SOMATIC MEDITATION | Release Anxiety From Your Body
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2020
- Check out this somatic meditation to release fear and anxiety from the body.
We are living in uncertain times, indeed. With virtually the entire planet experiencing a global pandemic, businesses being shut down, cities and entire countries on lockdown, it's natural that worry and anxiety would set in.
But living in fear is not helpful. And you don't have to let it take over.
Somatic meditation -- at least my version of it -- uses strategies that calm your nerves at the biological level. So, rather than try to control your thoughts which can be like herding squirrels (and yes, I have experience with that -- don't ask), we create calm at the cellular level which automatically soothes your anxious, worried brain.
Watch this video for a full somatic meditation experience. Feel free to share it with anyone that needs this kind of support.
Note: this content is for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice, or as a substitute for the medical advice of a physician.
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Hey! I’m autistic with rare genetic disease, and now have chronic fatigue and pain. I find this approach more helpful than anything else I’ve ever worked with. After years of psychologists trying to get me to work “in my head” and verbalise my cognitions etc, and me feeling that my “fight/flight” was physical and in a different “place”, this type of work finally gives me a way of making sense of exactly what is going on in my body, without feeling like I’m being gaslit. It’s so truly beautiful to feel calm, as I’ve spent literally my whole life feeling like I’m about to be hit by a car. Thank you!
I’m so glad for you!
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Gillian, I am celebrating with you. I know the relief of which you speak. Peace to all. God bless Sukie.
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I'm crying at first I thought it was sadness and than I realized it is a happy cry for you. You found something that helps you and that makes my heart happy. My son is severely autistic, he is 9 and is non-verbal , so, he growls as his for of communication. I don't know why I'm rambling on, I'm sorry. I am truly happy for you. I'm trying it tonight for the first time.
Meditation starts at 5:00
Thanks!
@melissa panero
People like you are the lifeblood of youtube videos.
Thank you
Thanks ... I was so in a state of panic that I just wanted to do something to get rid of it and you helped by telling me when d exercise was starting thanks...
I just did this. I have struggled with anxiety for a long time, and C-PTSD. After exhaling all that breath, every in breath I just sobbed. Not sure if that’s a common response, but it was definitely emotional for me. Feeling like I had a bit of a release ❤️ thank you
It’s release so it’s actually really good
The EXHALE FULLY holds a lot of power, especially with daily practice!… Try it out with exercise😊
I feel like you just saved my life and allowing me to see me for the first time. I accidentally found one of your other videos after starting to see a health/relationship pattern. I did the vagus nerve techniques and for the very first time I felt all of this warmth and peace come over me. Nothing has ever made me feel so calm. I then did several other videos of yours and had one the deepest hardest cries of my life. Today I did another one of your vagus nerve videos and noticed (eyes/ears) I have the warmth near the most. Almost like the hurt we have heard and the pain we have seen. My eyes no longer jump all over the place. I'm not sure if it's from doing these exercises but I am starting to be able to smell now. I thought it was from my allergies but I think bc I'm breathing through my nose now that it's waking that up too. Thank you for choosing this passion and sharing it with the rest of us. No Dr has ever mentioned anything like this. My pain was abandoning myself. I have forgiven myself bc at that time and age I obviously wasn't mentally able to process the trauma. I'm just glad I still have time to love myself the way I have loved everyone else for so long. Thank you.
Deseo y decreto que todas las personas que lean este mensaje sean felices y prósperas en todo sentido! ❤️
I have a condition called adrenal fatigue, and I have suffered with it for 10 years, but most of my life I have CPSD, and was diagnosed with that in 1986, but they didn’t call it CPSD they called it PTSD, my health started failing, I finally was able to find someone to help me with my adrenal fatigue, but my nervous system was just so over active, that then I had to have eye surgery, which compounded my nervous system issues, and I finally was able to hear about this type of meditation, and it is the most wonderful system that I have used so far, it has brought me down from the fighter flight, Since my eye surgery, and I kept crashing with my adrenals, and realized that my nervous system was just so tight that my muscles were rigid, that includes my bowels… But this has softened my body so much ….I do it once a day, and then another one that you have Suki I use in the evening, thank you so much for sharing these with us, who Can’t afford to, or can’t find anyone that does this in our area, thank you, thank you, the second time I use this, I started crying… Wonderful work, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I've meditated daily for the 1 or 2 years. Your meditations are something special and feel deeply healing. Please make more ❤️
I noticed a feeling like bottled up tears in my face and head and noticed that I thought of it as 'pain,' but it wasn't really physical pain and so I suddenly wasn't sure what it was except that it was uncomfortable. I wondered why the tears were bottled up. I knew the source of them, my father's frequent irritation with me and anger at me, and realised that what had always been hardest to face in this was the idea that I was a victim, which I seemed to be ashamed of. So I thought, well, why not just let myself call myself a victim then, since I was victimised? And then I had a really great cry.
