Body-Anchored Practice For Letting Go And Returning To Ease

This meditation is an invitation to put down what you’ve been carrying. Long enough to remember that underneath the rushing, holding, and all the doing there is a quieter version of you that already knows how to rest.

Each time you practice, you’ll be guided into your body, your breath, your belly — where real releasing happens. Not just in your thoughts, but in the places where tension has been living without being named. There is something amazing that happens when we stop trying to manage everything and simply allow the body to lead the way.

This meditation is designed to grow with you. Each listen takes you a little deeper. Each breath releases a little more. Each day, you come back to yourself — more open, more free, more at home in your own life.

You don’t have to be ready. You just have to be willing.

Best experienced in the morning to set the tone for your day, or in the evening to release what the day has brought.

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Transcript

This meditation is called releasing into love. It is a body anchored meditation for letting go, Making space and returning to ease. So I invite you to find a comfortable seated position and lying down is also perfectly okay if that is what best supports your body at this time. But simply making your spine comfortably straight in whatever position you choose to allow for ease of breathing. And I invite you to allow your gaze to soften or your eyes to gently close. Everything in this meditation is an invitation. So feel free to make it your own. As we begin now, I invite you to place one hand on your belly and one on your heart center, Arriving here. Right now in this moment, You are safe right here. Take a nice slow breath in through your nose and let it fall out through your mouth. No effort, No need to control, Just release. And then begin to breathe in this way. Breathing in for a count of four and gently retain the breath for a count of two and release the breath for a count of six. So it's four in, Two hold, Six out. And let go of the counting and allow your breath to find its own natural rhythm. Feel the weight of your body. Feel where you make contact with the earth beneath you, Your seat, Your spine, The soles of your feet. Let gravity do its work. You don't have to hold yourself upright. The ground is here. It has always been here. If it's helpful, Press your feet gently into the floor and feel the floor pressing back. Notice this connection between your body and the earth. Solid, Steady, Unhurried, And now bring your attention to your shoulders. And notice, Are they lifted towards your ears? Invite them to soften downward, Inviting the weight of anything that you may be carrying on your shoulders to really start to let go. Feel the space that opens between your ears and the top of your arms as you do this. Now bring attention to your jaw, Another area that tension likes to live. Invite a little softness here. Your forehead, The space behind your eyes. Let any gripping in these areas dissolve like mist in the morning sun. Then draw your awareness into the center of your chest and begin to imagine you're wearing a heavy backpack across your back and shoulders. Feel its imagined weight. And now on your next exhale, Just picture gently unclipping it and allowing this backpack and its weight to slide to the ground beside you. You can always pick it back up later. For now, Allow it to rest next to you. Breathe into the lightness that opens. Even if it's just a little lightness. Welcome it. And repeat this affirmation softly to yourself. I lay down my burdens now. I am allowed to rest. I am allowed to be here just as I am without carrying everything. Say that again and sense the words in your body. I lay down my burdens now. I am allowed to rest. I am allowed to be here just as I am without carrying everything. And allow your awareness to shift into your belly now, Your lower abdomen. This is the center of your body's wisdom, The place where you hold, Where you grip, Where old tension lives quietly, Waiting to be seen. Take a nice full breath into this space and let your belly expand to become soft, Round, More full. And hold the breath for just a moment and then release slowly through pursed lips. And do this a few more times. Breathe fully into the belly. Hold for just a moment the breath in and then a long, Slow exhale through pursed lips like you are gently blowing on a cup of hot tea. And now shifting to breathing in and out through your nose, If that's accessible to you right now. And on each natural exhale, Feel the belly gently release. Imagine with each out breath that you are releasing something you no longer need. An old word, An old worry, An old story, An old grip on how things must be. It doesn't need to be named, Just let it leave on the breath. With each exhale, A little more is released. Your body knows how to do this. It has been doing this your whole life. Breathing in, Breathing out. Taking in what is needed and releasing what is not. Trust this rhythm, It is yours. I easily and comfortably release that which I no longer need in my life. My body knows how to let go. I am safe to release. Breathe with these words, Let them land in your belly. And let's repeat them again. I easily and comfortably release that which I no longer need in my life. My body knows how to let go. I am safe to release. I invite you to bring both hands now to rest over your heart space, One on top of the other. And feel the warmth of your own hands. Feel the rise and fall of your chest beneath them. Notice if you can feel your own heartbeat. This is love, Not romantic love, Not earned love, But the steady love that pulses through you simply because you are alive. It requires nothing of you. It is not something you must seek. It is already here beneath every burden you have carried, Beneath every anxious thought. Feel that. And breathe in slowly. And imagine the air entering directly into your heart center, Warm, Maybe golden in color, Expansive, And on each exhale, Let that warmth radiate outward from your chest in every direction. Like soft light spreading gently through the room. So with each inhale, Sense the warmth and light filling your heart space. And with each exhale, Inviting that light to radiate outward in every direction. Love is not something you fall into. It is something you remember. And right now with your hands on your heart and the earth beneath you, Remember, I release all that is unlike love. I am made of love. I return to love now easily, Gently, And completely. Let these words drop from your mind into your chest. Feel them. Don't just think them. And let's repeat them again. I release all that is unlike love. I am made of love. I return to love now easily, Gently, And completely. Sense that. And now shift your awareness to the space around you, The air between you and the walls, The space above your head, The breath between each thought. Notice how much space there actually is. And so often we feel pressed by time, By tasks, By what has not yet been done. But notice in this moment that the present is always spacious. Worry lives in the past and the future, But here in the body, In this breath, There is room, Space, Spaciousness. Spread your awareness to the full width of your body. Both arms, The whole of your back, The soles of both feet simultaneously. Sense how much space you actually take up. You are not small. You are not cramped. You are here fully and the world has made room for you. Let your shoulders drop down a little further. Let your face soften again. Everything that needs to be done will unfold in its right timing. You are not behind. You are not too slow. You are exactly where you are supposed to be. You're welcome to place one hand on your solar plexus, Which is the space a couple inches up from your belly button. And feel the steadiness here. And repeat this. There is time and space for everything on your body. I want to do. Life supports me. I move through my days with ease and grace. I am never rushed by life. Repeating that again. There is time and space for everything I want to do. I want to do. Life supports me. I move through my days with ease and grace. I am never rushed by life. The body breathing itself. Right here, Right now. This body, This breath from moment to moment. Each natural breath in, Breathe in something you are welcoming. Ease, Love, Spaciousness. Each breath out, Breathe out something you are releasing. Tension, Urgency, Old pain. Slow, Full breaths. In with ease, Out with release. And as we begin to return to the waking world, Feel the full length of your spine from the crown of your head down to your tailbone. Long, Open, Free. Feel your feet on the ground or your body on the surface you're resting on. Feel your hands wherever they may be resting now. And come all the way back into the room of your body. And taking your time, When you feel ready, Let your eyes gently open. Honor anything that your body is asking for, A gentle stretch, A movement. And carry the softness from this meditation and any new insights or awareness, Carry them with you into your day or evening ahead. Thank you for meditating with me today.