Embodied Presence & Receiving Healing Earth Energy

This guided meditation includes a body scan from the top of the body down through the whole body: including mental, emotional and physical layers of experience. The meditation practice culminates in connecting somatically with the ground -- with our Earth, receiving the encoded healing wisdom and resilience of Nature into your body.

Transcript

Let's prepare for meditation.

You can be laying or sitting,

Just taking care that you're comfortable,

Being mindful in your position so that you're connected with your body,

Tending to your well-being through the practice.

Getting comfortable,

Eventually resting into stillness.

Sensing your breath now,

In and out.

Bring your awareness to the top of your head.

Just notice the sensations there around the crown of your head,

Coming down just a bit into the forehead or the sides of the crown of the head or just the very back part of the head in the upper area.

Sensing the crown and the surrounding areas and breathe.

Slowly come down a little bit further more to sense or to inhabit the middle part of your head.

This might include your eyes,

Maybe your ears or the upper part of the ears,

About the top half of your head.

And from here,

Just breathing in,

Breathing out.

Let's just take some moments to acknowledge our thinking minds that there's likely some thoughts.

Doing what thoughts do,

Which is think.

Just to witness or to observe,

Noticing how you are at the level of thinking right now.

Maybe thoughts are busier,

Quicker,

Slower,

More spacious,

More somewhere in between.

Just breathe and witness and notice without judging or being concerned about it being one way or another way right now.

I'm still just breathing comfortably.

Let's scan down a little further to include the lower part of your head and face,

The jaw,

The tongue,

Resting in the mouth,

The base of the skull.

Just in a leisurely way now sensing your throat and your neck.

Being genuinely curious about your experience in inhabiting these different parts of your body.

Now include the shoulders across the tops of your shoulders,

Kind of the width or the broadness across the shoulders.

Sensing that as you breathe.

Slowly glide your awareness down to include your arms.

Sensing your upper arms,

Your elbows,

Your forearms.

Rest your awareness in your wrists and hands and fingers.

As if when you sense your body that your mind can really go in and you can inhabit your body.

Sensing or exploring what it is to sense your body from the inside.

In this case,

To feel your hands from the inside,

The depths of the hands.

Please include your arms again,

All the way up to the shoulders.

From the tops of your shoulders,

Begin to sense your upper torso,

About the upper third of your torso.

Under the arms,

Across your collarbones and sternum and chest area.

Around to the sides of the upper torso and include your upper back.

Where your cervical spine comes down to connect with the thoracic spine.

Include your shoulder blades,

Your lungs,

Your ribs,

Some of the ribs at least.

Stay here for a bit,

Just inhabiting or curiously sensing your upper torso,

Your chest area,

Including the back,

On the inside.

As we're here connecting with the chest area and the heart center,

Tune into your emotional body at this point.

Just welcoming whatever is your emotional state or movements right now.

Breathing to welcome your emotions just as they are,

Just however you experience them.

It could be very easy to feel or kind of clearly differentiated or sort of maybe loud,

Or emotions may be more soft or kind of combined or maybe difficult to feel.

That's also just welcomed.

Whatever happens when we have the intention to tune into our emotional bodies,

We want to include it as important information to breathe with,

To orient towards in a very kind way.

Now let's resume a body scan,

Just noticing,

Sensing how your upper torso starts to connect with the middle part of your torso on the front side,

The lower sternum,

The front ribs,

The remainder of the lungs,

The liver,

The stomach,

Several organs in there,

Gallbladder,

Including through the middle third or core of your body,

The side body,

Your back body,

The lower ribs on the backside,

The thoracic spine,

The kidneys,

The adrenal glands just sitting atop each kidney and the other organs in the area.

Stay with it a bit,

Just breathing and sensing this middle portion of your torso,

Your core body.

Without any judgment,

Just kindly.

Breathing,

Sensing and welcoming.

Slowly,

Leisurely pace,

Move down now to sense how the middle portion of your torso connects with the lower third.

Sensing your abdomen,

Your navel,

Your lower abdomen,

Your pelvis.

Sensing the front of your pelvis and the sides through the lower side waist all the way down towards the hip joints.

Your lumbar spine,

The vertebrae,

Your sacrum,

Buttocks,

And the many organs here in the lower torso,

Just breathing with to welcome and sense the organs,

The sexual organs,

Organs of reproduction,

The bladder,

Colon,

The organs of elimination.

Let's begin kindly residing,

Sensing your lower torso without judgment,

Just with presence and kindness.

Slowly now begin to scan where your torso connects through the hip joints to your legs.

Sensing your upper legs and thighs,

Front sides and back,

The knees,

Your lower legs,

Shins,

The calves,

Ankles.

Sense your feet as well,

Heels,

Toes,

Tops and bottoms of your feet,

Insides and outsides of your feet.

Now I invite you to bring your awareness to where your body is touching the ground and to just gently kind of sense your extended body.

You could say your extended earth body to sense the ground right below wherever you are right now.

As you sense the ground,

Many ways to sense the earth,

To sense the ground,

Be intentional to tune into kind of the wisdom of the earth.

We could say the resilient qualities of nature,

Of the planet,

Of Gaia,

Mother Earth.

Tuning into this embodied wisdom that's been around much longer than any of us have in this body.

As you tune into this quality of healing or resilience of nature,

Of our earth,

Soften your body and have the sense that any of this grounded kind of earth wisdom that could nurture any part of your body that through your welcoming could just come right up into your feet and hips or into your back body if you're laying on your back.

Just to invite the gentle kind of restorative healing quality of nature,

Of Mother Earth to come up into your body.

Maybe this healing energy like a honey or a nectar of some sort fills your body kind of completely like into your cells or maybe there's a particular organ or bone or muscle that kind of needs something.

You can just sort of follow your own impulse about this receptivity of your body to the healing and resilient and wise qualities,

The intelligence of Mother Earth,

Nature.

We can't do it wrong just to notice how it is for you and in your own way,

Open to whatever feels appropriate for you to open to,

To receive this healing and restorative replenishing energy energy into your body.

This reminds us,

Reminds our systems that we're always a part of nature anyway.

We are interconnected with this balance,

This resilience of nature.

We are part of the planet and part of nature and in the stresses and the traumas of our lives and in our systems,

We are,

We've learned to disconnect from that.

So in a way,

We're just opening to restore what is natural anyway.

Remind ourselves we don't heal alone.

We heal as part of a larger system,

Community and part of nature.

Notice how your breath is right now.

Maybe deepen the breath a little or explore some little movements.

If you are laying,

This could be a good time to start a transition to some movement.

Of course,

If you want to continue the practice after the guided meditation,

You are always welcome to do it,

But you want to come towards a close and finding a seat.

Let's bring the palms over the chest,

Over the heart center.

Now connecting with the heart as the gateway to mind,

Emotions,

Body,

Spirit and planet.

Let's join the palms together at the heart center.

Namaste.

Thanks for joining the practice.

Reviews

Relaxing and calming. I used this meditation to help me fall back to sleep! Thanks!