Hope you are doing better........ & the cry was the a release of trauma......Very good thing! ......& it may arise again....and THATS OK.....DONT push it away, accept it & RELAX , FEEL.....Let it pass through you......( I wish I knew this MANY Years ago......❤️........ ( change perception of your dads anger.......think of it as Worry he has abt you ......or he sees himself in you......good luck
@@rhondapelletier2141 Thank you. Little triggers for this come up sometimes and spark a reaction - this was a really good one - but most of the time I'm so 'good at' suppressing it that I don't even think of it. It's a little frustrating, the sense that there's a job there that needs doing and could deliver great benefits, but I'm never sure how to get started (I've had lots of therapy). Ultimately, it seems one needs to think of these things more consciously so as to be able finally to let them go and move on to other thoughts.
Recently, watching a kids film, a very good one, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, I realised that his frequent negativity about my plans when I was getting ready to leave home were probably his mixed up way of saying he didn't want me to go. That was helpful in line with what you say about changing perception.
My mom passed in September 2020 and my stepdad in January 2021. Feeling so overwhelmed, depressed and anxious. THANKS for your help.
my condolences😔
And my mom is dying right now. Thanks Marie, gave me some connection over it. I appreciate you!
Marie … what a soulshaking experience!! There are no words that can be offered that could ever relieve such pain, so I won’t even try to do so. 💔 I’m just holding you tightly in my heart (((💜)))
Hi.. found your words .., I hope today you are good.. my dad passed away on August 2020, my mom passed away 6 months later I didn't see them on their last day because of covid. my younger brother has been fighting cancer for 3 years now. 2 my favorite uncles passed away before my dad and my mom. Every night and every morning when I wake up I am still grieving.
Thank you for this! I’ve had chronic anxiety for the past 10 years and this really helped. I started off with tension and pain in my back and by the end I was enjoyably relaxed and calm and centred. I’m going to try to make this a daily practice. I’m sick of living in survival mode, ten years + (I’m 33 now) is far too long for anyone. I’ve made bad choices and stifled myself creatively due to being in survival mode 24/7, including self medicating. I’m almost 6 years clean but still rely on my meds to ease the anxiety to a level where I can function, but even then a normal life leads to burnout quickly. Anxiety is like being in a prison and it’s sad to watch everyone else enjoying themselves, getting married etc when they very day is a battle and living in the mind rather than in the Present. Appreciate the video, one of the best meditations I’ve found on UA-cam and I try to do one a couple times a week. The gated exhalation really helped me to find comfort and serenity, I will be using that in future while meditating. I always have tried just to be mindful of the inhalation and exhalation and try not to slow or deepen on purpose. Have a lovely day!
This helped me feel so much more centered and like I can breathe. I’ve been feeling like I can’t breathe from anxiety all day and this has really helped me with this. Thank you ♥️
Comments aren't enough to express my gratitude to you for helping me so much at this really difficult time in my life, Sukie. I'm using your content every day at the moment.
This is wonderful. I never realized that I don't exhale fully when I'm in that stressed state. What a difference it made to really exhale. Thank you!
@Carrie Libowicz - I realised a while ago that it was the exhale that was restricted with me, especially at times of anxiety.
Since my teenage years I have suffered with the feeling that I could not get 'over' my breath (hope that makes sense, it's the only way I can describe the feeling), and this feeling of restriction would then lead me to a feeling that I could not breathe at all - a panic if you like.
Understanding that it was the exhale and not the inhale that was the real problem was the first step to preventing these 'attacks'.
I still feel that my exhale gets restricted/trapped in my body but doing breathing exercises and meditation has helped hugely.
I love this! I'm wondering if anyone has experienced an abundance of anxiety after meditating? I found something online called 'stressed induced relaxation'. Whenever I focus on breath or do anything really soothing, it only creates anxiety, which makes me stress out about simple things I usually wouldn't be stressed over and it lasts days or longer. It's like my nervous system is so raw that relaxation has the opposite effects.
