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 meditation,
We are just going to practice a short,
Simple,
JSJ self-care hold to just help us to relieve tension and stress that accumulates in our body throughout and during pregnancy.
The self-care hold that we are going to practice is very simple.
You can be sitting down or lying down for this meditation,
Whichever is more comfortable for you.
If you're lying down on your left side,
I would recommend that you put a pillow behind you and then we will get started by placing our hands in the position to practice the JSJ self-care hold.
So today our right hand is gonna go behind our backs and our right hand is going to touch,
Be near the area of our tailbone.
If you're unsure about where this is,
Just put your right fingertips near the center of the back of your underwear.
You do not have to touch your skin.
You can just rest your hand on top of your clothes.
And if you're lying down,
You might wanna put a pillow or a blanket under your hand so that you can rest your arm comfortably so that you're not straining to hold this position.
And then your left hand is going to go on top of your pubic bone in the front.
If you can imagine where your underwear is and then just place your hand on top of your clothes in the center of that front part of your underwear.
So your hands are kind of making a sandwich along your hip line.
And this seems like a very simple hold or maybe a silly thing to do,
But as you rest in this position,
I encourage you just to feel what you feel because this is a very,
Very powerful self-care hold.
The most important thing with the JSJ self-care is to be comfortable.
So if you're uncomfortable in this position,
I encourage you to get into a comfortable position.
And if that means that your hand is a little bit more on the right side of your body because it's harder to reach the middle of your back,
Then that's just fine.
These areas that we're holding are small areas.
There's a six inch diameter around these points that we hold,
They're called safety energy locks in JSJ.
And so if you are close and near these points,
Then you will be gaining incredible benefit.
You can use the front or the back side of your hand,
Whichever's more comfortable for you.
This particular position intermingles with many,
Many different flows that we practice.
The longer flows that have a lot of steps to them,
The organ function energy flows and the organ function energy flows and a very important critical flow that we call the main central.
This is a wonderful,
Wonderful hold to practice during pregnancy.
Is it aids our reproductive functions and helps balance and harmonize the reproductive organs and themselves.
It helps our baby feel calm,
Believe it or not.
It helps relieve tension,
Tensions all along our hip line and the front and back side and all around our hip area.
Helps us to feel grounded,
Helps us just to release daily tensions and stress that accumulate from all this extra weight that we're carrying around during pregnancy.
And even if it's emotional weight,
This helps clear those feelings as well.
Let's rest in this position.
Notice if there's any tension in your muscles and your upper body.
So do a quick scan of your face.
Do you have any tension around your eyes that you can let go of or any tension around your jaw area?
Where's your tongue tense that you can just let go of that tension?
And then think about your shoulders and your upper chest area is there any tension?
Are you holding anything up here that you can consciously let go of and release the muscles to sink in to your space just a little bit deeper.
And once you release those muscles,
Take a deep exhalation and just feel your body letting go.
Take another deep exhalation.
If you're finding that you're tense and it's hard to breathe,
Just make your body have a full exhalation.
Sometimes I get so tense that I realize that I'm barely even breathing,
Which is very common this day and age and I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to breathe which is very common this day and age in our busy,
Busy societies.
We get so caught up in the stuff that we're doing,
The things that we're doing,
We forget to breathe.
And so when we practice these meditations with JSJ,
We always bring focus back to our exhalation.
I can already feel myself becoming a little bit calmer.
My mind has a lot of thoughts and sometimes it's hard to not chase those thoughts.
But when we're practicing these holds,
We don't worry about clearing our mind or trying to still our thoughts.
We just are the observer.
We just observe the thoughts as they pass.
The beauty of JSJ is the intention isn't to settle our mind.
That's not the main focus when we sit down to meditate like it is in many other meditation practices.
It's rather the effect when we practice these holds and some holds will resonate with you and your body and mind more than others and you'll feel different shifts depending on different holds.
But this particular hold for me is very soothing.
I just can find myself melting into the space that I'm in,
No matter how stressed or how many things I have to get done that day or what's going on in the world around me.
This hold helps me to just embrace this particular moment of stillness that I'm creating for myself and my mind and body and spirit.
It's so important for us to practice being still.
And as we close today's short JSJ self-care hold practice,
I'd like to invite us to take three sets of breaths in this stillness,
Counting our exhalation.
So I invite you to practice along with me or just follow your own rhythm of breath.
Big breath in.
And let it out.
One.
Two.
Three.
One.
Three.
Thank you for practicing with me today.
And as always,
I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day.
Thank you for being a listener.
