Breathing Into The Body: A Journey Of Emotional Clearing

Okay,

Good morning.

Let's meditate together.

If you'd like to get into a comfortable seated position.

Something that feels right for you.

Make sure that you straighten your spine.

So you have a nice long straight spine.

You can do a little neck stretch if you want to just to get into the space of settling into your body.

And then come to some stillness.

Close down your eyes if you haven't done so already.

And start to automatically slow down your breathing.

Close down your mouth and breathe in through your nose and out through your nose.

Try and create a circular flow with your breath.

So breathing in and breathing out within the same pace,

The same length.

So you get some cadence with your breath.

And then feeling into the rest of your body.

Just doing a general sweep through your body.

What I mean by that is normally I start at the top of my head.

Just kind of feel the top of my head.

Feel into my face quite quickly.

Come down and drop into your shoulders.

Feel your shoulders.

It's like a quick sweep through the body.

Feel down into your chest.

Across your heart.

Just move slowly down into your tummy.

Check in with that.

Move down into your hips,

The top of your legs.

Down to your feet.

It's just a quick general sweep through your body to get a feeling of any sensations,

Any aches or pains,

Heaviness,

Lightness.

Just a general,

Not trying to change anything within your body.

You're just getting a quick reading of where you're at in your physical.

And then we're going to take more time and be more precise with sweeping through a sense of where we're at with our emotions today.

So I'd like you to start in the place where we normally carry most emotion and that's the stomach.

So I'd like you to go down to your abdomen and put all of your focus and attention down onto your tummy.

The stomach is the place where we bring in all thought.

The belly button is the centre of our being and that's where we pull in thought into our thinking system from the collective consciousness.

And a lot of thought can feel heavy,

A lot of thought can make the tummy tight,

Tense.

Start to take your breath down into your stomach on a purpose.

So breathe,

Pull your breath down to your tummy,

Send it down to your tummy.

And as you pull your breath in,

Setting an intention on your breath that your breath is going to bring in some relaxation,

Some nurturing,

Some well-needed comfort into certain areas of your body today.

So bring in that breath,

Allow it to be magical and healing for your own body.

And as you pull it down to your abdomen,

See if you can soften.

Every time you breathe into your tummy,

See if you can soften your stomach.

Starting to let go of any of that tightness or tension,

The emotions that we tend to hold in the tummy,

Or stress,

Worry,

Anxiety.

Those are the first ones that hit the stomach.

The stomach can get tight when we're angry.

We don't need to dive into what emotions are there for us today,

But if you're feeling any tightness in the tummy,

Let's just imagine that this breath is going to start to relieve any of that,

To soften some of those emotions.

So pulling in your breath down to your stomach,

Allow your stomach to expand on the inhale fully.

And when you breathe out,

Let's just breathe out and let go,

A sense of letting go.

So if you've got any stress,

Any worries,

Any tension,

Any anxiety in your life right now,

Let's just breathe in some ease,

Some relaxation.

This is all that you're doing right now in this moment.

So you're not in the middle of anything anxious.

You're actually just meditating.

You're in this moment and you're relaxing.

All is well in this moment.

On your next breath,

Focus on your heart.

So bring your breath into your heart space,

Bring it into the center of your chest,

And bring it into your physical heart.

Pull that breath in,

Pull it down to your heart space.

Here we hold emotions connected to grief,

Sadness,

Heaviness.

A heart can get literally heavy and tight.

Upset,

Pain,

Hurt,

All of those things are starting in the heart space,

In the physical heart.

So let's breathe in some relaxation,

Just breathe out and let go.

Be intentional with your breath.

See if you can see your heart literally softening,

Relaxing.

Imagine in your mind that your breath is coming into your heart space and everything is becoming lighter or open.

Pull your attention up to your throat now.

Start to breathe into your throat.

Of course the throat is our place of communication but here we hold a lot of resistance.

Resentment.

We hold a lot of lack of expression.

Sometimes we aren't able to talk and communicate our needs.

Sometimes we suppress what we want to say and the throat is the place that tightens and suffers.

Also your throat will be affected by sorrow and sadness.

Your throat always closes when we watch something sad in a movie.

You'll notice it's your chest and your throat.

It kind of closes up on us when we're sad or upset or any kind of grief.

So breathe into your throat,

Breathe in some relaxation,

Some self-soothing,

Your own healing with your breath.

It's okay.

You'll be able to express yourself sooner or later.

Communicate with this part of your body and allow it to relax and soften.

Don't forget to use your exhales as removing anything from your body.

