Breathing For Anxiety & Muscle Tension Relief

This guided meditation will help you to release bodily tension and reduce anxiety by encouraging you to practice a slow calming sighing breath. It will also encourage you to progressively relax different parts of your body and to release any tension held. Play this track if you need to relax.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to the session. I invite you to take a seat or lie down and get yourself comfortable. You can close down the eyes if you wish and take a deep slow breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. Today we're going to be practicing a release and relaxation meditation. To begin with we're going to take three slow deep sighing breaths in through the nose and then slowly out through the mouth. I'm just adding a little bit of a sigh. Now turn your attention to the sensations in your body. Just scanning down from your head to your neck to your arms to your chest to your back to your seat to your groin to your legs and to your feet. I'm just noting any points of tension and we're just going to breathe and with each breath we're going to sigh and in our mind we're going to say the word release. Just keep breathing slowly and keep sighing on the out breath repeating the word release and just be curious about their spaces in your body. You can say to them I will listen to you and you will release for me. Together we will heal ourselves. Say this with love and with the breath almost as if you're talking to that part of yourself like they're a person like they've got feelings like they've got something to say like they've got something to say and it's their tension is the way that they're letting you know they want to speak. So you're just inviting them to listen and to release. Keep breathing slowly keep releasing keep doing that slow sighing exhale keep listening to whatever it is that point of tension wants you to know without judgment without expectation without fear without trying to change anything just observe just accept just allow whatever it is that needs to be expressed to be expressed there's nothing to be done nothing that needs to be said nowhere you need to go other than remaining with the breath and the invitation to listen as that tension is released Namaste