Confidence Cave | Children's Social Anxiety Meditation

Are you ready to meditate with Cori?

Lay down in your bed and get super comfortable.

Make sure that you're wearing your comfortable pajamas.

The light is just right in your room and you can relax your body and let go of your busy day.

Take a nice big deep breath for me.

See if you can breathe in all the way down to your tummy.

Make your tummy expand like a balloon or a football.

And then as you breathe out,

Watch your tummy sink back down into the covers,

Down into the bed.

Do that again.

A nice big deep breath.

Really expand your tummy so it gets full and big.

And then breathe out and let your tummy shrink back to its normal size.

Close down your eyes so you can visualize everything that I'm going to be talking about with you.

With your eyes closed,

You can use your inner sight and your imagination much easier.

Even though it can be done with your eyes open,

It's easier with your eyes closed.

I'd like you to imagine that you're standing on a beach,

A beach that is a cove.

That means it has rocks on either side of it with a beach in the middle.

There's sand and the ocean just like normal,

But on the left there's a big giant rock that you could climb up on really,

Really big,

Like a mountain big.

And on the right it looks exactly the same,

A big giant rock or a cliff or a mountain,

Whatever you want to call it.

I'd like you to imagine yourself standing there in the middle of that cove on the beach,

Looking out at the water.

We're going to pretend that this is your special,

Sacred space.

A place that only you knows about.

A magical place that has very magical properties that you go to sometimes when you need some help with different things that's going on in your life.

The rock on the right at the bottom has some stairs built into it.

I'd like you to imagine in your mind that you're walking on this lovely soft sand.

The sand is sinking through your toes and it feels nice and warm because it's a warm day and you're walking towards the rock,

The big giant cliff on the right.

There's no one else around.

Like I said,

This is your magical place.

When you get to the rock,

There's ten steps.

The ten steps go up the side of the rock and then you can see that there is a hole as if it's like an entrance into the cliffside.

You put your foot on the first step and you instantly feel the difference in the texture underneath your feet.

It's hard and solid and cooler than the sand.

You start to walk up the ten steps.

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

You've been here many times before so you know what you're doing.

Five,

Six,

Seven,

Eight,

Nine,

Ten.

Standing at the entrance of what looks like a big giant cave.

The light does shine in from outside so you can see clearly.

It's not a scary cave,

It's an open cave,

A very special cave.

When you walk inside,

You feel like this is one of your homes.

It feels really comfortable and familiar to you,

A safe place.

There's a giant round rug on the floor in the middle when you walk in.

There's chairs,

A comfy looking sofa.

But what you notice and what you love about this place most of all is that every wall all around you is covered in shelves.

And on those shelves are glass jars labeled with individual labels of what's inside the jars.

There must be hundreds and hundreds of them,

All different colors because the contents of them are different.

Every single one has something different inside of it.

What makes this place your special sacred place is that each one of those jars holds different emotions,

Thoughts or feelings inside of it.

And you were the one that put them all there.

Like I said,

You in this scenario are a very special magical person.

You can imagine yourself like a wizard or a very clever,

Smart,

Wonderful witch.

Either way,

You have the ability to put different feelings and emotions and thoughts into jars and you use this cave whenever you need to stock up on a way that you want to feel.

Today you've come here because you've noticed that you've been feeling anxious about being in crowds or busy places.

You know that there's a part of you that's a little bit uncomfortable in social situations.

You're not fully introverted but there's times where it's difficult to be with lots and lots of people.

You sometimes feel overwhelmed,

Tired or drained or just really uncomfortable.

You've got some events coming up where you know you're going to be around lots of people.

And therefore you've come to your magical cave to stock up on all the right thoughts and feelings and emotions that you'll need to feel very comfortable,

Safe and secure in one of those busy situations.

You walk over to the left side of the cave.

There's a jar that says confidence on it.

You take it down and put it on a table that's close by.

You feel a little bit anxious about it.

You take it down and put it on a table that's close by.

