Week 6 Of Guided Meditation & Yoga Nidra Live

Sixth week of a 21-Week Abundance Challenge with a unique weekly theme. A guided meditation with Regina to help take some time out of your day to encourage you to be mindful and realize the abundance surrounding you in your everyday life.

Transcript

Just allowing yourself to connect with the practice of yoga nidra,

The practice of falling in love with yourself in all your parts.

As you begin to settle,

Noticing your mind and how it creates thought.

That's what it does,

It generates thinking.

It works really hard on our behalf and on the behalf of others.

Just thanking your brain for how hard it works.

And give it full permission to be gentle in the background as you bring your attention to your breath,

To this resource as you breathe in,

And this natural way that we have to release and let go of whatever we need to as we breathe out.

And every time your mind wanders into the past,

Processing what you've been through so far,

Lots of gratitude for all of our parts to try to figure everything out,

Make sense of it all,

And let it know it doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting on its own.

Your brain can relax a little bit as you allow yourself to connect to your heart and your body and your spirit.

Allowing yourself to be just as you are right here,

Right now.

Love you too.

And when you notice your brain working hard at planning and figuring out everything that it can for us in the future,

Just a little nod of thanks.

Yep.

Love your mind and reassure it.

It's okay to relax.

Be gentle.

And as we open to the challenge of allowing abundance to be acknowledged,

To be allowed to exist,

Notice all the feelings that also exist,

The ways we don't feel abundant,

All the different feelings that we have about this or that,

That we don't feel fully complete.

Using both abundance and lack simultaneously,

Both can coexist.

Discomfort and comfort.

Anxiety and peacefulness.

Sadness and joy.

And take a moment to notice whatever you're feeling,

Unpleasant or pleasant.

And practice allowing yourself to be with whatever's here and to invite in the opposite of what you're noticing and allow yourself to be with both simultaneously.

And bring your full attention to your mouth.

Taste.

Full attention to your nose,

Your sinuses,

Your nostrils,

Smell.

Full attention to your ears,

Outer ears and the canals of your ears.

Sound.

Bring your attention into your eyes,

Your eyeballs and your eye sockets,

Your eyelids,

Your eyelashes.

Sight.

Bring your attention to your face,

To the top of your head.

All your skin from the scalp down through the neck,

All the way down through arms and hands,

Back and chest,

Belly,

Your pelvis area,

Skin all the way down your legs,

To your feet,

Sensations,

Touch,

Feel the weight of your body,

Feel the lightness,

Warmth,

Coolness.

Notice the joints of your toes,

The bottoms of your feet,

Your heels,

Tops of your feet,

Calves and shins,

Thighs and knees,

Entire pelvic area,

All your organs,

Your belly,

Your back,

The whole torso,

All your organs,

Your shoulders and your arms,

Your hands,

Fingers and thumbs,

All your joints,

Your wrists,

Elbows,

Back to your shoulders,

All the way down through the neck,

The vertebrae in your neck,

Feel the back of your head,

The front of your face,

The top of your head and the space between the top of your head and the rest of the universe.

Just noticing your whole body.

Bring your attention to your belly button and imagine a smile,

Smile that begins to spread out down through the bottom part of your body and up through the upper part,

One big contentment spreading throughout.

Maybe even form a little smile on your face.

Just let yourself feel some happiness,

A loving kindness,

Along with whatever else might be here.

Breathing fully.

You may just want to continue to rest or you might want to add a little movement to your practice this evening.

Either way is fine.

If you'd like to add some movement,

You can begin to wiggle your toes,

Wiggle your fingers,

Toes and fingers,

Feet and hands.

Go ahead and roll your feet and ankles,

Hands and wrists.

Just beginning to wake up from the deeper practice.

Take in your time,

There's no rush.

Could involve your legs,

Maybe bring your feet up so they're planted on the earth,

Knees up towards the ceiling.

You might want to remove your pillow if you're resting on a pillow and you want to get a nice stretch in.

I'm going to lower that lower back down if you're including movement.

Do a little pelvic tilt.

You can place your hands under your head if you want to make a little pillow.

