Guided Meditation for Insomnia: Tracing the Body's Silhouette (Body Land Metaphor Medicine, 20 min)
A soft and gentle visualization to help you feel safe and guide you into a good night’s sleep.
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Guided Meditation: How to Rest when Fearful, Instant Self Care and Nervous System Regulation (20 min)
When you land in your body and call it your home, your nervous system shifts down a gear. When we tell ourselves stories that enhance our sense of belonging and dignity, we create a quieter place inside where we can ground and center. In this meditation, we ignite the imagination as the tool that helps you feel safer in your body and in the world. Set aside 20 minutes when you are quiet or still, alone or with others, to listen, and follow along in your body.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Starlight Dreaming for Better Sleep (20 in)
Settle into a quiet space where you can close your eyes and take time out to reconnect with yourself and your breath. We will ignite the imagination to restore a sense of connectedness with the cosmos and with our own bodies to feel more centered, grounded, and get better sleep.
Read MoreEl Desierto: a Calming, Restorative, Stress Relief Guided Meditation in Spanish from Body Land (11 min)
Vamos a enfocarnos en los colores de un desierto. Imagina la tierra roja, rica y vibrante, que se extiende ante ti, mientras las capas de colores se despliegan a través de las mesas, los acantilados y las dunas de arena.
Visualiza como el cielo abierto esta pintado con un hermoso degradado de amarillo y rosa al amanecer. A medida que el día avanza, observa las tonalidades de azul que van cambiando. Inmensas extensiones de nubes entran y salen. Pesadas nubes de lluvia, con tonos azul-púrpura, se desplazan en el cielo, entrando y saliendo, adornadas por un flequillo de lluvia lejana que parece colgar en el aire. A veces, estas nubes lucen inmóviles, antes de que el sol vuelva a brillar, iluminando con rayos celestiales en configuraciones transitorias. Colores rosas y lavandas estallan en el cielo. Permite que esta escena se anide en tu cuerpo.
Read MoreSpecial Guided Meditation en Español for deep sleep to promote healing: Estanque de Caida de Semillas: Cuerpo Tierra (17 min)
Imagina cómo el aire se extiende hasta lo alto, perdiéndose en la inmensidad del cielo, mientras el estanque se encuentra cómodamente acurrucado en este entorno vasto y abierto.
Read MoreWelcome to Cuerpo Tierra! Body Land En Español. Bienvenidos! Stay tuned for 4 episodes in Spanish.
Cuerpo Tierra en Español
Hola, queridos amigos!
Bienvenidos al fascinante mundo de la Medicina Metafórica del Cuerpo Tierra, creada por la acupupunturista y autora Liz Greenhill y llevada a ustedes en español por Udom Linthavong.
Imagina esto: visualizaciones guiadas que no solo encienden tu creatividad, sino que también calman tu sistema nervioso. Te ayudarán a sentirte arraigado y en sintonía contigo mismo. Este es un espacio donde la energía se mueve, el arte se aprecia, el lenguaje cobra vida, y técnicas de la medicina china se mezclan con métodos somáticos para que puedas dejar atrás la ansiedad.
Tan a menudo, nuestras imaginaciones se aventuran en áreas de miedo y, cuando eso sucede, es como si nuestras mentes secuestraran a nuestros cuerpos y nos llevaran a un lugar de catástrofe vicaria. Cuerpo Tierra está diseñado para ser un micro-antídoto a esa respuesta de estrés.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Emotions as Colors, Listen at bedtime for Deep Sleep (14 min)
Here’s another visualization to listen to before bed. to free up and bring movement to any emotions that might be hanging around stalling our ability to rest. We use symbolism to envision the emotions as colors, which lets them be energetic, as opposed to stories tied to thoughts, which take us out of the body and into the mind. So, just let the colors fly, float, wash, and waft through you, trusting in the process, the energetic release, and your ability to embody a metaphor as a way to change the way you feel.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: Resonance of the Atlas (12 min)
Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.
Guided Meditation: Night Time Ripple Breathing to listen to before bed for deep restful sleep (12 min)
Bring this ripple-inducing breathwork into your pre-sleep awareness for deeper rest.
Read MoreGuided Meditation for Deep Sleep: A Cartography of Rest (18 min)
We talk a bit about the four levels of being (and reality) and how metaphors of the earth apply to the body. We tune into four layers of the body and coax each one into a relaxed safe state. Listen before bed and let me know how it feels.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: Drift into Darkness while Glowing (13 min)
The pattern of the mycelium network is around us and within. Let it transform into a softly glowing nightlight that protects you and feel yourself soften into a resting state.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: My Body is a Habitat and I am Safe (20 min)
Your body is a safe place. Coax your spine into this story and let it become something new and generative.
Read MoreSeason Four Welcome: Guided Meditations that help you land in your body and call it home
Welcome back to Body Land Metaphor Medicine, an archive of guided visualizations that engage the superpowers of your imagination to help you relax and restore. These salutary stories are informed by Surrealist art, Eastern Medicine, and Somatic methods for self-regulation. I’m your creator and host, Liz Asch Greenhill. I am an author and artist, and the acupuncturist at Night Sky Acupuncture and Ideaphoria.
Guided Meditation for Low Back Pain and Anxiety: Waterfall of the Hips (10 min)
Your body is a landscape. You have a river running through you. It horseshoes into a waterfall in the hips.
Rest into nature and into your body through this image of a river running down your spine. This is designed to help increase qi flow in the hips and pelvis.
Guided Meditation for Stress, Tension, and Anxiety: Fly Free (7 min)
Feeling a little lighter?
Let’s amplify that sensation with this visualization to help you somaticize the sensation of freedom.
Guided Meditation: Tree Within Tree (10 min)
Ultimate Stress Release Guided Visualization @ 10 minutes
Make a forest diorama in yr chest and feel all the feels of trees.
Guided Meditation to Clear your Head and Help You Center: You've Got Glands! (7 min)
Work your head’s inner teardrop until it glows up your brain.
This one’s like a brain massage. But anywhere you got a gland you can do this. Don’t stop here. Google glands and keep going.
Guided Meditation for Neck/Back Pain, Stress, Anxiety, and Focus: Settle the Spine (13 min)
Calm stress and ease anxiety while nourishing your neck and back. This is a 12 minute guided visualization.
Find yourself in a quiet stream in the forest where everything aligns around and within.
#Boundaries!: A Guided Meditation on Healthy Boundaries for Stress Relief and Relaxation (20 min)
Feeling a bit drained these days? Working on your hashtag boundaries? We’ve got some six feet of separation self-care for ya. I talk super briefly about how fractal patterns of self:other are part of the body’s defenses from the perspective of Chinese Medicine and then we drop into a super soothing visualization that helps you disentangle your energy from others which ultimately benefits your immune system.
Read MoreJing-a-Ling! An Earth-Based Guided Meditation for Vitality and Vigor (16 min)
Juice up your jing, which, in Chinese Medicine, is your deep essence goo, kinda like how oil is the deep essence goo of the Earth. People with BJE (Big Jing Energy) live long, love hard, and run strong.
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