A Nervous System RESET
A Nervous System RESET
An Elemental Chakra Meditation for Hot Summer Days
In this week’s guided meditation, we explore an elemental balancing practice for anxiety management and nervous system regulation.
Reflecting on a few personal experiences with balancing extreme temperatures lately (both literal and metaphorical), today’s episode is a visualization and sound meditation that has been deeply supportive in my own practice. I hope it will be useful in your own practice as well!
The supportive soundscape in today’s episode is a recording of a summer night in Olympic National Park from acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton. You will hear a summer breeze swirl through tall grasses while chattering birds and a distant coyote settle down for the night.
In this episode:
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
00:46 Balancing in Extreme Temperatures
01:25 Dealing with Anxiety and Imbalance
03:05 Elemental Balancing Practice
04:32 Combining Practices: Elemental Balancing and Still Lake of the Mind
07:58 Guided Meditation: Journey Through the Elements
27:56 Closing and Returning to the Present
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The sounds in today’s episode were recorded on the ancestral lands of eight tribes: Hoh, Jamestown S'Klallam, Lower Elwha Klallam, Makah, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Quileute, Quinault and Skokomish.
**Thank you to Gordon Hempton for today’s field recordings, Nick McMahan for sound design, mixing and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support.
Just the Meditation; Just For You
Elemental Balancing
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*all of the content shared in my podcasts, newsletters & meditations is written by me {Meryl Arnett} without the use of AI. If you catch a mistake or typo, I hope it makes you smile knowing a real person is behind every word published 💛