A 12-Minute Physique Scan Meditation for Self-Compassion and Presence

This week, leads us by way of a physique scan meditation designed that will help you expertise larger self-compassion, self-acceptance, and presence.

Image your self settling right into a gentle, welcoming area the place you may let go and simply be. As you discover a snug place and shut your eyes, I’ll information you to softly shift your focus inward, inviting you to embark on a journey of self-discovery and kindness.

Consider your breath as a mild breeze, soothing and calming, serving to to launch the tightness and stress you carry. As I lead you thru this observe, you’ll transfer your consideration slowly out of your toes to the highest of your head, very like a heat gentle steadily illuminating each a part of you. You’ll be inspired to easily discover what you are feeling, with out judgment, accepting your self as you’re on this second.

This meditation is an opportunity to reconnect with your self, to nurture a way of presence and compassion. It’s like giving your self a present of time and care, making a sanctuary of peace inside. As you immerse your self on this observe, permit it to foster a deeper connection together with your physique and thoughts.

A Guided Meditation for Self-Compassion and Presence

1. To start, settle the physique into as snug a place as potential for this meditation. Sitting or mendacity down is ok.  
2. While you’re prepared, permit your eyes to shut if that feels okay for you, or simply soften your gaze for those who favor. 
3. Start to attract the main target of your consideration into the physique. Take a second to really feel the breath transferring within the physique. Take three deep, gradual, full breaths as a manner of settling somewhat bit extra absolutely into the observe of inhaling, actually filling the lungs with air on the inhale. 
4. As you breathe out, see for those who can permit the physique to let go of any rigidity or tightness. Take two extra breaths in the identical manner. And with every exhale, proceed that softening—enjoyable the jaw, scalp, shoulders, stomach, and arms. On the finish of the following exhale, let go of any management of the respiratory, letting the physique breathe naturally now.  
5. Now, collect consideration and transfer all of it the best way down the physique into the ft. Discover any and all sensations within the ft when consideration arrives right here—within the toes, the soles of the ft, the heels, the highest of the ft. Relaxation consideration right here within the ft for a couple of moments, taking all of it in. And for those who discover any ache or emotional discomfort, simply deliver a form and loving consideration to that a part of the physique.
6. If there are not any sensations, it’s not an issue. Merely discover that blankness. Or in the event that they’re very refined, then merely discover that. We’re not attempting to make sensations occur, however relatively are permitting our expertise to be as it’s. 
7. Now, shift consideration to the ankles and the decrease legs. Dwell right here for a couple of moments, feeling into the calf muscle, shin, the edges of the legs, after which transfer consideration into the knees. Discover any sensations right here with a kindly curiosity. If there’s any sense of rigidity, it may be potential to melt by bringing a soothing consideration into any sense of tightness or discomfort. 
8. Now, shift the eye into the thighs. What do you discover right here? Perhaps sensations of contact with garments, sensations of heaviness or lightness, pulsing or strain. These sensations could also be altering, or maybe some staying the identical. 
9. If you happen to ever really feel overwhelmed by feeling any explicit space of the physique, you may at all times bypass that a part of the physique. You possibly can return to it if you’re prepared, or just really feel the breath for some time. 
10. Subsequent, deliver your focus into the hips, pelvis, and decrease again. Proper hip, left hip, again of the hips in opposition to the floor beneath. Maintain bringing a mild and sort consideration, noticing any ache or any emotion if that’s current. 
11. Discover the center of the again, the higher again, and the shoulder blades, holding the entire again in consciousness.  
12. If troublesome emotions come up, or a powerful dislike of any explicit a part of the physique, you may strive mentally repeating some phrases to your self. For instance, “Might I like and settle for my physique simply as it’s. Might I deliver kindness and compassion to this physique. Might I be peaceable.”
13. Now, shift consciousness to the entrance of the physique and into the stomach. Maybe you’re feeling the light rhythm of the respiratory, transferring consideration up into the chest and the entire entrance of the physique. Maybe you may really feel the beating of the center, the respiratory of the lungs as they preserve supporting you, second by second. 
14. While you’re prepared, transfer consideration to the shoulders, arms and arms, and up into the neck and head, holding all of them in an appreciative consciousness. 
15. Now, think about your consciousness flowing down from the pinnacle and filling the entire physique, your entire physique flooded with the sunshine of your consciousness. Provide a way of compassion on your whole physique with all its scars, imperfections, discomforts, or diseases. See for those who can admire this physique, loving it as it’s proper now, resting right here in an accepting and compassionate consciousness. See what it would really feel wish to befriend the physique, resting inside it, and resting at residence on this second. 
16. As this observe attracts to an in depth, take a deep, gradual breath in. As you breathe out, start to wriggle the fingers and toes. Discover how your thoughts and physique really feel after taking this trip for meditation. While you’re prepared, open your eyes. Maybe now make an intention to hold this perspective of self-compassion and self-acceptance with you into your subsequent actions. 

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