Calm After Recent Stress

After a stressful event we want to return to calm, back to equilibrium. Let's call our energy back, call our emotions back and let go of the power it has over us. Relax and tonify our nervous system. Use our breath to restore balance and integrate our mind, body and energy field. Come back to your calm self.

Transcript

Close your eyes,

Be comfortable on your chair.

Take your awareness to your breathing.

Notice the quality of your breathing.

Be aware of your physical body as you are breathing.

Notice the inhalation and exhalation.

And with each exhalation,

Just allow your body to sink more deeply into itself.

Feel the weight and the heaviness of your body.

And just feel as if you could sink into the earth.

Be aware of your thoughts passing through your hand.

This may be very fast and very busy.

Just notice and accept what is there at the moment.

Now inhale and breathe out of your head.

Inhale and breathe gently out of the temples.

Be aware of your physical body,

How it's feeling right now.

Notice any sensations,

Any discomfort,

Any tightness,

Any pain.

Acknowledge this.

And inhale and just breathe out of your body.

Allowing it to sink more deeply into the earth.

Be aware of how you are feeling.

Let the emotions arise into your awareness.

Let go of any fears of what you might find here.

Inhale,

Breathing out from everywhere,

Letting go.

Inhale and breathe out from your solar plexus.

Letting go of any fears that prevent you from feeling into your body.

Knowing that these feelings cannot hurt you.

They may feel uncomfortable.

But we are not going to feel them for long.

Just acknowledge what's there.

Accept what is there.

Inhale and just breathe out from everywhere.

Allowing your body to let go of any charge that's sitting within it.

Letting go.

Relax into your body.

Let your mind come to your breath.

This is your mind's job for now.

Is to focus on your breathing.

Take a big breath in,

Filling your lungs,

Side of lungs,

Upper lungs.

And then slowly and completely exhale.

Letting all of that air out of your body,

Pulling your navel back toward your spine.

And when you're completely empty,

Take another big breath,

Filling your lungs again.

Sides of lungs,

Upper lungs and back of lungs.

Hold full.

And then slowly breathing out,

Completely emptying the lungs.

Squeezing the lungs until there's no air left.

And then take one more big breath,

Filling the lungs.

Enjoy the sensation of holding full.

And then exhale,

Pulling the navel back to the spine as we empty all the sluggish air out of our lungs.

And when you're empty,

Return to natural breathing.

And just notice now how you're feeling.

Notice any sensation and any change from when we started.

Be aware.

Calling our mind back from wherever it wants to travel to,

From all the distractions.

And if there's been a recent stress in your life,

That's probably what's pulling your mind.

So we're going to imagine that we can extract all of our energy out of this event.

So as if we have an anchor that we can pull up,

We're pulling that anchor back from the event.

So inhale,

Breathing in nice and deeply as we visualize pulling our energy out of this event or pulling an anchor up and out of the event that has just happened that's causing us stress.

Or it may have happened a long time ago in the past.

Inhale as you come back to yourself.

And we'll do that again.

We're calling our energy back from this event.

Inhale and call your mind back.

Call your energy back.

Intend that you are extracting all of your energy out of this situation and calling it back to you.

Inhale and exhale,

Relax.

We're going to call the energy of our emotion back from this situation.

So make that your intention first of all.

And then inhale and once again we're pulling this emotion out of the situation or event.

Call the energy that we've invested in this situation.

Calling our emotion back.

And then exhale and let it flow out of your body down into the earth.

Down into the earth.

Calling it back from the event.

Breathing it through your body and down into the earth.

Very good.

Now be aware of any physical sensations of distress,

Discomfort,

Tightness.

I want you to inhale and breathe out of this part of your body.

Letting go.

Letting go.

Breathing in and breathe out of this part of your body.

Letting go of any tightness,

Any pain and discomfort.

Letting it go.

We're seeing it disintegrating and flowing out of your body into the earth.

Inhale.

Breathing down into the earth out of your physical body.

And now we're going to ask that all this memory of this event that has been embedded into our cells,

The cells of our body,

We're going to ask that this cellular memory leave now.

So taking a big breath in and exhaling from the whole of your body with the intention that the cells of your body are letting go of the stress of this situation.

Letting go.

Letting go.

Very good.

Small breathing in and intending that the cells can release all the memory it is holding of the stress of this situation.

The memory of this situation is being released from our cells.

We don't have to hold on to that.

We can let this move through our body.

Let it move through and on.

Very good.

And just sit relaxed in your body,

Awareness in your breathing.

And as we sit there,

Become aware of whether you have the flight or fight sensations running through your body at the moment.

And if you do just acknowledge this,

It's a normal reaction of our nervous system to make at a subconscious level.

But bring it to your conscious mind now.

And giving awareness to this helps us to make a conscious decision to return back to equilibrium,

Back to balance,

Back to the middle ground.

So acknowledge where we're at and then make the intention that we're returning to middle ground.

And one of the ways that we can do this is checking are we safe?

Are you safe in your physical body right now?

This moment in time,

Are you physically safe?

And if you can answer that,

Take a big breath in and relax that into your body.

Let that run through your whole body,

This knowledge that I am safe.

I am safe in my physical body at the moment.

Are you emotionally safe?

Are you emotionally safe at this moment in time?

