Welcome everyone.
Thank you for joining me today.
I know it's hard to do your practice when you're feeling stressed or sad or depressed and you just don't want to do anything.
So congratulations on showing up today.
Let's begin by sitting nice and tall.
And just put your right hand on your left shoulder and your left hand on your right shoulder.
Just sit here for a moment and be grateful and just honour yourself today for showing up.
I know it's hard sometimes to get moving to get your day starting when you're feeling stressed.
But this meditation is going to help you to move energy so that you can feel good about yourself again.
You can allow joy to come into your life again.
Take a deep breath in through your nose and let it out through the mouth.
Take another deep breath in.
This time let your chin lift away from your chest.
Lift your belly,
Your ribs,
Your head like they're floating up away from the pelvis.
And then exhale out through the mouth.
Take another deep breath in through the nose.
And now when you exhale,
You're going to slide your hands over your torso so that your right hand ends up at your right hip and your left hand at your left hip.
You're making an X on your body.
And then bring your hands across them again.
Right hand on left shoulder,
Left hand on right shoulder.
Long deep breath in,
Lift the chest,
Lift the head.
And when you exhale,
You can create that X over your torso so that the right hand is on the right hip,
Left hand on left hip.
Do that one more time.
And then exhaling to make that nice cross,
That nice X over the torso.
Good.
Let's place the left hand just across the forehead.
Take your right hand and just cup the base of your skull.
Let your arms relax,
But keep your spine lengthened.
You could even let your head press gently back into your right hand.
And just take a moment.
Just let whatever feeling that you're feeling,
Let it bubble to the surface.
And just watch it play out on a screen in front of you as you hold these points,
Knowing that you're not attaching yourself to the movie that's playing in front of the screen.
You're just the observer.
Maybe work is stressing you out.
Let that movie play,
Taking long deep breaths in.
Take a deep breath out.
You can breathe out through your mouth.
Now we'll get a little bit more specific with our points.
So your left hand,
You're going to hold with fingertips just between the eyebrows.
So your third eye point.
And your right hand,
You can take your fingertips and hold where your spine meets the bottom of your skull,
The base of your skull.
Hold these points softly.
Let that play out through the mouth.
We'll stay for one more breath,
Breathing in deeply.
Breathing out through the mouth and a big sigh.
And now placing your left hand over your forehead again,
You're going to hold the back of the head in line with your eyes.
So you can hold the center point.
So as though your spine drew a line all the way up the back of the head and then in line with the eyes.
Just allowing your breath to be free and deep.
One more breath.
Breathing out.
Good.
Now keeping your left hand across your forehead,
You're going to hold the outside corner of the eyes with your thumb pad and your middle finger pad.
And you're going to breathe long,
Deep breaths.
Staying for just one more breath.
And now keeping your left hand across the forehead,
You're going to imagine that line in line with your spine going all the way up your head and you're going to hold along that line but in line with your eyebrows this time.
So the center back of the head in line with your eyebrows,
Holding those points.
And breathing long deep breath.
Just focusing on the breath,
No thoughts,
No pictures,
No stories.
Focusing on breathing.
Maybe you feel a connection,
Your hand at the forehead and the hand at the back of the head.
Staying for just one more breath.
Good.
Now taking your right hand and holding with your thumb and middle finger again on your cheekbones,
Just below your eyes.
So thumb on one point,
Middle finger on the other point.
And you're continuing to breathe long deep breaths,
Allowing your body to get much needed oxygen to feed all of your cells.
Breathing deeply helps to calm the nervous system.
We'll stay for one more breath.
Good.
And now placing your right hand at the very top of your head.
To be more specific,
The baby soft spot at the top of the head.
Just holding these points just for a few breaths.
Feeling a sense of calm.
Staying for one more breath.
Good.
And then just releasing your hands.
You can give your hands a little shake.
Lift your shoulders up towards your ears.
Give them a nice squeeze,
Squeeze,
Squeeze all the muscles in your neck.
And then let your shoulders drop.
Taking your left hand and just placing your fingertips up into the armpit.
Your thumb is just resting where the shirt or your arm meets your torso.
And then taking your right hand and holding just above your left elbow.
And allowing yourself to breathe deeply here.
And then just very gently switching.
So now your right hand,
Fingertips go under the armpit.
And then your left hand holds above your right elbow.
And then we'll just hold these points for a few breaths.
And then you're going to gently release that hold.
Take the tip of your index finger and thumbs together.
Making a circle or an okay sign.
You're going to place the tip of the index finger and thumb up against the temples.
And let your three fingers rest on your forehead.
Begin to feel the corners of the mouth lifting into a little smile.
Begin to notice the quality of light behind your eyelids is getting brighter.
You can picture sun shining on you.
It's golden rays coming into the top of the head and filling your body with its golden light.
Keep smiling gently,
Corners of the mouth lifting ever so slightly.
And then we'll stay just for one more breath.
Take a deep breath in.
And as you exhale,
Slide your fingertips down to meet at the temple.
Breathing all the air out.
Inhale,
Slide your fingers up above the ears to your parietal ridge.
And when you exhale,
Slide your fingers down behind the ears,
Off the sides of the neck and off the shoulders.
Cross your arms once again.
So your right hand is on your left shoulder,
Your left hand is on your right shoulder.
Taking a deep breath in.
And as you exhale,
You're going to make that X on your torso again.
So right hand on right hip,
Left hand on left.
And then slide your fingertips down to your pubic bone.
And we'll inhale and zip up the front of the body,
Sliding the fingers up the centre line of the body,
All the way to the bottom lip.
Exhale,
Bring your hands back down to your pubic bone.
Smile and inhale.
Positivity,
Joy,
Love and light.
And exhale,
Fingers down to the pubic bone.
One more time.
Inhale,
Positivity,
Joy,
Love and light.
And now place your hands together,
Thumbs gently resting against the sternum.
Take a moment to be grateful for all the things in your life.
The lessons.
The good things.
The bad,
The ugly.
Everything.
Everything is a lesson if you just have the eyes to see.
Thank you for joining me.
Have a wonderful day.
Thank you.