I have experienced this myself. I notice that it depends on what I do right after the meditation. If I look at my phone, I’ll start to panic. I think it makes sense that sometimes we can feel extra stressed out or anxious after a meditation because we have brought “stuff” to the surface.
Your calming and reassuring voice is soothing, thank you ❤
Thanks a lot for this relaxing meditation!
Thank you so much for that. I’ve been doing trauma healing for myself and others for 21 years, but there’s so much good stuff to keep learning right now. I really appreciate your sharing this on UA-cam, because challenges in my life are necessitating healing at a new level. This helped so much. Sending you lots of good energy and gratitude. 🕊💗
Hey nancymadlin, I’m glad you found your way here. Thank you for watching 😊
Gonna do this everyday, absolutely amazing! Such a soothing, comforting voice, thank you 💗
Picked up this video yesterday which was obviously related to “COVID” global pandemic and was so delighted to see Sukie in her video which was live at the time.
I am an 81 year old male from south coast of UK and have practised many types of treatments for stress and anxiety which include Yoga, acupressure,reflexology,Zone therapy by Joseph Corvo she treated Princess Diana. Your videos particularly related to Vagal nerve Stimulation for Trauma and Anxiety are brilliant and compliment what I have already achieved!
Thanks so much Sukie maybe see you live sometime
Thank you you helped me get out of flight I've been in four days straight. This your calling . Your voice is beautiful n calm n soothing .
So happy I found you. I (eve from the Netherlands) suffer chronic headaches due to mussle tension for 25 years. Have craneo therapist she does great work and these exercises feel great headaches are not gone but can cope better and are less severe. In June I'll get a medical piercing in my ear at the spot of nerves vages which should calm even more. Thank you, great human 🍀
This is the most relaxed I’ve been able to get since the c word hit months ago. I love your videos and also just watched the vagas nerve ear massage one. I may finally have found some relief from this viral monster. Thank you, Sukie.
I belong to land of yoga and meditation. Your explanation is wonderful. Lots of love to you
Thank you Sukie, it such a simple, gentle movement, nothing like I would imagine could create such a release. We are so used to hard effort to change and find a calmness, hitting the gym, hot yoga, we want the body to be what our minds tell us it should be. You bring all our attention back to a self awareness. Love and appreciate you work.
Just completed the meditation, was having an overload and overwhelm day. Thanks so much Sukie for these resources. It really helped today. Feeling much fuller and centered. More connected to my self.
Thank you for sharing this exercise and all the rest of your techniques toward getting our minds and bodies back in sync. I am just now today finding your videos. I suffer from anxiety/stress which has manifested into a lot more physical issues for me over the last months/years. I'm trying to reconnect and reset. Thank you
Wow! Thank you Sukie. 🙏 The exercises you lead me through have left me feeling more in my body than I’ve ever felt before. I feel not only mentally calm, but physically and emotionally calm. And you taught me things I didn’t know about my nervous system. Many blessings to you ❤️
Thank you! Very touched by your presence. Sending you love.
Thank you so much for posting this and other videos Sukie. They are helping and empowering so many people to manage their anxieties without medication. They are a real blessing.
Thankyou so much for your Loving , caring and skillful guidance. Very helpful indeed.🙏💝🌈
This was terrifying and uncomfortable and amazing all at once. I think i need to start doing daily somatic meditations. Thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you!! I’ve just found you and grateful for the support.
Well, that was great!
I meditate 'better' with guided meditations, and I have loved learning and practicing different types and approaches. At some point i became interest in the current vagal research/theories, which might have prompted the algorithm to pop up one of your videos.
I learned traditional Buddhist insight meditation first, where the body sensation is felt, but not at all 'manipulated', and trust in the natural order of 'trauma' in all variations slowly unraveling, is cultivated. So my inquisitive rational mind loves all the explanations and direct access and intentional input to the vagus. And your calm voice and energy are great for this. Huzzah to introverts.
Thank you so much @Sukie Baxter!
Thank you so much. This was soothing and yes grounding. Something else that helps me to feel and expand my own sense of self and almost immediately deepens my breath is to repeatedly say : I am (out loud or just silently). ❤
Thank you Sukie - I'm new to this but I loved the meditation and I very much appreciate your making it available
I am really into this channel.I like Sukies energy. Very helpful I don't know if you ever get over real trauma.It helps to have good insight though and meditation always relaxes me and leaves me peaceful.
you are a true blessing! Thank you
I just did this. Thanks so much for posting it widely. Really genius! This feels really true to what the body longs for. Be safe! Be well. Have a wonderful rest of your day too.
