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.

Tree Within Tree: A Guided Meditation to Release Stress and Sleep Better (10 min)

Ultimate Stress Release Guided Visualization @ 10 minutes

Make a forest diorama in yr chest and feel all the feels of trees. 

You've Got Glands! A Guided Meditation to Clear your Head and Help You Center

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. 

Marble Drop: a Guided Meditation to help you focus, calm, and rest (10 min)

Loosen up your joints while reducing anxiety. 

 Floating on a raft in a bay, we practice feeling safe and secure, and the act of letting go. 

Settle the Spine: A Guided Meditation for Neck/Back Pain, Stress, Anxiety, and Focus (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. 

Sanctity of the Sacrum: A Guided Meditation for Pelvic and Low Back Pain and Stress (7 min)

Make a palapa in your pelvis. Really. It feels so good.  Especially for lower back pain and gynecological conditions.  Under 7 minutes.

Your sacrum is a shovel-shaped bone between your spine and your tailbone. It is cupped like a palm. Settle in to a peaceful vacation deep in your own body.

Juice Up (in a Jiffy): A Guided Meditation for Vitality, Depression, Stress, and Eco-Connection (8 min)

Replenish yourself with the flavors of the earth. 

 Help protect and repair the planet.

And maybe support your local juice joint? 

River Recharge: A Guided Meditation to Shower you with Gratitude and Connection (7 min)

Approximately 2/3 of our bodies are water. In Chinese Medicine, water is the yin energy that anchors us, calms us, and replenishes our nervous system. Take a plunge into some fresh natural river imagery to refill your 67%. 

Feeling grateful for water? Make a donation to help clean up the Verde River in Arizona, the Lower Snake River in Washington, and support the Waterkeeper Alliance.

Season 3 Welcome to Body Land Metaphor Medicine Guided Meditations

Keeping it real, keeping it surreal, and keeping it brief. Let’s do more with less with a season of extra shorty visualizations for the now. Wishing you good health, good luck, and composure for the continued intensity of 2020. I’m your host, Liz Asch Greenhill, and I’ve been using this method in my acupuncture clinic for nearly 20 years, helping people integrate salutary storytelling into their self-care practices, to alleviate physical and emotional pain, restore, rejuventate, and recharge. Try a few of these eco-art guided meditations that apply various somatic techniques and principles of Chinese Medicine to concepts from Surrealist art — and see how you feel after. Let mw know how it lands with you. And stay tuned for lots more visualizations! Cheers!

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!

What is Metaphor Medicine? An Explanation of my Method of Guided Meditation

This episode is not a guided visualization, but rather it’s a talk about doing this work on one’s own. I walk you through the way I use guided visualization as a practice in my self care. If you listen and give it a try for yourself, I’d love to hear how it works out for you.

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.

Viral Combat: A Pop Culture Guided Meditation to Fight Viruses and Feel Strong! (30 min)

Together we look to the movies to inspire our immune system to fight with swords. Then we clean up and take a long qi shower. We are using our imaginations to help us feel better.