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The Ritual Nurse
The Meditation Tapes - Ancient Circle Meditation
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Pause, breathe, and step into the ancient forest where healers across time have gathered to witness, release, and renew.
Healthcare providers know the weight of what they carry – the moments that linger too long, the emotions locked deep in the chest, the images that refuse to fade even after the shift ends. This guided meditation offers a sacred, intentional space for nurses, doctors, caregivers, and first responders to process what often goes unprocessed in the demanding world of healthcare. Through crystal medicine, box breathing, and a powerful visualization journey, I guide you to a stone circle where you can safely release doubt, sorrow, fear, confusion, regret, overwhelm, exhaustion, anger, and sadness. Watch as these burdens transform in ancient flames, making space for resilience and clarity to return. Meet the healers who have walked this path before you and encounter a personal guide who embodies your innate strength.
This 20-minute meditation serves as both a debrief ritual and restoration practice. Many healthcare providers develop physical symptoms from carrying others' trauma alongside their own – this practice acknowledges that healing must happen in both body and spirit. The journey includes grounding techniques, meditation guidance, and integration support to help you process emotions safely and return to your work with renewed purpose.
Your ability to care for others depends on how well you care for yourself. This meditation is an invitation to make that self-care a priority and a promise that you are never alone on this healer's path. Remember, you can return to this sacred circle anytime you need to release, restore, and reclaim your strength.
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Welcome to the Ritual Nurse, where healing meets humor, science and a touch of magic. Hi, welcome back. You've returned to this space and I'm honored to guide you through this journey. Today. I'm Reva, and this is the Meditation Tapes, a series designed just for you the nurses, doctors, caregivers, first responders, ones who give so much of themselves to the world.
Speaker 1:We know that medicine, nursing and emergency response demand everything Our bodies, our minds, our hearts and yet too often, after witnessing something deeply challenging, we don't get the space to process it fully. This meditation is here for that it is a debrief, a sacred pause and a moment of restoration. A sacred pause and a moment of restoration. Tonight, we step into an ancient place where healers across time have gathered to witness each other, to release and to reclaim their strength. Before we begin, let's set our space with a crystal prescription tools to help anchor and guide you on this journey. Today's meditation is one of resilience anchor and guide you on this journey. Today's meditation is one of resilience, renewal and deep emotional release. If you have one of these stones, hold it in your hand, place it on your chest or just keep it near you. If not, simply visualize it surrounding you in a protective, healing glow. If crystals really aren't your thing or you're not sure about their properties, you can also think of them as a device or a tool to help you focus your energies and calm your mind. So our crystal prescription starts off with smoky quartz for transmuting heavy emotions and grounding energy. Lapis lazuli for deep wisdom, clarity and truth in debriefing Lapis lazuli for deep wisdom, clarity and truth in debriefing. Black tourmaline for energetic projection and reinforcing boundaries. Amethyst for calming the nervous system and inviting inner peace. Let these stones hold space for you. Now take a deep breath in and release, and let's begin. As we begin, I want you to find a comfortable position. You may choose to be seated, feeling the solid support beneath you, or lying down, allowing your body to fully rest. However you position yourself, make sure you feel supported, relaxed and at ease. Position yourself, make sure you feel supported, relaxed and at ease. This meditation will take about 20 minutes, so give yourself full permission to be here, present and in this moment.
Speaker 1:We're going to use box breathing as the exercise for the breath work to start this meditation. I do have other examples of breath work in the earlier episodes of the podcast, but for today, this method we're going to prepare our minds and bodies and use this simple breathwork practice called box breathing, where we inhale for four seconds and we hold for four seconds. We exhale for four seconds and we hold again for four, and you can envision in your mind a slight pulse traveling around the edges of a box. So let's try it together. You're Four, hold Two, three, four. Exhale Two, three, four, hold Two, three, four. Now continue using that box breathing method and we're going to do a head to toe relaxation Breathe in through your nose and hold for four and then exhale softly through your mouth for four and you're going to hold again for a count of four.
Speaker 1:So continue repeating that process and let your breath settle into a natural rhythm. Each breath you're feeling fill your torso and work its way down into your belly. As you exhale, you're going to feel your body, start to relax and soften and let go. You're going to bring awareness to the top of your head, your crown, let any tension melt away, softening your forehead, releasing your jaw, letting your shoulders drop. Feel the warmth spreading down through your arms, through your hands, all the way to your fingertips, as your chest rises and falls. Steady and calm. Your stomach softens, releasing tension. You continue to breathe and hold and exhale and hold. With each breath, the breath and the warmth of the energy moves deeper within you. Your legs feel heavier now, sinking deeper into the support beneath you. Your feet relax, your ankles relax all the way to your toes. With each breath you are lighter, more at peace and with one final repetitive breath in through your nose, two, three, four. Hold Two, three, four and exhale. Two, three, four. And hold Two, three, four. We are now ready. And hold Two, three, four. We are now ready.
Speaker 1:In your mind's eye, imagine yourself standing at the edge of a vast, ancient forest. The trees are towering wise, their leaves rustling softly in the wind. There's a scent of earth and rain in the air. The ground beneath you is firm, grounding you. Holding you. Ahead of you, a pathway forms, illuminated by a warm golden light. This is the path walked by generations of healers before you. With each step forward, you shed the weight of the day, the burdens you've carried, the images that linger, the emotions locked deep in your chest. With each step, you feel lighter and clearer. You can feel more of yourself in connection.
