Guided Meditation #5 – Filling Your Tank

Listen, Then Practice

Guided Practice: Receive Support Through the Whole Body

Set aside a few minutes where you can focus inwardly. Feel your feet and the support under your body. Close your eyes only if that feels safe. Take a comfortable breath and recognize the effort you have made toward a better relationship within yourself.

Send appreciation toward your heart and Primitive Brain. They have been learning new patterns, building resiliency, and accompanying you through an unfamiliar process.

For these moments, put aside the next task. Notice the inside and outside of the feet and how they carry you. Imagine warmth or love moving from the heart through the feet, toes, and ankles. Continue through the calves and knees, thighs, hips, and pelvis. Let appearance and judgment rest. Appreciate what these parts do.

If your own supply of love feels limited, imagine receiving warmth and support from the wider universe with each inhale. Let stress and worry flow outward with the exhale. You may imagine the natural world transforming what you no longer need.

Let the lower body fill with that support. Bring warmth into the belly and the organs that care for you without conscious direction. If the body hurts or does not look the way you want, experiment with appreciation rather than yelling at it.

Fill the lungs and chest, then let warmth enter the heart and radiate down the arms through shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, and fingertips. Imagine only the stress that carries no needed information moving outward.

Bring support through the throat and appreciate the voice. At the base of the brain, offer extra warmth to the Primitive Brain. It has worked hard, and habits take time. Let it receive as much nurturance as it wants.

Allow the rest of the brain, eyes, mouth, skin, and hair to join. Sense the whole being collaborating in a different way of living.

If it feels natural, imagine the warmth becoming a gentle glow that extends beyond the body without depletion. Receiving continues with every breath. You do not have to be finished to appreciate the path you are on.

Let that support settle into the heart and the next part of your journey. Feel the feet again, breathe, and return when ready.