This is a bone deep guided breathing meditation to help you relax from head to toe and meditate deeply. The guided part of the meditation last for 25 minutes and then there’s 5 minutes of stillness, unguided without any talking.
For a sleep version with extra time at the end and music to send you to sleep… click here: https://youtu.be/a1j2Uhzc08s
Reasons to Love Your Bones....
We often think of our bones as dead, but our bones are actually completely amazing and very much alive! Here are 4 ways they support you (other than preventing you from becoming a jelly-like blob on the floor)….
1/ Bone marrow is like a factory for immune cells and blood cells. Every day billions of new blood cells and immune cells are created and released.
2 / Your bones are lighter, but stronger than some types of steel. Engineers are unable to replicate anything quite like your bones.
3/ Your bones are in a constant state of remodelling, old bone breaks down and new bone takes its place (within about 10 years your current skeleton will have been entirely replaced).
4/ Your bones sacrifice themselves to save you! Whenever your blood becomes too acid they donate some of their calcium to balance your blood PH, without this it would be game over!
You can look after your bones by meditating…
1/ Stress actually makes your bones weaker. Cortisol blocks the process of new bone replacing old bone, so we lose more than is replaced. We naturally lose bone density as we age, so stress in effect prematurely ages your bones.
2/ When you’re stressed your bones switch on genes in the immune cells before they leave ‘the factory’ that put them into attack mode. When your immune system is on attack mode for long periods of time this can cause chronic inflammation.
Why is chronic inflammation bad?...
Chronic inflammation creates fatigue, brain fog, depression, digestive issues, body aches and joint pain. Many of the things we associate with aging are actually created by inflammation. Chronic inflammation over time creates havoc in the body and is a factor in chronic diseases like IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), Cardio Vascular Disease, Fibromyalgia and autoimmune conditions like Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Stress is inevitable (we’re collectively going through one of the most stressful times in recent history), but you don’t have to fear stress or feel stressed about being stressed. Your body can cope with bursts of stress as long as you take time to come out of stress mode and put your nervous system into 'repair mode' (parasympathetic state) on a regular basis. You can do this by meditating regularly. This will help your bones and reduce inflammation in the long-run.
Meditative breathing exercises are like flipping a switch on your nervous system and body awareness practices release body tension that would otherwise keep your body in stress mode. When you meditate you don’t just benefit during the meditation, your body benefits from the switch in your nervous system long after you’re finished meditating.
This video is designed to show your bones and body some love, and by doing this you can help keep your bones strong, your immune system in balance and your body healthy. I hope you enjoy it, sending you and your bones lots of love!
