Hello and welcome to today's meditation.
Today we are all about breath,
Bringing our awareness and our intention set towards almost befriending our breath in a way and finding our own unique way and our own unique process to connect with our own breath.
When we're pregnant,
Sometimes it is literally hard to breathe.
So this particular meditation and more particularly this JSJ hold,
It helps us to receive that inhale of life.
And it also allows for us to exhale and let go.
You can be sitting or lying down for today for today's meditation.
If you are very far along and if your belly is very large,
Sitting might be a better choice for you today.
Listen to your body and find your most comfortable position.
Maybe grab a blanket or pillows,
Have them around to help support your arms as we get into our first position today.
The first thing you'll wanna do is take your left hand and place it on your right upper arm.
If you're familiar with where your triceps are,
That's where you will want your left fingertips to rest.
So our left hand is resting on the middle area of our upper arm.
And then we see that our left fingertips are kind of hugging around to the back of your arm.
And then I always poke my fingers around to feel any tension or any tight spot.
And if you do find this,
Then you just release your grip and allow your fingertips to rest in this very spot.
And then we take our right hand and we place it on the inside of our left thigh.
So our right fingertips are resting on the inside of our left thigh.
If you wanna find,
Try to find the exact spot,
What you can do is take your right fingertips and poke the inside of your knee.
Sometimes there's like,
For me,
I have sort of like this fatty pad area on the inner knee.
And then you just walk your fingertips up about four inches from this spot along your inner thigh,
Kind of along your quadricep muscle line.
And then take just a moment,
Find anything you need to prop up your arms,
Elbows,
So that you can relax your arms,
Relax your wrists,
Relax your fingers,
And allow yourself to rest in this position.
Each day we breathe around 23,
000 times,
Breathing around 16 breaths of inhales and exhales per minute.
Our breath,
In my opinion,
Is one of the closest tools that we have for connection with our inner selves and the natural healing of our bodies.
And I particularly think that when we're pregnant,
If we can connect with this inner part of ourselves,
Our inner selves,
Our soul,
Our spirit,
Whatever you wanna call or identify as,
Whatever you wanna call or identify this inward self of yours,
I truly believe that when we connect with this part of ourselves during pregnancy,
We automatically are connected and fused together with this growing life inside of us.
And as we settle into the stillness today,
I'd like you to become aware of the movement of your breath.
Let's receive a breath in and exhale.
Let's receive a breath in and exhale.
Now,
Just follow the words.
And when you hear the word now,
Visualize a little switch in your internal world.
I disentangle from any judgments I have about my breath and I reintegrate now.
I realign with accepting my breath,
Just as it is my breath.
And I allow a full and complete exhalation now.
I disentangle from any physical judgments I have towards my breath and I reintegrate now.
I realign with accepting my breath,
Whether it's loud,
Soft,
Forceful,
Quiet,
Or somewhere in the middle.
And I realign now.
I realign with allowing my breath to flow.
I realign with allowing my breath to let go.
And I realign now.
And I realign now.
I disentangle from any emotions that may be restricting my breath and I reintegrate now.
I realign with accepting all the emotions that I'm feeling today at this moment.
And I realign now.
I realign with an acceptance of all the emotions I might feel today.
And I realign now.
I disentangle from any discomfort that's restricting my breath right now and I reintegrate now.
I realign with receiving a breath in and exhaling,
Letting go.
I realign with letting my breath go now.
I realign with fluidity,
Flexibility,
And I realign now.
I realign with feelings of peace and tranquility.
And I realign now.
I realign with allowing my breath to be just as it is in this moment.
And I realign now.
I realign with feelings of ease and grace.
I realign now.
I realign with feeling of peace and grace.
I realign now.
And now let's take time to switch positions.
We're going to do the same exact hold,
But now we're going to be practicing the left side.
So we'll take our right hand and we'll take the middle of our left upper arm.
And we'll see that our right fingertips are curled around the arm so that the fingertips land on the back side of your left upper arm.
Breathe.
Inhale.
And exhale.
I disentangle from any resistance that I may feel and I reintegrate now.
I realign with fluidity,
Flexibility,
Ease,
And grace.
And I realign now.
I disentangle from any resistance I may be feeling and I reintegrate now.
I realign on connecting with my breath now.
I realign with exhalation and relaxation.
And I realign now.
I disentangle from anything holding me back in this moment and I reintegrate now.
I realign with trust,
Strength,
And breath.
And I realign now.
I realign with feelings of peace and strength.
And I realign now.
And now I'd like to be quiet for just one minute as you sit in this space with your growing baby.
And maybe there's something on your mind that you'd like to tell baby or maybe you'd just like to listen today.
Take this moment to rest and breathe and connect.
How was that?
I hope you found some connection with baby today.
And as you're ready,
We're going to be finishing up our meditation today.
Or if you're so relaxed,
And I encourage you to stay right where you are,
Enjoy your relaxation for a bit longer,
Or if time allows,
Gently drift off to sleep.
If you need to come back into your day,
I invite you to stretch your fingers,
Turn your wrists a few times,
Wiggle your ankles,
Take a couple deep breaths,
Welcome yourself back to the space that you're in.
And I hope you and baby have a joyous and abundant rest of your day,
Sending all my blessings to you and your baby.
And for those of you that are practicing these self-help holds,
If you're ever just needing to feel abundant in your own skin,
Like maybe you're just feeling kind of blah a certain day and you're just feeling kind of run down,
Like your physical body is just ugh.
This is a great self-help practice.
And I hope you're just feeling kind of like oh,
This is a great self-help hold to practice,
To just kind of revitalize all these organ function energy flows.
It really helps your physical body all throughout pregnancy and all throughout postpartum period as well because it just supports our physical body so much.
