Welcome to The Daily Insight.
My name is Linda Hall and I'm a teacher here on Insight Timer.
Today's meditation will help to alleviate stress and restore your overall balance,
Using a combination of practices including mindfulness,
Grounding and breathing.
Allow your eyes to comfortably close.
Come away from your thoughts.
And breathe out in a long sigh.
As you do so,
Allow your body to soften and release what it's brought with it here and no longer needs to carry.
Become aware of the sensation as air enters your nostrils and leaves.
Notice the air is cool as it enters,
Warm as it leaves.
Notice the touch of the air on your face and body.
And become aware of your body's movements as you breathe.
Notice the expansion of the in,
The release of the out.
Come down into your body's weight and volume.
Notice the surface directly beneath your body,
Supporting you.
Notice the support is steady.
Notice it is here for you now in this moment.
Become aware of the weight of your body meeting the steadiness.
Sit back onto the steadiness.
Allow the whole of you to sit back.
As you do so,
Breathe down to the steadiness.
Breathe up from the steadiness.
Let it steady you.
Breathe the steadiness up into your body,
Up into your mind.
In your own time,
Draw yourself back from where you lie scattered.
Come to your centre,
To this moment here.
As you do so,
Notice that you are breathing in from the space around you,
And out into it.
Notice the play of light and shade through your clothes' dilates.
Right round your peripheral vision.
Let it bizarre.
Let everything bizarre,
Just as it is,
Without trying to change anything or wishing it different.
As you sit back on the steadiness beneath your body,
Begin to sense the space spreading out to either side of you.
Way into the distance and beyond.
The horizon spreading out ahead and all the way round you.
The height of sky above.
Notice the spaciousness.
You have all of this space for you right now.
Take as much as you need.
You can breathe from the farthest horizons if you like.
Breathe the spaciousness in.
Breathe it into places within you that have got closed off,
Full up,
Or something else.
Breathe the spaciousness into the you deep inside.
In your own time,
Notice if a part of you is wanting things to be a certain way.
Let that part of you soften and sit back.
Breathe out wanting things to be a certain way.
Notice if a part of you is waiting for the next thing to happen.
Let that part of you soften and sit back.
Breathe out waiting for the next thing to happen.
Notice if a part of you is watching yourself closely.
Perhaps this part of you is used to being self-critical.
Let it soften and sit back.
Breathe out any self-criticism.
Breathe out all the shoulds,
Have-tos,
And should-have-dones you've been carrying.
And soften your attitude to yourself.
Allow it to become kinder,
Warmer.
Let yourself know that it's completely okay to be exactly as you are right now.
Breathe into the very human you that's sitting within your chest as it rises and falls on your breath.
And allow your out-breath to release yet more of what it is ready to let go.
In your own time,
Notice your body's weight supported by the surface beneath it.
Become aware of the air touching your face and body.
Notice the sensation as air enters your nostrils and leaves.
Notice your breathing from the space around you and out into it.
Notice you're here in this moment.
And say the affirmation,
All is well.
All will be well.
When you are ready,
You can draw this meditation to a close.
