Relieve Physical and Emotional Discomfort During Pregnancy

Hello and welcome back to Pregnancy JSJ Meditations,

Where you experience a new form of meditation that includes a guided practice through a highly developed form of acupressure called JSJ,

Which is the main focus,

Along with breath and relaxation awareness,

Emotional freedom techniques,

Affirmations,

And more.

In today's episode,

We're going to practice relaxing in the discomfort.

You can interpret that many different ways,

But the first thing that we do is get our hands into position to practice our self-care JSJ holds.

I'm currently practicing these holds lying down today on my left side.

You can be lying on your left side or you can be sitting in a chair or really just finding a comfortable position in any way you can.

Today I would find a few extra blankets and pillows so that you can prop your arms up and your body up comfortably as we practice this flow today.

You'll be having our left hand anchored on the left side of the back of our neck for the entire time and our right hand will move four times.

The first thing that you'll do is take your left fingertips and place them on the back side of your neck,

Just to the left of your spine.

As usual,

You can poke around and see if you feel a little bit of a sore spot.

If you do,

Just go ahead and rest your fingertips over this spot,

But relax your hands and your fingers entirely.

And then your right hand goes on your tailbone.

So find the end of your spine and just let your hand and fingers of your right hand rest there.

So for me,

I have a pillow behind my back so that I can just rest my hand on this pillow and then my hands in the exact spot.

I don't have to put forth any effort to keep my hand in this position.

This flow today helps with many things.

Some physical things that it helps with is relieving headaches and migraines that you might feel at the top of your head or in the nape of your neck.

It helps balance and harmonize our reproductive systems and our urinary bladder functions.

And on an emotional level,

It just helps us to feel balance overall,

Balance with fear,

Especially,

But also feelings of anxiety or overwhelm,

All of these things too.

This flow really just helps to balance our entire,

Our entire physical and mental state of being.

And today I'm focusing on just finding comfort within the discomfort.

During pregnancy,

We can feel many types of discomfort and it's important to be able to relax in this.

This is great practice for labor and birth,

Obviously,

Because that can be experienced as discomfort to many women.

So if you have a discomfort today,

I'd like you to bring your awareness to just one thing right now.

You can have other discomforts come up during this meditation,

But if you want to identify your main discomfort,

Whether it's a feeling emotionally or a feeling physically,

Go ahead and identify that feeling of discomfort and take one long,

Slow exhale out of your mouth.

The first thing that we will do is just begin to relax in this moment and congratulate yourself for taking this time for you.

It is so important to take time to rest in these busy,

Busy days or busy societies that don't like to take time just to rest.

This could be one of the most productive things you'll do all day.

So just relax in that knowing,

Relax in the space that you've created,

Tune out everything around you and turn your focus inward and breathe out fully and completely to help your body relax into this moment.

I would like you to bring your awareness to your eyes and the muscles surrounding your eyes and I would like you to consciously release that tension that you may be holding there.

And as always,

Bring your awareness back to your exhale every time that you feel the urge to just let go and release.

When we practice JSJ Holds,

You will more than likely just feel the urge to just maybe even sigh or breathe very deeply.

Just exhale and just let go and I encourage you to follow your instincts,

To follow your own body and let that breath go when it feels good.

Now I'd like you to bring your awareness to your jaw and all the muscles around your jaw and I would like you to consciously release those muscles now and also bring your attention towards your tongue and if you're holding any tension in your tongue,

Release those muscles and that tension now and now bring your awareness to all three of those areas and relax your eyes and the muscles around your eyes and your jaw,

The muscles around your jaw and your tongue.

As we settle in,

In this moment,

Choosing to bring our awareness to the things that help us to feel calm,

Peaceful and relaxed even if we're feeling discomfort in other areas of our mind or body.

And now I'd like to invite you to take three long,

Slow and deep exhalations you can follow along with me or practice on your own and experience letting go.

One,

Two,

Keeping your eyes,

Jaw and tongue relaxed and one more.

Exhale.

Every breath that we take,

We bring vitality and life to our growing baby inside.

Every breath brings vitality and life to the growing baby inside.

And now we're going to move our right hand into the next position.

So take your right hand and place it on the back side of your left knee.

So for me,

I'm lying on my left side,

So I just bend my left knee.

