Session Ten

Breathwork and sound healing to live the fullest expression of your life. 

This episode is sponsored by Marvin Behavioral Health. Counseling for clinicians, built by clinicians. Available 24/7 because your schedule doesn't fit a 9-5. Find them here: https://app.meetmarvin.com/cedarsessions

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Hello, welcome back to Cedar Sessions. My name's Cassie, and I'm your host. Before we jump into today's session, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsor that is doing amazing work in healthcare, particularly with clinicians. I've spent nearly two decades in healthcare watching clinicians do the most sacred work in the world. And then they go home and they take it all with them. Burnout, compassion, fatigue, grief, moral distress, all components that show up from being with the human body, the human spirit every single day. That's why I want to tell you about Marvin Behavioral Health. It's the first mental health platform built specifically for healthcare workers by healthcare workers. Nurses, physicians, residents, and clinical staff, not a general therapy app, not an employee assistance program that takes three weeks to get an appointment. Marvin. Patient loss, impossible shifts, difficult team dynamics, the pressure to just keep moving. They get it because they too were built for it. It's confidential, virtual, and available seven days a week because your schedule doesn't fit into a nine-to-five. And neither should your support support. If you've been feeling stretched and carrying things home with you, or just wondering what support can help, Marvin's the place to start. And then I'll guide you through some energy healing with the beautiful tones of beginning a brief meditation and grounding. So wherever you are, you can lie down. If you are not able to lie down safely at this moment, maybe you listen and you come back another time for the full experience. So settle in. Expanding as it moves into your belly. Softening every organ in your abdomen. Every cell, every muscle as the light moves down into your hips, down your spine, into your legs, the tops and backs of your thighs, your knees, feeling every single cell, every single part of your belly, your body melt with each breath into your shins, your calves, through the bottom of your feet and each of your ten toes. Take a moment to notice your body softening. Notice a deep calm. And set an intention for yourself right here, right now. Just an intention for this 30-minute practice. An intention that keeps you present in this moment. Take a deep breath in through your nose and exhale. Let your intention go. Let it move out beyond you. And know that in this moment, right here, right now, you are ready. And let's begin. All right. In through your mouth, open mouth, belly, chest, exhale. Good. Move your breath. Belly, chest, exhale. The exhale falls and you come right back into your belly. Good. Belly, chest, exhale. Good. Right away, your brain may begin to protest. That's okay. Keep breathing. Let it move. Good. Here you go. Belly, chest, exhale. Belly, chest, exhale. Beautiful. Keep it moving. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Good. Good. You have given yourself this moment, so let your breath do its work. This practice is about letting your body show you its wisdom. It is about slowing down just enough to listen and allowing your energy to heal. Okay, deep in your breath. Good. Let it move. This is where we're moving through, through this central part of your chest. You're pulling up from your belly into your chest, letting it expand so you can drop into your heart space. Good. Deep in your breath. Good. Good. Fine right here. What you're resisting. And just take your attention there for one moment as you send your breath. Where your attention goes, your energy flows. So send your breath to your resistance. Mm-hmm. Good. Keep it moving. If you've started to feel vibrations, good. That's your energy moving. Feel your power. Let's go deep in your breath. Deepen it. Mm-hmm. Belly. Heart expands. Exhale. I want you to find where you're holding back. Yes. Find where you are holding back in your body. Find where you're bracing. And let your breath soften it. Let your breath do its work deep in your breath, into your belly, into your heart space. Exhale. Beautiful. You are worth this work. You are worth this practice. You are worth letting the world see exactly who you are. You are worth letting you see exactly who you are. Let it expand in your belly. Let it expand in your chest. And you exhale and you go right back to it. Let's go. Yes. Yes. So good. Keep it moving. Good. Good. What we're working with here is bringing the fullest, truest, deepest version of yourself. The one that maybe you've softened or you've grayed a little bit. We're finding that version so that they might come forward. So they might step into your external world deep in your breath. Because all abundance, all joy, all love, all prosperity comes from living in the fullest, most intact, most integral version of yourself. The one that lives by your own knowing. The one that lives for you so that you can give to others deep in your breath. Let's go, take it in. Good. Belly, chest, exhale, keep it moving. I want you to make contact with that version of yourself. Sometimes you need to just have a little fun to do it. So let the music move you. Let the music move your body. You don't have to stay completely still. You can let the tones, the beats, the sounds, you can let it move your body. The truest version comes out in our joy. So let it move. Let yourself move. Deepen your breath. Good. Deepen it. These first few songs build us into a peak of our breath. Build us into a moment of tension release. So just let it flow right now. I want you to find one thing in your life, one aspect of who you are that you have quieted. All I want you to do is observe it. Almost like watching a movie. You're watching a