Meditation for ANXIETY & RELAXATION

Welcome to this moment of relaxation, recalibration, tuning into your own inner voice. My name is Brendan Durrell. We're going to go on a little journey. Please find somewhere comfortable to sit if you can. Limit as many distractions as possible. Uninterrupted time. As you're settling into your space. Let's get comfortable. Feel your body wherever you're sitting. Feel your weight just dropping down, relaxing your shoulders, letting them drop, relaxing your chest, going down to your belly. Relax your belly by taking gentle inhales through the nose and exhale out the mouth. Repeat in through the nose. Mouth. As you're taking your inhales in, I want you to expand your belly outwards. Inhale in. Big belly. Exhale out, belly button in. Keep breathing. I want you to think there's a balloon in your belly. When you take a inhale in through your nose, that balloon in your belly is really filling up away from your body. And when you exhale, that balloon is deflating, coming back in again. Inhale through the nose, exhale, Drop your shoulders a little bit more, unclench your jaw. Can even let your jaw just relax and hang a little bit. Want you to melt into your body. Starting from the crown, top of your head, doing a light body scan. Choose a color, bright light, you're going to start letting it drip down your scalp, down your face. Beautiful, warm, light, stripping down your whole body. Feel yourself melting, going down past your face, past your neck, your heart space, down through your chest, past your belly, all the way down the base of your spine, down your legs, all the way to your feet. Breathing into this glow, it's around your body. I want you to focus your attention the middle of your heart, in the middle of your body. Normally, when we think about our heart, we think about a little bit over to the left. I want you to directly center your attention on the middle of your body. This is where your spiritual heart is, your esoteric heart. I want you to breathe into that spot, deeply into the nose, exhaling out. Breathe a little deeper into your heart, exhaling out. Now breathing through the back of your heart. And one more time, finding your rhythm of breath. Most important thing is that you just keep breathing. No forcing, no strong posturing. Each and every breath. Can you become softer? Softer? Think like a tree branch blowing in the wind. Grounded, it's rooted and also very flexible. If trees tried to stay stiff, hard, rigid all the time, they would snap when the wind blew. You can allow yourself to sway a little bit in the softening process. And now inviting you to expand Your breath wider, wider breaths. What I mean by that is when you inhale in through your nose, think about you have wings on your back. And as you breathe, breathe wide. Your wings are filling up. You're sending air to your wings and they're opening. Open wings means open heart, open chest. Open wings also means safety in the back of your body, exposing the vulnerability of your heart. Take a deep breath into your wings. Wide exhale again, one more time. Your heart is safe, sending intentional breaths into these areas of your body. It's medicinal, how we say, focusing in it and your intention on what you do with your mind heals, manifests. We're manifesting healing, softness, safety with these breaths into our heart and into our wings. Now we're going to expand our breath about 50%. I want you to go as wide as you can with your breath. Three, two, one. Go a little bit more again. Really get in there with that breath. One more time. Now we're going to come down to our belly buttons. This may cause for you to have a powerful experience breathing into your belly button. As we know, our belly button is evidence that we were once attached to our mother. You receive nourishment, nutrition, care through the umbilical cord. It's evidence there's a spot about an inch or two below your belly button. And this spot is considered sacred in many traditions. This is our gateway. I like to call this spot. It's the ethereal umbilical cord, the cosmic umbilical cord. Because when we breathe into this spot, we're nourishing the fabric of our spirit, of our soul. It's our connection to Great Mother, to the earth, and to everything. Every time we take a deep breath, wherever we are, we're connecting to that one thing, because everybody is also taking breaths of air. So we're going to have a few moments and breathing into this spot, it's very powerful. The invitation as well is if you would like to hold this spot, you can put your left hand over your belly button, your right hand over your left hand, so you can feel when your belly inflates and when your belly deflates. And you can't do this wrong, just think about connecting to everything with every breath. Breathing's a prayer. And in 3, 2, 1. Inhale through the nose. Big belly. Exhaling, pushing in a little bit. Repeat. Keep going. You're doing amazingly. Keep going. Breathing through your ethereal umbilical cord. Feeling a floating sensation. Couple