Beginning to bring your attention inwards towards your breath.
Feeling the sensations on your nostrils as the breath passes in and out through your nose.
Feeling the breath passing in through the nose and through your neck into your lungs.
And everything that the breath passes over inside of you can start to soften and relax.
So even the inside of your nose can start to soften as the breath passes through it.
Your lungs can feel a little more relaxed,
A little more settled,
Deeper into your body as they fill all the way from the bottom to the top with this rich,
Nourishing air.
Noticing all the points of contact between your body and whatever's supporting you.
If you're sitting cross-legged,
If you're on a chair,
If you're lying down.
Just noticing all the points of contact,
Maybe in your feet,
The bottoms of your feet,
Your legs,
Your seats,
Your back,
The back of your head.
And the inhale can come a little bit deeper back into your being.
So as you inhale,
The inhale draws your attention a little deeper inwards into yourself.
So your inhale is helping you to make this deep inner contact with yourself.
And the exhale just settles you in,
Relaxes you.
And as you come into that sense of inner contact with yourself,
If you notice there are any certain parts of your body where there's a certain amount of tension that you might want to release,
Just gently send the breath into that tension so that tension can fill up like it's stretching.
It's doing yoga or taking a big yawn.
And on the exhale,
Some of that tension can release and flow out with the breath.
And you can become a little bit more calm and relaxed.
Now,
As I come from five to one,
You'll feel yourself starting to drift in your mind,
Drifting off into a really safe place.
A safe place that's just perfectly designed for you to feel safe and secure,
Protected by the environment.
A place that's just right for you.
Moving towards that safe place as I count five,
Floating along.
Four,
Safe and secure.
Two,
Landing here in your safe place.
Feeling so safe and secure.
Now you can imagine yourself in a scene of you as a young child.
A young child of around two or three years of age.
And into the scene enters one or both of your ideal parent figures.
And just from the way that they enter,
Just from the way that they approach you,
You can feel they have this warmth to them,
This gentle radiance of love and care for you that feels so genuine.
They're so loving,
So caring,
So loving.
And really,
Really supportive of you.
And you can feel how genuine that is,
How authentic that is in their way of being.
And they are so delighted in you.
They're really your biggest fans.
And they're here to cheer on and support and celebrate everything that you do.
All the ways that you explore in the world.
Every new developmental milestone that you make.
They're here to celebrate you as you learn and explore.
Learn things about the world.
And as you do,
You really notice how much joy it brings them to be with you.
How much joy they take in everything that you do.
In a way,
That's not over-involved.
They're not over-involved with you.
They still give you this space to be your own person.
But they're really right here for you.
Everything you do,
They're your biggest fans.
And you start to notice that it's not just about the things that you do,
But they're really delighted in your being.
You get this sense from them that,
Ah,
Just the fact that you exist,
Just the fact that you're there brings them so much joy.
Everything about you,
Everything about your being brings them so much delight.
In a way that feels so good.
Really letting in how it feels to be delighted in like this by these ideal parent figures who know you so well.
And as you notice the joy that they have in being with you,
You start to connect that sense of joy that they have with your own sense of self.
This feeling deep in your body,
Deep in your bones,
That I bring joy and delight to others,
That this is part of your being.
Just who you are brings joy and delight to others.
And as you grow with this support from these ideal parent figures who are really your biggest fans,
This sense grows deeper and deeper inside of you.
And this is your expectation as you explore the world,
That you are a total delight to the world around you.
In such a way that you don't need to,
You know,
Seek attention.
You don't need to seek love or validation from the world outside of you.
Because you have that really strong,
Secure base of support and joy from your ideal parent figures,
All the energy that you might spend in seeking this validation from the world outside of you,
All that energy can come back inwards towards yourself.
Directing that attention inwards towards your own state of mind,
Towards your own being,
Meeting yourself with that same sense of joy and compassion and support.
Again,
As you inhale,
The inhale makes,
Helps you to make that sense of inward contact with yourself.
And as you make that inner contact with yourself,
With this support from your ideal parent figures,
You feel really good about yourself.
Feeling how this strong backing and support helps you to feel a really strong sense of self-esteem inside your whole body.
Really letting in how that feels.
Really letting that in.
Now I'm going to count from five to one.
When I reach one,
You'll be awake and present in this room.
And you can carry this experience into the room with you.
Five,
Four,
Three,
Two,
One.
Awake and present in the room.
Settling in that experience.
