A Body-Based Practice For Living With M.E. Or Fibromyalgia

A deeply relaxing, grounding practice to support nervous system regulation and help the body enter a state of healing, repair, and restoration. It's for anyone who feels wired, on edge, or easily overwhelmed, including people living with chronic fatigue, ME/CFS, or fibromyalgia. At a slow, unhurried pace, you'll be guided through grounding, mindfulness, and breath awareness, woven together with kind, positive affirmations. Soft, unintrusive music plays in the background, with sensory overwhelm in mind.

Afterward, you may feel calmer, more settled in your body, and a little kinder toward yourself. Over time, practices like this can help you build skills to self-regulate when your system feels overloaded. Use it when you feel wired but tired, need to rest without forcing it, or want a quiet reset during a flare or a hard day.

Music: "A New Dusk" by Jeremy Siegel

Transcript

Allow your eyes to comfortably close. And breathe out down the full length of your body. As you do so. Sense down into your body's weight and volume. And the contact your body is making with the surface directly beneath you. Give more of your weight to its support. Let yourself know it's completely okay to be exactly as you are right now. It's completely okay to be exactly who you are right now. Allow your breath to begin to slow down and lengthen in its own time. As you do so. Notice the surface beneath you is steady. Notice the steadiness is there for you. Now. And allow your weight to soften into its support. As you let that happen. Breathe out down the full length of your body once again. Allowing your body to soften and release what it's been carrying. Let it flow out of you and away. Let yourself know that you're doing okay. You're doing well. If everything feels a little closer. Sit back from everything. And let everything set back from you. Turn those inner intensity dials down. Allow your mind to soften and sit back to rest in your head. Letting your eyes soften and sit back to rest too. Let everything be as it is. Without judging or attaching to anything. Your physical body just needs some time to come down and rebalance so it can heal and regain equilibrium. You're helping that to happen right now. In your own time and when you're ready. Become aware of the sensation of air entering your nostrils and leaving. Notice the air is cool as it enters. Om. As it lives. Notice the opening outwards and rising upwards of the in-breath. Notice the softening, Letting go motion of the earth. Notice how the whole of your upper body follows through with that softening, Letting go motion as the breath flows out. Each out-breath softening all holdings. Tightness. Discomfort. As your muscles, Tissues, And joints release what they've been holding. Blowing down your body. Out of view and away. Each out-breath releasing another layer. Releasing a little more… Notice how the out-breath is the body's natural. Relax. Letting your body continue to release on the out-breath in its own way. It's on time. You're helping your nervous system rebalance. Allowing your body to enter its natural rest. Heal. Restore. And repair state. Your body knows how to heal. And say the affirmations. I am safe. I allow my body to rest. I am on my healing journey. In your own time. Notice the gentle play of light and shade through your closed eyelids. Right round your peripheral vision. Let it be so. Notice the touch of the air on your face and body. Let it be there. Let everything be there. As you do so. Allow your attitude towards yourself to become kinder. Imagine putting a warm, Loving arm around your soul. Just as you would a dear friend. Allow the warmth of the kindness to surround you. Let it hold you. Let yourself know once again. That you're doing well. You're doing really well. In your own time and when you are ready. Come back to the sensation of air as it enters your nostrils and leaves. And the movements your body makes as you breathe. Notice that you're breathing in from the space around you and out into it. Notice you're here in this moment. And in your own way, Your own time. You can draw this meditation to a close.

Reviews

Very supportive for those of us with neuro plastic conditions. Thanks Linda 🙏🏻

Thanks Linda.
Also helpful during my current nervous system dysregulation (as are many of your lovely tracks.🙏