Ep.7 Meditation Visualization and counting your breath.

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Hello, and

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welcome to the verandas experience. I'm your host

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Aurora. And this is a second meditation I will be posting for

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you. How did the first meditation go? Was it hard? Was

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it frustrating? Was it actually really easy and way better than

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you expected? Did you get into that deep, calming soothing

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energy of yours. In this episode, today, I will be a

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little more minimalistic. What I mean by that is, I will be

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quiet, I will make space, you can imagine it as a gap between

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thoughts, gap between reaction reactions or situations that we

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face in daily life. Because tomorrow or the day after, or

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even today, I want you to think about that meditation that you

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sat through. And just feel that energy one more time that comes

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to the energy. And then maybe next time something triggers you

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really gets you upset. Before you react, you think about what

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you felt in your little meditation here. And this works

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wonders, it was a game changer for me. And this is why I want

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to share this with you. Maybe give you a little shortcut took

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me quite some time to apply it. For you to have a happier more

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content life. Okay, as last time, you might be hearing the

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fire in the background. By the way, I have a fire and my bag

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that is warming me. I'm in the Rocky Mountains here in Canada

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and it's a deep winter it's very cold outside, and I'm in the

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warmth inside. So I will be sitting you decide for yourself

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what is best for you today, you can lay down, open up your palms

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to the ceiling. Your arms a little bit further apart like

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not right alongside your body but a little further apart. Or

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you can sit and when you decide to sit, I want you to go into

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easy seats or where your feet are kind of crossed in front of

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you. Without your knees hurting Of course, you can also sit on a

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pillow that would elevate you a little bit and help you to avoid

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knee pain. And then again feel into your sit bones, your

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pelvis. Imagine your pelvis being immiscible and then you

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slightly tip it down to the ground. So you make an arch with

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your lower back and your belly kind of rounds out kind of

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access to the front of the room. When you sitting here I want you

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to decide if you want to have your palms facing up to the

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ceiling for more of a receiving intention. Or you let your hands

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rest on your thighs for a more grounding sensation.

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Okay, so after you have the right position of your pelvis,

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maybe you can shrug your shoulders up to the years and

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back and then let them relax. Before we tune into our breath,

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I want you to focus on the muscles around your ears and

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your eyes and your forehead. your jaw a lot of the time we

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run around with clenched teeth. So now you adjusted your pelvis.

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You had your shoulders up and back. Your muscles along your

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spine are deeply relaxed. And now just to stretch out your

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neck. I want you to tuck your chin very slightly, not much and

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it's just To extend your neck. And what I didn't mention in my

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first episode of meditations, is, it is totally up to you. If

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you keep your eyes open or closed. For some people, the

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more senses we shut off. So be it sound. Vision. Of course,

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taste not so much. Touch, not so much. But if you want to close

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your eyes, if that's comfortable for you, then please go ahead.

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Once again, check in that your muscles around the eyes are nice

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and relaxed. Like a real resting bitchface. Yeah.

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And then tune in to your breath. Maybe imagine a white light

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going up your spine every time you breathe in fresh air.

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And a blue light going down the spine when you exhale. Time,

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inhale, exhale, blue light. We all have very different rhythms

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of breathing. So might be very irritating for you, if I tell

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you to breathe in six, exhale, six. But I want us to try this

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today. So you will be breathing in, I will be counting and you

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will be exhaling and I will be counting. So inhale 123456 hold

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a little. And then exhale 654321. That was one example.

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That is one two I want to give you when you sit there you have

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the comfortable position. You let your thoughts float. Then

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you can play these breathing games. And it's very, very

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fascinating how if you really challenge yourself, and let's

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say count until 10, inhale. And then 10 exhale, how when your

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body gets into that challenging mode, trying to struggling to

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get to that 10 Your mind will kick in right away like oh my

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God, why do we do this? Can we stop this? Can we do something

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else? Why am I actually doing this. And meditation is when you

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actually push through. You focus on that number you want to reach

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and you will reach. So we go back to our breath now. Now you

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have two tools, you can visualize a color going up and

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down your spine.

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Or you can count and whatever comes up in your mind, you just

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push aside and you focus on those colors on those numbers.

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Very good. And now parallel to that I want you to notice how

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relaxed do you feel? Do you feel irritated by these tools I gave

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you? Or does it actually feel really good to just have your

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body

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and your soul and your mind focused on one thing Period now

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if you want to feel this space around you, they feel

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comfortable for you. If you were sitting, I want you to lay down

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onto your back.

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Make yourself comfortable but one hand onto your chest, one on

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your belly and deeply. thank yourself for the piece.

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undivided attention you gave yourself today. And I don't know

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how the rest of your day looks like you might have to rush to

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work or go for groceries or make an uncomfortable phone call.

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Doesn't really matter.

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Please remember that deep peace you feel right now with yourself

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and take it out into the world.

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Namaste de Thank you so, so much for listening to my second

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meditation here on the Borealis experience. I'm your host

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Aurora, and I hope I was able to bring you some peace and

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connection to yourself today. I'm sending my love your way.

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Thank you for spending time with me today. And if you'd like that

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episode, please send me a message on Facebook, Aurora

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Eggert or share and like this episode. Thank you so much. Bye