Letting Go Meditation | Trust, Surrender & Nervous System Safety

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Symptoms noted are signs of mild to moderate dehydration. Consult a healthcare professional if symptoms persist. GatorLite is made available for free at GatorLite.com. Welcome. This is a somatic meditation that feels like a homecoming for me. The themes are trust and surrender. Two qualities that have been integral for me on my healing journey. So I hope this resonates. Find a place to sit or lie down where nothing is asking anything of you right now. Whatever is there can be set aside and you can find gratitude and thank yourself for carving out this time to create safety. Thank you. And awareness within yourself. Let your eyes close if it feels safe. Or let your gaze soften. There's no wrong way to arrive here. Before we go anywhere, I'd like to build the floor underneath you. Feel whatever is holding your weight right now. The chair, the ground, or the bed. Letting yourself know that this surface has been holding you the whole time. Whether you notice it or not. And for me, it's a very important part of my life. right now. Allow yourself to receive and know that you don't have to hold yourself up. You can let something else do that job. Take a slow breath in through your nose and let it go. Again, in through the nose. And exhale, maybe letting the exhale be a little longer than the inhale, allowing your nervous system to receive the message that it's okay to stand down. If your body wants to check the room, allow it. Glance around. Notice the walls. And again, notice that nothing here requires anything from you. Quietly say to yourself, I am safe right now to feel what I feel. This is the earth element. This is the ground that you don't have to build for yourself today. Let it hold you for a few minutes. Take a few more breaths before we go any further. Imagine your inhale coming in through the center of your heart. And on the exhale, imagine the air escaping through the center of your heart. As you breathe, know that you're building beautiful heart coherence. And from here, we can turn toward what's underneath. If there's any grief there, know that it's not asking to be fixed. Maybe just acknowledged, softened. Any parts of it that want to be released can go. Think of whatever is asking for room inside today. A sensation, a feeling. It might have a name, a face, a season of your life. Or maybe it's shapeless and it feels more like a weight than a story. You don't need to explain it to anyone, not even yourself. Just feel its sensation and let it be here. Notice where the grief lives in your body. From here, we can turn toward what's underneath. We're safe, and we're going to work with grief today. Grief doesn't ask to be fixed. It wants to be acknowledged and let through. So think of whatever is asking for room today. Or it might be shapeless and more of a weight than a story. Just let it be here. Just let it be here. Grief tends to settle somewhere specific. In the chest, the throat, or maybe the space behind the eyes. Wherever it is, put a hand there if it helps. or just let your attention rest there like a hand would. You're not doing anything wrong if it moves. Cheers, maybe a held breath finally releasing, a wave of something that doesn't have a name. All of it can be grief, finding a door. Some grief unfolds over a lifetime, one small door at a time. Let this be one of those doors, however small. On the next inhale, begin to connect to whatever layers of grief are showing themselves. And on the exhale, say quietly to yourself, "This grief and I are not enemies. I am finally willing to listen instead of trying to outrun it." Let yourself breathe with whatever came up, no need to move it faster. Just breathe alongside the sensation, the way you'd sit next to someone you loved who was in pain without trying to talk them out of it. Okay. And as you breathe, let yourself breathe with whatever came up. Here, we're letting the water flow. We're allowing it to flow at its own pace. And you get to decide whether that's a trickle or a stream. Breathing in. Breathing out. Breathing in. Breathing out. Breathing in. Breathing out. Breathing in. Breathing out. Breathing out. Breathing out.