🔼: [[⭐️ Emotions]], [[🕯️ Somatics]] #### The Emotional Release Meditation Simple but powerful, this practice can be performed for 10 minutes or more. 1. Lie down in the [[🛠 Constructive Rest Position]]. So that you can fully release your legs and pelvis, place a yoga strap around your thighs so that you don’t have to use any effort to hold your legs up (but don’t tie your legs tightly together). 2. Establish a [[🕯️ Resourcing|🕯️ Resource]] 3. [[🧘 Body Scan]], releasing all optional tension. Notice if an area of tension remains. 4. Breathe into the tension as if you are breathing from inside of it, inhaling and exhaling. 5. Notice any [[⭐️ Emotions]] that surface. Keep it simple. Notice only [[💡 Primary Emotion|Primary Emotions]] – joy, tenderness, anger, fear, sadness, and sexual arousal. 6. Feel these emotions and allow them to lead the breathing – anger breathes differently from sadness. This is true for the other primary emotions. The emotion might intensify or dissipate. Allow yourself to feel the emotion as fully as you can, embodying the emotion in as much of your body as you can. 7. The [[⭐️ Emotions]] that surface may or may not come with inner images, voices, or other content. In this case it is easy to allow this emotional process to unfold. If something does arrive, be aware of it but focus on feeling and embodying the emotion and allowing the it to breathe. With time our [[⭐️ Body|⭐️ Bodies]] will become more emotionally sensitive as we release more and more [[🛡️ Emotional Armoring]] .