Grounding Meditation

This is a guided meditation to help you come back to the present moment and clear anything that is not serving you. Find a safe environment, sit or lie down, and focus on your breath. Relax your body and imagine all the muscles in your body relaxing. Bring your focus to your heart and exhale anything that is not serving you. Breathe through any areas of tension in your body, sending love and compassion to those areas. Connect with your intention for this present moment, breathing in what you desire and exhaling anything that may be holding you back. Notice the support of the surface you are on and become aware of the sounds around you. Gently open your eyes, wiggle your fingers and toes, and come back to the present moment. Take this energy with you throughout your day. Hello and welcome to this guided and clearing meditation. I'm so happy that you're here and I can't wait to take you on a journey of coming back to the present moment, the here and the now and clearing whatever it is that is not serving you to your highest and greatest good. I'm going to have you begin by finding yourself in an environment that you feel safe in and then deciding if you feel called to lay down or sit up nice and tall, listening to whatever it is that your body needs in this moment, getting comfortable, followed by gently shutting your eyes, relaxing your body and then beginning by taking a deep breath in, filling up your entire stomach area and ribcage, your abdomen and just letting go with an exhale. Breathing in, filling up your entire stomach and then just letting go and just staying connected to the breath, the here and the now and if your mind wanders, just know that's okay. It's not about shutting the mind out but instead being the observer and just coming back to your breath. The breath will always lead you back to the present moment and just staying connected to the inhale through your nose and exhaling out through the mouth and as you exhale, I invite you to imagine all the muscles in your body relaxing upon every exhale, your jaw, your tongue, your shoulders, any other area you may be holding on to tension. Every exhale, just giving your body permission to let go and drop deeper and deeper into the breath and I invite you now to bring your focus into your heart area, your heart space, taking a deep breath in, holding at the top as you focus in on your heart and with an auditory exhale, just sighing out anything that's not serving you or preventing you from connecting to your heart space, breathing in and just sighing out and just coming back to the regular breath pattern in through your nose, out through your mouth, in through your nose and out through your mouth and taking another deep breath in and holding at the top and this time as you exhale with a sigh, just dropping your shoulders and allowing anything that's not serving you to be released with the exhale. Not holding back but letting go and then just coming back to connecting to your breath and your heart space. Maybe imagining breathing in from the front of your heart and out to the back of it, breathing in from the front of it, exhaling out to the back and then just doing a brief body scan, scanning your body from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes, soles of your feet and just seeing if there's any stagnancy, blockages, unwanted energy in the body that you've been holding on to. Maybe it's stress, frustration, anger, sadness, all emotions are welcome and just pinpointing that location, getting to know that area, always reminding ourselves that when we have body sensations, oftentimes it's our body trying to talk to us and I invite you to befriend that area, get to know it, what shape is it if it has a shape, what color, the size of it, what story if it has a story, is it carrying and just being with that, feeling it, befriending it but also staying connected to the breath and I invite you to just work on breathing through that area, that space in the body, whether it's your chest, your stomach, your shoulders, your jaw, anywhere you feel called. Breathing through that area, just coming back to the focus of your heart and I invite you now to send love from your heart and compassion to that area. What would that look like? There's no right or wrong but just sending that area love, compassion, acceptance, whatever that area needs to self-soothe in this moment. Maybe it's imagining a bright light from your heart going to that area, just sending waves of love to that place and staying connected to your breath. Breathing in love, acceptance, patience, exhaling out anything that is not serving you, breathing that out from your body and again breathing in love, courage, strength, resilience and letting go of anything not serving you and just staying connected and I invite you now to connect with your intention that you have for this present moment, whether it's a message, a mantra, a word, breathing in that intention that you desire, allowing yourself to feel it with every cell in your body. Breathing in that intention and breathing out anything that you feel may be preventing you from obtaining it. Again, breathing in that intention and exhaling out anything that may be holding you back from reaching it and I invite you now to bring your focus on the surface that you're laying or sitting on, just noticing and feeling supported by the surface, feeling held, witnessing the texture and then witnessing whatever else you can feel in this present moment. Maybe it's your clothes, on your skin, maybe it's your hair and then bringing your focus to what you can hear in this moment other than just my voice. What else do you hear? Maybe it's your breath, the background music and just witnessing and then gently you can begin wiggling your toes and fingers, bringing back mobility into the body. Gently opening your eyes and as you open your eyes, I invite you to have the palms of your hands facing just in front of you and just looking at your fingers, your fingerprints, maybe wiggling your fingers around and just being in this present moment, coming back to the space that you're in, looking from left to right and just witnessing what are four things you can see in this moment and just witnessing the energy that you can feel within your body and inviting that with you for the remainder of your day, knowing that you can come back to this meditation at any time and every time we do practices like these, we come home to ourselves, to come back to our truth. Wishing you a blessed rest of your day. Namaste.