Session 5: Cooling the System
Welcome to DV Brain Change Meditations, where we take ten minutes to relax and reflect. Be sure to listen using earbuds or headphones to get the full benefits of the sounds that you're hearing right now. And maybe you'll enjoy thinking about these sounds going directly into your brain through your ears, working to relax you. Some people say that it feels like their brain is being gently stretched, or massaged. Some people like to count when they breathe in and when they breathe out.
Speaker 1:Shortly, I will share with you the topic we will be exploring today. You will hear a medium high tone of 396 hertz, which some people believe helps to free your mind of shame and fear. And you will feel the tone gradually getting lower, ending after ten minutes at 174 Hertz, which some people associate with deep healing of your nervous system. It's okay to relax your shoulders and let them droop down. And the thoughts that rise up in your mind.
Speaker 2:Are you ready? Close your eyes.
Speaker 1:Or just let them get heavy. Your shoulders Maybe you have told yourself,
Speaker 2:This is just life. But your body knows. Knows.
Speaker 1:Your brain knows.
Speaker 2:Your brain where are you on that list? It has been heating up inside you. But now, you are turning down the flame. You do not have to boil over. You do not have to power through.
Speaker 2:You can pause. Lonely? Are simply tired. And with each breath, scan yourself. Where are you on that list?
Speaker 2:What needs attention? What if attending to those needs is not weakness but wisdom? Wisdom. Power. Strength in action.
Speaker 2:Slow breath you take is like is like
Speaker 1:a hand turning down the knob. The shoulder. It It has been. It has been. Inhale.
Speaker 2:Would lose their edge. The fight steps back. You are still. And in that stillness, you remember something important. Inhale.
Speaker 2:Inhale. Exhale. Exhale. Exhale. The weak for needing care.
Speaker 2:You are simply and