You are listening to the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast and I'm your host Liz Carlisle.
Thank you so much for taking the time for another guided meditation.
Make sure that before we get started your notifications on your phone are off and you are in a comfortable position lying flat on your back.
This is a yoga nidra meditation which essentially is a deep relaxation meditation.
It's almost like you're going into another plane of consciousness.
You're still alert.
You're not asleep but you are deeply,
Deeply relaxed in your body.
And we do this because it helps rejuvenate the mind.
It helps rejuvenate the body.
It helps release tension and stress in a short amount of time so that when you come out of this meditation you could actually feel like you've been sleeping for eight hours.
So get settled and bring your awareness now to your breath.
Notice the gentle inhalations and exhalations that your body so effortlessly does.
You're with every breath,
Sending gratitude to your different systems that enable you to have this life experience.
Coming back now,
Bring your awareness to the top of your head,
Slowly trickling down to your eyebrows,
Your eyes,
Down your nose,
Your cheekbones,
Your jaw,
Releasing tension from there,
Down your chin,
Your throat,
Your shoulders,
Release,
Down your right arm,
Your right forearm,
Your wrist,
Your hand,
Down your left arm,
Your left forearm,
Your wrist,
Your hand.
Coming back now to your chest,
Feel your beating heart,
Like all of the beating hearts that came before you.
This one is yours and it's powerful.
Feel the sensation.
Bring your awareness there.
Bring it down lower to your belly.
If you've become fully relaxed,
I feel like your breath has gone there out of your chest.
Relax and release.
Coming down further to your hips where we hold a great deal of tension,
Sending light there,
Relaxation there,
Releasing all tension.
Down further,
Down your right leg,
Your quad and hamstring releasing to your right knee,
Down your right shin,
Your calf,
To your ankle,
To the top of your right foot,
To the bottom,
All the way to the tips of your toes.
Coming back to your left hip,
Tracing your awareness down,
Releasing as you go your left quad,
Left hamstring,
Your knee,
The left shin,
The left calf,
The ankle,
The top of your left foot,
The bottom,
All the way to your toes.
Take a deep breath in,
Hold,
And release.
Another deep breath in,
Hold,
Release.
Just one deep breath in,
Hold,
Release,
Sinking in deeper to the floor beneath you.
It's almost like your body is a giant weight in the ocean,
Sinking down,
Down,
Down,
No resistance,
No stress,
No anxiety.
Only the sensation of relaxation and release.
The further down you go,
The freer you feel.
Keep breathing.
I'll be back in a minute or so to bring you back.
Take a deep breath in,
Hold,
Release.
One more deep breath in,
Hold,
Release.
One more deep breath in,
Hold,
Release.
Return now to more active breath.
Slowly come back from this other consciousness that you were just in,
This relaxed yet alert state.
Notice how calm and at peace your body feels in this moment right now.
Take it all in and remember you can always,
Always come back to this place.
When you start to feel anxiety creep in or stress,
Just stop and remember this feeling,
Knowing that you can get back here by your breath,
By controlling your breathing.
Once you've found this place,
It's never lost to you ever.
Notice when you get up how much more rejuvenated you feel just by taking a few minutes to do this yoga nidra.
I want to thank you so much for doing the work,
For being a light in the lives of those that you love and those that you interact with because those of you who do this work,
It's impossible not to be a positive force in the world after what you just journeyed through.
So thank you.
If you love this meditation,
Be sure to connect with me on Instagram at Motherhood Unstressed.
Until next week,
Namaste.
