Migraine Relief Meditation

A meditation to help with the pain and symptoms of migraine and headache. This meditation uses energy healing, breathwork, and mind-body focus techniques to balance the brain and help in pain management. It is designed to encourage sleep for healing. After having used this meditation a few times you may like to skip the introduction and move straight into the meditation which starts at 2 minutes, 30 seconds.

Transcript

If you are here,

Then I'm sorry that you must be suffering.

As a migraine and headache sufferer myself,

I do know how debilitating and pretty unbearable they can be.

I also know that headaches and especially migraines are very unique to each person.

And so are the symptoms,

Triggers and treatments.

Sleep for me is the only real relief when I get a bad migraine.

But getting to sleep with the pain and the nausea can really be difficult.

Which is where the roots of this meditation began.

I needed some sort of relief that would allow me to sleep.

I began to use each migraine as an opportunity to observe what I was feeling and where.

Both physically and energetically.

And I began to add in elements of energy work,

Breath work and also scientifically proven body and mind focus techniques that could help rebalance the brain and help in pain management.

I refined this process adding in elements that would help move the energy out of my head and also techniques from Yoga Nidra to physically balance the brain.

This meditation was created as a way of reducing symptoms in order to get to sleep.

Which is why I will leave it open-ended in case you do doze off.

But I have also found that if used at the very initial onset it has been able to prevent the migraine from progressing and in a few cases actually got rid of the migraine completely.

Obviously I can't make any guarantees as we are all so different.

But it is my hope and my intention that this brings you some relief.

So let's get started.

I find it very beneficial when practicing this meditation to get myself in a cool dark room.

I also find it helpful to keep my feet and hands warm by perhaps using socks and a blanket or quilt to cover myself but to try and keep my head cool against a cool pillow.

Please lay down in a way that makes you feel the most comfortable.

I tend to favor lying on my side when I have a migraine but do whatever brings you the most comfort.

Close your eyes and allow yourself just to settle in.

We are going to start by releasing tension from the body.

Pain often makes us tighten up in a way of bracing against the pain but any gripping or tensing in the head,

Jaw,

Neck,

Shoulders and face will only make a migraine worse.

So let's bring the awareness up to the crown of the head and just feel the crown softening under your awareness.

And then allow that softness to spread down into the forehead.

Feel the forehead soften.

Feel the eyes soften.

Feel the temples soften.

Let the ears soften.

Let the cheeks and nose soften.

Let the mouth soften.

Let the tongue soften.

Let your jaw soften.

Keep relaxing and softening your jaw.

Let that softness spread round into the back of the head and down into the base of the skull.

Really soften here.

Then let that softness spread down into the neck and shoulders.

Keep relaxing and softening your neck and shoulders.

Let that softness spread down the arms and into the hands.

Let that softness spread down into your torso,

Softening your chest and shoulder blades.

Softening your back and abdominals.

Softening the length of your spine.

Softening into your diaphragm area and stomach.

Feel your breath deepen as you do this.

Let that softness move down into your hips and pelvis.

And then down the legs and into the feet.

And let your awareness rest a moment in your feet.

And now bring the awareness to the breath moving in and out of the nostrils.

Don't change the breath in any way,

Just allow it to flow naturally.

Be a witness to your breath moving in and out of the nostrils.

Notice the slight coolness of the inhale and the warmth of the exhale.

Imagine bringing that coolness in through the nostrils and into your head.

And as you exhale,

Breathe out the heat from your head.

So breathing an ice coolness into your head and breathing out the heat.

Perhaps imagining fire coming out from your nostrils.

If it helps you can visualise colours.

Perhaps a cool ice blue coming into your head and a hot fiery red leaving on the exhale.

Keep breathing in ice coolness into the head and breathing out the hot fire.

And as you continue to visualise this,

Start to feel the level of heat in your head coming down.

So the fire becomes more of a hot steam.

And then from a hot steam it becomes a warm steam.

And when it's more of a warm steam,

Start to bring that warmth down through the body.

So you're still breathing that coolness into your head through the nostrils.

But as you exhale,

Imagine that warm breath moving down through your body and into your feet.

So inhale coolness into your head and exhale warmth down into your feet.

Keep that awareness going,

Coolness into the head,

Warmth down into the feet.

Now let's move into a yoga nidra technique that causes the brain to light up in a specific way that is both balancing and relaxing for the brain and the body.

So become aware of each part of the body that I name.

You don't need to move that part,

Just become aware of it and feel it.

And then move the mind from part to part.

You are moving your mind and energy to each part in turn.

And you can repeat the name mentally after me.

The practice always starts with the right hand,

So move your awareness to the right hand thumb.

Second finger,

Third finger,

Fourth finger,

Fifth finger.

Arm of the hand,

Back of the hand,

The wrist,

The lower arm,

The elbow,

The upper arm,

Shoulder,

The armpit,

Right side of the chest,

Right side of the waist,

Right hip,

Thigh,

Knee,

Lower leg,

Ankle,

Heel,

Sole,

Top of the foot,

Right big toe,

Second toe,

Third toe,

Fourth toe,

Fifth toe.

Left hand,

Move your awareness to the left hand thumb,

Second finger,

Third finger,

Fourth finger,

Fifth finger.

Arm of the hand,

Back of the hand,

The wrist,

The lower arm,

The elbow,

The upper arm,

Shoulder,

The armpit,

Left side of the chest,

Left side of the waist,

Left hip,

Thigh,

Knee,

Lower leg,

Ankle,

Heel,

Sole,

Top of the foot,

Left big toe,

Second toe,

Third toe,

Fourth toe,

Fifth toe.

