comfortable.
Each breath brings oxygen to every cell of your amazing magnificent body.
Bathing yourselves in deep relaxation.
Perfect.
And as you practice this meditation over several weeks you will find it easier and easier to relax both mind and body.
Each time you do this meditation you will experience a greater depth of calm and peace and serenity.
Now notice just how you feel physically.
Notice the feeling of heaviness in the muscles as they relax.
Notice the sense of heaviness in the eyelids and just notice how relaxed you are starting to feel.
Even notice the weight of your resting hands so very heavy.
They feel so deeply relaxed.
So deeply heavy and even though your mind knows that you could move them moving them isn't something you wish to do or even care to do.
You are enjoying the stillness if even for a brief moment during a busy day.
Now notice your feet also feeling very heavy and deeply relaxed.
With the creative part of the mind imagine you,
The stressed you heavily relaxing in this chair.
Also now imagine a new you,
A courageous you composed in that part of the mind where creativity exists.
This courageous you begins to feel a sense of lightness.
It is a lightness that transcends any stress and a lightness that feels so good as if it can rise,
Rise above you.
Feel that creative courageous you right now.
It is that part of you that knows it can handle any situation.
That part of you that is capable of healing during difficult times.
Let that feeling of lightness begin to just float out of you and above you as if the real you has found a way to rise above the stress.
And as you both relax and float allow that creative part of your mind to continue to imagine the real you.
The creative,
The courageous,
Confident you rising above all the stress.
You can even travel high up and far away and see yourself transcending both the place where you are and the time constraints imposed by stress.
Allow yourself to enjoy the feeling of being beyond any limitations,
Deadlines or stress.
Just feel the sensations of serenity,
Peace and freedom.
Really feel those feelings of sensations of serenity,
Peace and freedom.
You can let your mind drift and dream and float becoming detached from any worldly stress.
Rise above to a higher place,
A place where your higher self can truly succeed and use all of the internal strengths that are deep within you.
Pay attention to your feelings of confidence,
Freedom and joy.
These are not states that I have created but rather states that you have created by simply taking a moment for yourself to set aside stress and tap into your inner resources.
It feels good,
Really good to tap into these inner resources and to confidently know that these can be accessed at any time you need.
Now unite that higher self with the old self,
Just like a soap bubble gently floating to its resting spot.
Allow that lighter higher self to drift back into an awareness of your relaxed and heavenly body.
You realise while this mental exercise has been an interesting experience you always carry the ability to feel and sense beyond stress.
