Giving Safety To Your Nervous System In Difficult Moments

In this somatic practice, I gently guide you to process your emotions while offering yourself safety and compassion. We begin by settling into the containment hug, then move into intuitive movement to support emotions in moving through, and close with gentle self-compassion.

A pillow can be nice to have, but it isn’t necessary. The amount of movement is entirely up to you. Everything can be done seated or even lying down.

Music: Epidemic Sound
Calme - Ever so Blue, Taiga- Ever so Blue, Reconcile - Peter Sandberg, Remove the complexities - Peter Sandberg

Transcript

Hi, I'm Miriam Amavi and now we're going to do a little somatic practice to hold ourselves through a difficult moment, Whether that is that you feel sadness or overwhelmed or you feel hopeless or really lonely. No matter what you feel, If there is a lot of emotions coming up, We just want to contain them and hold ourselves through them because sometimes that's the best medicine we can give ourselves rather than try to distract us or make it go away because whatever is inside you that wants to be known needs to be known because if we don't listen to what is happening within ourselves, If we always push it away, It will become louder and louder and we'll be even more uncomfortable and we need to let it through to get it out. So the only thing that you need is a comfortable place to sit, Somewhere where you feel safe and comfortable and if you have it, I highly recommend having a pillow nearby. So we're going to just start with finding a comfortable place where you can sit and just starting to rock from side to side. If you do not feel safe rocking like this, You can also just sit still or sit in a way that feels good and there's a couple options here. You can either hold a pillow and hug a pillow like this and just see whether you want to rock side to side and just hold it like this because this is a really great way to contain yourself, To give your nervous system a sense of containment, A sense of being held, A sense of safety. If you have a couch pillow behind you and where you can lean on that's even better and just you know you can also get a blanket and put it around you and just hold yourself like this because when we have big emotions they tend to spill out and that feels really out of control and so with this hugging the pillow or if you don't have a pillow you can just hug yourself. We're bringing all of this in when giving it a space where it can happen within a container. So I invite you to just arrive here, Hold your pillow if you have one and perhaps tilt your head towards your heart. Just allow yourself to be in this moment. Acknowledge that this is a moment of suffering and that all humans go through that. And just gently rock from side to side or just hold yourself. And any emotion that you have, Just namely I feel out of control, I feel hopeless. There can be multiple emotions at once. You don't need to find each little emotion that you have, Just generally name whatever is there. You can notice what that emotion feels like in your body. Perhaps there is a tension or a heaviness or burning. And just acknowledge that we don't want to make it go away, This is just an expression of your body that needs some comfort. You can acknowledge to yourself that you are experiencing something that is really difficult. You don't need to feel okay right now, This is completely valid to feel. You're not overreacting. This is so understandable, Of course you would feel like this. Just notice what it feels like to hold yourself like this. Perhaps there is this really, Really small whisper, Thankfulness to come home to yourself like this. Perhaps there is also just a spare and that's okay. Allow your emotions to flow through you. If there is tears showing up, That's okay. You can either keep on just holding yourself like this or rocking, Or you can start doing some intuitive movements and let these emotions just carry you and move. You can also just hold yourself, Continue to hold yourself here. You can also feel nice just to hold your face like this. And once again, Holding yourself, Your head to your heart, Maybe hold your heart. Holding yourself in this moment, Noticing how these intuitive movements felt, How the emotion felt, Deserved. Perhaps with the words like, I'm here. Notice what it feels like to receive that sense of kindness. If you want to go deeper into nervous system work, You can always check out my profile here on Insight Timer. I have a lot of other somatic meditations and videos and courses on here. Please leave a review if you like this one and if you have any questions or if you have any wishes for practices, Then put them in the review as well. Miriam Umavi, Have a wonderful day. Bye.

Reviews

So relaxing. a born dancer too? very graceful movements
Highly recommend