Yoga Nidra To Unravel Anxiety

Lie down and get comfortable. If you've been experiencing fear around money or life circumstances, this Yoga Nidra is a healing balm. Utilizing a focus on holding opposites to unravel your anxiety, this track will leave you feeling peaceful. Royalty-free music: Blissful Healing by Chris Collins of Indie Musicbox.

Transcript

And as you come into your space,

Sensing the way that your body contacts the surface that you're resting on.

Feeling the weight and the pressure of the contact points of your body against the earth.

And allow yourself to be held by gravity.

And as you're feeling the surface that you're on,

As you're feeling that pull and that support of gravity,

Can you also just take a moment to let your attention sift downward and feel the way that the earth comes up to meet you.

And drawing your attention inward.

And allowing your attention to ride the waves of your breath.

Dropping into the ebb and the flow of the natural rhythm of your breath as it is right now.

And with your next three inhalation and exhalation cycles,

Inhaling and allowing the breath and the inhalation to be slow and deep.

And as you exhale,

Sighing out the day,

Sighing out any tension,

Making the sound that your body needs to make on the sigh.

And when those three cycles of breath are complete,

Returning to the natural breath and noticing how effortless the body breathes.

And now call to mind an experience or a place in nature or a room,

A place that you've been,

Or a place that only exists in your rich imagination.

Take yourself to that place.

Immerse yourself in this place of nourishment,

Safety,

And peace.

And as you bring yourself into your inner sanctuary,

Noticing the ground beneath you in that space,

Taking in the sights and the sounds of this beautiful place that belongs just to you.

And as you rest in your inner sanctuary,

Notice how your body responds to this inner experience.

Let yourself rest in your inner sanctuary,

Knowing that you can bring this energy with you.

You can wrap it around you throughout this practice.

And as you sense and feel the comfort of your sanctuary,

Consider what might be your best intention for this practice.

It may be your practice for our Get Right With Money journey,

Or it may be something else that your body psyche is inviting you to do.

To explore.

So consider for a moment your intention and formulate it into a one-sentence affirmation.

And once you've established this intention,

Affirm it silently to yourself now three times.

Breathing it in,

Planting the seeds of your intention,

And now resting the attention at the heart center,

Allowing your intention to integrate into your experience.

And now follow my instruction as we move through the body.

And we're going to progressively relax the body as we bring attention to different areas.

And we'll begin in the mouth.

And begin to tense your whole face,

Perhaps sticking your tongue out,

Opening your mouth,

But tensing the face and the muscles around the eyes and the jaw,

Holding them tight,

And then release,

Softening the entire face,

Allowing it to let go,

Feeling the reverberation of this one act move through the body.

Moving now to your shoulders and your neck.

With your face relaxed,

Begin to pull the shoulders up and in,

And tightening the shoulder blades and neck,

Holding that for just a moment,

And then let go,

Relaxing completely,

Softening the neck and shoulders,

And feeling the tension roll off of the neck and shoulders.

And again,

Taking the time to feel the impact of this tension and release on the body,

Bringing your attention to the left shoulder all the way down to the left hand,

And bringing a tension and a strength to the arm from the shoulder blades,

From the shoulder to the fingers,

Holding for a few moments before relaxing and releasing the left arm.

And you may wish to shake your left hand and arm out and feeling the softness of release.

Notice how this feels,

Allowing sensation to move through the body.

Attention now comes to the right shoulder all the way to the right fingers,

Bringing attention from the shoulder all the way to the fingertips of the right arm,

Holding that tension before allowing it to release and let go,

Feeling the softness,

Noticing sensation not only in the arms,

But throughout the body.

Bring tension now into the entire torso,

Both the front and back of the upper chest,

The middle torso and abdomen,

Tightening the abdominal muscles in the back,

Holding,

Holding this tension in the torso,

Feeling it hold all of the organs,

And then release,

Completely let go,

Feeling your body surrender to the earth beneath you,

Feeling the vibration move through your body.

Moving now to the pelvis and the sacrum,

And the buttocks,

Tightening and holding,

Feeling the pelvis and the buttocks pull in and tighten,

But asking the rest of the body to stay at ease,

And then release.

Sense the way that this release reverberates and ripples out through the torso and the legs.

Moving your attention now to the left leg between the hip bone and the feet,

You may even raise your left leg up slightly to tense it and pull it in,

Holding that tension before letting go,

Sensing any tension releasing from the body.

Moving to the right leg now,

From the hip bone all the way to the feet,

Tensing and tightening all the muscles of the leg,

From hip bone to toes,

Holding,

And then releasing completely.

Noticing sensation and vibration in the body,

Let your body be completely at ease,

Soft and open,

Allowing your attention to rest at the heart center,

As you feel the sensations moving through the body.

Bring your attention once again to the breath,

Noticing the body breathing,

The expansion of the ribcage,

And the contraction of the ribcage,

Noticing the rhythm of your breath,

Not trying to breathe,

But just noticing the rhythm of your breath.

With your next inhalation,

Breathing in slowly and as you exhale,

Pursing your lips as if you're blowing out through a straw,

Straw breath,

Inhaling through the nose,

And exhaling as if you are breathing out through a straw,

Breathing out through a straw,

Body and breath relaxed,

Breathing in and breathing out,

Exhaling with the lips pursed,

And releasing straw breath now,

Coming back to the heart center,

And noticing how the breath impacts the body.

Feel all sensation in the body.

Call to mind now a thought,

An emotion,

Or a belief that you'd like to work with,

Perhaps one that gets a lot of air time around money or capacity,

Perhaps a thought like there's never enough money,

Or you may want to explore a feeling like anxiety or depression.

Perhaps you choose what to work with.

And as you choose that one thought,

Emotion,

Or belief,

Also considering what its opposite is to you.

And when you feel ready,

Recall your initial thought,

Emotion,

Or belief,

And recall a time when you were experiencing it,

When you were very identified with it,

Blended with it,

And notice how you feel.

Notice how you feel.

Notice where you feel it in your body,

Giving the feeling lots of space that you're finding in your body,

Remaining curious and aware,

And now calling to mind the opposite,

And recalling a time when you had the experience of the opposite thought,

Belief,

Or emotion.

And notice how it feels in your body.

Where do you sense that feeling,

Emotion,

Or thought?

And now go back and forth a few times between these opposites,

Noticing what you feel as you identify with one and then the other.

Hold both opposites at once,

Widening the lens of your feeling awareness.

Notice what happens when you open to both at once.

This is not something you can think your way through,

But you have to feel your way through.

And you might feel that the opposites,

When held,

Dissolve or open into a sense of neutrality.

What do you feel with both at once?

It may open into an entirely new possibility.

And releasing the opposites and returning once again to the heart center,

As you notice all sensations in the body.

And in this state of openness,

Once again,

Recall your intention,

Repeating it to yourself silently three times,

And feel your intention as if it is happening right now.

See it,

Feel it,

Be it.

Know your intention has been heard as you allow it to blossom in you and your life.

And as we move toward completion,

Sense your body resting in the room that you're in,

Feeling the earth beneath you and the air around you.

Can you sense the way that the air presses against your skin?

As you gradually begin to deepen the breath,

Let your body lead,

Bringing gentle movement in whatever way your body asks for,

But moving slowly and with care.

And when you feel ready,

Slowly rolling to one side,

Making your way to a seated position.