character, you see what they're about to do, and you're saying, don't do that or do that. I want you to pretend you're watching the movie of your life, a moment right now, and I want you to find that moment where you want the character, the main character of you, to bring in some joy. Send that person into the direction of their deepest desire, their fullest expression. A life of vitality, of love. A life of wealth, of riches, of beauty. Let's go deep in your breath. Hold it here, belly. Just exhale. Yes. If this is where you want to give up, go in deeper. Take your breath deeper into your belly, feel it expand, and pull it up into your heart. With this next one, we're digging deep into the crevices of our pelvis, into the crevices of our legs, pulling up our breath, deepening it. Let's go. Good. If an emotion starts to come up, let it move. Emotions peak at 90 seconds, unless we stop them and then they root in our body. For you to feel them for longer. So let it move. Let the emotion move up and out of your body and through and feel its release. We are beings of energy. Your emotions are just energy. And when you realize that you can choose, you can choose to be free of them. You can be choosed to be free of the stuffness, of the pain, of the suffering. Let it move. Good. Let it wash over you. Allow yourself to feel the movement and the space as it washes over you. Good. Yes. Good deepen your breath here. Deepen your breath. Each emotion may come with a sound. If you feel a sound wanting to move, let it move. It might be an ah. It might be a yell. It might be an I am. The most powerful two words in the human language are I am. Because whatever follows it becomes your truth. Because it is what your mind brings into your body. And so consider everything that you say behind the statement, I am. And ask yourself if that's what you want to be, if that's who you want to be. And if it's not, you have a chance right now, in this moment, to change that, to decide differently. To say, I am power. To say, I am wealth, to say I am love, to say I am whole, I am healing. Deep in your breath. I am. I am. Who are you? Let your body, let your spirit show you who are you. Of the spirit that lives in your body. That is meant to create beauty in this life. Keep your breath moving. And let yourself be guided. Belly, chest. Exhale. And begin to feel your energy moving. Begin to feel a lightness move through your body. As you begin to imagine the most perfect moment in your life. A moment that you are creating right now. A moment that will become your past. We like to think that our past creates our present, but in fact, it is our present that creates our past. To create, to live the present. That you will find joy from. That you will find love from that you will look back with awe on. Feel it in your body right now. Expand. Read in your breath, the belly heart expands, exhale. Let's go. Good. Do not give up on your discount. There is one person here that saved you on your journey and then it's you to do not give up on your discount. Whoever let you quiet it. Whoever told you that you didn't have any. Choose right now to take it, to have it, to own it, to feel the power of your energy. Feel the vibrations of your body. It is your power. So choose to let it move. Good. Keep breathing. Yes. Yes. Deep in your breath here. You have one more song of activated breath. So give all you can to it. Choose to allow yourself to receive. Receive from yourself. Receive from the wisdom of your body, the wisdom of your soul. Breathe deeper. Receive. Belly, just exhale. Belly, just exhale. Yes. Yes, so good. So good. You are the most beautiful of souls. The most beautiful of human beings. You are perfect in your wholeness. So feel it right now. Feel your perfection. Feel the light radiating from the center of your body outward. Feel your creative power. You have one more minute of active breath. Where else can you? Where else can you go deep? Where else can you anything that wants to move and allow it? Create space in your body. Allow it. Let's go deep in your breath. Create the space for the change that you want to come in. For the life that you want to build. Take a deep breath in through your mouth. Hold it at the crown of your head. Let it go. Take another deep inhale through your mouth to the crown of your head. Hold it. Let it go. Good, beautiful. One more hold. Take it all the way up through your mouth from the bottom of your spine to the crown of your head. Hold it at the top. Hold it. Hold it. Good. Exhale. Let it go. Feel the release in your body. Take your breath to your nose. And begin to open your body. As you take your breath in through your nose. Notice the capacity for love. Notice the capacity for light. Notice the capacity for healing. Good. Keep breathing through your nose. Inhale, exhale. Feel the joy wash over your body. Feel the bliss of being alive. Take your attention to the center of your chest. And notice what you feel. Notice what you hear. Notice your heart. Your heart is beating. What a gift. Your heart is beating. For your life. Experience it. Keep breathing. Yes. Yes. Keep your breath moving. Deepen your breath for a moment. Feel its expansion in the center of your chest. In your heart space. Let your life be rich, abundant, delicious. Imagining it, softening. So that the energy, the spirit, your soul moving through you becomes one with your body. Take it in through your nose. And an exhale through your mouth. Begin to bring your awareness back into your body. Notice anywhere that is lighter or softer. Notice anywhere that feels more open. When you're ready, you can bring gentle movement into your toes and your fingers. Wherever feels right. Move with ease. Move with kindness. Beautiful. When you open your eyes or remove your eye mask, the world will be a bit brighter. So go easy on yourself. Take a final deep breath in through your nose. And an audible exhale. Until next time. I hope you have a beautiful day.