163 Relaxation Now! 2nd Stress Relief Meditation With No Intro

This second meditation for rapid stress relief and deep relaxation also helped my mother dramatically. It can be helpful for all kinds of stress and tension. Sometimes life can be so intense. We just need to rest our nervous system and "Get out of the pounding surf". Awakening is a process, and today resting is what you may need. Listening to yourself when it is time to rest is being "Aware". This guided meditation has no intro and goes directly into relaxation, so please be resting comfortably in a safe place and not driving or active in any way. This is simply about letting go and resting now. Enjoy!

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) So let's start by relaxing our muscles. Let's squeeze out that tension. Squeeze all of the muscles all the way from the top of your head down through the tips of your toes. Squeeze all of your muscles so tight, tight, tight. Just squeeze them really tight and then release. Relax and let go and feel how good it feels to let your peaceful nature flow into your muscles. Feel that relaxation and soak it up. It feels so good. Just soak it up, whether you soak up a drop or a lot of that relaxation of that peace. Let's do it again. Tense all of your muscles tight, tight, tight, tight, tight and release and just soak up that peace. Relax and feel that relaxation all through your muscles. One more time, tight, tight, tight and release and relax and just soak up all of that peace and well-being. And as you continue to relax, close your eyes, take a comfortable breath, exhale and begin to let all the muscles in your body relax even more deeply, all the way from the top of your head down through the tips of your toes. Let all the muscles in your scalp relax, release. Soak up relaxation as much as you'd like, as much as feels good through all the muscles in your scalp, down through your forehead. Soak it up. Your eyes work quite hard, so let them rest too. Rest, soak up that peace down through your cheeks and your jaw. Just soak it up through your neck, deeper and deeper relaxed. Let it relax. Let yourself relax deeper and deeper down through your shoulders, down through your arms, your upper arms, your lower arms, your hands. Let your hands relax, your fingers. Relax deeper and deeper. Relax, relaxed down through your upper chest, your lower chest, your stomach, down through the middle of your body, your thighs, your knees. Relax deeper and deeper. Relax down through your calves, your ankles and your feet, your toes. Let that deep peace, that relaxation flow through your body all the way from the top of your head down through the tips of your toes. Relax, breathe comfortably. You'll notice that peace can also come through the breath, through your breath. Breathe in a way that's comfortable for you. Perhaps you notice other tensions in your body. Pick one and let it relax into peace. Let the tension itself breathe comfortably. Maybe it just wants a small breath, but let it breathe in peace and well-being. Let it receive. Let it soak it in. It's all about receiving. Soak in well-being and peace. Relaxed. You may notice an emotion, and if you do, let it receive. What does it want? Peace. Let it receive the peace. Or maybe it wants love. Your love. So let it receive some love. Maybe it can't receive much. Well, let it receive a drop. Let it soak it up like a dry sponge. Start with a drop. If it wants more and can take more, let it have as much as it likes, as it likes, when it likes. Be its friend. Let it relax. Notice to the degree that your emotions relax or your tensions relax, they disappear. They melt into the ground of your being. Peace, well-being, and your thoughts. Let them relax. You may notice that you're watching your thoughts. You're watching your emotions. You're feeling them and your tensions. You're feeling them. You're watching them. So you're not them because you're the one that's watching or feeling them. Let them melt because they melt very nicely into peace. So you can let them melt away, deeper and deeper relaxed. Some of them melt away, and some of them aren't ready to melt away yet, and that's okay. They will in their own time and in their own way. You just relax and let them do what they'd like to do. You'll notice that tensions, emotions, and thoughts radiate a certain energy. They radiate that energy, and as they radiate it, they release that energy and they begin to melt away in that way, just like an ice cube radiating. The more it radiates, it just melts away like an ice cube on a warm skillet, just melting away. You'll notice that tensions, emotions, and thoughts can also receive that peace because it feels so good. They can receive it, relax, and release, and melt away, deeper and deeper relaxed. Your thoughts do what they want right now. Perhaps they spin around like a rubber band, releasing their energy. That's what they do. Once they've released all their energy, they relax and disappear. Perhaps they flare up here or there and release a little bit more energy. That's okay. Sometimes they melt into light, and that's okay too. They glow. Sometimes your emotions glow. You know, they're all energy. You can feel them, so let them melt. Let them radiate because that energy is you, and that energy melts back into the universal light, which is you, the light of you, so you can relax and release. You can just watch all of this. You can soak it up on every level. Relax, release, and enjoy. I'm going to step away and let you continue to enjoy yourself for as long as you like, going deeper and deeper relaxed, and when you're ready, whenever that might be, you can simply open your eyes and flow from your center through the rest of your day. Your center, peace, well-being, happiness, and let everything flow from there. Okay, take care.