So grateful for your videos!!
Oh my God! This is amazing! Thank you for the tools
Sukie, thank you for all you do. Truly grateful.
This was absolutely beautiful. Thank you, Thank you for making this. 💜
Thank you for sharinf your time and expertise so freely. Sending you gratitude and winds of virtual love.
Thank you! Grateful to have found you ❤
Thank you so very much for this and for your kind and gentle soul. It has helped tremendously.
A thousand thanks!
Thank you Sukie, this was just wonderful. There were so many areas of discomfort that I was able to listen to, however I was able to be with them with some bit of ease at the same time. So grateful for this.
I love listening to you and am doing a lot of your meditations to help release of trauma from infancy. They feel so good and I love your presentations. I’m learning so much. I thank you deeply!
Me too Tace, they are really great. I use them everyday.
Bless you Sukie! Go for more!
Sukie, thank you for this session. You are so kind to spend your time teaching us things i never new. I Will try this a few times because i believe it must work. Thank you for your compassion with your followers. Be Blessed.
Thank you so much for this! I struggle with anxiety regularly and have noticed how much I hold my breath and keep my stomach pulled in. I have been experiencing chronic pain for quite some time too and I have learnt that it's likely to be linked to my tension and anxiety...as most of my health issues seem to be. I really enjoyed following your video and listening to your gentle, calming voice guiding me. I'm going to continue practising this 😊💗
Have you investigated TMS for your chronic pain? Really worth looking into 😁
@@jeanhannah9809 Hi, yes I have thank you 😊.
I've found some really helpful websites and books on TMS. Alongside practising somatic movement which has been really helping. Thank you for your reply 😊
I just want to share what just happened to me. This totally worked, but not how I expected. The "sensation" I was sitting with was all through my abdomen, and the longer I sat, the higher it rose, upward and outward to my sides. I feared it would consume all of my organs. Eventually, I got up and ran from the TV, saying, "I can't take it anymore!"
As soon as I did that, the action itself felt so unloving towards Sukie, as if I was rejecting her love, that it broke down the wall, and I cried. Then I finally understood the emotion underneath my anxiety. It began with my mother.
Miraculously, that unbearable, gripping, all-consuming feeling is gone, at least for now. Now I know just what to do and think about next time it comes up to release it...until it's all gone.
I expected to feel better after this, but I did not expect to be absolutely healed!! Haha. Thank you for your healing, loving energy, Mama Sukie. 💛🧡🩷
This was VERY helpful, Suki! I am just beginning to learn to feel my body and be present with it, and accept those feelings and sensations w/o judgement. I am already hooked and I will share your videos w my adult kids. I prayed and asked God for help with my tight throat, not sure if I needed the emergency room or what. Then I remembered I flagged your video on the vagus nerve stretches and my journey has begun!! You are an answer to prayer! l believe my neck issue is tension and not a blood flow issue. Thank you so much!
She came to me as an answer to a prayer as well! 😇
❤️🙏🙏🌿
this was a wonderful experience, thank you. peaceful, finally
Thank you so very much. This is so powerful! 💜
I deal with a lot of anxiety - for a couple of years now and finding you has been an enormous relief. Last night I was struggling with anxiety and on the brink of a panic attack and I listened to your video and afterwards felt an amazing shift. I feel that hasn't yet happened yet (outside of taking a pill). So doing that naturally was amazing. Thank you so so so much.
Really grateful for this video🌸🌸
I stumbled across you by accident this morning during extreme panic, I'm very grateful I did thank you
Me too, Di. Welcome 💜
Thank you so much for sharing this, Sukie. I'm just beginning to explore your resources.
Welcome, John, I’m glad you found your way here!
Love this video, thank you. I have just stared to watch your videos this week. Finding them extremely helpful. Thank you so much. ❤️
I just found this- you are so generous to share your expertise- I am so grateful for you! Thank you!
Wonderful! Just curious why she hasn’t listed any new material. I think it’s been 2 yrs. Her videos have been so helpful. 💜
My daughter emailed me a link to your vegus nerve reset link on youtube. Firstly, I'm fortunate to have such a daughter that shares with me what works for her. I have dealt with limited range of motion in my neck for years. This exercise, to my surprise works. Thank you. I'll be using it daily. Secondly, after watching and doing the first exercise, I was intriqued and moved on to the 2nd video on the ears. Sold again! Thank you for showing your seasoned and new Subcribers how to relieve stress, and tension from past, present, and current trauma from our systems. And thanks again to my dear daughter "Venus".
