Rachel K Full Hypnosis 1

So, taking another few moments to settle in, relaxing however you'd like, however you know, that can be with the breath, that can be noticing sensations in the feet, the legs, the torso, the arms, the head, noticing temperature, noticing pressure, noticing the support of the couch. You might just consciously extend the exhale, perhaps starting with a count of 2, 3, 4, inhale, and out, 2, 3, 4, in, 2, 3, out, 2, 3, 4. Good, setting down the day, letting all systems power down. In this session, thoughts are welcome, no need to push them away. There's no state here to hold on to, simply opening to whatever arises in the body and mind as I guide your attention. Nothing to do, no one to be, just resting here, honoring this time for yourself, taking this time to cultivate your strengths, gather your resources, your natural abilities for healing, for love, and let's just see how we can apply these to yourself. Resting here, breathing naturally, feeling the support of the couch, feeling the support of the pillow, perhaps even feeling the support of the oat seeds, this herbal, tropho-restorative, nourishing tincture for the nervous system, a building tonic. And now, Rachel, in order to prime your attention, your faculties, we're going to practice a bit of awareness yoga. As you know, in yoga, we use various positions, poses, and flows in order to align the mind, body. And in awareness yoga, we do the same thing, using just your attention guided by my voice. And so, when you're ready, gently bringing your attention to the sensations in the bottom of your left foot, noticing whatever you feel here in the bottom of your left foot, perhaps a tingling sensation, perhaps nothing at all, just resting your attention here on your left foot. And then slowly moving your attention up to your left ankle. You might already notice that wherever you put your attention naturally releases, loosening and lengthening the muscles, the tissues, releasing down into the couch, moving your awareness up to your left calf, around your shin, up to your knee, loosening and lengthening deeper and easier with each breath. And each time you hear those words deeper and easier with each breath, you naturally sink deeper into relaxation, deeper into hypnosis, loosening and lengthening the mind and body. Up to the left quad, around your hamstring, up to the left hip, over to the right hip. And all at once down your right leg, down your quad, your hamstring, your knee, your calf, your shin, your ankle, your foot, all at once loosening and lengthening, releasing any remaining tension here in the legs, letting them go. You might even notice that you can no longer feel the boundaries, the shape of your legs. Just noticing sensations, noticing loosening and lengthening deeper and easier with each breath. Bring your attention now to the top of your forehead, your hairline, and as if I'm dropping just a single drop of this tincture onto your hairline, allowing it to spread over your scalp, nourishing the skin, penetrating down into your scalp, into the tissues, loosening and lengthening deeper and easier with each breath, spreading over your scalp, building and nourishing your hair down to just behind your ears around to the base of your skull, letting this tincture flow down your neck, nourishing the tissues, releasing any tension around your jaw, loosening and lengthening, spending an extra moment here on the jaw, allowing it to part, resting down, melting any tension here. Feeling now another drop of this tincture on your forehead, allow it to spread forward over your forehead, melting any remaining tension here, nourishing the skin, the tissues, these tiny muscles that allow us to communicate, letting them go, letting them rest down your brows, loosening and lengthening over your eyes, letting the muscles in your eye sockets go, allowing them to loosen, melting any remaining tension here in the eyes, like an ice cube, melting into a glass of water, allowing this tincture to flow down over your nose and your cheeks, over your mouth, loosening and lengthening, down over your chin, melting any remaining tension here in the bottom of the face, down the throat, down the neck, all at once, letting it soften, allowing it to spread out to your right shoulder, smoothing the shoulders and down the right arm, all at once, allowing it to loosen and lengthen, over your left shoulder, melting any tension here, deeper, easier with each breath. And down your left arm, releasing, letting go, nothing to hold on to, bringing your attention now to your heart, feeling the heart space in your chest, noticing it doesn't take any effort to find a loosening and lengthening lightness here in the heart space, already installed, already alive, full of compassion, connection, creativity, feeling this buoyancy here in the heart, and allowing it to spread down your torso, down your