Relaxing Your Brain

Is your head feeling cloudy or confused? Take a couple minutes to relax your bran and finish feeling refreshed and alive again.

Transcript

So just finding a comfortable way of sitting,

Allow your body just to be at ease,

Settling in,

Taking a little deeper breath into your belly,

Letting your rib cage expand and breathing up to your collarbone.

And as you breathe out,

Just letting go of holding and settling in to this moment,

Letting go of the past,

Letting go of the future,

Just resting in the now.

And letting your eyes close,

Can just bring one of your hands up to where the back of the head and the neck meet.

Just cupping your hand and allowing your hand to support the back of your head.

Feeling like you're holding the head of a baby.

And as you do,

Just rest for a moment,

Feeling that support and safety and comfort.

And as you feel the warmth of your hand,

The energy coming from it,

Just allow that warmth and energy to go into your skin to the lower part of your brain.

Just sending a message of safety.

You can even feel as if you're turning off a switch for the fight or flight part of your brain so that your mind and body know that it is safe and that you can turn off and rest that part of the brain fully.

Then you can allow your hand to come back to rest on your lap and continue to feel the effect of the safety and deep rest.

There's nothing to do and nowhere to go.

Just resting as this wakefulness.

And soon just taking a little deeper breath as if waking from a wonderful sleep,

Fully renewed and refreshed.

You breathe out,

Allow your toes and fingers to begin to stretch.

And next time you're breathing in,

Allow a smile to come to your face.

Being fully alive and awake,

Breathing out,

Stretching more,

Just taking your time when you feel ready,

Opening your eyes.

Just allowing your eyes to be soft and receptive.

Just see without looking.

Having your awareness inside,

Aware of your breath,

Sensation and aliveness.

Reviews

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Thank you. Very helpful

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So soothing. I liked the quiet of the meditation, and the holding and calming of the brain stem. 🌞

Loch has been a great help to me, his methods give you a very accessible and practical way to gain the benefits of increased piece of mind

Fantastic practice. Though physically it was a bit difficult to maintain the hand position, I relaxed into it and superimposed a visualization of the hard neck collar I sometimes wear to support my head and neck. I could feel the pulsing of the CSF beneath my fingers, and thought wistfully (not for the first time) that I wish the local cranio-sacral therapist had not retired years ago, as nobody can come in to fill that niche since.

What took this beyond simple CST (minus the pulsed tapping) though, was the visualization of cradling a baby's head and being aware of a sense of safety. That was new to me and beautifully effective. I think I will apply that portion of the practice during my next medical massage as they work on my neck. (Though I may try it as well tomorrow during a radio-frequency ablation of a good chunk of my cervical spine - I can see it being very helpful for that!)

Bookmarked and downloaded. Thank you for sharing this with us. I see you and the light within you. Be well. 🤲🏻❤️🤲🏻

I really like this one. I come back to it often. For such a short little meditation, it does wonders for slowing my brain down. I especially like the imagery of sending warmth and safety to the lower part of my brain and turning off the fight or flight response. I can picture that switch clear as day and when I turn it off, I feel the difference! Thank you!! ❤️

Thanks for this meditation! Very restful for my TBI (traumatic brain injury) which happened to my cerebellum. I will return to this one regularly.

Very calming; good pacing and nice voice, too.

Oh how perfectly beautiful. I didn't realize how much I needed to and could bring my own safety feeling to my brain. Perfect beautiful.

Very nice simple practice.

I've really liked all of the meditations by loch. Nice voice, time, cadence and message. Just wish I could stop stressing about past and future so much!

Different and effective! Five mins well spent thank you 🙏🏻😊

Very relaxing meditation will do often..Namaste🙏🏽

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 35 years old and medication managed to adjust my chemistry...but all that did was let me SEE the effects of a lack of focus in my life. I chose meditation as a method of addressing a lifetime of chaotic habits, and it works well. I've been a practicing Buddhist over a year, and I still have a lot of trouble with mindfulness because of a lifetime of unfocused energy. This is one of the best guided meditations I've done. It's very effective for someone like me because there's some movement and physical changes on which I can focus. Excellent! Thank You! This was great for relaxing but I feel a thousand times more present, as well!!

Wonderful and warm meditation 🧘‍♀️

I enjoyed this and can imagine thus being hugely beneficial when I’m stressed and need some time out.

Fabulous smooth soothing action to simple ease & grace, like the closing chime

Fantastic! Super effective relaxation techniques. Calm & soothing voice.

Great short meditation. I’ll gladly do again