We all get stressed daily, but sometimes we aren’t even aware that we are stressed. This guided meditation script is meant to help you notice low-level stress and ease it by coming back to the body.
Here’s a Sample of the “Relieving Low Amounts Of Stress” Guided Meditation Script:
[ “…” indicates a 3 second pause] [ “………” indicates a 5 second pause] [Speech at normal pace]
Hello and welcome to this session focusing on when we have low amounts of stress…We all get stressed daily but sometimes we aren’t even aware that we are stressed…Stress doesn’t have to be a thought or even a reaction… it could be sitting somewhere in your body, lingering as long as you are unaware of it……..You might think about a time when you were worried… did this worry also make you feel drained or tired?…That’s often because worry brings a low level of stress with it, and what causes stress is not worry itself so much as our reaction to worry………Some estimates suggest that we have tens of thousands of thoughts a day. If we believed all of these thoughts, we would surely get ourselves into trouble…So, instead, we can notice that thoughts simply come and go….That our thoughts are not truly who we are.
When we take a step back from all these thoughts, we can observe them better and see them for what they are….just passing moments of thinking…..Attaching too much emotion to one stressful thought can disrupt our day.[pause for 7 seconds]Let’s step away now from our thoughts and worries by just becoming aware of our body………Feeling how the air around you meets the shape of your body………You might notice how you can willingly activate all of your senses, hearing all the sounds around you……..Hearing your own breath…….when you breathe a little bit deeper, can you smell anything?…….you can even imagine you smell something, and your mind can create the thought of it for you…..….you might imagine the smell of vanilla………can you remember how it smells?………good……..now you might notice your fingertips and what they are touching and feeling right now…..….and becoming aware of your feet………noticing how the soles of your feet feel right now…..….good…..….and just becoming aware of your entire body right now…..….Feeling different areas……..Becoming aware of your body can take you out of your thoughts, so you might use this technique when worry or light stress rises in your mind.[pause for 10 seconds]