And now back to the right side,

Right big toe,

Second toe,

Third toe,

Fourth toe,

Fifth toe,

All five toes together.

And to the left side,

Left big toe,

Second toe,

Third toe,

Fourth toe,

Fifth toe,

All five toes together.

Visualise all the left toes together.

And then sole of the right foot,

Sole of the left foot,

Both soles together.

Right heel,

Left heel,

Both heels together.

Right ankle,

Left ankle,

Both ankles together.

Right calf,

Left calf,

Both calves together.

Right knee,

Left knee,

Both knees together.

Right thigh,

Left thigh,

Both thighs together.

Back of the right thigh,

Back of the left thigh,

Backs of the thighs together.

Right buttock,

Left buttock,

Both buttocks together.

Right hip,

Left hip,

Both hips together.

Lower abdomen,

Upper abdomen,

The waist,

The whole of the abdomen.

Right side of the chest,

Left side of the chest,

Whole chest together.

Right collarbone,

Left collarbone,

Centre of the collarbones,

The throat.

Right shoulder,

Left shoulder,

Right arm,

Left arm.

Right elbow,

Left elbow,

Right hand,

Left hand.

Right thumb,

Second finger,

Third finger,

Fourth finger,

Fifth finger,

All five fingers together.

Palm of the hand,

Back of the hand.

Left hand thumb,

Second finger,

Third finger,

Fourth finger,

Fifth finger,

All five fingers together.

Palm of the hand,

Back of the hand.

Shoulders,

Upper back,

Middle back,

Lower back,

Right side of the back,

Left side of the back,

Whole of the spine.

Back of the neck,

Front of the neck,

The whole of the neck.

Chin,

Lower lip,

Upper lip,

Both lips together.

Teeth,

Tongue,

Right cheek,

Left cheek,

Both cheeks.

Right nostril,

Left nostril,

Both nostrils.

Tip of the nose,

Whole of the nose.

Right eyelid,

Left eyelid,

Right eye,

Left eye.

Both eyes together.

Right eyebrow,

Left eyebrow,

Eyebrow centre.

Right temple,

Left temple,

Forehead,

Back of the head,

Crown of the head.

The whole face,

The whole head.

Whole right arm,

Whole left arm.

Whole front,

Whole back.

Whole right side of the body,

Whole left side of the body.

The whole body together.

The whole body together.

The whole body together.

Now bring the awareness back to the breath in the nostrils.

The breath naturally flowing in and out.

And then if it's comfortable,

Just mentally guide the breath in through the left side and out through the right.

And then in through the right and out through the left.

And just keep that awareness going.

Just imagine that breath coming in one side and out the other.

And then back again.

If it helps you can visualise a pyramid shape with the eyebrow centre as the top of the pyramid.

And the breath travelling up and down the sides of the pyramid.

Keep the breath completely natural and spontaneous.

Don't force the breath or rush the breath or try to make it deeper.

Just let it flow naturally and gently.

Guiding that breath in through one nostril up to the eyebrow centre.

And then down and out through the other nostril.

And then reverse in through one nostril and out the other.

And just keep that going,

Alternating the nostrils.

This has a balancing and relaxing effect on the brain and the nervous system.

And just keep the practice going.

And gently return the breath to flowing simultaneously through both nostrils.

Feel the spacious feeling of the breath.

The balance.

The effortless flow.

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Reviews

Such a helpful, gentle guided meditation for my migraines. I’ve used it several times. It always seems to lessen the pain and help me fall asleep. Grateful.

Amazing meditation that helps me every time I use it

Saved to favorites! I’ve listened to this one several times. It does the impossible and gets me to fall asleep when I have a migraine. I can’t thank you enough! ✨🙏🏼🙏🏼

This prevented my migraine from escalating, thanks! 😊

Excellent never thought of combining yoga nidra for migraine. Thank you

Extremely helpful. I've just tried this following a bad migraine with visual disturbance all day yesterday. This morning I awoke with a kind of 'hangover headache' and this guided session has actually gotten rid of that. Thankyou ✨️ 🙏

Thank you. I woke with a migraine and nausea and panic. Your meditation helped my body to relax and loosened the migraine. Very soothing. Thank you 🙏

Lovely practice whether you have a headache or not. Wonderful soothing voice and gentle pacing. 🙏🏽💙💐

Thank you 🙏🏻 this mediation helped ease the pain and tension of my migraine and I was able to sleep.

Thank you so much. At one point, I could feel that migraine congestion literally draining from my sinuses. Thank you.

By the end of this meditation extreme headache had eased. With many thanks, might actually be able to go out later. 🤗🙏🏻

Thank you so much. My migraine now seems like background noise so i can sleep. Thank you 🙏🏾

Good all around. Thank you for creating this meditation.

I swear by this meditation for soothing my migraines. It is more effective than any “medical” treatments I have been prescribed. I am a long-time migraine sufferer, both status migraines and chronic migraines, and I wish I would have found this sooner. Thank you!

Perfect against my migraine with aura! It led me to the headache relief. My aura migraines always need a headache to stop.
Thanks a lot!

Wow. This really helped my migraine symptoms. Now it’s down to a low, dull, liveable roar. Thank You!

Beautiful thank you for the meditation🙏💕🦘😊💕🙏🦘

fell asleep quickly. still have a full headache but better 🙏

Always so restorative! Works like a charm for me every time. Thank you. 💕

This always brings me relief when I have a migraine. It either gets rid of the migraine or relieves it enough for me to function. I’ve suggested this meditation to so many people who suffer. It’s a life saver.