Stability in the Midst of Strong Emotions

A guided meditation to create a deeper anchoring to your own inner light.

In times of great emotional intensity, we can find ourselves feeling lost or swept up in the feelings.  This can be especially problematic when we are experiencing negative emotions such as fear, anger, despair, which can lead to a sense of isolation and separation from God and from one's own inner source of support.

This meditation can assist us in finding a place of greater balance, which can provide the stability needed to stay connected with our greatest source of strength, which is our heart and our connection with the Divine.

Transcription of Meditation

Welcome everyone to the World Blessings Guided Meditations. Today's topic is about staying balanced in the midst of strong emotions. I would say that this meditation would be most helpful if you're dealing with strong, negative emotions; fear, panic, despair, that kind of thing, anger ... but it can also be very useful, on the other end, if you feel like your positive emotions of joy, bliss, excitement, start to feel ungrounded. The whole idea is to remain balanced in the midst of strong emotions. 

This is a guided meditation that is best done sitting down. Even though I'm standing, I'm going to sit, too, to see what is given to us for this meditation. And again, any kind of regular spiritual practice that you are able to do, that helps you to find that place of inner alignment more easily, is just a wonderful thing to do.

I encourage you, especially during these times that we're living through right now where the intensity level is so high, that anything you can do on a regular basis, any practice of meditation, or the Practice of Alignment, or even something that might not seem to be spiritual practice, but that might be really useful for you like movement or yoga. 

All right, so just take a moment now as you're sitting. Allow yourself to become aware of your breath. Allow yourself as you're sitting to allow your out breath to begin to release any kind of stress or tension that you might be carrying in your body.

As you're sitting, the wonderful thing is you don't have to really force your breath, because it will naturally rise and fall. You can just have the intention that your exhale allows your body and your energy field to release any stress that you're carrying. You can allow any of that stress to leave your body down through your feet and into the earth. 

Allowing your consciousness now to begin to float gently like a feather, downwards, as you're breathing. Each breathe that you take helps you to sink deeper and deeper into a space of relaxation and calm and peace.

Each exhale allows your body to release more and more of any kind of stress or tension you may be carrying. Just take a moment to do this. Also, you might want to become aware of the force of gravity. It's a miraculous force that we don't think about too often, but that force of gravity can actually help you to release tension and stress. 

You can imagine that the earth is exerting a very, very gentle pull. Very gentle, that just pulls any tension out of your body through your feet. It's really this wonderful relief that we can receive through the love of the earth.

Allowing your consciousness to drop down more deeply now, and imagine that your feet are growing roots just like a tree. Imagine that these roots are reaching deep, deep into the earth. You can feel their texture and their vitality, their strength.

Allow those roots to reach deeply, deeply, deeply into the center of the earth. Allow yourself to experience that those roots are tapping into very deep nourishment that is part of your embodied being, that's part of your physical being. 

Allow those roots to tap into the nourishment that is deep inside of the earth. Allow yourself to be nourished and to feel the quality of being nourished, and allow yourself to relax even more deeply.

Relaxing even more profoundly now, your consciousness moving down even more deeply into peace and rest and receiving nourishment, so that your breath is very easy and relaxed, very calm and relaxed.

Breathing in, breathing out. And now, as you breath in, allow yourself to experience your heart, your heart's center in the middle of your chest. Allow yourself to experience your heart ... and allow, each time your body naturally breathes in, allow your heart to expand. Just a little, very gently, very naturally. It's more like a relaxation into the natural state of your being, which is love. 

Each breath in, your heart is gently expanding. And each breath out, your body continues to release any stress or tension allowing yourself to experience an inner stability. This is a natural part of you that comes from the connection between your heart and your embodied being that is nourished on the earth.

Breathing in love, breathing out, and releasing anything that is no longer needed. And now, turn your attention to your heart. You may even want to place one or two hands on your heart center. And as you breathe, see if you can find the place inside of you that is peace. It's a place. It's a deep place that's part of your soul. And that part of you is always present even when you can't feel it. Even if you're in the grip of a very strong emotion, this other part of you is present. 

So as you're breathing, see if you can become aware of it in a more conscious way. You can even say words that might help you to find that place like peace, calm, peace. This is the peace that already exists inside of you very deeply. It's something that can even be felt on a cellular level in your body.

Peace and calm, stability in light, stability in love anchoring in your heart, anchoring in love. You are blessed. You are at peace. You are deeply, deeply, deeply connected with your inner being that knows peace.

And now, at this very special time on the earth, you are becoming more and more capable of connecting with the peace of your being, the peace and truth of your heart, the peace and truth and inner stability that is part of your soul, and your soul is knowing. 

Now, give yourself the suggestion and the intention that this deeper anchoring in the peace and stability of your soul will continue to grow. It's like a seed that you are watering. Each day, you'll be discovering more and more of this part of you and experiencing the joy of these little sprouts of your inner being that reveal themselves to you anew each day, more and more. 

Give yourself the suggestion and the intention that your body and every cell of your body, every part of your being and your consciousness, will remember this connection, and that you will be guided.

You will be guided to all the ways that you can nourish and support this connection of peace and inner stability that is your anchor in the midst of any storm, in the midst of any strong emotion, in the midst of any energy or experience that may have previously felt overwhelming. You have a new ability now to contact that place of inner peace and truth and stability, in love and light and truth. 

So take a little bit of time here in this space, being with this, continuing to breathe effortlessly and peacefully, and giving yourself the suggestion and the intention that all these new pathways that have been opened through this meditation will continue to grow and flourish.

Take as much time as you need sitting quietly in this space. You could even pause this recording just to sit with this as long as you need. Then when you feel ready, allow yourself very, very gently to begin, to come back. Moving your consciousness up, up. Starting to feel more and more awake. Bringing back with you a feeling of being profoundly and deeply nourished and refreshed. Very gently coming back, coming back, very gently. 

When you're ready, open your eyes and allow yourself to feel grateful and feel gratitude for all the blessings that are in your present life. See with the eyes of your heart. See with the eyes of love. I send you lots of love and many blessings.