Meditation For Those Living With Grief, Anxiety Or Anger

To live with pain, anger, grief, or dissociation is already painful enough. But with mindfulness, breath, embodiment, and observation we are able to find our way back home at the seat of our deepest truth. And the truth is we have everything we need to heal... inside our being. Let us begin with the breath.

Transcript

You are welcome here to settle into your seat or to lie down either allowing the spine to be long and tall in your seat or resting your body on the earth beneath you for more solidity and support.

And you get to choose what serves you best today so find yourself in that comfortable seat or that embrace of the earth beneath you and allow your body to feel the support of heaviness.

Allow the bones to rest in their joints.

Allow the muscles to release and allow the breath to become fluid and natural.

And allow the being that you are,

The being that you embody to feel.

To feel deeply whatever it may be that you feel today.

Deep inhalations and exhalations through the nostrils allowing the belly to relax allowing the breath to move in and upward through the body replenishing revitalizing and settling the being.

And our emotions can take the reins so many times we can feel out of control.

We can feel taken.

We can feel overwhelmed but my invitation for you today is to welcome in the fullness of your experience to become comfortable with the discomfort of feeling deeply and to know to understand that I am NOT my emotions.

But I do feel the weight of emotions profoundly and I am NOT my sadness but I do feel the depth of my sorrow and I am NOT my grief but I do experience my distress deeply.

And I am NOT my anger but I feel the fire so hot and the rage so deep how can it not belong to me.

I am NOT my depression but I do feel depressive states of energy and yet I am still here.

I am still present.

We are still here.

We are still present.

And remind yourself I am in pain sometimes but I am NOT my pain.

The moment I allow my desire for peace to live alongside my holding of pain is a moment of wholeness.

And I desire more so to be whole than to be happy.

For to be human is to feel deeply the vast spectrum of emotion and as my joy ecstasy and peace are so welcomed I welcome in the feeling of pain grief sorrow and anxiety.

Yet I know I am none of them and none of them are me.

I breathe deeply and I feel expansively and I reach into the long corridors of my existence and I invite all that I pushed aside to the table.

I invite the unsurly and the unwelcomed and I sit alongside each and every experience and I see the richness of my depth and my sentience and the wealth of wisdom in my shadows.

I choose to let go of my fear that these parts of me will not be loved or will be rejected or misunderstood or pushed away by others and instead I love these parts of me.

I do not reject them I hold space for them I embrace them I nurture them and I see their richness I see their needs I see behind their actions.

And I feel them fully for the first time and I allow myself to come back into the fullness that I am.

Breathing in and out I focus on the inhalation and the exhalation.

And I observe I feel all of the parts of myself that I may have not felt before.

And I use the energy from my anger my sadness my sorrow my grief my pain and in my inhalation I draw that energy from my root up through my heart my throat and my mind.

And on my exhalation I allow deep rest and grounding with the earth beneath me cycling each time in the inhalation and exhalation a purification and disbursement of this energy to serve me.

To energize me.

To fuel me.

To replenish me.

I no longer choose to allow this energy to jump from me or to move deeper into the shadows of my insides.

For now I choose to create beauty from these painful parts of my experience and to feel them deeper and to know that the deeper I feel them at their roots the more energy I gain from them to serve my human experience.

So I sit with my fullness and I breathe.

And I bridge that space between what I welcomed before and what I judged and the two become a sacred field of presence.

I am a sacred field of presence.

Energy pervasive and vast I breathe in my shadows and I breathe out their light.

And I settle in this moment of timelessness of connection of understanding of acceptance.

I am worthy.

All of me is worthy.

I am acceptable.

All parts of me are acceptable.

I am lovable.

All parts of me are lovable.

And I am safe here in my fullness.

All parts of me are safe here in my fullness.

And I am good.

I am good.

All parts of me are welcomed.

I have the right to be here and all parts of me have the right to be here.

And place your left hand on your right shoulder right hand on your left shoulder.

Bowing head towards heart.

And know that I am always held.

I am always accepted.

I am always welcome and loved here beyond the external.

I am at home in my own loving acceptance of my fullness.

I am more than my emotion.

Namaste.

Reviews

Incredibly supportive, softening and encouraging. I'm smiling into all my shadow parts and holding space for them with love. Namaste and gratitude beautiful soul 🙏💟

This was amazing and just what I needed to sit with some very uncomfortable feelings. 💕

This was very supportive. I’ve been learning about Internal Family Systems and this fit exactly with what I’m learning and needing. Many thanks 🙏🙏🙏

Exactly what I needed this day. Thank you for helping me release these anxieties. 🙏

DEEP gratitude for this timely meditation showing up on my home page. It has been helpful in allowing me to move through the various emotions that I am and have been sitting with since the recent transitioning of a family member. Thank you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you very much, powerful meditation that is much needed.

So beautiful and reassuring to hear that I am whole and have the chance to embrace all parts of me 🥰Thank you 🦋🌷

A lot to take in in this time of grief. I will come back to this. Thank you 🙏🏻

Perfect, thank you 🙏🏻 Exactly what I was seeking.

A beautiful guided meditation! They are always so well said and calming. Thank you 🙏🏻

Such a grounding and comforting reframing of painful feelings. Perfect for anyone suffering trauma or in the depths of a difficult situation 🙏🏼❤️

Wonderful meditation for trauma survivors. Simple yet powerful. Thank you 🙏

This was an excellent meditation for how I have been feeling. Thank you. #deepbow

Echo, you're spot on. May we all seek wholeness over happiness ❤️🕊🙏

Thank you truly, everything needed

Thank you kindly for this guided practice✨️
Namaste🙏🏼✨️👌🏽🙌🏽📿❤️⚘️

Echo covers so much in this brief talk. Incredibly empowering & self-actualising. I will listen to it many more times, & I know I will absorb more knowledge & understanding each time. Eternally grateful for such an uplifting, informative talk about self-knowledge. Thank you.

Thank you 💕

Thank you for this meditation. Your words have deeply touched me. Namaste 🙏

Thanks Echo, such a powerful meditation which helped release what the body holds & no longer needs 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