A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Acknowledge, Accept, & Release: Difficult Emotions - Guided Body Scan Meditation

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

Difficult emotions are a natural part of life, and we all experience them. However, holding onto these emotions can sometimes become detrimental, as we often begin to identify with the emotion, or, we let it sit within our bodies, without being resolved, leading to tension, discomfort, and more problems in the future. This guided body scan meditation will lead you through acknowledging the emotion,  accepting the emotion, and releasing the emotion. Negative emotions can manifest themselves within your physical body too, and during this body scan, you will go through each part of your body, releasing any tension or discomfort that this emotion has caused, leaving you feeling lighter, and at ease.  🌼A Zen Mind Instagram ⭐ Join My Email List✨www.azenmindpodcast.com💖Get more meditations from A Zen Mind ☁️ Shop my favorite Meditation Cushions & Supplies 🙏Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to A Zen Mind, part of the Airwave Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joe, and I'm so grateful that you're here. If you enjoy this meditation, please consider rating the show on your listening platform, as it truly helps the show reach even more people. You can follow me on Instagram at a.zend.mind, and for ad-free episodes, check out my Patreon. All links can be found in the description. Now, a quick message from the sponsors of today's episode. And as always, once the meditation begins, there will be no advertisements and no disruptions.

Thank you so much for being here. Hello and welcome to this guided meditation. The purpose of this meditation is to help you identify, process, and release any negative emotions. that you may be feeling. Perhaps as a result of a specific event that occurred. Or maybe you just feel some negative emotions which are blocking you from reaching your highest potential. Never it may be, use this time to connect your mind with your body to release. anything that does not serve you for your greatest good. Make sure a comfortable position to start

to your chest and place the other on your belly. And begin with a few nice deep breaths. Inhaling to the count of four. Holding to the count of two and exhaling. to the count of six. Imagine as if you are in a beautiful golden light into your body. Expand as you invite this golden light inside. On your exit, imagine releasing any stay of tension. Let's take a few more. Take a few moments. Allow yourself to feel the emotions that have brought you here. today. Just sit with them for a few moments. Acknowledging emotion. Label the emotion or emotion that you are feeling by saying quietly out loud if possible. This emotion that I am feeling the emotion itself. for example saying this emotion I am feeling is anger whether it is one emotion that is overpowering

or if it is a few different emotions label them all by doing this you are separating and removing the emotion from yourself. You are not, you are feeling, you are not feeling sad, not disappointed, you are feeling disappointed, emotions as your mind. So with this in mind, try to sit with the source of what caused this emotion, whatever situation or event. that led you to feel this way. As you do this, imagine that you are reading a description of this event from a piece of paper that somebody else has written. Try to compartmentalize the parts of the story without attaching any emotion to it. Emotion, it is only words. It has no life to it. Ask yourself if you wish to carry the weight of this with you, the weight of all of the emotions that could be associated with this situation.

If you are ready to try and compartmentalize it, simply as events that have occurred, without giving life to the emotions, seeing the story. the storyline objectively. Take a few moments to release the heaviness of the emotions that have attached themselves to this story. To begin a body scan, where you can identify where this emotion has been activated in your body. As you move throughout this scan, feels 10 or out of the order, Just make note of where in your body that has developed and say to yourself this emotion my body. So beginning with the top of your head, ask yourself if you feel this emotion in your head, a headache or tension, tension to your tongue to our very common places, to your hold tension moving through your cheeks into your chest region all the way through your body to

your upper back as well noticing if this emotion has manifested itself through to your glutes the way back through your hamstrings we examining any feeling in this area lost your knee into your ankle take a few moments to relax. Emotion my body. My body, emotion. Take another deep breath in, recalling that golden light from earlier. As you breathe in, this light is able to flow effortlessly through your entire body without any blockages prohibiting it from filling. Every body. own every muscle, every cell within you. Breathing in this vibrant golden glow, you begin to feel lighter as you have removed the

heaviness that this emotion stay here for a few moments this radiance to your surroundings. you feel as though any negative or heavy emotions try to re-enter into your mind and body to this meditation where you can address them release them thank yourself for giving yourself this time that you are able to move forward with a clear mind A light heart A better perspective wishing you

Namaste