Latest / Meditations for Inner Peace / I Activate My Parasympathetic State and Rest: Deep Calm Nervous System Meditation
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- 0:04SPEAKER_01: If there's a low hum of tension somewhere in you right now, that's okay.
- 0:12SPEAKER_01: That's why you're here.
- 0:17SPEAKER_01: The nervous system doesn't need to be told it's tense.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: It already knows.
- 0:25SPEAKER_01: What it needs is a signal, a slow, deliberate sign that the threat has passed.
- 0:35SPEAKER_01: That's what we're going to give it now.
- 0:43SPEAKER_01: Find a comfortable position.
- 0:46SPEAKER_01: Let your weight fully settle.
- 0:52SPEAKER_01: Take a breath in and let it out like a sigh, like something releasing.
- 1:05SPEAKER_01: Once more, breathe in and let it go.
- 1:14SPEAKER_01: A long, slow out breath.
- 1:21SPEAKER_01: Just breathe, nothing else.
- 2:04SPEAKER_01: Your shoulders let them drop, not a little all the way, as if someone just lifted something heavy off them.
- 2:26SPEAKER_01: Your jaw, let it go.
- 2:30SPEAKER_01: Let your teeth part.
- 2:32SPEAKER_01: Your tongue rest soft in your mouth.
- 2:45SPEAKER_01: Your hands unclench.
- 2:49SPEAKER_01: Let your fingers open and rest.
- 3:02SPEAKER_01: What you're entering now is the parasympathetic state, the rest and digest system, the opposite of fight or flight.
- 3:17SPEAKER_01: You don't have to do anything to get there.
- 3:21SPEAKER_01: It's already there.
- 3:23SPEAKER_01: It's always been there.
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: We're just clearing the path back to it.
- 3:32SPEAKER_01: Notice the weight of your body heavy against whatever holds you.
- 3:43SPEAKER_01: Notice the warmth in your hands, your legs, your belly.
- 3:53SPEAKER_01: This is what safety feels like in the body.
- 3:58SPEAKER_01: Not a thought, a sensation.
- 4:05SPEAKER_01: Your heartbeat slowing, your breath deepening without trying, your body receiving the message.
- 4:17SPEAKER_01: There is nothing to run from.
- 4:21SPEAKER_01: There is nothing to fight.
- 4:23SPEAKER_01: You are here.
- 4:25SPEAKER_01: You are safe.
- 5:06SPEAKER_01: Everything that has been held up, held in, held together, just rest for a moment.
- 5:19SPEAKER_01: You don't have to hold yourself up right now.
- 5:23SPEAKER_01: The ground is doing that for you.
- 9:19SPEAKER_01: Take a breath in before you move.
- 9:26SPEAKER_01: You can return to the state your body knows the way now.
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