Your Body Scan: Use This Ritual When You Need Uplifting Calm and Well
Have you ever experienced the luxury of a body scan? Have you ever heard of a body scan?
This little-known technique releases tension effectively. Use it often. Your muscles, bones, and nerves will thank you!
A body scan helps you release not only tension, but also pain, tightness, or warm areas.
Begin your body scan by finding a quiet place where you can sit or lie in a comfortable position. As you get comfortable, encourage your breath to become deeper and slower. Lengthen your inhales and exhales.
Focus on your toes. What do you feel? If you feel tension, allow your toes and feet to relax. Encourage tension to leave your body with every exhale. See the tension disappear into the air.
Now, repeat this process as you work your way up through the rest of your body. Pay attention to your feet, calves, knees, thighs, hip and pelvic area, back, shoulders, upper arms, elbows, lower arms, hands, neck, jaw, face, eyes, and scalp.
Notice what you find: Stress, tension, stiffness, cold areas, tight muscles.
When you reach your scalp, reverse the process and move your attention back down your body. When you finish, you will be back with your toes.
Now, notice how your feet feel. What about the rest of your body?
Stay with this feeling for a few minutes. Enjoy the relaxation and calm for as long as you want before ending the session. Take as much time as you wish.
When it is time to end the scan, move your body just a little. Shift into the here and now. Let the calm soothe your body – from the toes to the top of your head.
Take a slow, breath and join the here and now at your own pace.
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Concerns, Challenges, and Stress? Change Them With One Challenge Management Technique
We can’t eliminate all of our daily challenges, concerns, and stress. But, we can manage our reactions to them.
Challenge management will make your life easier. You’ll change the way you feel, and the way you act, as you respond to your concerns and stress.
Worries distract and steal your energy.
Through the years, I’ve learned that challenge management can improve your daily life. This encourages you to focus and move toward your goals.
So – what you do is this:
Set aside and schedule time specifically for thinking about your challenges. Name each challenge and examine your emotions surrounding it. Examine how your life would be if things worked out for the best.
Then, get a piece of paper and quickly write about what’s on your mind. Focus on the concerns, challenges, and stresses that are foremost on your mind this very minute. What are your daily distractions?
Don’t worry about the grammar or spelling. You aren’t writing this for someone else. You’re not going to show these words to anyone. Your private thoughts will help you identify and describe your situation.
What is going on in your mind?
Describe your concerns and worries.
To find a possible positive outcome, ask yourself “Where is the peace in all of this?” Focus on an ideal situation. Identify where and how things might improve for you.
Where is the hope?
When you schedule writing sessions where you focus on a positive outcome, you decide where to focus your time and energies.
As this writing exercise shifts your energy to a more positive outcome, you let go of the negativity.
Calm moves into the space that negativity just vacated.
Your mind becomes a powerful tool to create your own life, focusing on you. You can now create your reality from peace and positivity as fears and worries disappear.
Making a habit of this exercise will bring hope and positivity and good change your way.
Making time to listen allows you to embrace your inner wisdom.
As you process your worries, you can support the good things you need.
You may decide what is the best thing you can do for yourself. You may decide it is a good thing to stop hanging onto things that are of no help to you.
At some point, you may feel gratitude.
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A Sacred Second Chakra Meditation: Inner Peace, Security, and Self-Acceptance
This meditation is ideal for relaxation because it supports inner peace, security, and self-acceptance.
Relax and get comfortable in a calm location where you will not be disturbed for a few moments.
Take several slow, deep breaths.
With each inhale, imagine your breath energizing the area two inches below your navel. Gently massage this point with two fingers.
With each exhale, imagine a small orange ball carrying fears, stress, and pain away.
Now, inhale deeply twice. Breathe into a point about two inches below your navel. Release this breath through your mouth.
Imagine you are lying on a beautiful, quiet boat which is just big enough for you. There is no room for anyone or anything but yourself.
While you are lying on this boat in the middle of a beautiful pond, things are still and peaceful. The pond has many flowers along the beach. As you focus on them, you see they are various shades of orange, and coral.
Let your body become heavy and relaxed as you get more comfortable on this tiny boat.
You feel the space, the peace, stillness. Breathe into the stillness and the abundance of the flowers and the water in the pond.
The overhead sky has a warm, glowing light allowing you to feel beauty, peace, energy.
A gentle breeze moves your small boat along the edge of the pond into a gently flowing stream.. As you look above, you see billowing clouds with a faint orange and gold tint. They move lazily overhead.
The flowers and clouds protect you so you feel safe.
You feel warm and at peace.
Breathe into the peace and gentle energy of just being yourself. Drifting down the stream, you relax even more and appreciate the energy, the peace, the flowers and the clouds.
You realize you don’t have to do anything, just breathe and enjoy yourself. As your boat gently drifts along, you feel warm. This warmth is healing. You feel quiet, peaceful. You breathe in peace, health, relaxation.
As you breathe out, exhale anything you want to release.
It’s time to return to your body and become conscious of yourself. Gently you move your fingers and toes to become more aware of returning to your location.
When you open your eyes, you remember the peace and energy you felt in the orange flowers and the orange-tinged clouds.
You know you can return to this place any time you want.
When you are ready, continue on with your activities.
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