abdomen, down to your hips, loosening and lengthening deeper and easier with each breath, penetrating through the hips, these strong muscles that keep us upright, keep us mobile, letting them go, letting them take a break, through the hips to your back, breathing gently, bringing this relaxation to the lower back, just above the hips, allowing it to loosen and lengthen naturally, good, moving your attention up the spine, vertebrae by vertebrae, up the chakras, sending this calming, loving energy to these vertebrae that need it so much, bathing them in calming, compassionate energy, up the spine to the ribs, vertebrae by vertebrae, back up to the upper back, to the neck, the base of your skull, up over your scalp, back to your head, and from the mind, just like we used our attention to loosen and lengthen the body, we'll use it to loosen and lengthen the mind deeper and easier with each breath, loosening our reactivity, our various conversing dialogues and parts. So Rachel, just gently bring your attention now to hearing, noticing hearing in one or both of your ears, noticing sounds in the environment, air conditioning, people talking outside, perhaps traffic and sirens in the background, the sound of my voice, just resting your attention here, and notice it loosen and lengthen, notice just like sensations in the body, hearing is arising to the mind all by itself, nothing to push away, nothing to hold on to, nothing to do, just notice, bringing your attention now to your visual field behind your closed eyes, noticing seeing, noticing that though your eyes are closed, you can still see there's this changing field of light and shadow arising by itself. And allowing it to soften, anywhere you rest your attention naturally loosens and lengthens, deeper and easier with each breath. Bring your attention now to your breath, just noticing the rising and falling, noticing breathing at your chest or abdomen, tip of your nose, all by itself, all systems functioning, nothing to do, just here, bringing your attention now to thoughts, just noticing what the next thought will be. Noticing images, words, phrases, the voice in your mind, and just like sounds, sights, breathing, notice thoughts arising all by themselves. And now Rachel, bringing your attention to the spaces between those thoughts, just noticing the open space in the mind where thoughts have traveled and passed. There's no thought currently in the mind, what is here? Good, and now becoming aware of both thoughts and the space, noticing thoughts arise, noticing them changing, perhaps they become more prominent, changing still, and then fading into space, noticing that open space in the mind. Naturally aware of thoughts and images, naturally aware of space. You might even purposefully conjure a thought or an image, say of beach, image of sand and sky and water, noticing it changing and noticing it fading, becoming aware of the space between thoughts. And now Rachel, if it feels available to you, become aware of the space from which you are aware of both thoughts and the space, when thoughts pass away, locating the area, feeling into the open space that is aware of thoughts and pauses. Noticing where you are aware from, feeling into this space, this open, vast consciousness. This is not a riddle, there's nothing for you thinking mind to get to solve, just noticing who or what is aware of thoughts and aware of the space when thoughts fade away. Feeling into this openness. And now Rachel, in your mind's eye, I'd like you to visualize a staircase, a winding staircase. And you're at the top of this staircase, looking over it. Do you see it? You can respond. Good. Looking over this staircase, it has 10 steps. In a moment I'm going to guide you down, step by step, down the staircase from your head to your heart. Are you ready? Walking up to the top, stepping down to step 10, 9, 8, down to your jaw, 7, 6, down your neck, 5, 4, down to the top of your rib cage. 3, 2, through your chest, 1, down to your heart, allowing your consciousness to fill this heart space. Just noticing what's here, who's here, in the heart. Feeling this naturally installed awareness, openness, perhaps an okayness. Doesn't need anything, doesn't need to push anything away. Just resting here, breathing in to the heart. In a moment, Rachel, I'm going to have you turn around in this heart space, full 180. And in the back of your heart, notice a little trap door. I'm going to have you go ahead and open that trap door and walk out to the Indiana Dunes. So, gently turning around, open the trap door in your heart, out to the parking lot of the dunes, with your husband by your side and your dog. Getting out of the car, walking over to the welcome center, the trailhead, all of your picnic supplies, your swimsuits, feeling the sand beneath your feet starting at the trail. Feeling the cool breeze in the forest, the protection of