And if you can say yes,

Breathe that in.

Breathe in that yes.

At this moment in time I am emotionally safe.

And then be aware if this hasn't been for you,

Then bring to mind the awareness that this is an area to make a plan.

You may also be that flight and fight sensation is not running through you,

But you may be feeling that you can't do anything at all,

That you are somewhat closed down.

If this is the case,

Acknowledge this.

Acknowledge where you are at at the moment.

And from this place,

Make the intention that you are going to return to equilibrium,

Back to balance.

And I want you to breathe in for three breaths and to breathe out for six breaths.

Breathe in for three counts and out for six counts,

Whatever they be for you.

Breathing out twice as long as breathing in.

Keep doing that.

Try it again.

Breathing in.

Try three counts and out for six counts.

Just continue in that way for a little while.

Letting us remember that we are safe.

At this point in time we are safe.

Calling our mind back to our breathing.

Let's let it focus on your breathy inhalations,

The exhalation.

Keep up your count of three in and six out at your own pace.

Our mind will want to return to the event or the stress.

Keep calling it back into our body,

Into our breath.

And we are now going to cut the energetic cords to this event.

So we have pulled our energy back from this event.

We are now going to make that stronger by cutting the energetic cords to the event or situation.

So to make it more powerful I am going to say I cut all cords of attachment to this event.

To all people involved in this event.

To the place,

The situation,

The circumstance,

The time.

Everything about it.

Then take a big breath in and then breathe out from everywhere.

And we are just going to cut and sever energetically our attachment to that situation that is causing us stress at the moment.

Letting it go,

Seeing the energy cord being severed.

And your energy is coming back to you.

And the other has gone.

Don't let your mind return to that if you can.

Come back to yourself.

Come back to your breathing.

This is how you are feeling now.

Into your physical body.

Calling our mind back.

Keeping it placed within our body.

A beautiful place to keep our focus is in our hearts.

So coming to your heart space in the middle of your chest.

Not so much the physical heart but the heart space or the heart chakra.

In the middle of our chest.

Just placing your focus there.

Very good.

And inhale and breathe out of the back of your heart.

The intention that we can breathe out of our heart.

We are putting our focus there and releasing the back of our heart.

Very good.

Inhale.

Breathing out of our back including our shoulder blades.

Let all of that free up now.

Very good.

Now breathing in and breathing out of our adrenal glands.

Lower down on our back now.

Adrenal glands that work very hard at times for us.

Trying to keep us safe.

They can work overtime.

Just breathing out and letting them relax.

We are going to give them a little shine and clean.

Very good.

Now I want you to breathe in through the top of your head.

And all through your brain.

And down the back of your neck.

And down your spinal cord.

And out of the base of your spine.

Very nice.

And we will just give that another wash through.

So breathing in through the top of your head.

Washing through your brain.

Back of brain.

Down your spine.

Out of the base of your spine.

Washing all the way through.

And this time just breathing in through the top of your head and washing through your whole head,

Body,

Spine,

Out hands and feet.

Just washing through everywhere.

Flushing through and giving our nervous system a nice relax as we do that.

It just helps to soothe our nervous system.

So just sit in your body and relax now as we just let our nervous system have a tone up.

You can be aware of your nervous system if you can think.

You can think of your spine.

You can think of the nerves that go all through our body.

Every part of our body.

If you wish it just gets a lovely energetic tone up.

And this helps to relax our nervous system.

Relaxing.

Relaxing the nervous system.

We are safe.

There is no need for our nervous system to be working overtime now.

We are sitting in our bodies.

With the beautiful air,

Chi or prana moving through our bodies as we breathe.

Refreshing and revitalizing our bodies.

And our nervous system is having a little tone up.

As it helps the nervous system to come back into balance.

Feel refreshed and relaxed.

Breathe in and out of your head.

Letting anything that is feeling tight in our head.

Just let go of that now.

Let it all drop down and out.

Relaxing all over the skull area.

The eyebrows.

Your head.

Temples.

Eye sockets.

All around our eyes.

Let them relax.

Around our mouth.

Our jaw.

Relax.

Throat and neck.

Relax.

Shoulders.

Let them drop.

Upper back.

Relax.

Chest.

Let go of any tightness.

Relax.

Stomach.

Breathing in and relax your stomach as you breathe out.

Relax your pelvic area and your hips.

Let everything feel floppy and heavy.

No need to hold on.

Inhale and gently release from the whole of your head and body.

Letting go.

Letting go.

Coming back to balance.

Back into harmony.

Notice the quality of your breathing.

And it's time for us to just sit for a few moments in this beautiful,

Peacefulness and calmness.

Reviews

Helped alot In time of hight stress flight or fight thank u

Thank you so much for this healing meditation. Finally, a little relief after a very stressful event about a week ago 🙏

I loved this, went back to sleep feeling as though I was tucked up in a yurt at a green / holistic festival, after a workshop.

Thank you. Just what I needed to restore equilibrium after a highly charged emotional event.

Very relaxing!

She’s got a way of calming. Thank you.

Thank you Maya. The cord-cutting and returning of energy is just what I needed. I will follow your teachings!

This is such an amazing guided meditation!

Relaxing and calming. Liked the breathing exercises 🙂

Excellent. Exactly where I needed to go.
Thank you so much.