I have a pillow between my legs and I just have my right fingertips on the inside,

On the backside crease of my left knee.

My thumb is kind of hanging out on the side because I can't quite reach my thumb under there.

So as close you can get for your right fingertips to the back crease of your knee will be perfect.

And if you need to rearrange to get your left hand to be more comfortable on the back left side of your neck,

I invite you to do so now and just find comfort in this position as we rest and breathe.

Focus on my voice and on my words and on your own exhalation as we practice some emotional freedom techniques.

I disentangle from discomfort now.

I realign with feelings of comfort,

Feelings of safety,

Protection,

And I realign now.

I realign with feelings of love,

Wholeness,

And peace.

I realign now.

I disentangle from my need to control,

My need to control situations or outcomes.

Really anything that I might feel that I need to control and I disentangle from this need to control now.

I realign with trusting the universe,

Trusting God,

Trusting the things that I believe in and I reintegrate now.

I realign with these feelings of trust again and I add peace,

Calmness,

Clarity.

I realign now.

Realign with wholeness and infinite self.

Realign now.

Exhale fully and completely.

I disentangle from resistance and I reintegrate now.

I realign with acceptance.

I realign with fluidity.

Reintegrate now.

I realign with feelings of allowing,

Feelings of acceptance,

Feelings of peace.

I realign now as I relax in this moment.

Exhale fully and completely.

I now move my right hand to the left outside ankle.

Now for me,

Because I'm lying down,

I cannot reach this point.

So I will use my right foot instead and I'll use my right toe,

My right big toe and I will tuck it under the left side of my foot so that my right big toe is tucked just below the outside edge of my ankle on my left foot.

It's a space between your ankle and the back of your heel and finding the exact points aren't necessary.

Just tuck your right foot under your left on the outside if you're in a laying down position like me.

And if you're sitting,

You can cross your left leg over your right leg and just hold with your right fingers this point between your left outside ankle and the ankle bone and your heel.

And exhale fully and completely.

I disentangle from discomfort and I reintegrate now.

I realign with feelings of comfort,

Feelings of peace,

Feelings of relaxation and I reintegrate now.

I realign with wholeness and infinite self.

I disentangle from tension and I reintegrate now.

I realign with letting go.

I realign with feelings of softness and I reintegrate now.

I realign with wholeness and infinite self.

I realign now.

I disentangle from any feelings of fear that may be stuck within me and I reintegrate now.

I realign with feelings of trust,

Peace,

Even feelings of forgiveness,

Whether for myself or others and I reintegrate now.

I realign with wholeness and infinite self.

Reintegrate now.

And for our last position,

We hold our left pinky toe.

Again,

If you're lying down,

You can just use your toes.

For me,

I'm just going to put my left little toe in between my big toe and my index toe.

So I'm just kind of gripping my left pinky toe with my right big toe and index toe.

If you're sitting down or you're able to reach your left little toe with your hand,

You can go ahead and hold your left little toe with your right hand and breathe out fully and completely.

Now bring your awareness back to the muscles around your eyes and consciously let them go and bring your awareness to your jaw and let any tension melt away and to your tongue and let any tension release and consciously bring your awareness to all three of those areas and just let those muscles go.

Allow your whole entire face to just relax and exhale fully and completely as you allow for this release.

Every time that we bring some relaxation into our days,

We provide ourselves and our baby with,

In my opinion,

One of the most important things that we could provide,

Which is a calm nervous system.

And when we have a calm nervous system and when we're working and functioning from our parasympathetic system,

We're able to heal.

We're able to allow.

Bring your awareness back to the space that you're in and bring your awareness back to your physical body.

Thank yourself again for taking this time for you and your baby to practice relaxing and to practice just simply being.

Practice breathing and resting within the discomforts that you may feel today.

I hope that you feel a little bit more relaxed and I hope that whatever discomfort you came here with today is relieved.

You can practice this particular flow over and over again.

This is a wonderful self-help flow to prevent reproductive disharmonies.

So this is a great go-to self-care flow throughout your whole pregnancy and even your postpartum period.

I thank you so much for being a listener.

I invite you to stretch and wiggle your fingers and toes.

Take some deep breaths and welcome yourself back to the space that you're in slowly before you make it to the rest of your life.