Hello my dear,
This is a guided healing meditation practice.
So start by settling into a relaxing position.
You can be sitting or lying down.
Let your spine be straight and breathe deeply.
Breathing in deeply,
Flooding every cell with oxygen and relaxing deeply with each out breath.
Let go of anything you do not need.
In this practice focus on being very still.
The body might become uncomfortable and you might be tempted to move and fix it.
To move away from attention and back toward pleasure.
Of course if you are in a posture that might do harm to your body you don't want to sustain such a position and you do need to move.
But short of that I want you to just notice.
Notice any sense of discomfort and see and see if you're able to welcome it.
To feel it.
To encounter it.
With each out breath you can just keep letting go.
Becoming softer.
Creating a space where sensations can arise from deep in the body and release.
Imagine that your awareness is like the clear blue sky and body sensations pleasant and unpleasant are just cloud formations coming and going.
Forming and thinning out.
And similarly you can notice thoughts in the mind.
Often when we're sitting or lying still we experience our thoughts as a problem.
We wish that they would go away.
We wish that we could have a moment of peace and quiet.
But what if you just let thought totally flow as effortlessly as blood flows through the veins.
You don't have to dive into a thought or elaborate on it.
You also do not have to suppress thought and try to prevent it from arising.
You can just let go of the struggle.
Let the mind run.
Let your mind begin the process of emptying itself if only for a few moments.
Rather than responding to physical discomfort or mental agitation with frustration you can respond with a quality of recognition,
Of appreciation,
Of gratitude that your body is beginning to heal itself at the deepest levels.
The mind is emptying itself out.
You can just let this happen.
You can make space and awareness for this emptying out,
For this healing process.
Now it's time for us to bring this practice to a close for today.
But I encourage you to come back to this practice and if you only have one minute to practice this you'll be one minute lighter and your body,
Mind and emotions will appreciate you for that.
Taking another nice deep breath.
Feeling your fingers and toes a wee bit.
Linking your eyes open and reacquainting yourself with the space that you're sitting or lying in.
