Categories: Mind & Soul

A Meditation For Self-Care And Caring For Others

We’re often so caught up in doing, we forget to pause and consider how we feel and what we’d like. When ignoring self-care becomes a habit, we suffer. Meditation for self-care lets us take that much-needed pause to are likely to our innermost needs. By doing so, we minimize stress, increase resiliency, and grow to be ever-more able to pausing our doing to easily be.

In this guided meditation for self-care, we not only offer one such moment to our own body and heart, but using visualization, we provide the identical to a loved one. Balancing self-care and loving-kindness in this way opens our heart to the enjoyment of each giving and receiving.

This intermediate-level guided meditation is for anyone who needs a moment of self-care, and who may need to secretly share such a moment with a loved one, no matter their readiness.

Practice Time: < 10 minutes
Purpose: Cultivating Self-Compassion
May Help With: Compassion for Self and Others, Self-Love, Body Awareness
Practice Level: Intermediate

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Here’s a Sample of the “A Meditation For Self-Care And Caring For Others” Guided Meditation Script:

In today’s practice, we might be cultivating self-care and self-compassion after which offering it out to others.

To begin, find a cushty place to take a seat, settling into your sitting bones and shutting your eyes if you find yourself ready.
(Pause)

Let your posture be relaxed though alert, after which ground your attention for a couple of moments within the flow of your breath.
(Pause)

Each breath is like an anchor that lets you reconnect with this present moment.
(Longer pause)

If you notice any habitual contraction within the body, reminiscent of within the brow, the shoulders, or the jaw, loosen up this holding pattern gently – after which return to the breath.
(Longer pause)

Feel this breath now as whether it is nurturing your heart. Without force, see if the center can open itself to being nourished by the breath.
(Longer pause)

Now bring a hand to your heart, letting your palm rest with care upon it. Notice the best way it rises and falls with each breath.
(Pause)

Let the touch of your palm to your chest be tender so you can feel the care your hand offers.
(Pause)

How to Use This Guided Self-Care Meditation Script

This guided meditation for self-care invites us to pause and convey mindfulness to our body and heart. We then send ourselves several well-wishes, before offering the identical to a friend. When we balance giving and receiving, sensing into the body in the method, we start to see the 2 seemingly opposite actions are, in reality, very much connected.

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This script is marked as intermediate for its combined use of mindfulness and visualization. As we guide others in sending well-wishes to an imagined friend, we invite continued mindfulness by remaining connected to felt sensation within the body.

Conclusion

Genuine self-care is greater than only a day on the spa. In meditation, we practice authentic self-care by tending to the body and allowing ourselves to feel what we feel. When we share this gentleness and care with others, this too, is a type of self-care. For loving-kindness is multi-directional, and to provide it away is to feel it in our body too.