🌿 Letting Go with Love: A Meditation for Releasing Pain & Honoring Strength

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Pain shapes us all, whether we acknowledge it or not. This guided meditation offers a sacred space to gently explore the places where you've been holding onto hurt—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. 

Through deliberate breathing and body awareness techniques, you're invited to locate the specific areas where tension resides within you. Rather than pushing these sensations away or trying to "fix" them, the meditation encourages a revolutionary act of witnessing: simply acknowledging what is present without judgment. "This is not about forcing anything away," the guide reminds us. "It's about making space for healing, space for softness, space for truth."

What sets this practice apart is its emphasis on honoring the strength that emerges from our most difficult experiences. We often focus exclusively on releasing pain without recognizing how it has shaped our resilience. This meditation bridges that gap, guiding you to recognize that "You are strong and resilient because you rose, you endured, and you became." By visualizing pain as fluid energy rather than a fixed part of your identity, you'll experience a profound shift from carrying your wounds to allowing them to flow through and ultimately transform you.

By the meditation's end, you'll reconnect with a fundamental truth that's easy to forget when we're suffering: "You are not your pain, you are your power, you are your presence, you are your peace." Take these twelve minutes as a gift to yourself—a gentle reminder that healing happens not by forcing change, but by creating space for it to unfold naturally. How might your day change if you carried this softness with you?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there.
You know we all hold pain,whether we recognize or realize
it or not, and so I created thisguided meditation for releasing
pain and honoring your strength, to help you recognize the pain
you've been holding on to andallow it to pass through and

(00:23):
acknowledge the strength you'vegained from it.
So let's begin by finding acomfortable seat or lying down
position, just allowing yourhands to rest gently on your lap
or by your side, and, whenyou're ready, softly close your

(00:45):
eyes.
We're going to begin by takinga deep breath in through your
nose and exhaling through yourmouth, through your mouth.
Again, as you breathe in, feelthe air entering your body and

(01:10):
exhale, let it carry away anytension that you're holding.
Allow your breath to settleinto a natural rhythm, feeling

(01:38):
it move in and out, in and outWith each breath.
Feel yourself arriving morefully in this present moment.
Breathe in, knowing that youare perfectly safe, that there's
nothing to do but breathe.

(02:07):
Now I want you to drawawareness to your body and

(02:50):
notice your feet, your jaw, yourface, your hands, your arms,
your muscles, your bones.
Breathe into your body.
Where are you holding tightnessas you scan these areas?
Allow yourself to really listen.
Where does your body, whisper,or maybe shout that there is

(03:14):
something that is still carrying.
Take your time identifying thisarea gently, placing your
attention there.
Not to judge, not to fix,simply to acknowledge and notice

(03:42):
.
Let your breath flow into thatspace.
Offer it kindness, offer itpatience.

(04:15):
As you continue to breathe, Iinvite you to bring to mind a
pain that you've been holding onto.
It may be recent or long ago.
It may feel distant and dull,or more present and sharp.

(04:37):
Just draw it to your awareness.
You don't have to relive it,just acknowledge that it's there
.
You can give it a name if youwish, just noticing, holding

(05:08):
space for it.
And now say to yourself gentlyI see you, I've carried you and

(05:33):
you've shaped me.
Allow yourself to feel whateveris present.
If emotions rise, let them rise.
You're safe.
If they pass through, let thempass through.
This is not about forcinganything away.
It's about making space Spacefor healing, space for softness,

(06:06):
space for truth.
Keep breathing, feel thespaciousness that you've created

(06:27):
and now bring your awareness tothe strength that has come from
walking through that pain.
You may not have asked for it,but still you rose, you endured,

(06:51):
you endured, you became.
You are strong and resilientbecause you rose you endured and
you became.
What have you learned?

(07:19):
What muscles of the clarity doyou now carry?

(07:40):
Let that strength rise withinyou now like a warm light from
your core, moving out in alldirections.
Recognize the strength that youhave gained from your pain.

(08:09):
Say silently to yourself Ihonor the strength I've gained.
I trust the wisdom I carry.

(08:36):
I am still becoming as youcontinue to breathe and expand.
Picture the pain now assomething fluid, energy that

(09:02):
wants to move.
You no longer need to hold itin place to keep it down.
You've listened and you'velearned.
You no longer need to hold it.
With each breath, allow it toflow through you like a river.

(09:29):
Feel it as it exits the bodythrough the breath, through the
earth, through light.
Feel your body lighten, feelyour chest expand.

(09:56):
Your heart is open.
You smile and you breathe andyou allow yourself to rest in

(10:19):
this spaciousness.
You are not your pain, you areyour power, you are your

(10:48):
presence, you are your peacePeace.

(11:11):
Bring your awareness back tothe room, back to your body,
back to the present and, whenyou're ready, gently open your

(11:39):
eyes, take a deep breath in asif you're breathing for the
first time.
Carry this softness with you,my friend.