Alright,
Welcome.
We're going to use this meditation as just a short way to release some tension or stress or anxiety or any kind of negative energy that you may be holding onto right now.
So as humans,
We have this tendency to bottle up our negative emotions and kind of carry them with us wherever we go.
Our minds are like worry magnets,
Right?
Have you ever felt the energy of a negative meeting or conversation spill over into the next thing and maybe even the next day?
So when we meditate,
One thing that we learn is how to let go,
How to release,
How to surrender old stories and keep things at bay,
Right?
Let go of the things that no longer serve us.
And what we often find when we practice meditation is that in a large way,
The art of letting go,
The practice of letting go itself is fundamentally connected somehow to our exhale,
Right?
When we breathe in,
We are feeling ourselves up and when we breathe out,
That is really our opportunity to leave our negativity at the door,
Okay?
So by exhaling with this intention of release,
It becomes significantly easier to let go of our problems and instead focus on what's right in front of us,
Present moment.
So we're going to practice a short exercise called breathe and release.
We'll start here by just getting a comfortable position and taking in a couple of extra long inhales in from the nose and breathing out from the mouth.
And doing that a few times.
Really exaggerate these breaths.
Let these be the deepest breaths you've taken all day.
And let these breaths allow you to sink a little bit deeper into this experience of this moment,
Into this body,
Into this sense of gravity,
Into this moment.
Let the breath bring you back.
Now you may have had a hard day.
You may be holding on to some kind of anxiety and if you are,
What I invite you to do is to just check in and see if you can notice where,
Where and how you're holding on to that.
It might be a feeling of tightness.
That's a common way that tension manifests in the body.
Or it could be our eyes squeezing really close or our jaw feeling locked.
It could be our back and shoulders hunched.
It could be a feeling of physical pain.
Or it could just be a feeling of disconnection.
Feeling numb,
Feeling down.
However it's showing up for you right now,
Use this moment to breathe and release.
So what that means at this point,
Your breath has come back to a natural rhythm.
Just take in a breath and when you exhale,
Use this exhale to really uncharge.
If you're feeling the knot of negativity,
Summon it up.
Bring it all up with your inhale.
And use your exhale to send it flying,
Send it back home.
See if you can feel how with each exhale there might be a sensation that follows that.
One that feels a little bit more light,
One that feels a little bit more clear,
Spacious.
You've given yourself this moment to release.
So really allow,
Allow whatever it is to let go.
Allow the fullness of the breath to come in and bring with it a sense of freshness.
And allow each exhale to be a full release.
I mean that literally too,
Breathing out until your lungs and belly feel totally empty.
All right.
Go ahead and check in with yourself one more time here.
Notice where your energy is at.
If you ever feel when you're doing this practice that your mind is really busy and interfering with your release,
You can condense all of those thoughts and the busyness of your mind into the breath and then let that go too.
And replace,
Replace the energy of busyness in your mind with one of spaciousness.
All right.
Feel free to revisit this practice anytime you feel you need to release a little bit.
Today is yours.
You got this.
You were beautiful.
And this is it.
Present moment.
Waiting for us when we let go.
Thanks for joining me today.
I'll see you next time.
