Relaxation
A meditation for relaxation (especially if someone is anxious or panicked)
- Listen to the sound of my voice, focus on the details
- Is it breathy?
- Nasal?
- Deep?
- Find your focus: breath
- Intentionally take a deep breath: in (count to 5) and out (count to 5)
- Repeat 6+ times
- Begin to notice the details of your breath
- The phases
- Inhaling
- Hold
- Exhaling
- Hold
- Feel it in your stomach, chest, shoulders, back, nostrils, throat
- Let your breathing slow
- Long inhales and exhales
- Imagine your emotional state as an ocean
- The wave and turbulence move in response to your breaths
- As you breath deeper and slower, the ocean's surface becomes calmer and flatter
- Imagine yourself floating upon the waves, weightless and effortless
- Let yourself dissolve into the gentle oscillations of the surface
- All that matters is this coming and going of sensation
- Know that you can always find this place, your anchor, from wherever you are
- Just take a moment to look for the waves and they will be there
- Sometimes the ocean is choppy, sometimes it even storms
- But it will return to its natural, resting state with time
- Search for the underlying tranquility and it will always be there, even if it is obscured
- Let this be your anchor in life
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