Meditation To Come Back To You When You Feel Overwhelmed

Take a little moment now to just arrive,

To arrive into your body.

To make those wiggles and adjustments as you come to rest.

Breathe in and breathe out.

With each breath just allow yourself to come back to your body.

To let go of all the energetic tugs and pulls that are demanding your attention elsewhere.

Just imagine cutting yourself free from all of those demands on you and just letting yourself come to this moment.

To sit fully in your body.

You might feel yourself just sort of landing back into your body like the sand in a glitter globe,

Just coming to rest.

Just allow it.

You might even delight in it.

Just breathing gently,

Allowing your breath to guide you back into your body so you can feel the weight of your body wherever you're sitting or laying.

Start to feel the weight of your whole body pressing down against whatever surface you are resting against.

As you breathe in invite your belly to expand.

And as you breathe out invite yourself to let go and rest even more deeply into yourself.

Perhaps this feels difficult right now to allow yourself to come to rest in yourself.

Perhaps inside in this moment there's lots of energy whirling and jostling about.

That's okay.

It just is.

So just come to rest wherever you are in whichever way you can at this moment.

Perhaps you've come here today to just move a bit closer to sitting with what is.

Perhaps there's a part of you right now that is vying for your attention,

Creating angst within you.

It might feel like a hot energy moving around you,

Not settling anywhere,

Or something prickly or agitation,

An energy that just won't settle,

That's whirling all the time or fizzing all the time or just building all the time.

It's all okay.

It's all perfect.

In this space we're just going to allow you and invite you to turn towards this feeling as much as you feel is right for you.

There's no perfect way of doing this,

Just your way right now.

So as you sit,

Feeling your body,

Becoming aware of your feet,

Wiggling your toes perhaps,

The tops of your feet,

The bottom of your feet,

Your ankles,

Notice your shins and your calves,

Your kneecaps and the space behind them,

Feel your thighs and whatever they're resting against,

Feel your bottom,

Your hips,

Your lower back,

All the points of your spine that are supported right now.

Whether you're sitting or laying,

Feel all the way up your back to your shoulders,

Allowing your awareness to fall across your shoulders,

Down your arms to your elbows,

Your forearms,

Your wrists,

Your palms,

The back of your hands,

To the tips of your fingers and your thumbs.

Breathe in,

Fill up.

As you breathe out,

Allow your awareness to move down the front of your body,

Your collar bones,

Your chest,

Your ribs,

The softness of your belly,

Down to your hips.

Breathe in,

Expand.

Let the experience be what it is,

Without judgement.

Breathe out,

Surrender into your body.

Just drop,

Drop your awareness into the felt sensations of your body.

Bring your awareness to your head,

To your crown,

The top of your head.

Allow that awareness to spread out,

Noticing your forehead,

Your eyebrows,

The bridge of your nose,

Your nose,

Your nostrils,

Your cheeks,

Your cheekbones,

The space between your nose and your lips.

Notice how your lips feel,

Your chin,

And track your awareness from your chin all the way up to your ears,

Tracing along your jaw,

Perhaps wiggling your jaw as you release any tension that you notice.

Bringing your awareness all the way up to your ears,

To your temples,

Back to the top of your head,

And then down the back of your head,

Down your neck.

Breathe in,

Breathe out,

Feel your toes,

Feel the top of your head,

Feel your shins and your calves,

And your face,

And the back of your head.

Feel your knees and your thighs,

Your whole torso,

Your arms,

Meet your hips.

Breathe in,

Release out.

You are here in this moment.

Allow that to be your truth.

There's nowhere to be and nothing to do.

Just this moment.

Just be.

Breathing in.

Breathing out.

And next time you breathe out,

Allow your awareness to fall within you.

Come to rest within you on whatever experience it is.

As if you have just come to rest,

To sit beside the experience of this moment.

You are safe.

You are always safe.

Always loved,

No matter what the narrative may say.

You are perfect.

And in this moment,

Just allow yourself to sit with what is.

Just breathing softly like a summer breeze.

Allow the breeze to move through you.

As you allow whatever energy or emotion is present to flow through you.

Let there be no separation between the experience and the experiencer.

Just for a moment.

Breathe with and around and through whatever the experience is.

Soften into it as if you're melting and disintegrating,

Dissolving into whatever is.

As if your dissolving into it is your expression of love towards whatever this experience,

This moment,

This feeling is.

As if your awareness wraps its arms around what is and says,

I love you too.

And breathe.

And allow.

And just keep dissolving.

Dissolving the space between.

Any resistance to this moment.

Any resentment.

Any judgment.

Just keep coming back to the simplicity of this moment.

Of this feeling.

Let go of it having to be anything.

Apart from what it is.

And that doesn't mean it's a good or bad or right or wrong experience.

It means letting go of all of that judgment.

And just embracing,

Allowing the truth of this moment.

The truth of you.

To meet yourself fully.

And so it is.

And so you meet yourself fully.

And give for me what is the greatest act of self love.

To turn fully towards yourself.

And say yes,

This is me and I love you.

And I invite you to just come back to this place whenever you can.

Whenever you feel that you need to.

But especially when you feel agitated.

Or as if something is building.

Discombobulated.

Losing your clarity.

Feeling overwhelmed.

That there's too much to do and not enough of you.

In those moments come back.

Come back to you.

Find yourself,

Find the truth of you and then be with it.

Hold yourself lovingly and with compassion.

Allow that feeling to be a truth.

Not the whole story,

Just to acknowledge that there's a part of you that is needing your attention.

And that you have the resources within you to hold yourself.

To hold yourself whilst this part of you breathes out and is seen and heard.

And then the healing can take place.

You can ask this part of you.

What do you need right now?

What do you need to feel less agitated?

What do you need to feel less overwhelmed?

Or what do you need to feel to let go of this experience of overwhelm?

And sometimes just this part of you being seen and heard is enough to let go of the fear and the feeling.

To know that you're not going to run headlong into the next experience without taking a breath.

That perhaps you're going to allow yourself to say no,

I'm not coming.

Or no,

I can't do that right now.

Or no,

I need to take a moment for me.

And that in these moments where you honour what you need,

You start to develop the most amazing self-trust.

That you can look after you,

That you can create safety for yourself.

That you can love yourself enough to be bounded.

And so I ask this for you.

That you may receive all the guidance from those around you.

Unseen and seen.

To be able to come inwards.

To look after you.

To find peace within you.

To let go of the chaos and the crazy stories and the debilitating narratives.

Just for a moment.

And come inwards and pause.

Because you are worth it.

Now I invite you to start to breathe deeply.

Breathing air deeply into your belly.

Expanding yourself,

Starting to invite gentle movement back into your whole body with each breath.

Bringing your awareness back to whatever is supporting your body right now.

Feeling the weight of your body against the bed,

The chair,

Whatever you are resting against.

To wiggle your toes,

Your fingers.

To roll your shoulders.

Rotate your neck.

Breathe deeply in and out.

And know that even though you might not feel it all the time.

You've got this.

And take as many deep breaths as you need to bring yourself fully back into this moment now.

Sensing the world around you.

Reconnecting to the space around you,

The sounds around you.

Taking a moment to consider what it is you need to do next.

And opening your eyes back into now.