call your energy back to yourself: a guided meditation for these times

message of support from dana in these complex times: 

"this is a simple guided meditation/visualization that i've used for years in my own energetic practices, with clients to support their presence, and i'm honored to share this with you. use when you're feeling scattered, overwhelmed, spread-thin, depleted, uncertain, dissociated, or any other time of day you need a dose of slowdown medicine to ground, realign, and reenergize. this one small practice that will support each of us in embracing AND SHAPING our changing world."

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/// podcast art ~ natalee miller, theme song ~ kat ottosen, sound-editing/design ~ rose blakelock //

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Crying in my Dickusie, oh, oh, oh, crying in my Dickusie, oh, oh, oh, crying in my Dickusie, oh, oh, oh, crying in my Dickusie, oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 2: 0:36

Oh hi, it's me Dana. You probably didn't expect to hear from me again before season two came out, but we're in an in-between time the in-betweenness, dare I say, the taint time when anything is possible, a liminal space where we can still go on adventures together, connect across time and space. And in these very wild times where the world is changing, I mean, can you feel it? I can feel it changing, I can feel us changing. I can also feel that in this changing, in this shifting, in this transformation, so many of us are being stretched, pulled, spread thin, overwhelmed, discombobulated, recombobulated. Is that a thing? Trying to process so much and so much pain and so much loss?

Speaker 1: 1:49

There's also no such thing as multitasking for humans, that is. The term was first used to describe a computer's dual processor. Years later it filtered into common lexicon. Though human brains can't perform multiple tasks at one time, best they can do is get more proficient at switching. But there's unavoidable energetic and time costs Through activated nervous systems in the mix and drama responses. Well, humaning is pretty hard, tbh. I'm sort of glad I don't have to do it.

Speaker 2: 2:24

So we can't process a bunch of things all at once, trying to take in so much information and filter it through these weird little meat bags that we are wandering around and bumping into each other with and loving each other with. So here's what I do. The following practice is called calling all your energy back to yourself. I know it's a really succinct name, right, it just rolls right off the tongue. Calling all your energy back to yourself. Calling all your energy back to yourself, it's not to be an energy hoarder, calling it all back so you cannot share it with anyone else ever. It's a practice of oh, here we go, you're going to love this of recombobulation. Call your energy back to yourself and support your little meatbag and being able to show up for all the other meatbags Ones in your family community, the ones you'll never meet, the people you'll never really know. Just support yourself and each other in the future. We can't even see from here.

Speaker 2: 3:44

So take a moment, take a few moments, present moments to call all your energy back to yourself. So take a nice deep breath, take a few, maybe a first few, in through your nose, out through your mouth, just to settle in to wherever you are, and you can even do this one while you're walking about or, you know, riding in a car or laying down in the middle of the night or whatever. Whatever feels like a moment that you would like to just slow things down. Slow down medicine, right here for you, and so you're breathing into your body. Maybe now you just let it come in through the nose, out through the nose, and imagining all of those little places out in the universe where your energy is scattered conversations, correspondences, to-dos where a little piece of your energy is just out there, away from you in some other arena. And so imagine all of those, like a little iron, filings out in the universe where your energy is scattered, and let yourself be the magnet. You are the magnet and call it all back. Just draw all of that energy, all those little bits of energy scattered about, see them, feel them, drawing back to your body, coming back to you. You can guide it with your breath. See it, feel it, imagine it. This is energy work. All your energy back to your body, drawing it back slowly surely absolutely Good. Slowly drawing it back little by little and, as it comes back into your body, sense that, feel that, feel your energy filling you up. Maybe it has a temperature or a color, shows up like light. Just calling that light back to your body. It's yours. Let yourself be filled by yourself, let yourself be filled by the abundance of energy around you, filtering it through you, only allowing in that energy which is yours, allowing it to nourish you. Good, you can do this for however long you need to do it, however long you want to do it throughout the day.

Speaker 2: 8:21

This little practice isn't going to heal the world or transform any of these oppressive systems, and it's also okay to take care of yourself. You must. If we're in this long hall of humaning together, of learning how to human together better, of seeing how we belong to each other, we have to take care of ourselves. We have to take care of each other, and when we spend all our time taking care of others and not ourselves, that is a recipe for burnout. Notice, if you need a little tenderness today, even if you have a hundred and eleven thousand other things to do, but see how it feels to meet that need that better will feel better than you think it might, and it might. Let you meet those other needs for the ones around you A little better, a little sturdier, a little more lovingly, a little more compassionately.

Speaker 2: 9:43

Okay, more taint time. Practices, meditations, meditation, taint, shunt, taint, taint, taint. Okay, more taint time. Ticklings oh, that's naughty. More taint time, temptations taint, I have to help Ahead. More taint time, tainty mctaintersons oh God. More tainty tooty, rooty tooty, fresh and fruity, coming up. Until next taint time, be good and tender with yourself, with all yourselves and with each other. Crying in my deep cruising oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh. Crying in my deep cruising oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If you enjoyed what we did here today, go over to wherever it is that you are listening to this podcast and give us a rating. This is many stars, five, as your heart desires.

Speaker 1: 11:05

Five stars though.

Speaker 2: 11:06

The music and other musical bits by the very talented Kat Autessen, sound designed and editing by the effervescent Rose Blake Long. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much for being here. I look forward to playing with you more in my jacuzzi. That sounded dirtier than I meant it, but you know what I mean.