Sound Healing: Sound Waves Guided Meditation
If you’re looking for anxiety therapy in St. Louis, you probably already realize the impact anxiety has on your body.
Your muscles are primed to have a fight/flight/freeze response when they’re stressed and worried that something bad is going to happen. Anxiety is all about telling you something bad will happen, even if it actually never comes to pass! Anxiety tells you that it’s necessary to stay tensed in your brain and your body.. Your muscles are trying to protect you! But instead, they’re wearing you out.
Guided meditation helps your body and brain take a break from this tension.
It’s one of my favorite tools to teach to anxious and angry teens, college students, and parents.
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In many ways, anxiety, stress, anger, and overwhelm can be like a wave.
Those feelings, and the attached thoughts, can get really big. They can crash into us. They can overwhelm us. But, eventually, those waves recede again. We don’t stay in that overwhelmed state for forever. And we can’t fight against the waves, right? We can just ride them. We’re much better off when we let ourselves float on the waves rather than struggling and sinking.
Thinking about thoughts and feelings as a wave inspired today’s meditation. Waves can be a metaphor, but they’re also related to the water, and relaxing, and SOUND.
For this week’s guided meditation, we combine sound healing, mindfulness, and a guided imagery activity designed to help you cultivate an inner sense of peace and calm.
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Singing Bowl Sound Healing
Using a cute, tiny little singing bowl that I’m wayyyy out of practice with, we let our minds focus on the expanding and contracting note, and use this as a bridge to picture a beach and waves that also get bigger and smaller. (Read more about different types of Tibetan Singing Bowls over here).
Give it a listen below:
Sound healing for anxiety provides anxious minds with a way to focus on what’s here, vs. what’s coming up next.
By giving our anxiety a particular sound and script to pay attention to, our anxious minds focus on calming down vs. tensing up.
Want more guided meditation for anxiety?
Great news, we have a ton of scripts and recordings! Check out…
Guided Meditation: Tension Melting for Teens
Release the tension that your anxious muscles hold on to in this quick recorded meditation.
Rainbow Aura Guided Meditation
Muscles warm and soften as each color of the rainbow passes over your body. One of my favorites to use in session!
Excerpted from my book, When Anxiety Makes You Angry, a guided meditation focused on letting thoughts gently release away from you.
Body Scan Meditation for Young Adults
Gently noticing what’s happening in your body, this meditation focuses on letting muscles relax on their own.
Loving-Kindness Meditation for Teens
Recently popularized by MBSR therapy, the Loving-Kindness meditation helps us send good vibes out instead of keeping all the stressed vibes in.
“It Is What It Is” Guided Meditation
We can never control the world around us. This guided meditation focuses on acceptance, moving forward, and letting go.
If you’re ready for more anxiety work, check out my self-help book for teens.
It’s packed with empowering strategies that give you lots of options for cognitive coping, mindfulness skills, problem solving strategies, and identifying how anxiety can be a real problem for you.
Compassionate Counseling St. Louis provides specialized anger management and anxiety therapy in St. Louis for kids, teens, and college students. We love helping with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We work in Clayton, MO and serve kids, teens, and college students throughout St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Ladue, University City, Town and Country, Webster Groves, Creve Coeur, Kirkwood, Richmond Heights, and Brentwood. You can set up your free phone screening to see if we’re a good fit for your needs right on our website.
