SOS To Ease Your Experience Towards More Helpful Choices

In this short and practical meditation, Thor guides you through the ABC of First Aid for Feelings with curiosity and compassion. What are you thinking, feeling, and doing? Is it helpful? Starting with Awareness, then coming to Breath and body before arriving at how to make a more helpful Choice. This technique will step-change your self-care and ability to support yourself. Feelings are information and it's more helpful to be curious than critical.

Transcript

In this moment,

What are you thinking,

Feeling and doing?

Name what is going on for you.

Even orientate yourself in space and time,

What day it is,

What time it is and where you're at.

Moving on to breath,

Breathing in together to the count of five,

Breathing out to the count of seven and we will do this three times.

Breathing in two,

Three,

Four,

Five.

Breathing out two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six and seven.

Giving your breath a little bit of space in between and then for the second time,

Breathing in two,

Three,

Four,

Five.

Breathing out two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six and seven.

Giving your breath a bit of space to calibrate in between and then for the third and final time,

Breathing in two,

Three,

Four,

Five.

Breathing out two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six and seven and then just doing whatever your breath needs to do.

Sometimes you need a big breath,

Sometimes a shallow breath.

Just going with whatever it is that your lungs need at this point.

Bringing your focus down to your body,

Maybe shuffling your shoulders,

Getting a sense of your sitting bones and your legs,

All the way down to the tips of your toes.

Just giving them a bit of a twiggle.

Now that your awareness has come more to the present moment,

It can be helpful to ask the question,

Is it helpful?

So whatever it is that you were thinking,

Feeling or doing,

Is it helpful?

And I do mean that genuinely.

If it is helpful,

Great,

Keep doing that.

If it's not helpful,

Get curious.

What might be more helpful?

What information might you be missing out on if you weren't having the feelings that you are feeling in this moment?

And what action or insight does this information give you?

Go with that.

As always,

It's more helpful to be curious than critical.

So go gently with yourself.

Reviews

Very helpful in curbing my hamster mind and getting grounded. Thank you 🙏🏻 🌱