Welcome to this five minute relaxation meditation.
You can do this standing or sitting down,
Eyes closed or eyes open.
We're just going to start with a little bit of tapping.
So just taking your three middle fingers and bring them up to your third eye.
So right between your eyebrows and just gently tapping there in between your eyebrows as you breathe deeply.
And then bring them over to the side of the eye.
So either right or left,
Just on the outer edge of the eye where you can feel the bone and gently tapping there a little bit.
Breathing deeply.
Beautiful and then underneath the eye,
Kind of that bone of the eye socket underneath the eye and gently tapping there.
Breathing deeply.
And then bringing the palm of your hand all the way down to your chest,
Center of your chest.
Just gently tapping with your hand on the center of your chest.
Now you breathe deeply,
Feeling those vibrations in the center of your chest.
Beautiful and then taking your hand and gently wrapping your fingers around the wrist,
Right where the hand meets the arm and just wrapping your fingers around the wrist and just holding there for a little bit as you breathe deeply.
It feels inviting and you can close your eyes now if they're not already.
Slowing down your breath as you relax the muscles of your face,
Softening the forehead,
The eyes,
Muscles around the eyes,
Softening the cheeks and hooking the jaw,
Swallowing,
Relaxing the throat.
And then you can bring your hands down now,
So letting go of the hand and bringing your hands to rest wherever is comfortable and just shrugging the shoulders up towards the ears and just holding for a moment as you shrug the shoulders up towards the ear and then letting the shoulders fall.
And then letting the shoulders fall.
I'll just do that two more times,
Shrugging the shoulders up and then letting them fall,
Relaxing.
One last time,
Holding the shoulders,
Shrugging them up really tight and then letting them fall as you invite the shoulders to relax.
And then bringing a hand onto the belly and a hand onto the chest.
Inviting the breath into the belly,
So the belly expands as you breathe in and falls as you breathe out.
Belly expanding on the in-breath and falling on the out-breath and the chest is still moving too,
We're just emphasizing that the belly is expanding on the in-breath.
I'm just slowing down the breath,
Deepening the breath as much as you comfortably can so you're not gasping for air.
And we're just going to bring in some positive affirmations.
I'll introduce them and you can just repeat it to yourself a few times.
So,
I am safe.
I am safe.
I am safe.
Just repeating those words to yourself.
I am enough.
I am enough.
I am enough.
Repeating those words to yourself a few times,
Maybe slowly and noticing how it feels in your body as you say these words.
I am enough.
And last ones.
It is safe to be me.
It is safe to be me.
It is safe to be me.
Feeling it in your body as you say these words.
It is safe to be me.
And then just letting go of the words,
Letting go of the control of the breath,
Letting the breath settle and come back to its own natural rhythm.
Take a moment to notice,
To check in.
Do you feel any different to how you felt before the practice?
And then whenever you're ready,
Just gently flickering the eyes open.
Just looking over towards your right.
And then gradually,
Slowly,
Slowly scanning your vision across the room from right to left.
Gently,
Eyes slowly,
Gently resting on shapes,
Colors,
Whatever's there.
And then when you're at the left,
Sweeping back again.
So,
Gently scanning across the room from left to right.
Beautiful.
And then taking a moment if you'd like,
Or whenever you're ready,
Getting back to the rest of your day.
