Welcome to The Daily Insight.
My name is Linda Hall and I'm a teacher here on Insight Timer.
Today's meditation will help you reassure and support yourself using a combination of practices including mindfulness,
Grounding,
Breath awareness,
Positive visualization and affirmations.
Allow your eyes to comfortably close.
Take your awareness down to the surface directly beneath your body.
Allow it to take more of your weight.
Breathe out in a long sigh down the full length of your body,
Allowing your body to soften and release what it's brought with it here and no longer needs to carry.
Notice the support beneath you is steady and allow the whole of you to sit back on the steadiness.
Breathe down to the steadiness.
Breathe up from the steadiness.
Let it steady you.
Soften the way you are engaging with this moment.
Move apart if you are wanting things to be a certain way.
Breathe out wanting things to be a certain way.
Let yourself know that it's completely okay to be exactly as you are right now.
As you sit back,
Notice your body's weight and volume.
And the movements it makes as you breathe.
Become aware of the sensation as air enters and leaves.
Notice the air is cool as it enters,
Warm as it leaves.
Notice the expansion of the in-breath,
The release of the out.
Notice your breathing in from the space around you and out into it.
Allow your breath to begin to slow and lengthen.
Become aware of the touch of the air on your face and body.
Notice the play of light and shade through your closed eyelids.
Around your peripheral vision.
Notice the sounds around you,
Near and in the distance.
Let everything be there.
Sense out to the horizon stretching all the way around you.
Into the distance and beyond.
You have all of this space for you.
Take as much as you need.
Sitting back on the steady support directly beneath your body.
Imagine that you are a beautiful,
Strong tree.
Your sturdy trunk protecting you.
Your roots anchored deep in the earth beneath you.
Spreading wide.
Your branches and canopy of leaves above you.
Sense the innate wisdom and immense age of your tree here with you now.
Breathe in its quiet,
Steady power.
Know that this tree steadiness is always there,
Deep within you,
Beneath any disturbances on your surface.
This core energy is here for you now.
Feel the power of your tree.
Sense the strength of your roots.
Know that whatever weather buffers your upper branches and ruffles your leaves,
Your trunk and your roots will remain steady and strong.
Know that all experiences transform in time into new growth and new learning.
Nothing is wasted.
Feel your core tree steadiness there within you.
And say the affirmations.
All is well.
All shall be well.
And all manner of things shall be well.
In your own time,
Become aware of the sensation as air enters and leaves your nostrils.
Become aware of the steady support directly beneath your body.
And when you are ready,
You can draw this meditation to a close.