Thank you Sukie,
You are amazing!!
Thank you so much for this video! I am new to this type of therapy and frequently get stuck in fight/flight/freeze. Following your video gave me such relief! I can’t thank you enough!
I feel so good following you, thank you so much for this wonderful video.
It’s very interesting and effective exercises! I’m a yoga instructor and I can relate to you! Thanks for it’s very helpful for nowadays!
Awesome video thank you
Thanks so much for your help. 😃
Thank you for this video
Thank you for your wonderful videos teaching how to release severe anxiety by connecting with my body again in this way. I also tried your stretching video previously to this one. Very powerful. I look forward to incorporating this into my daily practice of prayer and mindful Meditation to see how the relationship may improve releasing the stress and anxiety. I did notice what you said at the end of the season about that feeling of self expansion... For me it was dynamic and very profound. Thank you for sharing this practice.
i am grateful for you. this is the best meditation ever. you have taught me so much over the last two months. thank you very much ♥️
Oh wow, thank you ! It worked ! :) I feel relaxed and my breathing pattern is totally different now then it was before. My anxiety attacks appear out of nowhere, like one before this exercise, so I am really happy, that it can be reversed.
Hi Sukie. I just found you on here today and so glad I did! I've been suffering from severe anxiety, it comes and go but now that I'm going through chemotherapy for breast cancer, it's been non-stop. Ive been doing yoga, meditation but never knew about the nervous system connection. Thank you for this beautiful practice & meditation. I also will do your other exercises. Thanks so much!! 🙏💕
I wish you full recovery from your health issues and anxiety. Sending good thoughts your way 😘
amazing, loved it
I enjoyed it a lot. I feel relaxed after doing this meditation. Thank you!
heartfully love to you from this calm state i have achieved from this meditation..long time calmness in my body and mind...such an great effort..
thank you very much..
Thank you so much for this! 🧡
Never new how relaxed I can be when u try meditation and how much anxiety can be released from the body thank u and god bless you for your videos
Im going to be doing this every day. This is the first time in a long time i have felt relaxed and able to relax.
Thank you for sharing this video! You have helped me relaxed my super intense, full of stress mind and body. Im gonna do this at least couple of times a week. ❤
I really liked this - thank you!! 💕🥰🇨🇦
Thank you so much.
I have cPTSD and DID, and I'm still going through immense trauma and it's been debilitating as of late. This is so gentle and it feels like getting our body online.
So many tears.
I'm someone like Susie mentioned in the video who's mind might be saying when is this over or things like that. This time my mind didn't wander there, I think it didn't I had done the exercises in Susie other video for anxiety where you turn your eyes. I just want everyone to feel better like I do. Thanks
Love this
Happy guru purnima or the day to thank/ celebrate teachers, however brief the teaching, is priceless.
Thank you 🙏
I woke up late at nyt feeling panicked and scared and crying praying god to help me then after 20mins into this I feel better.
Good thing is that I was aware about the effects of this meditation nd immediately searched for it.
Also found a strong limiting belief in this chaos lurking at the corners of my mind while I was doing d meditation "I need to keep worrying, if I am in d moment it would be hard to prepare n protect" a good way to counter this is "I release d need to worry, I am safe, I feel safe" repeat this as much as u can for days non stop.
Read louise hay books.
THANKS SUKIE I feel calm now and can go back to sleep. U don't know how grateful I am to u ❤ I will remember u bcz u caught me wen I felt like I was falling 🥲 Love u❤
I did the entire meditation except last 10mins, instead of facial massage I let my attention focus on my senses. Do what feels right to u then work your way up from der.
Love from India 🇮🇳
So very worthwhile.
This feels really good. Thank you for bringing me back to my centre.
i simply dozed off. Thank you :)
Thank you so much :)
excellent thank you so much
Thank you so much for this. 🙏
Thank you so much 🙏x
I remembered how to do nothing ❤️ very grateful
Thank you 😊
Thank you!
During the first check-in my anxiety was so bad I could hear my pulse in my ears because of my headphones. After all the exercises, I couldn't hear my pulse during the second check-in. Thank you.
Thank you!💕💕💕💕
Ooo i feel so relaxed , so good. I had so many wonderful feelings . Why don't doctor teach this?! Thank you sister. 🤗
I hope you extend this meditation thank you