Join us for a soothing guided meditation designed to help you recharge and realign your energies. In this session, you'll be invited to find a comfortable resting place, slow your breath, and bring awareness to your inner world. Rachael will guide you through a body scans, imagery techniques, and deep breathing exercises to release tension and stress, allowing energy to flow freely throughout your body. By the end, you'll feel more balanced, energised, and ready to face the world with a clearer mind and a lighter heart. Take this time for yourself and experience the profound benefits of true rest and alignment.
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to our aligned Recharge meditation.
When you are ready, come and lie down on your back or just find a comfortable place in which you can rest for a few moments, a few minutes, and get yourself as cozy as possible.
Maybe you want to grab a blanket or an eye pillow.
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Maybe you want to hold some crystals.
And then when you're comfortable close your eyes, begin to slow your breath, and begin to allow your awareness to really drop into your body, drop into your inner world, drop into you.
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How are you feeling in this moment? How are all of your ecosystems? How's your mind? How's your mood? How are your hormones? How did you sleep? How's your heart? How's your soul? How's your body? And just know that this time is for you.
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You don't need to think about anyone else or anything else.
It is for you.
Notice where you can start to receive a little more support.
Can you allow your head to rest into the ground and your shoulders under your torso and your pelvis, but really rest.
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We can only really rest when we feel supported.
The Earth is there underneath you.
Let her support you and notice that difference.
When you really acknowledge and embody that support, you can let go.
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Allow yourself to body scan and notice where are you holding unnecessary tension.
Is it your brain still going a hundred miles an hour or your jaw or your neck and shoulders, or your glutes or your pelvic floor? And that's okay.
Just listen to that wisdom and remind your body that there is a different reality.
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It's not efficient to be holding tension and working overtime.
Can you find that different reality in this moment? Can you drop? Can you surrender? Can you let go? I sometimes will very often like to use imagery, so you could imagine that you are doing a spring clean of your body, perhaps with a little feather duster or a magic wand, or perhaps you're standing under a sacred waterfall.
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And the water is cleansing your body.
So find an image that today is like a key for your nervous system to shift.
Could be different every day.
And once you've landed on an image that's gonna support you to release, stay with it and make it as real as possible what you think your body believes to be true.
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So have a really good spring, clean spring, clean your brain, clear out all of those unnecessary thoughts.
Those worries the stresses.
Clear out, neck and shoulder tension.
Go in and clear out your heart.
Your solar plexus, your belly, your hip joints, all around the pelvic floor.
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The pelvis, your legs, your feet.
And once you feel a little bit clearer, imagine yourself as this energetic being that you are, and imagine energy being able to flow really clearly and quickly through your body.
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So there's no more traffic.
There's no more traffic in your mind because of stressful thoughts or traffic in your neck and shoulders.
Your nervous system can communicate quickly at the speed of light.
Imagine that.
Imagine energy flowing up and down the length of your spine up and down.
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Imagine energy flowing up and down your limbs.
Both arms, both legs.
You are open, ready to receive.
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On each inhale, you draw in a tennis corpse's worth of oxygen.
That's how clever your body is.
If we were to spread out your alveoli, the surface of them, it would be a tennis court.
Incredible.
So imagine that and take advantage of that.
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Take a slow easeful breath in and draw in a tennis court's worth of oxygen of life, force of inspiration, of energy.
And as you exhale, just let go.
Just let go so you can be an ear even clearer vessel.
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Every time you inhale, soak it up.
Imagine every single one of your cells soaking up this energy, oxygen life force inspiration, and then you let go on the exhale and keep going like this.
Perhaps you can imagine with each inhale, it's like you are charging your batteries, you are charging your energetic body.
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You are charging yourselves like you've plugged yourself in, and sometimes we do have to switch off to plug ourselves in to recharge.
I truly believe that one of the most productive things we can do is.
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Nothing, just to rest, just to be, to get the clarity, to let go, to reset.
We'll stay here for a few more breaths.
I want you to fill yourself up so much so that you are overflowing, not so that you can just go ahead and give it to everybody else, but so that it's there should you need to.
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You are tending to yourself first in a responsible way.
Imagine a world where we all responsibly tended to ourselves first, we looked after our own needs, so we could give really, truly, and honestly to everybody around us.
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I'm gonna invite you to begin to move your fingers and your toes, and even your arms and your legs, and as you do so, imagine them receiving oxygen, your cells charging up, becoming more vibrant, changing their frequency.
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Imagine energy and information flowing through your body, like electricity that you've plugged back into the grid.
Keep moving, keep wriggling, and then just slowly begin to open your eyes and become more and more aware of the world around you.
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Just glance around the room and notice what you see.
Just what you smell and just what you feel, and then allow your movement to come to a stop.
But your eyes are wide open and I want you to look around and see there are so many things that could take your attention.
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You could do a spring clean in your house.
Right now there are probably 500 emails to answer.
There is just so much and we don't need to do it all.
And if and when we put ourselves first, I really believe it brings us into this true inner alignment that we know what to do next.
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Just the next thing and then the next thing, and then the next thing.
You are the most important thing, and absolutely not from a selfish point of view, but because you are an important piece of this tapestry, of this orchestra, of this beautiful world, you are important.
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Please start to put yourself first.
Have a beautiful rest of your day or evening, and really for the rest of this day.
Keep tuning into your energy.
If it needs to be replenished, then do that.
So much love.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
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