Managing our stress levels is a key to health. Meditation, intentions and affirmations can be super simple tools that we can fit in throughout our day to keep tension in our bodies low and vibes peaceful and high. Learning to release stress daily can help us to gain and maintain a natural flow in our lives.
There are many forms of meditations for relaxation. Guided, visualization and passive may be the easiest. Passive being things like showering, taking a walk or coloring. The two meditations below are visualization and written guided. You can practice them as you read them, try them after you read them from memory or record yourself/someone reading it aloud to listen to.
Meditations for Relaxation: Relaxing Light
Find a comfortable position either sitting or lying down. Close your eyes and begin to focus on your breathing. With each breath in, you fill your belly (not your chest), taking in all the life giving air you can and then releasing it again until there’s nothing left to release. Slow and even. In and out.
See the air as white light. Since light is a particle, we’re breathing it in with every intake. Imagine, as it enters your body, it flows all the way down to your toes. The white light swirls here, relaxing and healing them. Just as quickly as it came, it turns dark and you exhale all of the tension and negative energy that had collected there out into the universe to dissipate and leave you.
With your next breath, the light focuses on all of your feet. Relaxing, healing and dispelling any tension and negative energy that may have collected there in your breath.
Your next one finds your legs. First the lower half and then the upper half. Or first the right and then the left. Whatever feels more natural to you. There’s not a wrong or right way to swirl your breath of light within you. Do what feels most instinctive and calming. Make sure you’re finding all of the details of your beautiful body. Your ankles and your knees. The front and the back. Every crevice where tension and stress may be trying to hide.
When you’ve breathed in and relaxed all of the muscles in your legs and there is no longer any tension or stress within them, move up to your hips, your buttocks and your lower back. Swirling your white light in each location. Watching it turn dark and leave your body. With each breath you’re becoming more and more relaxed. If your mind wonders, that’s fine and natural. Acknowledge the thought and then release it, turning your attention back to the process of swirling, relaxing and releasing all parts of your body. Every muscle.
Watch the light flow up and down your back, your front. Releasing your belly. Going down one arm and then the other. Relaxing the wrists, the hands, the fingers. Exhaling the dark energy that is no longer welcome within you. Only peace is allowed here now.
Pay special attention to your shoulders. Dropping them down, pulling them back to create great and confident posture. You are comfortable here. At peace here. We hold so much tension in our shoulders as we place the weight of our world on them. Release this weight and know that it is okay to sit it down sometimes. From now on, anytime you feel tension or stress, you’ll bring your attention to your shoulders. Releasing and relaxing them.
Move your swirling breath of light around your neck. Smoothing out all of the kinks, tightness and stress. Feel your entire head soften and release. Move it across your face, muscle by muscle until every cell in your body is at peace and in pure blissful serenity.
Stay here for a few moments basking in the natural high you have from releasing so many toxins you didn’t know you were holding onto. Sink into your seat as you surrender to the complete relaxation of it. Knowing that all the world can wait as you take this moment for yourself and your health. You deserve it so deeply.
Lightly scan your body, continuing to release any tension that may be trying to creep back in. Feel free to enjoy this moment as long as you need. As long as you like. Knowing that when you decide to carry on with your day, you’ll be relaxed, happy and flowing effortlessly with all that comes your way.
This meditation can take as much or as little time as you’d like for it to. Always make a point to focus on the shoulders.
Meditations for Relaxation: Relaxing Bubble
Find a comfortable sitting position. Close your eyes and begin to focus on your breathing. With each breath in, you fill your belly (not your chest), taking in all the life giving air you can and then releasing it again until there’s nothing left to release. Slow and even. In and out.
Imagine you’re in a beautiful bubble. Clear yet rainbow-y in the light of the sun. You can see out all around you but no one can see you within. You can feel the energy of the bubble gently pulling on you from every cell in your body. It’s pulling all of the tension, stress and negative energy out of you and dispersing it into the universe to dissipate. You surrender to it. Allowing it to take all of that which no longer serves you.
As it cleanses your entire being, pulling the dark energy from even your mind and spirit, you feel as though you’re becoming lighter. You notice that the air seems fresher and easier to breathe. A smile comes across your face as you realize how much better you’re already feeling.
You’re now beginning to float as the bubble finishes ridding you of all the stress within. You’re safe here. The bubble is impenetrable. Protecting you. You feel so loved by it’s warmth.
As you continue on your day, you feel refreshed and at peace. You can choose to pop your bubble and absorb it’s radiant energy and beauty. Walking free and in flow. Or you can carry it with you, safe and secure. Whatever you decide to do with it at this moment is perfect for you. There is no right or wrong way. It is what you need it to be and is always at your side when you call it.
Intentions and affirmations are best used on a daily basis and work particularly well when put into play at the very beginning of your day. Placing meditations for relaxation as part of your morning routine will help set the energy for the entire day.
Relaxation Affirmations
- I am relaxed.
- Everything in my world is as it is meant to be.
- I breathe in calming energy.
- Calming energy flows through me.
- Everything that needs to be done is done.
- It is okay to let things be.
- I am surrounded by peace and serenity.
- All the tension in my body is released.
- I am more relaxed with each breath.
- I deserve a moment of peace and relaxation.
Relaxation Intentions
- I intend that I relax every muscle in my body.
- I intend that I create a relaxing space around me at all times.
- I intend that I am able to relax in every situation.
- I intend that I am able to let go of that which keeps me tense.
- I intend that peace and relaxation flow around, through and from me at all times.
- I intend that the outside world not effect my inside peace and serenity.
- I intend that I allow myself to relax and flow effortlessly.
- I intend that time is made for relaxing daily.
- I intend that negative and stressful situations are repelled from my life.
- I intend that only calming, peaceful and positive things are present in my life.
Essential oils can help enhance our meditations and anchor the emotions we’re trying to create (Such as calm and relaxation) by diffusing or smelling them as we meditate and recite/create our intentions and affirmations. Wear the oil throughout the day to carry the anchored feeling of calm with you.
Essential Oils to Diffuse During Your Meditations for Relaxation
- Lavender
- Ylang Ylang
- Lemon
- Neroli
Best Vibes Always,
S.S.Blake
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Author
S.S.Blake; Spiritual Life Coach, Yoga + Meditation Teacher and Founder of Earth and Water
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