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Letting Go: 5 Minute Practice

by Patty McLucas

Rated
4.5
Type
guided
Activity
Meditation
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Everyone
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Bring yourself into present moment awareness with this short and highly therapeutic practice. Allow Patty to guide you through a calming breath practice to tap into your inner strength and wisdom to overcome a sense of angst, fear or a stressful situation.

Letting GoMindfulnessBreathingInner StrengthWisdomStressFearAngstNervous SystemDeep BreathingStress DeactivationPresent Moment AwarenessExhalingNervous System ResetShort PracticesTherapies

Transcript

Breathing into the present moment.

So let's begin by taking two deep breaths,

Really filling the torso from neck to navel with air and exhaling and doing that a second time.

And then allowing your breath to return to its normal pace.

The body knows what to do,

No need to manage the breath in any way.

Just breathing in and breathing out.

So what we're doing here is taking a pause,

A short pause,

Where we're focusing on just the breath and essentially giving our nervous system an opportunity to reset itself.

So this is a meditation you can repeat many times throughout the day.

Just resetting the nervous system,

Inviting the stress response to deactivate and come to rest.

So breathing in and breathing out.

And for the next few moments,

We're going to focus on the exhale,

On the letting go of the exhale.

So as we breathe many hundreds of times a day,

We are actually practicing letting go with the exhale into the present moment.

And then we inhale and then we exhale into the next present moment.

So while on the surface when we first hear this idea of letting go,

It might not feel so appealing.

In reality,

It's something we already know how to do and it's something that we're already doing all day long.

Letting go of muscle tension,

Letting go of stressful thought,

Letting go of fear of the future.

With each exhale here,

We can let go,

Just let go as you breathe in and breathe out.

If you notice thought coming up,

If you notice emotion coming up,

If you notice body sensations coming up,

You can note that and then allow that to let go as well.

Just releasing and relaxing with each exhale.

Letting go.

Meet your Teacher

Patty McLucasRedwood City, CA, United States

4.5 (207)

Recent Reviews

Nermeen

August 12, 2021

Letting go!

Jennifer

January 14, 2019

Simple to follow.

Judy

November 25, 2018

Thanks for the reminder that I already know how to let go.

Gretelg2

November 25, 2018

Nice. Thank you. πŸ™ ✨

Radha

November 25, 2018

Well done. Thank you for this short powerful meditation πŸ™πŸ½πŸŒΊ

Belinda

November 24, 2018

Those few minutes make a huge difference. Thankyou πŸ™

Raquel

November 24, 2018

Short, simple, well guided and effective! Thank you, Patty. πŸ™β€οΈ

Liz

November 24, 2018

Thank you! I needed that!

Bo

November 24, 2018

Great short letting go. Just what I needed. πŸ™πŸΌπŸŒˆπŸ™πŸΌ

Stephen

November 24, 2018

Nice and simple

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