Release Emotional Stress | A Somatic Meditation to Soften and Heal

Emotional stress has a way of building up quietly … until it's not so quiet anymore. We may feel it as overwhelm, as thoughts that won't quiet down, as a bone-deep exhaustion, or as irritability and reactivity that seem to come out of nowhere.

Most of us are carrying more emotional stress than we realize, and we come by it honestly. We've been conditioned our whole lives to push our emotions aside rather than actually feel them, and over time, that unprocessed emotion accumulates in the body as stress and tension.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a somatic meditation to release emotional stress by actually meeting and processing what you've been carrying emotionally. We'll work on two levels of healing: first, we'll support your nervous system to soften and regulate, and then we’ll drop in more deeply to feel and process your emotions.

This is the kind of practice that helps emotions actually move through and release, so we can feel lighter, clearer, and more like ourselves again.

Perfect for emotional stress relief, nervous system regulation, emotional release, somatic healing, and processing emotions in a gentle, body-centered way.

In this episode:

• How to Release Emotional Stress: A Somatic Approach
• Somatic Meditation to Release Emotional Stress:
  • Self-Havening for nervous system regulation
  • Regenerating Images in Memory for deeper release

Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations

Read more about the somatic way to release emotional stress

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