On a different shelf there's another jar.

You notice the color of it.

This jar is labeled with the word comfortable.

A feeling of being comfortable.

You grab a hold of that jar.

You take it down and put it on the table.

On a different shelf you spot the jar that says easygoing.

You notice the color of what's inside.

That thought,

That feeling,

That emotion that goes along with feeling like everything is easy.

You feel stress-free.

And you grab a hold of that jar and you put it on your table.

You see the jar that's labeled happy.

You grab a hold of that.

Take a look at what's inside.

That feeling of being happy no matter what.

And you put it on the table.

You're looking on the shelves for a jar that's labeled self-assured.

The one that makes you feel really comfortable with who you are.

Everything about you is just awesome.

And it makes you feel comfortable in different situations when you feel really self-assured.

When you know who you are and you like who you are.

That's the feeling of being self-assured.

You look for that jar and you spot it.

You go get it.

And you put it on the table.

You need the jar now that says brave.

That feeling of being brave.

Just so that you feel safe and secure when you go into those busy crowds or that social situation.

Or when you're around a lot of people that you don't know and you have to talk or make new friends.

You need that feeling of being brave.

That feeling of being outgoing.

So you look for the jar that says brave on it.

Go get it.

And put it on the table.

You look around your cave looking for the jar that says calm.

C-A-L-M.

Calm.

You need that feeling and emotion of being calm in those situations rather than being nervous and anxious.

You need to feel calm.

You look around on all of your shelves and then you spot the jar that says calm on the front.

And you go grab it.

You put it on the table.

You look at all your jars on the table and decide that that's enough for now.

You can always come back here if you need other emotions and thoughts and feelings.

But this is where the magic starts to happen.

This is where you almost become like a kangaroo.

You imagine that you have like a pouch.

Like a kangaroo.

And when you pull the pouch away from your tummy you can drop the jars into your pouch and absorb all of those thoughts and feelings and emotions.

So that's what you do.

Because this is your magical cave.

The magic that you create here.

You create with your mind and you can shape shift and become anything that you want.

So we're going to be a kangaroo.

So I'd like you to imagine now that you're pulling your pouch as if you have this imaginary pouch right there in the middle of your tummy.

And you're dropping one at a time the jars off the table.

And they land comfortably into your body.

So that you can absorb the thoughts,

The feelings and the emotions.

You put all of the jars in there.

The pouch closes up.

And then the pouch energetically disappears as if it was never there.

But now inside of you,

You have all of those different feelings.

You have the brave feeling,

The calm feeling,

The confident feeling.

All of them.

You have absorbed them and become them.

They are now a part of you.

Like putting on an outfit in the morning.

You've put all of these thoughts and feelings and emotions into you.

So that you now own them.

You have everything that you need.

So that you don't feel socially anxious and nervous.

You look around your cave as if to check that you have everything that you need.

And you feel happy with your choice of all the different things you chose to absorb in your special cave.

It's all there with you for as long as you need it.

It doesn't disappear.

It's a part of you.

You own it.

You own those thoughts and feelings and emotions.

They're like little lights inside of you.

And you can just call upon any one of those thoughts or feelings whenever you need it.

The next time you need to be around a bunch of people you don't know.

Maybe they're people you know but you still get nervous.

Maybe you're having a sleepover and you're anxious.

And you needed these little lights inside of you.

Whatever the reason,

It doesn't matter.

It's gonna work.

You start to walk out of your cave.

You feel full of these new positive feelings and thoughts.

You walk down your ten steps.

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

You feel the sand again underneath your feet.

Slipping through your toes.

It's soft and warm.

You walk across the beach.

And then just like that you find yourself back in your body.

Back in your bed.

Back in your real time and life.

Feeling full of all the acquired thoughts and feelings and emotions that you went to your magical cave for.

And now you can go to sleep knowing that you own all of that.

It's a part of you.

And it will be right there whenever you need it.

Namaste my little friend.

Namaste.