Just pressing the lower back in and then bring a little bit of space under that lower back and just back and forth.

And then you could bring the feet all the way up,

Leading with your heels,

Getting a nice inversion pose,

Stretching up,

Roll around the feet,

Maybe make some V's,

Get a nice little stretch in,

Move those legs a little bit.

You could place your hands below your lower back here for a little extra support.

Just going to hang out here.

Inversion poses are really good for us.

Just feel into the heat that gets generated.

You could bend your knees and hug them into your belly,

Maybe include your head,

Bring the forehead up to the knees and roll around,

Just releasing any stiffness in the back.

Just make the practice yours,

Whatever your body needs.

You could follow my voice if you don't want to have to think about it or you could follow the intuition of your own body.

Bringing those feet back down.

You could do a little windshield wipers,

A little twist,

Legs in one direction,

Arms in the opposite,

And then the other direction.

You could bring yourself all the way over onto your belly and rest here or you could come into child's pose,

Bringing your legs wide onto your mat and forehead down onto the mat.

Just getting a nice stretch in.

Continuing to allow loving kindness along with whatever else is here.

Bring yourself up into cat-cow,

Placing your hands flat on the mat,

Knees on the mat,

And just rounding out the back.

And then bring the belly down to the mat and head back,

Tailbone back,

Back and forth.

You could come into down dog if you want,

Bringing your hips up,

Feet on either side of the mat,

Hands on either side of the mat.

Just getting a nice little stretch in.

And just take a moment to honor your body in any way that makes sense to you.

Any stretching.

Eventually we're going to bring ourselves back up to seated.

So just take a moment to honor your own body.

Starting to open the eyes as you make your way back onto your mat.

Now we're going to take a moment to check in with ourselves,

See how you're doing.

Notice what it feels like to allow yourself to fall in love with yourself and all your parts.

All our awesomeness and all our craziness.

And know that it's okay.

We can be in total and complete chaos,

Freaking out,

And also be calm,

Cool,

And collected.

And we're all doing it all the time.

Totally losing it and totally fine.

In and out of those states constantly because that's actually what it means to be human being.

And it's all right.

So let yourself be loving and kind as we check in.

I'm going to let you do a little writing exercise.

So if you brought a notebook or have one handy,

Feel free to use that and get yours.

If not,

Pass this around.

And if you left yours here,

I put them in the basket in case you want yours.

There's some pens here as well.

You can take one of those.

And we're just going to do a little reflecting on what this whole concept of abundance is.

So we're letting it in this idea that we are all that we need.

And we're also acknowledging all those parts of us that say,

What?

No.

I don't have everything I need.

I need more of this.

I need more of that.

We're just going to take a moment to reflect on what you feel comfortable with that you have and where you're feeling like there's a dearth and you've got parts going,

Ah.

I don't know about all that.

I could use a little more courage or a little more compassion or a little more patience.

So I'll leave these qualities of ourself here.

Can you use that?

Yeah.

Yes,

You may use that.

Is it empty?

No.

Grab an empty one.

Yeah,

There's some more here.

I do have one at home.

That's fine.

It's totally fine.

If you want to have one here and one at home,

There's plenty.

Feel free to leave one here so you know it's here when you get here.

So we're just going to reflect and I'll pass this around in case people can't see it.

So when we say we have everything we want,

Everything we need,

It's all of that.

And then also Deepak Chopra is inviting us to expand and consider things like money.

We've been talking about relationships and money and that's a big one,

Both of those.

And so as we embrace this 21 weeks of abundance,

We're about five weeks in,

We're already taking on big concepts.

How are my relationships taking stock of our relationship with ourself and our relationship with others in our life,

Our relationship with money?

So yeah,

If you want to take a look at that and pass it on.

Our relationship with the material and with connection in our life.

Where are we feeling really good and where are we feeling like it would be a good idea to attend to some areas that we're not feeling so good about?

Knowing that both are occurring at the same time.

Take your time to do a little writing and then we'll check in.

And if you're listening to this on the WhatsApp,

You can interact with some questions or comments online.

Either way,

Allow yourself to connect with loving kindness along with whatever else is here this week.

Namaste.