the shade. Walking through the trails, noticing wildlife, birds chirping. Walking along the trail, feeling the sand beneath your feet, the soft, supportive earth. As you walk with your husband and your dog up and down the dunes, coming out, feeling the sun, feeling the warmth. You can see the sky and clouds, nice breeze. And you walk out through the marshes, through the tall grass, out to the beach. Looking out over Lake Michigan, feeling the sun warming your skin. Noticing the soothing sounds of the waves. And walking along the beach, feeling your feet in the water. I'd like you to find a tree, somewhere close enough to the dunes where trees are growing, walking along the beach, finding a nice, strong, sturdy tree. And when you find one, take a seat next to it, and your husband and your dog sit with you, sitting in a relaxed, comfortable posture. In fact, you can lie down if you'd like. And resting here under this tree, nothing to do, no one to be. Beginning to feel the connection with nature, feeling yourself in its rightful place here at the dunes, surrounded by Mother Nature. And sitting here, notice you start to sprout roots out of your base, like the tree that you sit next to. Down through your root chakra, growing roots down into the earth, connecting you to the land. Roots reaching down, intermingling with the roots of other trees through the fungal networks. Reaching down to absorb nutrients from the earth, water from the lake. As you root down, this nourishment and connection allows you to sit up in a proud, relaxed posture. Extending up through your sacral chakra, up through your solar plexus, up to your heart. Feeling the connection to earth. Feel it nourishing you, allowing the elements to flow through you. Allowing you to stand tall, just like a tree. And like a tree, allowing your upper body to extend, allowing your arms to grow out branches towards the sky. Extending these branches, sprouting leaves, tall like the strongest tree, extending out towards the sun. Capturing carbon dioxide, capturing radiation from the sun, the source of all life. Here on this beach, on the dunes, amongst the trees, allowing this source of life to travel down through your leaves, through your branches. Through your crown chakra, your third eye, down your throat to your heart. And allowing it to coalesce with the nutrients of water from the soil. Allowing the elements from the sky and the earth to swirl around the heart space. Mingling with your natural compassion, curiosity, your natural ability to connect with others and yourself. To create community around you, calling on nourishment of the earth, energy from the sky, bringing in this energy, this nourishment to support you. To charge up these natural abilities, allowing you to heal not only yourself, but even those around you by giving back. Just resting here, recharging your energy. Feeling the strength, feeling this connection with nature, rooted down into the earth as we are meant to be. Communicating with the other trees, calling on them for help and allowing them to do so. Sharing in resources. Feeling this natural strength in the heart chakra, feeling all of this compassion that you've cultivated. And from this space, sending this healing energy to the areas that need it, down to the sacral chakra. Nourishing your back. Allowing the water and the earth, this fire from above to coalesce around your lower and mid back. Soothing energy, releasing tension down into the earth. Allowing whatever it is your back may be holding onto to release down into the earth, out into the lake. And if it feels right, Rachel, calling in the parts, calling in your younger self. Noticing where they show up in the body. And rooted into the earth, feeling this connection, compassion, this healing light. Can you give some of this to them? Can you provide this healing energy to all of your parts and to your younger self? Pressing here. If at any time this feels too intense, simply return to the heart space. Feeling this vast aliveness connected to the earth. And Rachel, you can rest here for another few moments. If you are communicating with parts, with younger self, you can let them know you'll always be here for them. Using this practice, you can return any time, any time they call for you. If it feels right, you might give them a hug, or perhaps just letting them know you'll be back. And retracting your roots from the earth, allowing you to stand. Gathering your husband and your dog, walking back up the dunes, back along the trails, back to your car. Back through the trap door in your heart. In a moment, I'll guide you back up the staircase, up to your head. One, two, up to your ribs. Three, four, five, to your neck. Six, seven, to your jaw. Eight, nine, ten. Coming back to your awareness, to your senses. Taking your time. Making any small movements that you need. And bringing this peace into your day.