Everyday Practices
Making Room for What I Feel
For Letting Emotions Be Energies in Motion
Welcome. These practices are here for when a feeling needs some room. Start with whichever one fits how you are today, and use the shorter versions when time is tight. Tap play to listen, or download any track to keep.
Energies in Motion
For checking in with yourself, just as you are. It’s spoken in the first person, starting with ‘This is me, choosing to be here now.’ You notice how you’re holding your body, then how your mind is showing up, in pictures, words or a bit of both. Attention drops to the pull of gravity, then to wherever you usually feel emotions, with no need to feel anything in particular. It ends with the breath. The shorter version goes from the body straight to the breath.
11 min · fullDownload
Honouring Myself
For when you need to be on your own side. After a count down from ten, the affirmations begin: ‘I choose to honour myself.’ They turn to the body and its feelings, sadness especially, as energies in motion that are there for a reason. It ends with ‘I am a miracle within this miracle.’ The full version opens with a few questions about who can always be there for you. The middle one starts at the countdown, and the shortest goes straight to the affirmations.
14 min · fullDownload
An Inner Resistance Formula
For when you’re struggling with how you feel, as well as with the feeling. I talk through why this happens, with the well-known formula ‘suffering equals pain times resistance’ and some words from the psychologist Susan David. Then a short practice. You bring to mind something tough, notice the thoughts and feelings, and clench your fist. As you let go, you say a phrase such as ‘This too will pass’ and form a soft half smile, letting whatever’s there linger.
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The Shape and the Mirror
For a heavy day. This is a short reflection, under two minutes, spoken to a feeling: ‘my flat, heavy feeling.’ Walking into a cold, still room and seeing yourself in the mirror as the feeling, you bring a little awareness to it, and it becomes a shape. An uncomfortable one, but a shape. The feeling comes along to a coffee shop, and it ends simply: ‘You are still here, and that’s okay.’
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When Letting Go Feels Like Grief
For when giving up an old way of coping feels like a loss. Most of us have reached for something to avoid discomfort, from scrolling and shopping to alcohol and other substances. Letting go of them can bring real grief, because they once helped us get through. The track asks, ‘Can you thank it as you let it go?’ A few words to say to yourself follow, and it closes with a rhyme: ‘Grieve the ways that helped me cope, and let them go with love and hope.’
Listen · 7 minDownload
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