A warm welcome to you.
It's so easy to get distracted with social media,
The news or the drama of other people's lives.
To get to the end of the day feeling depleted and like we've given away so much of ourselves.
This practice is designed to help you call back your attention and energy.
So that you can feel grounded and whole again.
So beginning by getting comfy.
Closing down your eyes or allowing your gaze to rest gently on the floor.
And directing your awareness to your breath.
Chest rising and falling.
Belly expanding and contracting.
Each breath a reminder that you are alive.
That your body is miraculous,
Working all day every day to support you.
And now in your own time seeing if you can focus your breathing low and slow,
Deep in your belly.
No need to get this right,
Just committing to feeling your breath deep in your belly for a moment now.
Well done.
Now calling to mind a situation or event,
Perhaps at work or at home,
That you've been thinking a lot about.
And noticing where you feel this in your body.
Perhaps in the mind.
In the heart.
In the belly,
And imagining that there's a cord connecting this part of you to this situation or event.
That's been taking a lot of your focus and energy.
And with the aid of your breath,
Imagining that with each exhale.
This sense of being pulled in.
It's softening.
With each long smooth exhale,
This cord is dissolving.
Noticing any postural shifts.
Awareness moving now to social media or the news,
To content that you consume.
Doom scrolling,
Constant checking of the news,
Stories,
Ideas,
Political opinions that get you worked up,
Judging,
Resisting,
Comparing,
Feeling hopeless or fearful.
And again seeing if you can locate this experience somewhere in your body.
Where do you feel the pull?
The activation.
And again imagining,
Visualising or sensing an energetic connection between this part of you and the news or social media.
And with the aid of your healing breath.
Imagining that with each exhale.
This sense of being pulled.
Activated or being tied energetically.
It's softening.
Again noticing any postural shifts.
And finally calling to mind a person in your life who you've been thinking about a lot.
Perhaps you've been comparing yourself to them or judging their life choices.
Maybe it's a family member who's going through a hard time and you've become very busy helping.
Offering solutions or just thinking about them.
And once someone has come to mind.
Again noticing where you feel this connection in your body.
Where do you feel the activation?
This sense of being pulled outwards.
Seeing,
Sensing or imagining an energetic cord connecting you both.
Feeling the texture of this connection.
You and on each exhale,
Softening the pull.
Dissolving the cord.
And now together let's strengthen our energetic body so that we can feel grounded,
Strong and whole.
This doesn't mean we don't have care or consideration for others or the world.
It just means that we make the time to call our awareness and our energy back home to where it belongs.
Beginning by imagining,
Sensing or feeling that you are looking up at a beautiful,
Clear,
Expansive sky above you.
Taking a deep breath in.
Inhaling this energy and imagining it moving to the back of your skull.
To the base of your skull.
All the way down your spine.
Back of hips,
Pelvis,
Back of thighs,
Back of knees,
Calves,
Soles of feet.
Arches,
Balls of feet and then deep into the wise earth below.
Again sensing into the big expansive sky above.
And inviting this energy to sweep the back of your skull all the way down your spine,
Hips,
Pelvis,
Thighs,
Back of knees,
Calves,
Soles of feet.
And then deep into the wise earth below.
Doing this one more time on your own now.
Awareness zooming out now to hold the entire back line of your body.
Back line connected to the expansive sky and the solid wise earth.
Trusting that through the power of your attention and intention.
You're calling your energy back from all the places it has travelled to today.
If you like repeating these phrases or intentions silently in your mind after me.
I call back every part of myself I have ever given away.
I call back my emotions.
I call back my thoughts.
I call back my sense of self.
Feeling grounded.
Strong.
Hold.
This is a moment of recalibration.
Feeling your feet on the floor.
Wiggling your fingers and toes.
Opening your eyes when you're ready.
Well done.
Bringing our energy into the back line of the body and forging a vertical connection between sky and earth.
Is a powerful practice that you can use anytime you feel hooked into situations,
Events,
The news,
Social media or family and friends.
You might even like to save this practice and come back to it anytime you need it.
