Stress - Guided Meditation 6

This is a guided meditation that benefits stress - which is obviously something that we all have problems with from time to time.

Let me explain what I mean in greater detail;-

Firstly - I will be including techniques of Autogenic Training - this is a sort of meditation technique that uses repetitions of several different phrases as a kind of 'autosuggestion.'

This has been found to be useful in balancing the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic parts of our nervous System - the Sympathetic is invoved with anger, and the so-called 'fight or flight reaction' - and the Parasympathetic is involved with rest and relaxation and digestion and relief from stress

Secondly - I will be using Coueism - this is another type of autosuggestion that was made popular by a French Psychologist called Emile Coue - who lived between 1857 and 1926.

He is remembered most for his famous autosuggestion example, (that he wanted his patients to repeat daily, as soon as they got up in the morning, and again at bedtime) - "Every day - in every way - I am getting better and better."

It works just as well now as it did back then - so we will include it !

Thirdly - I will be using some techniques of Ericksonian Therapy.

Dr. Milton Erickson was a very famous Psychiatrist who pioneered what he called "Indirect Trance" - this was a very powerful yet gentle form of hypnosis-like suggestions that can be very useful.

Incidentally, he was not only the founding president of The American Society for Clinical Hypnosis - but for nearly all of his adult life he was confined to a wheelchair because of having had Polio as a teenager.

And finally Fourthly - a brief technique taken from NLP - (whose full name is Neuro-Linguistic Programming) -which is a modern system that believes that your perception of the world is shaped by your thoughts, words and gestures all interacting together - and therefore by changing your outlook on one or more of these, your whole attitude to the world can be improved.

So as with the other Guided meditations, you will need a guide/reader, and it is a good idea to copy and print the stress benefit meditation instructions, instead of reading them from off the screen.

Incidentally I have also made a Pre-recording of a very similar - but much longer and deeper - Stress Guided Meditation, (along with many other Pre-recorded Guided Meditations) - all of which you can read about in my CD and MP3 download page.

These are obviously much more effective.

So, if you are ready for the possibility of minimising how stress can affect you - then let's 'get the ball rolling !'

O.K. ? Then - one - two - three - go !


As with all of the other meditations, gently close your

eyes, and.....first of all try to let your body relax as much

as possible.......and let your breathing become slow and easy

and deep....relax more and more and more...perhaps allow

yourself to go into a light trance-like state....or let

yourself learn how to be as relaxed as that......allow your

left arm and hand to feel heavy and warm......just say to

yourself - that my left arm is heavy and warm......my left arm

is heavy and warm.......and just feel how heavy and warm your

left arm feels......perhaps you are feeling just how relaxed

you are......or how my words are making it possible for you to

be in such a deeply calm and peaceful state......so why not let

both of your arms and your legs feel heavy and

warm........let your subconscious mind tell you..." my arms and

legs are heavy and warm"...... and as my arms and legs are

heavy and warm....my heartbeat is calm and regular......and my

heartbeat is calm and regular......and as my heartbeat is calm

and regular.....my solar plexus is warm and comfortable....

.......my solar plexus is warm.....and comfortable......and

while my solar plexus is warm and comfortable.......I can find

it easy to believe that no stress is affecting me at this

present time....no stress affects me at the present time....no

stress affects me...... and every day....I can believe that I

will be less and less affected by stress.....every day I will

get better and better.....better and better.....every day in

every way I am getting better and better....and I could say

that to myself every morning....and every evening....and I

could be getting better and better......every day and in

everyway....but especially I could be able to deal with stress

better and better......in every way....and in every day

.......and if I keep my eyes closed and gently turn my eyes as

if I were going to look upwards...I would possible be able to

see how I would be able to deal with stress every day...

.....see me better and better.......if I want to I can look

upwards with my eyes closed and see that happening....see

myself as a stress-free person......and then as I bring my eyes

down again to the normal closed position....the normal

position.....I can still feel my left arm and hand heavy

and warm....my left arm heavy and warm....and my left arm heavy

and warm.......and if I gently keep my eyes closed and imagine

that I am slowly looking from the left to the right...... and

slowly looking from the right to the left and back again....and

backwards and forwards to left and to right....I can hear that

the words that are being said to me can be helping me to deal

with stress...better and better......and I can hear that.....

as I listen to the words....I am getting better and better...

every day.....in every way ...better and better......then I can

let my eyes be still again....... and if I want to.....I can

let both my arms and my legs feel even more heavy and

warm....my arms and legs are heavy and warm.....and my arms and

legs are heavy and warm....and my heartbeat is calm and

regular......my heartbeat is calm and regular......and as my

heartbeat is calm and regular.... I can feel a comfortable

warmth in my solar plexus.......my solar plexus is

warm......and comfortable.....and my solar plexus is

warm.......and if I wish....I can keep my eyes closed....and I

could imagine that I am looking down......I can imagine that I

am slowly looking down and to the right...and then down and to

the left...and backwards and forwards from the right to the

left....and as I am imagining looking down and from the right

to the left....backwards and forwards.....it is easy to tell

myself that I could deal with any stress much better in the

future.....much better and better every day.......I can hear my

unconscious mind telling my conscious mind that I now can deal

with stress much better now.............and I can tell myself

that.... ......and as I look from left to right and back

again.......and it could be possible for me to say to myself

every day......that every day, in every way, I am getting

better and better......I could ask my mind if I would be

willing to say that to myself morning and evening....and every

day..... I can feel that my body has the possibility to not

feel concerned about stress in the future........I can get a

grip on how to deal with stress......and as if my mind had told

me that it has grasped the feeling of how to deal with

stress.....and as I allow my eyes to come back to their normal

position....I am sure that I can deal with stress better and

better each day.......and that may make me feel vey happy and

light.......light and happy......and at the same time my arms

and legs begin to feel light and relaxed......and lighter and

tension free and relaxed......and my whole body can feel happy

and calm.......as I slowly come back to the here and now

......full of confidence that when I finally open my eyes.....

it could be fully possible for me to be much much less affected

by stress....every day....in every way.....and when I am ready

I will open my eyes and give a great big stress free

stretch.....and will be fully awake and alert.

I am sure that at the moment you feel very stress-free - and like the other meditations - the more often you do them, the more powerful they are.

(Practice makes perfect !)

(Hug time for guide/reader ?!)

So with every belief that this benefits stress - let's finish this one here.

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