Speaker 1:This path leads you to a clearing. At its center stands an ancient stone circle, weathered yet strong, glowing with a deep, ambient, pulsing light. This is a sacred place, a place of witnessing, of release, of renewal. In this space you feel safe, you feel supported, you feel completely secure. Around the circle, others have gathered Nurses, doctors, paramedics, other healers from across time. Some wear the white coats of today, others the robes of centuries past, some bear the tools of their trade Stethoscopes, herbs, staffs. All of them know the burden of caregiving. All of them understand they are here to bear witness, to support you, to hold space for your healing.
Speaker 1:You find a place in the circle meant for just you. At the center of the circle burns a fire, not of destruction but of transformation. This fire is ancient. It has consumed the grief, the exhaustion, the weight of healers before you, transmuting it into light and wisdom. You step forward from your place. You can feel its warmth. Know that whatever you bring to this fire, whatever you need to release, it will take and transform.
Speaker 1:Now, gently, in your mind's eye, call forth what you have carried, the moment that has lingered too long, emotions that have weighed heavy Doubt, sorrow, fear, confusion, regret, overwhelm, exhaustion, anger, sadness. One by one, you place them into the fire. You watch as they are consumed. You feel the weight lifting. You feel that burden easing. You know in this circle, in this place, that you are not alone. You never have been.
Speaker 1:As the fire burns away what no longer serves you, something new takes its place. From the embers. A light arises. It slowly wraps around you, settling over you like a cloak. This light, this warmth surrounding you begins to infuse you. This is resilience, this is clarity, this is your strength, reforged and given back to you. You stand taller, your breath is steady, your head is level and high, your shoulders are straight and your heart feels light.
Speaker 1:The others in the circle nod to you, some smile, some place a hand on their heart, a silent gesture of solidarity. You turn, stepping to the edge of the circle, knowing the safety, the security and the support here are here for you always. You can return to this circle and release these burdens and reforge your resilience and your strength over and over again, if you need to. You leave behind you in this circle everything that does not serve you in this moment. Moment, the others in the circle nod again to you. You step back onto the path. Each step carries you forward, back towards the forest. You carry the wisdom of the circle with you your strength and your resilience.
Speaker 1:A shimmering yet invisible cloak Wrapped around you and yet infusing you. You can feel it permeating through you Deeper and deeper with each step that you take. You know whenever you need you can return as you enter the forest and the shadows start to deepen, you feel the cool air against your cheek. You feel the safety, the security. You feel the solidarity of the dirt under your feet. You can spend some time in this place allowing that cloak of resilience and strength to continue wrapping around you, deepening its presence within you.
Speaker 1:You watch the light shift through the leaves as they rustle gently, overhead, the faint sound of an animal, perhaps in the quiet mystic forest in the distance. You feel at peace and you feel calm. You watch as something steps into the clearing with you, with you what this being represents, whether it is human, whether it is animal, whether it is mythical. This represents a reminder of your strength, of your safety in this place, in this place and this being will accompany you in your mind's eye as you leave this circle. They are a part of you. They are a part of you that symbolizes your innate strength, your innate grounding and centeredness. They are there to remind you of your resilience and your strength, as you need it, moving forward. They are there to remind you that you can return to this place anytime you need to. They're there to remind you to let go and release these heavy burdens and these deep wounds and not to hold on to them, for to do so, you know, will make you sick, will injure you. They are here to help you guard against that.
Speaker 1:Slowly, you bring your awareness back to your body. As the shadows deepen and your eyes close, feel your breath moving in through your nose and filling your chest, traveling through your torso, feeling your belly rise and as you exhale, you feel yourself more fully, entering your body and feeling the ground beneath you. As you continue to slowly breathe in through your nose, gently begin to move your fingers and your toes, keep breathing and gently moving as you come back to yourself and when you are ready, you can open your eyes, take a slow, deep breath in and, as you exhale, know this you are held, you are strong, you are never alone. Remember the figure, the being that stepped forward in the clearing. If you have a journal with you, notes on your phone or even a voice recording, take a few moments after the meditation to note what you saw, what you felt, who the healers were in the circle around you, the colors, the sensations, and take that with you. It will help you process and debrief with your emotions as you work through the release of the stress and the tensions and the burdens that you let go of. Thank you for allowing yourself this time and this space to heal.
Speaker 1:Taking care of yourself must be an ultimate priority. Make sure after the meditation that you hydrate, drink water, drink warm tea, remain comfortable and allow your body to process the release of the emotions and the burdens that you just walked through in this meditation. Trauma and the holding of it causes physical effect on the body, so as you release it, you can expect physical sensations associated with the release of those emotions and those burdens. Take care of yourself and until next time, love your faces. This is your Ritual Nurse Reva. Thanks for tuning in to the Ritual Nurse Podcast. You can find us wherever you listen to podcasts, so don't forget to subscribe and stay connected For all our social links free education classes, blogs and podcast notes with resources. Head over to tcthorg. Until next time, love your faces.