Client Resources
Meditations
Body Scan
This meditation involves focusing your attention on one body part at a time - just noticing and accepting sensations as you become aware of them. The body scan helps to induce a deep state of relaxation and is great before bed or when you need take a break from stress.
Comfortable Place
This guided imagery fosters the development of a safe place. It decreases sympathetic (fight-or-flight) nervous system activation and increases parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) activation. Repeated listening reinforces the positive experience.
Containment
A container is an imagined resource that helps you to compartmentalize anything that is distressing, allowing you to be more present and focus on day-to-day life. It is not a suppression method, but rather a technique that allows you to attend to the distressing material only when you are ready and have the resources.
Emotions Tracking
This guided meditation is a resource to help you notice the bodily sensations, that are connected to emotions. This will increase tolerance for emotions, and will foster a sense of self-compassion.
Leaves on a Stream
This meditation is a mindfulness technique, that teaches the skill of observing thoughts and feelings without judgement. This allows for a sense of detachment and acceptance of thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations.
Repairenting
This guided imagery helps to develop and internalize an attachment figure who is emotionally attuned and nurturing.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
PMR helps to achieve a deep state of relaxation by systematically tightening and then relaxing the major muscle groups. With continued PMR practice, it becomes easy to relax the body on demand by taking 2 or 3 deep breaths and just remembering how you felt during this meditation.
Nurturing Figure
This guided imagery helps to develop and internalize an attachment figure who is emotionally attuned and nurturing.
Remembered Wellness
Studies show that when you are imagining or visualizing an event, your body reacts the same as it does to an actual event in the present. A remembered wellness meditation taps into the power of your imagination to create wellness here and now by remembering a time in your life when you truly felt well. It may help to make a list of such memories to draw from before starting the meditation. Rotate through memories with repeated practice.