So breathe out and just let go.

You don't have to know what it is,

Just let it go.

And now pull your attention up to your forehead,

The front of your forehead,

The place where we normally get tension headaches,

Around your eyes,

Across the front of your forehead,

Around your temples and your ears.

Breathe into this space.

This is where we carry too much thought,

Where we get confused,

Overwhelmed,

Annoyed,

Stressed,

Irritated.

Too much thought going on in the brain,

Too much thought going on in the mind can create this kind of tension and emotion in our body.

So let's just breathe that healing breath,

Bringing in relaxation,

Sense of ease.

Breathe up and on the exhale rather than the inhale,

On the exhale feel as if you're pushing your breath up into your head,

Like a push,

Like you're squeezing down but you're pushing up.

You can also let your eyes roll up and back slightly,

That allows just a little bit of pressure,

As if you're looking up into the forehead.

Don't make too much pressure but just look up into the forehead,

Into the third eye area and then on your exhale push the breath up.

Have a feeling now,

A sensation of pushing up into that space as if you're clearing out the cobwebs in that space.

Do that for the next minute or two with me.

We're not putting too much thought into what it is that we're letting go of,

Remember we're just letting go.

You're self-soothing the body.

And finally come down into the opposite end of your spine,

Come down into the root chakra,

The base of your spine,

Right where your coccyx is.

Put all your focus and attention down on that place and feel the chair,

The ground,

The sofa,

Whatever you're sat on,

Feel it underneath your sit bones.

So make a physical connection,

Feel the sensation of your sit bones on your chair.

It's a denser area in this part of the body so it's not always easy to know emotion if we're holding emotion down here.

It kind of goes hidden.

The area is just a denser chakra,

Slower in frequency.

But know that this is the root right,

This is where we connect to earth,

This is our grounding spot.

And our grounding spot is the most important when it comes to all of the different places in our bodies to help with emotion.

If we're grounded we can handle so much more in the world.

We can handle so much more that's going on.

We can make decisions,

We can handle what's happening in our life.

There's less confusion,

Less irritation.

We can focus when we're grounded.

So what I'd like you to do,

Because this is the most important part of our meditation today,

Is actually help with your physical body and stick your tush out a little bit.

So arch your back and stick your tush out a little bit as if you're pushing deeper into your chair.

You're creating more of a connection with your chair,

With the base of your spine on your chair.

So arch your back just a little bit.

And then what I want you to do is imagine that the base of your spine is like a suction to the chest.

And the chair is not the chair,

The chair is the earth.

With your eyes closed imagine that you're actually creating some kind of magnetic connection,

A suction,

Between the base of your spine and the earth beneath you.

And when you've done that,

Start to see the base of your spine as something that's open,

Like a straw.

And you can start to suck the energy up into your body,

Up into your spine.

Imagine that suction allows you to pull and draw energy from the earth.

So imagine you're literally sucking it up.

You're pulling it up into your spine.

And that energy that you're pulling up into your spine is electricity,

Magnetic connection,

Magnetism.

You're pulling it up from mother earth into your body.

And electricity and magnetism is what we're made of,

What we circulate throughout our body.

And then we let it out back into mother earth.

There's a circular motion,

Like the circle of life,

Going on between us and her constantly.

And when we receive this energy we feel grounded,

Stable,

We feel focused,

We feel stronger within our body and our emotional body.

We feel happier,

We feel more energized.

So everything that we feel when we're not connected is the opposite of those things,

Right?

We want to feel grounded and strong in our body.

We want to feel energized,

Solid,

Rooted like a tree.

So for the next few minutes,

Do that sucking and breathing.

So use your breath as if your breath is helping you to suck this energy up from mama earth into your body.

It fills your entire body.

Pull the energy all the way up to your head,

Pull it down your arms,

Into your hands.

Pull it all the way into your feet.

Feel it in your fingertips,

Feel it in your toes.

And when your entire body feels more solid,

More stable,

We know that we've done a good job.

I'm going to count to three and then you can open your eyes and come back into the space with me.

One,

Two,

Three.

Just with your eyes open,

Stay in this relaxed state.

Just gently stretch your neck to the left or the right,

Whichever feels right for you.

Just let your neck stretch out.

Take some long,

Slow,

Deep breaths still.

Coming back into your physical body in a nice,

Gentle,

Slow way.

Then bringing your head back up to center and let it fall to the opposite side.

And gentle stretch.

Then bringing your head back up to center,

Coming back more into your physical body,

Ready for your day.

Namaste,

My friends.

Namaste.