This meditation is for feeling overwhelmed. Start by putting your hands over your chest. And feel the touch of your chest is kind of soothing and grounding. Feel the warmth of your hands on your chest. And allow it to give you a sense of ease. So before we start with the meditation, sit on a chair, make sure your back is straight, or sit in a meditation pose, or lay down comfortably. So you can choose to keep your hands on your chest or you can put your hands open palms up and have your thumbs touch your pointer or middle finger, or third possibility is to fold your hands on top of eachother on your lap. So when you are ready, gently close your eyes. And when you close your eyes you let go of all your thoughts. There is probably a lot because you feel overwhelmed. So you are gonna ask for your thoughts to all move out for a little bit. To give you some space to deal with what is. So visualize, sense, think, feel, imagine or any way you can do it, that your thoughts disappear out of your head like clouds on a blue sky. And visualize seeing the clouds slowly disappearing until you have a beautiful blue open sky. And during this session you might get distracted with thoughts, that is okay. As soon as you notice it, just bring it back to what you hear me saying. It is okay, it is normal. So feeling overwhelmed is quite a difficult feeling to work with because when we are stressed we are not our best. When we are stressed we tend to do things quicker, and when we do things quicker, we often fail more than we are more than when we are relaxed. So feeling overwhelmed is most often not a good way to approach life. Of course there are many different ways why we feel overwhelmed. It can be for us to be emotionally overwhelmed, too much stuff happening in our lives, it can be overwhelmed from tasks, or it can be pressured from being overwhelmed, so there are a lot of ways you can feel overwhelmed. So first, with your eyes closed, thoughts disappearing, try to determine which kind of overwhelmed you feel. Life is hectic with so many things we are doing, the internet in our hands knowing what is happening around the world 24/7, pressure of always being available through technology, and so it makes sense that we feel overwhelmed regularly, or every now and then, you are not alone. So now I would like you to see if you can feel where the feeling overwhelmed is sitting in your body. So not only in your head thinking about it, but most often it gives a certain sensation in your body too. Like your chest is nervous, or right under the rib cage in the middle of your body. It gets restless, or our intestines are growling and busy, or in our throat we feel constricted. So just allow yourself to find where the feeling of being overwhelmed is sitting in your body. You can do it by just focusing and putting your awareness in your body, or you can ask your breath to take you there. So now we are just going to take a few breaths to do that. So when you breathe in, you breathe in through your nose and then you ask your breath to guide you to the spot where the feelings of being overwhelmed sit in your body. So with the first breath in. feel you are going deeper into your body, and follow your breath all the way internally, and breathe out through your mouth. And with the next breath in, ask your body to bring you deeper into the feelings of being overwhelmed. And breathe in, follow your breath, with your attention follow your breath deeper and deeper inside of your body, and breathe out through your mouth. And again, please guide me to where I feel overwhelmed in my body, and breathe in and follow your breath. Put your awareness into the breath, guiding you through your body to the space where you feel overwhelmed. One more time, breathe in, and go even deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper to the very core of feeling overwhelmed. And then greet it as a friend. Because it needs attention if you feel overwhelmed, it needs attention because it means that something needs to be adjusted in your life. So meet it as a friend, and be kind to it, and ask to where your breath has taken you inside of your body, what the biggest problems are for being overwhelmed, and sit with that question, there, right there, where the core is, where the overwhelmed feelings are, and just sit with it and wait for an answer. And just keep breathing gently in and out with your awareness still there at the center of being overwhelmed, and open yourself up for this process, that there are possibilities that you can come out with something that feels better and more manageable for you. So go deeper and deeper, ask the question, and just breathe in and out with your awareness there in kindness, in loving kindness to the feeling overwhelmed. It is a lot, it is, and ask what is it that it needs, what do you need internally, and what do you know deep down inside what you need to deal with this? Because in our very internal being is where our truth is, our authentic truth, which is a truth that is completely and only true to us, and that truth is never supported by fear, that truth is a knowing, a deep knowing that resonates on cell levels. And it is always safe and kind. It is wise, it is practical, and solution focused, and safe, and kind. So ask yourself what needs to be adjusted for me to be more relaxed, and not feeling so overwhelmed. And sometimes it is just not doing too many things, sometimes it is making a schedule for everyday, and sometimes it is just the emotions needing to get more attention and embraced better. Sometimes it is just seeing an endpoint of all the busy stuff that needs to be done, and doing step by step finishing the things we need to do, knowing this too will pass. So whatever way it is, just embrace it, and be open to change things to solutions, and invite solutions and changes to come into your life to deal with feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes we just have to talk to someone. So breathe in the light into feeling overwhelmed, and make a commitment you are going to deal with it as soon as you are coming out of this meditation, and breathe out the tense feelings that come with feeling overwhelmed. Let them go through your mouth, and again breathe in the light into your tense feelings of feelings overwhelmed, let go and breathe out the tense feelings, and start trusting, trusting that you understand what is going on with you, so when you breathe in next the breath, breathe in trust into that spot, the intention of trust, and breathe out the stress. And one more time, breathe in the trust that you can do this, and out all the stress and stuff that keeps from working all the things through in a way that works for you. Let go. One more time, breathe in the light, and trust into it, and the openness, and feel the power you start to create inside of capability, and ability, and creativeness, and solution focused, and say “i can do this, I have this, i got this”, and then one more last breath in on this meditation, and breathe out all the stress, and let go, and see, sense, or feel, imagine the stress all leaving your body. You don’t need to carry that around because it wont make things better. So with the intentions, that when you come out of this meditation to make some plans, slowly hear my voice and feel your body in your chair, or the ground, or somewhere you are laying down, and wiggle your toes when you are ready, and your fingers, and when you are ready open your eyes. When you open your eyes, and you are ready, go get a piece of paper and pen, and start making some plans. Namaste.