When I am feeling overwhelmed I always think of the saying my beautiful teacher David G always says,
Been by been the bag gets full.
Been by been the bag gets full.
I use this like a mantra and it reminds me that if I just do one task at a time it will all get done.
Or if I just take one day at a time I can cope with a busy week.
Or if I just take my day hour by hour when I'm finding things challenging then I can get through without the stress of feeling overwhelmed.
But sometimes we all need to take a step back completely.
If you like the been metaphor we need to push all those beens to one side or just step into a different room without the beens and create a space and a pause.
Where we can gain clarity and get some much needed mental rest.
We need to create a space in which we can rest and heal physically,
Mentally,
Emotionally,
Energetically and spiritually.
If we stop and take a moment in stillness in a healing space we can then move into the world with more calm,
Clarity,
Peace and love.
So when you are ready make yourself really comfortable.
Close the eyes.
Let's take a nice deep breath here so when you are ready breathing in and as you breathe out let go of your day,
Of your week and of everything outside of this meditation.
And now bring your awareness into your head.
Feel the softening at the crown of the head like a warm comforting feeling.
And allow that softening to spread down into the face,
Through the face and then just soften behind your eyes.
That space behind your eyes just softening in there.
Take a moment to moisten the mouth with the tongue.
Allow the tongue to gently stroke the roof of the mouth stimulating the reflex points here.
And then soften the jaw and just allow the tongue to rest just behind the top front teeth if that's comfortable for you.
And as you allow the head to release and soften all the muscles in the neck and shoulders begin to relax.
Feel that softness moving into the shoulder girdle,
Collarbones,
The shoulder blades,
The tops of the shoulders.
And then that softness trickles down from the shoulders to the elbows,
From the elbows to the wrists and from the wrists into the hands and fingers.
That softness in the shoulders and neck trickles down the length of the spine giving softness to all the attachments to the spine,
Bones,
Ligaments,
Muscles,
Nerves,
Tendons.
From the base of the spine that softness moves into the pelvis and around the pelvis.
That softness moving into the hips and from the hips that softness trickles down into the knees and from the knees into the ankles and from the ankles into the feet and toes.
Using the awareness from here into the centre of your body,
Into the stomach area and the area of your diaphragm and really feel the softness coming into this space.
All the nerves that cross over this space softening to the breath gently deepening into this space and just allow that breath to be natural,
Spontaneous.
We are not forcing the breath or controlling the breath in any way.
We are just witnessing the movement of the breath in that area of the diaphragm as you soften.
And then sink that awareness down even further into the lower abdomen.
Soften deeply into this space and as you soften here just witness that breath coming down even deeper in your body,
Right down into that lower abdomen area.
Again the breath is natural,
Spontaneous.
We are not forcing that breath down.
It's happening through the softness and as we soften here and breathe here it sends a message to the nervous system to relax.
So feel the whole body softening and relaxing.
Feeling that breath in the lower abdomen filling and emptying that space.
Nice and gently,
You you you you you And now very gently bring Your awareness back to your body Take a moment to feel your body here Take some time just to deepen the breath Allow the body to reawaken with the breath Take some time to gently move and stretch Sending much love and healing to you Namaste
