Find yourself in a comfortable position.
You may close your eyes if you wish.
Today we will be addressing PTSD and any trauma.
It is your awareness itself that is digesting and integrating your trauma and fear.
Feel your body resting in this moment.
Taking this time for you.
Muscular tension or tightness anywhere in the body is a result of a mild sensation of fear.
The jaw,
The throat,
The chest and the diaphragm,
Even the belly are places where we hold trauma.
Notice what your PTSD is attracted to feeling in the body.
At first it may feel scary to feel your trauma,
But know that it is simply a feeling.
Your fear is not going to kill you.
It's actually feeling it.
It makes for it to release and move on out of your body.
So right now focus on your fear.
Where is it held in the body?
Imagine that you are just sitting on the sidelines watching the fear play out in the body.
You don't have to be involved.
You don't have to react in any way.
You are just witnessing the tension in your body.
It's okay,
I'm right here with you.
Looking and guiding you through with relaxing and soothing tones of voice.
Think of me as someone you can trust who cares for you even though we don't know each other.
I do care for you and so you can care for yourself.
I've noticed that when I allow myself to feel my anxieties and worries,
The sensations of terror in my body suddenly change.
And the only way I can describe it is that it feels like I'm in a bubbly hot tub.
When I allow myself to feel my trauma,
It is being shaken from my soul and my body.
It is being released because you are allowing yourself to release it.
The physical body does not want to hold on to trauma any longer.
It wants to set it free so that the cells can regenerate.
It's okay.
Go into the fear.
Relax into it.
As you are watching your fear in the body,
You witness the tension in the jaw and you are allowing it to be there.
And then breathe in and relax,
Focusing on the throat now.
Focusing where you've held tension here.
Focus now on the chest.
Allow any trauma that you've held here in the chest to just be noticed.
It's okay.
I'm still here guiding you.
You are safe and sound.
And most of all,
You are relaxed.
Yes,
Tension is uncomfortable,
But it wants to release.
So don't fight it any longer.
You can do this.
Notice the area of trauma within the digestive system.
This is a common place where we hold our stress in the gut.
Allow for this feeling to be.
Allow for it to happen.
See how this state of awareness is letting the tension release?
It's because you are accepting of it.
You are not pushing it away and holding it in any longer.
Now is your day to make positive steps towards ongoing relaxation and a calm state of mind.
You can do this.
Stay present in the body.
If you get carried away with thinking,
That's okay.
Just return your awareness to the areas of your body where you are holding on to that stress of PTSD.
You deserve this.
Now notice in your pelvis and hips if you've had any stress you've held here.
Respect this area of tension.
Just like you would a child who is going through a stressful situation.
It's okay.
Be gently with the feelings of tension.
Imagine if you could that you can hold these areas with your compassion and love.
And you allow them to cry out their pain that they've held in for so long.
Feeling in this moment of beauty and release.
You got this.
Every moment that passes by now is a step in the direction of freedom.
Making yourself feel is the way of undoing all the trauma you have accumulated over the years.
This is your time to really let it happen.
You're not holding it in or suppressing it any longer.
Remember that the physical body must feel this tension in order to let it go.
So allow yourself to cry.
Allow yourself to sob.
Tears flowing from the eyes are a chemical release that makes you feel better and better each time you do it.
And if you don't allow yourself to cry,
Expect for the physical body to release these feelings in another way that may be uncomfortable for the time being.
But they too shall pass.
Or allowing yourself to feel your trauma might even make you physically sick for a day or two.
That's because you're letting go of toxins.
Remember,
You are getting stronger by allowing yourself to cry and to feel.
It's okay that these traumatic things happen to you.
Sorrow happens in every single person's life.
Some may have it worse than others,
But the body experiences trauma in the same way.
Through tension.
And if we do not allow ourselves to feel this tension,
It may never let go.
So continue meditating on your own now for as long as feels comfortable letting yourself release the trauma through feeling it.
Namaste.
