As we heal our PTSD,
Often our body and mind can have attachment to the past.
So retraining our mind and our body and our nervous system is something that we can achieve through meditation.
Meditation is a powerful tool to allow our body and mind to envision a powerful new future.
So should there be a certain environment or a certain interaction that causes you to have a deep trigger or reaction within your body,
That's what we're going to work on today.
We're going to allow yourself to safely embody the emotion and for you to create a new possibility of responding in that situation versus reacting.
So let's just say that you had a deep fear of going to a shopping mall when you were suffering from PTSD and that you found the crowd and the amount of people there too overwhelming.
Currently our body and our nervous system has a story around how we're going to react in that certain situation.
But really if we're healthy,
We're in our power and we don't have attachment to the past,
A shopping center should be somewhere that we can handle and move through.
So this is just an example of a way that you can actually retrain your mind and your nervous system.
And what we're going to do is we're going to use the breath today to anchor into our safety and anchor into our present moment and not hold on to the attachment of the past and not hold on to the attachment of how we think that our body and our nervous system needs to react in these certain situations.
So like you to just place one hand on your belly and we're going to start breathing into our belly and it should sound something like this.
And I'd like you to go to your situation,
To a place where you know that you react and something that you would like to retrain your nervous system and your body to feel more safe in.
Use your breath in this moment to feel safe.
Use this breath in this moment to breathe through any emotion or any difficulty that might come up for you envisioning this situation.
You are safe right now and you do have the ability to breathe in and create a level of safety in your own body.
Please do not disconnect from any emotion that comes up during this exercise.
Please allow your body to feel this emotion.
Please use your breath to just feel safe and to breathe through any emotion that may come up for you.
Once you feel grounded in your body and you're using your breath as an anchor to stay present,
We're now going to go visualize the situation.
Put ourselves there.
We're going to visualize ourselves breathing in this situation,
Creating the same anchor as we are now in the future.
We see ourselves that we're actually a lot more resilient in this future state,
That we're breathing,
That we feel very grounded.
We feel very proud of ourselves that we're able to face our fear and move through our attachment of the past.
I want you to visualize this and make it real.
Visualize yourself being there in this moment.
Visualize yourself choosing to respond versus reacting.
The more real we make this visualization,
The more proud we are and the more we embody this emotion,
The easier this is going to be.
This is a very powerful visualization.
This is allowing you to reprogram your nervous system and your mind for a new possibility that exists for you.
We no longer have to stay trapped in the fears of our past,
But we can actually start to reprogram.
So the more you do this meditation,
The more you're going to feel grounded in who you are and your ability to step into some of your fears or some of the environments that may have triggered you in the past.
Use your breath when you get to these environments just to remind yourself of how safe and how powerful you are for you to choose to respond.
Your breath is the first choice of you responding in that moment.
So whatever emotion comes up,
Breathe through that emotion and stay grounded in who you are and know that you can actually choose to respond versus react.
My name is Matt.
I really hope you enjoyed this Thriving with PTSD Meditation.
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We really enjoy you joining us today and we know that you'll get back to thriving in no time.
Thanks for listening,
Matt.
