Simply Seeking Wellness

Focus: grounding, relaxation. How do we balance accepting all that is while recognizing there are changes that need to be made to encourage healing? This episodes songs were written for people who had healing to do and found their way forward. Sit back, relax and let your brain work with the music while you tune in. 

Transcript

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Welcome to Guided Harmonies, the podcast where I put words to my therapeutic music. My name is Margaret Dahlberg, and these episodes are designed to provide short moments of reconnect. I don't know about you, but I don't always have an hour to meditate, and I find the music makes it quicker and more effective. The music I've composed is key to allowing you such depth in a short time. All you need to do is listen. Just bring a gentle curiosity. And if you doze off, it's not a big deal because the music in your brain are doing the real work. Your unconscious brain responds to the vibrations of the music. So when you come back to presence, you will feel better. Today's episode is about accepting imperfection as well as overcoming adversity. It is about discerning between the changes you want to make and the changes you truly need to make. The first song, Seeking Wellness, was written for a woman who has experienced transformative results through various therapeutic modalities. She believes in the power of healing. You can hear her episode with that same title on Miss Tweety's Parents podcast. The second song, Simply There, was written for a man who overcame great adversity and learned to live a new and different life while managing a brain injury. He also has his own episode on Miss Tweety's Parents called Simply There. Let's get started. Sit back or lie down if you are able and close your eyes. Let these harmonies guide you to a better place. Allow your breathing to be however it needs to be. Just be with those breaths. You are here now because you are seeking some form of wellness. What does wellness mean to you? Is it stress or tension relief? Perhaps you are processing some big emotions such as sadness or anger. Or maybe it's about deepening your connection to yourself. Maybe you just want to feel more grounded. For you, wellness may simply mean relaxing before bed. Whatever it is, you are here now seeking wellness. Imagine you are following the lines of your body with your fingers tracing along its surface. Starting with your feet. Imagine that you are using your fingertips to trace the edge of your toes. Start with your big toe and move to your second toe. Then your third, fourth, and pinky toes. Continue tracing down from your pinky toes along the sides of your feet to your heels and around the back curve of your heels. Up along the arches to your big toes again. Do this a few times? Now, what about your legs? Can you imagine that you are drawing a line up the center of your shins, around your kneecaps, and up your quads to your hip flexors, then to your hamstrings, back down across the creases behind your knees, and down through your calves. Do this a few times. How about your pelvis? Can you trace the line of your hips as they rest your entire pelvis? Then cross over toward your belly button, circling around it a few times. Then head straight up towards your solar plexus, which is where your rib cage comes together above your stomach. Imagine tracing the curvature of those ribs at the center where they meet. Then use your fingertip to trace a line straight up toward your chest and sternum. Find the notch at the center of your collarbone and imagine tracing to one end of your collarbone and then back to the center and toward the other end of your collarbone and back to the center. Now follow your collarbone in each direction toward your shoulders, tracing a line around the tops of your arms, along the biceps, across the knob of your elbow, along your forearms, around your wrists, and then follow the lines of your thumbs, pointer fingers, middle fingers, ring fingers, and your pinkies. Do not change anything. Just notice how smooth your breaths are. Now tune into your back as it rests. Imagine you can trace from the top of your spine down between your shoulder blades, past your lower back, and then around to your belly again, heading up as before to the notch in your collarbones. Do this a few times. Find your throat and imagine that you are very gently feeling the line from the divot at the center of your collarbone, up over your throat and voice box, and then down from the center of the top of your neck. Can you follow the curvature of your neck with your fingertips to the lumpy bump at the top of your upper back? Try doing this in your imagination a few times. Now imagine your fingertips at the center of the bridge of your nose between your eyes. Pretend you are tracing each eyebrow from the center of your nose to the outer edge of the brow, around the sides of your eye sockets to the top of your cheekbones. Now follow that curve of your cheekbone back around to the bridge of your nose. Do this a few times. Pretend you are tracing the curve of the top of your head, around to the side of one temple, past your earlobe, along your jaw, around your jawbone, under your chin, and then around and up the other side. Jawbone, cheekbone, temples, and skull. Do this a few times. Imagine this body heavy and relaxed, breathing easily, comfortable, warm and at ease. You are simply here now. Do not rush to open your eyes if you plan to. If you do plan to continue with your day, your breaths may have deepened, so maybe give them a little bit of energy before you think about letting in the light. Then, when you are ready, allow your eyes to crack open and be sure to move slowly at first. Thank you for joining me today. Do you want me to compose you your own guided harmony? It's a simple process. Feel free to reach out. Have a wonderful day, and know you have invested in your own wellness, and this will reach all of those around you.