Deep Sleep Guided Meditation: Resonance of the Atlas (12 min)

Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.

Deep Sleep Guided Meditation: 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.

Drift into Darkness while Glowing: A Guided Meditation for Deep Restful Sleep (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.

Season 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.

Fly Free: A Guided Meditation for Stress, Tension, and Anxiety (7 min)

Feeling a little lighter?

Let’s amplify that sensation with this visualization to help you somaticize the sensation of freedom.

Recharge the Heart: a Guided Meditation for Social Change and Connectivity (18 min)

This visualization goes out to the leaders working for positive change. Thank you for your efforts, your passion, and your sacrifices. We use metaphor as medicine to land in our bodies. We send ripples through the body with our breath, ignite the heart, and entrust the pelvis and the mind to support our nervous system so we can rest and recharge.

The Down Dial: A Guided Meditation for Stress Relief, Relaxation, and Nervous System Support (14 min)

Turn the dial down on your nervous system to catch some solid sleep and bring your body into repose. When we invite the deep yin into our being, we can surrender our nervous energy and find a sense of peace.

A Room of Their Own: A Guided Meditation for Teens to Help with Anxiety, Stress, and Connection (22 min)

Tune in to my first visualization for teens wherein we do several somatic exercises with visualization to move energy in the ribcage and diaphragm, to land in our bodies with a sense of belonging and connection. Adults are welcome to do this too, of course. It’s really for anyone. Let me know how it goes for you! You can find me at Night Sky Acupuncture or on Instagram at Metaphor_Medicine.

Love Nest: A Guided Meditation to help children feel safe and loved (11 min)

Our first visualization for kids! This exercise is designed to help kids feel surrounded by safety and tenderness as an experiential antidote to anxiety, worries, and fear. I recommend that adults do the exercise alongside the kids so that they can share their experiences afterwards. Let me know how it goes!

Play that Song: a Guided Meditation to Relieve Stress and Practice Embodiment (10 min)

There’s music coming from the ribcage when we use the superpowers of our imagination to turn the diaphragm into a DJ. Sound weird? Give it a try and let me know if you feel different after.

Clear the Lungs: A Guided Meditation to Support your Immune System and Reduce Stress and Tension (25 min)

Using metaphor medicine we clear the lungs with a series of varied images and acts of tenderness, practicing how to move energy in the body.

Just Me Being a Tree: An Earth-Based Guided Visualization to Practice Self-Care and Stress Relief (17 min)

 No shade in pretending to be a tree. 

 Let's get basic and be trees together. We'll go through the seasons and feel all the shedding and growing and windfall and snow. Get ready to get leafy and stuff. 

Need a Rx of art along with your visualization? Check out: 

Stunning Aerial View Photography

Artist Nils-Udo 

Artist Agnes Denes 

This Here Joint: A Guided Meditation to Ease Pain and Relieve Tension and Stress (9 min)

Let's get wacky all up in this joint. Got a sore knee, elbow, wrist, hip, ankle, or shoulder? Let's start at the source of your pain and see if we can use your imagination to shift the way you are holding tension there.  

Hey btw, FIRST-- if you don't have an image come to mind when you hear me say: atom shape -- google 'atom' first, so you can see it and have it readily accessible in your mind. :-)  

Your Art (and Wildlife) Rx:

Livestream honey bee hive

Artist Hilda af Kimt  

The poem What's Broken by Dorianne Laux 

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Parachute: A Playful Guided Meditation to Honor Your Inner Child and Find your Happy Place (8 min)

 This one goes out to your inner child. 

 We're going old school, all the way back to pre-school for this one, mixing memory into our senses and embracing wonder while we bloom bloom bloom the diaphragm.

Curious for more? This episode's Art Rx is full of delights:

Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)- abstract artist with spiritual vibes

Eiko and Koma's Delicious Movement Manifesto - guidelines for living 4 sure

Using Memory and Sound to Regrow - creative uses of sensory memory on NPR and in the coral reef

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Spine of Pearls: A Vivid Guided Meditation to Help You Relax and Reduce Neck/Back Pain (12 min)

 A guided visualization in which the spine is a jigsaw puzzle column of bones getting refurbished, while also using the metaphor of a necklace, make that pearls!

 Is your spine a column of bones or is it a pearl necklace? You be the judge. (Hint: it can be both!) 

Curious about artists who paint the body in imagined and mystical ways? Here’s your Art Rx:

 Frida Kahlo 

Wangechi Mutu

Frank Moore   

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