more, you deserve these breaths. We're gonna do three more. I want you to focus on quality. Everything You've gotten this. Inhale, 3, 2, 1. Again. Exaggerate this last breath, everything you got. Inhale through the nose, exhale out. We're gonna do one more, and I want you to hold it at the top, okay? Three, two, one. Hold it. I got you. Let's hold it. You're safe. You have enough oxygen. Think about your connection through your umbilical cord with the Great Mother, the Earth, life. Breathe in a little more. As much as you can. Go a little more. Hold it. 4, 3, 2, 1. Gently. Exhale. Sink into your body a little bit more. Now that we're here, we've arrived. Connected, relaxed. Want you to think about one thing. Not two things, one thing that you're calling into your life that you desire. Could be anything. Zero judgments. We're not thinking about how we're gonna get it. Not thinking about logistics, just thinking about it. And at the very least, doesn't have to be a thing. It can also be an emotion. Could be a feeling, could be joy, gratitude, peace, laughter. Whatever it is you want more of in your life, we're gonna breathe into that. We're connected through our ethereal umbilical cord to Great Mother and our breath is our prayer. Fortify your thought and that thing that you desire. Take a deep breath through your nose. Thinking about it, exhaling out. Stay focused on that thought. Wrapping golden light around that desire. I have to do anything but think about it and breathe. Merge with it. Feel it. Allow it to wrap you up like a blanket. Doing amazingly. Keep going. How long can you keep picturing this desire? Stay with it. If your mind wanders, bring it back with a deep inhale. Your desires deserve to have these deep breaths as well. It's yours. One more deep breath with that desire. Exhaling out. Beautiful. Be with that desire. Breath is a prayer. Breath is affirmation. Chores. Now I want you to picture yourself. You, your body, your face, your arms, chest, your legs. See yourself on a stage, platform, pedestal, anything. I want you to see yourself. You're almost looking up. You're seeing yourself in golden light, slowly rotating on this platform. And you're just admiring yourself in this illuminated state. Just witness yourself cloaked in warm golden light as you're seeing yourself slowly rotate around this platform. Inhale deeply. This version of yourself is illuminated. Confident, secure, safe, at peace. Just witness yourself in that glory, always golden light around you. This is just reminding you there's never a moment the Great Spirit, source, Creator ceases to illuminate you in golden light. See yourself illuminated. Feel it. The warmth are you proud of yourself? Are you attracted to yourself? Should be. Look how gorgeous you are. Taking another deep breath. How you're seeing that perfect, confident version of you floating down, coming towards you face to face. And both of you embrace each other with a hug. And in this hug, that golden light illuminates even more. You become one. Merging with yourself in that light. It's you. It's not separate from you. You are that warmth, that glow. It's in you. Take another deep breath. Exhaling out. Now we're going to come back up to our heart space. Invitation is to put your hand on your heart. Just breathe into your core. Breathing in acknowledgment, Breathing in love, safety. Feeling the abundance that lives inside of you. You're already there. Royalty is the fabric of your nature. Breathe into your heart and mean it. Now in these last few moments, I want you to open up your chest a little bit more. Inviting. A gentle smirk smile on your face. If it helps you, you can think about something that makes you giggle. Could be from your animal friends, family, something you read. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter how you get there. I want you to bring a little smirk smile on your face. Because life gets to be this simple as this smirk, as this giggle. This is also a part of you. Don't forget to laugh. That's you. Nature is always laughing. You are nature. I am nature. Take three more deep breaths. Put the smile on your face. Breathe through your smile. In three, two, one. Exhaling out again. Moving that laughter through your body. With this last breath. Exhaling out. Deserve it all. Now slowly coming back into your body. Gently wiggling your toes. Wiggling your fingers. Rolling your shoulders forward and backward. Neck left and right. Isn't it amazing? You can think about rolling your neck and you can roll your neck. It's a miracle. So much abundance in this body. So much abundance in the body. Don't forget that as you're slowly coming back. Remember as you go about your day night. You are the abundance. You're always connected to the ethereal umbilical cord. To Great Mother, Great Spirit. Abundance is your birthright. Just be here in this moment. Allow this moment to lead you to the next moment. And then the next. And then the next. Don't let the weight of tomorrow burden you right now. You'll figure it out. Sa.