SOS - Calm In The moment

This is a short meditation to help you calm yourself when you are in a stressful situation. I offer a few tools to use when you realize that you're tense or stressed. Starting with Heart Breaths and moving into Grounding and finally a Body Scan to notice and release tension. Simple tools that I hope help you get back to balance. Much love!

Transcript

Hi there. This is going to be a short meditation. It's called Calm in the Moment, An SOS meditation. This was prompted because I have recently been traveling and frankly airports are stressful and the fact that I haven't traveled in quite some time since before pandemic made it even more stressful. The closeness with so many other people sitting in an airplane where you were literally just crammed in like a sardine made for a kind of stressful situation where I felt like I couldn't get focused. I couldn't find my center and a few minutes into feeling kind of stressed and not enjoying the whole situation I realized oh I have the tools and I know how to help myself with this and I thought you know if I as a meditation teacher experience that then folks with less experience in meditating probably experience it way worse and could use the tools and so this is my offering for folks who are traveling and who are being stressed by all the other folks that are around them in the airports and what-have-you. So we're going to start by taking heart breaths which if you're not familiar with that are very intentional breaths that where you breathe in through your heart from the back out through the front so find that space right between your shoulder blades in your back and that's where we're going to breathe in from allowing the chest to rise and allowing the breath then to flow out from the front of the heart and we're going to do this three times very slowly deliberately and then we're going to move into grounding and from there we're going to do a couple more techniques that should help you to find your center and really calm yourself down. So we can start by closing your eyes and we'll take three slow intentional heart breaths so breathing in from the back of your heart chest rise and out from the front of your heart two more times breathing in and breathing out and breathing in and release. Notice how that feels just from a few intentional breaths quieter in your heart space and now we're going to practice grounding. Now you may think you can't ground when you're in an airplane. Sure you can. Using your imagination you're going to picture the spot at the very tip of your tailbone down where you're sitting and you're going to picture a cord dropping down from that spot to the earth and you're going to allow it to go all the way down into the center of the earth and you're going to let it wrap around and feel very secure strong connection and you're going to visualize that connection just tugging on it and feeling how strong and secure you are connected to the earth and notice how that feels in your body knowing that you're connected grounded and don't forget to breathe. Now we're going to do a simple body scan. We're going to scan up from your feet up to your head as if you were doing an x-ray just scanning up from your feet up your legs into your belly and can you notice as you're scanning are there any places where you're holding tension? Is it in your belly? Is it in your chest? Is it in your shoulders? In your head? When you notice a place that is tense or holding on distress bring your attention there focus on that spot and breathe into it similar to the heart breaths that we did just breathing into that spot of tension and as you breathe out imagine that the tension or the stress begins to melt off and fall away and it goes down your grounding cord to the earth to be recycled just let it fall and with each breath can you allow just a little more ease a little more softening of the area of the tension keep breathing into that spot or spots if there's more than one breathing in and when you breathe out release and notice now how you feel a little calmer more centered can you notice if your body feels heavier it feels more relaxed and if you're still noticing tension go back to that spot and keep breathing into it just breathing in and as you out breathe out allowing it to relax and you can do this anytime anywhere when you're ready when you feel comfortable you can open your eyes and welcome back I hope this helps you and you can take this with you on your next trip the next time you're feeling stressed sending much love thanks for joining me in this meditation

Reviews

I found the teacher’s voice very welcoming. I appreciated her acknowledging that if meditation can be difficult for her that others can use some help. Definitely when stressed and anxious I don’t think clearly regarding my self soothing tools. I will be attending a conference next month and I think this will help a lot. Thank you for offering this.