Welcome!
This meditation for chronic pain or symptoms was created to promote natural healing and to boost your confidence in the possibility of healing.
It's meant to create space for your body to rebalance itself,
To work as it should work,
Without the usual interference of everyday life.
Now is your time to engage in something different,
Something more powerful than you've been doing so far.
So let's get started.
I gently invite you to come into this meditation with your pain or symptoms.
These are not your enemies,
These are your guidance system,
Your body crying out for you to listen.
Maybe you've been living under a lot of pressure,
Maybe what they told you about your symptoms has scared you,
Has created even more anxiety,
A stronger urge to change your pain.
Maybe you've been fighting your body for a long time,
But this is not what we'll be doing today.
I'm here to tell you that you don't have to be in pain forever,
But we do need to acknowledge the sensations that are present right now.
So bring them in with you,
Give them a little nod of acceptance.
And now,
I invite you to make yourself comfortable,
Not by forcing,
Not by trying to get rid of sensations,
But by sinking into your bed or chair as best you can.
Imagine that right now,
You've got nothing and no body to fight.
Let all the resentments,
All the frustrations,
All the worries seep out from you.
Let them dribble off the chair or bed into the ground.
You might want to imagine a shiny transparent mist slowly evaporating out of your body and dropping onto the sides of it and onto the ground beneath you,
Until it disappears into the ground.
Let this mist represent all the anxieties,
All those frustrations,
Or those problems that you've been trying so hard to solve.
Because now it is your time and your body's time to breathe.
Now is the time to notice your breath rising and falling,
Not by forcing it,
But simply by letting it rise and fall naturally.
Notice it doing so in your belly or in your chest,
Whichever feels best,
And notice what it really feels like.
Maybe it feels slow and heavy.
Maybe it feels light or fast.
Try not to label it as good or bad.
Let the breath simply do what it does and be with your body in this moment.
The intention we're going to set for the rest of this meditation is not to interfere with the body.
When we don't try to fight our symptoms,
We allow space for the body to get back into balance,
To repair and regenerate.
As we stop trying to make things be a certain way and trying to solve problems,
We let go of the tension,
We deactivate all those stress hormones that can prevent healing.
So,
For this moment today,
Set that intention with firmness.
Allow your body to operate naturally,
And also allow any sensations to be there.
These are not bad or wrong,
They're simply a result of whatever has been going on previously,
A result of all the anxiety,
All the fears,
All the resistance.
But we can put an end to this very,
Very soon.
I now gently ask you to notice any buzzing in your fingers and hands,
And now maybe in your toes and feet.
Can you notice any tingling,
Any buzzing feeling,
Or perhaps any tension?
Whatever you notice,
Get curious about it and allow the sensation to evolve and unfold.
Do not try to interrupt it,
Do not try to stop it.
Imagine that all of these sensations,
All of this buzzing and tingling is your whole body at work,
At work to keep you alive and to keep things in balance.
Imagine the blood flowing through your whole body,
From your legs up to your head.
Picture the blood flow give new life to your organs and visualize it softening any areas of tension that you notice.
Your body is full of activity,
And it knows exactly what to do.
If we allow it to do its thing,
We stop creating stumbling blocks and obstacles.
As we stop judging a sensation and focusing on it,
We allow the energy within us to flow easier and the repair to take place faster.
We have now stopped interfering.
Because interference never helped,
It never brought peace.
And now it is this peace we're seeking,
Not perfection,
But peace in knowing that our body knows what it's doing,
That if we trust it,
If we stop fighting it,
It will know how to get us back into balance.
So continue feeling the ebb and flow in your body,
The tingling,
The energy,
Whatever you'd like to call it.
Be with all sensations and feel how alive and yet how peaceful your body can be.
If you find the sensations hard to track,
You can return back to your breath and continue observing the slow wave of the breath.
In and out,
Your belly rising up and down.
In and out,
Up and down.
Stay with your body and observe what's going on as if you're this tiny awareness,
Not consumed by whatever you're feeling,
But deeply curious.
If you get any thoughts related to your body,
Acknowledge them,
But don't entertain them.
Maybe you hear a voice inside of you wondering whether this meditation will help at all.
Maybe another voice is trying to tell you that the discomfort is still there or that things can't be this simple.
These are those hurt parts of you,
Those suspicious parts that are unable to trust because they have been disappointed and let down in the past,
Because they've experienced the hurt of broken promises.
But that time is now over.
You're not promising them anything right now.
You're just asking them to stand by,
Not to interfere with whatever the body is doing.
So stay with the body,
Observe its ebb and flow for just a bit longer.
If you feel ready,
I gently ask you to start moving your body again.
Maybe wiggle your toes or stretch your arms.
Do anything that you feel the impulse to do.
Remember that we've set a very important intention today,
To trust the body more,
To believe in its natural abilities to heal and restore,
And to stop fighting it so much.
I encourage you to bring this to your day-to-day life now.
As you go about your life and start wondering what to do or try next to get rid of your symptoms,
Maybe take a step back.
Maybe you don't need to do much.
Maybe doing more is what's making it worse.
Just maybe.
I now wish you a wonderful continuation to your day.
And if you're interested in the concepts I've introduced in this meditation,
I invite you to check out my profile and to learn more about mind-body and neuroplastic symptoms.
If you feel any change or relief in symptoms,
Then your symptoms are likely reversible and your body is not broken or damaged,
And learning about this will make a huge difference to your life.
That I can wholeheartedly promise.
