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Somatic Healing Meditations
Author: Karena Neukirchner with Hello Inner Light
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Are you ready to regulate your nervous system, deepen your healing journey and feel better in your body?
Every episode of Somatic Healing Meditations contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.
Using Havening techniques, Iffirmations and other powerful somatic tools and techniques, you’ll leverage the mind-body connection to reduce your stress, deepen your compassionate self awareness and release trapped emotions and old patterns.
Join me for this beautiful journey out of your head and into your more embodied and authentic self.
Brought to you by Karena Neukirchner with Hello Inner Light
Every episode of Somatic Healing Meditations contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.
Using Havening techniques, Iffirmations and other powerful somatic tools and techniques, you’ll leverage the mind-body connection to reduce your stress, deepen your compassionate self awareness and release trapped emotions and old patterns.
Join me for this beautiful journey out of your head and into your more embodied and authentic self.
Brought to you by Karena Neukirchner with Hello Inner Light
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✨ So often, we move through our days carrying feelings we haven’t had time to notice. When our feelings go unacknowledged, they don’t disappear… they linger in the body, showing up as stress, tension, and a sense of being disconnected from ourselves.
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Daily Emotional Reset. It’s a soothing somatic practice to gently check in with yourself, shift your emotional state, and calm your nervous system. Think of it as daily tending: a compassionate reset that gives your emotions the care they’ve been asking for.
This practice combines soothing self-touch with the simple but powerful act of naming what you feel (inspired by a process called Transpirational Havening). Together, these tools help quiet the amygdala, soften emotional intensity, and open space for more clarity and compassion.
If you’ve been longing for a simple, supportive way to feel calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself, this episode is for you. 💛
In this episode:
The Power of a Daily Emotional Reset
Daily Emotional Reset:
How to do self-havening
Feeling your emotions in your body
Name it to tame it
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Related: Try more Self-Compassion meditations here
Read more about this somatic emotional reset here
Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Looking for a gentle way to regulate your emotions? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a Somatic Meditation for Emotional Regulation using a powerful process called Regenerating Images in Memory® (RIM).
True emotional regulation isn’t about being calm all the time or forcing difficult feelings to go away. It’s about having a way to return to safety and clarity inside, even in the middle of strong emotions. And the key to doing this is deep listening: turning toward your emotions with presence instead of pushing them aside.
Instead of pushing your emotions down or trying to control them, this meditation will help you practice deep listening and inner attunement - so your nervous system can settle and you can return to a place of safety and clarity within.
This practice is a simple yet profound way to care for your inner world and experience how emotional regulation naturally unfolds when you meet yourself with compassion and inner listening.
In this episode
What Emotional Regulation Really Means
Somatic Meditation for Emotional Regulation (using Regenerating Images in Memory)
Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing meditations here!
Read more about emotional regulation here!
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
If you’ve ever longed for a bedtime story that feels both magical and deeply calming, you’re in for a treat. ✨
In this week’s episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I’m sharing a special feature from the beloved podcast Sleep & Sorcery, created by Laurel Hostak Jones. 🌙
Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Laurel weaves together original folklore and fantasy-inspired tales with soothing meditations, wrapping you in magic while gently guiding you toward deep rest.
I truly love her creative and soothing stories! 💖
This fantasy sleep story is called Sea of Stars. In it, you step into the role of a cosmic caretaker, tending to constellations on a gentle journey across the night sky. As dawn approaches, you return to your own cozy resting place in the cosmos. It’s a dreamy and restorative way to drift into sleep.
I hope you enjoy this special episode! I’ll be back next week with a new somatic meditation for you. 🌸
xoxo, Karena
Learn more about Sleep & Sorcery here
Related: Enjoy more Deep Sleep Meditations here
Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴
I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired.
If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it.
Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)!
👉 Support your sleep and save!
https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
__
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Try The Chill Pill now!
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
You might feel completely exhausted at night, but if your nervous system is still “on,” your body won’t fully let go into rest. 🌙 This is why so many of us lie awake with racing thoughts, tension in our bodies, and a sense that deep sleep is just out of reach.
The truth is, the quality of your sleep is directly tied to the state of your nervous system. If you go to bed dysregulated, your system stays on high alert, which makes it harder to stay asleep through the night.
😴 But when you regulate before bed, everything changes. Your breath slows, your muscles release, your heart rate settles, and your mind begins to soften. In this state, sleep not only comes more easily, it’s also deeper and more restorative. ✨
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Bedtime Nervous System Reset - a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you regulate, release the day, and prepare your whole body for the kind of nourishing rest you’ve been longing for. 💤💤💤
🎧 Give yourself these few minutes before sleep and notice the difference: falling asleep more quickly, waking less often, and rising in the morning with more clarity, energy, and ease.
#forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation
Episode timing:
00:00 - Deep Sleep and Nervous System Regulation
04:32 - Bedtime Nervous System Reset (Gently Wind Down for Deep Sleep)
Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here
Read more about this Bedtime Nervous System Reset here
Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴
I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired.
If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it.
Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)!
👉 Support your sleep and save!
https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
__
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Try The Chill Pill now!
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
😴 Do you find yourself lying in bed, exhausted… yet unable to fully let go? You’re not alone.
So many of us carry the tension of the day, or even the weight of years, into the night. Our bodies may be tired, but our nervous systems haven’t yet gotten the message that it’s safe to rest.
🌙 This soothing somatic sleep meditation is here to help.
Designed to gently calm your nervous system and guide your body into a deeper state of regulation, this practice supports rest from the inside out. Through breath, soft inner attunement, and a gentle body scan, we’ll begin to send a powerful signal to your system:
🫶 You’re safe now. You can let go. There’s nothing you need to do.
💤 You can’t force good sleep. But when you give your body what it needs - support, regulation, and nervous system calm - deep rest begins to emerge on its own.
✨ That’s what this Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm is here to offer.
#forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation
Episode timing:
00:00 - Why Calming Your Nervous System Is the Key to Deep Rest
05:10 - Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm
Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here
Read more about Somatic Sleep Meditations here
Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴
I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired.
If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it.
Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)!
👉 Support your sleep and save!
https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
__
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Try The Chill Pill now!
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
✨ You’re more YOU when your nervous system feels safe.
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the neuroscience behind what it really means to be your best self (and how nervous system healing makes that possible).
When you're dysregulated, you have less access to your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain responsible for clarity, compassion, nuanced thought, emotional regulation, and values-based decision making. Instead, your system shifts into survival mode, leading to reactivity, rigidity, or disconnection.
But when you’re regulated, you reconnect with the best qualities that make you who you truly are. You become more grounded, more present, and more able to live from wisdom, compassion, and care. 🌿
I’ll also guide you through one of my favorite gentle regulation practices, a tool you can return to again and again as you reconnect with your best self.
This episode is an invitation to pause, settle your system, and expand into more of who you really are. 🌸💫
In this episode:
How Nervous System Healing Helps You Be Your Best Self
Nervous System Healing Helps You Expand and Grow
Simple + Soothing Nervous System Regulation Exercise
Related: Try more nervous system regulation exercises here!
Read more about how nervous system regulation helps you be your best self here!
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
__
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
What if your emotions aren’t the problem? What if it’s the resistance to them that’s making everything feel harder? 💭
So many of us were taught to push down our emotions, power through, or stay “in control.” But that constant inner tension doesn’t bring peace … it keeps your nervous system stuck in a state of stress and overwhelm.
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore how resisting your emotions actually activates your nervous system, and how allowing (even just a little) can begin to bring relief, calm, and connection. You’ll learn why this shift matters, and how to begin making it in a safe and supportive way. 💗
Then we’ll move into a soothing somatic meditation to help you practice that shift. Through self-havening and gentle “iffirmations,” you’ll be guided to soften resistance, reconnect with your body, and experience the peace that comes when every part of you is allowed to be here.
This is a powerful, body-based way to calm your nervous system and return to yourself with more compassion and ease. 🫶
In this episode:
How Allowing Your Emotions Calms Your Nervous System
Somatic Meditation To Allow Your Emotions:
Self-Havening explained
Gently dropping in
Feeling your emotion in your body
Iffirmations To Allow Your Emotions
Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Learn all about Iffirmations here
Read more about how to allow your emotions here!
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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🌿 Iffirmations to Allow Your Emotions
What if it’s okay to feel this way right now?
What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to resist it?
What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to deny it?
What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to fix it?
What if all of my emotions are valid and worthy of care?
What if it’s safe to feel whatever I’m feeling?
What if I don’t have to push my feelings away? What if I can meet them with compassion?
What would it be like to meet this emotion with softness instead of judgment?
What if I am allowed to feel it all, gently and at my own pace?
What if the more I allow my emotions, the more I reconnect with myself?
What if every feeling I have is trying to guide me back to myself?
What if allowing my emotions is a good step toward deeper healing?
What if allowing my emotions is a good step toward greater peace?
What if allowing my emotions is part of accepting and loving myself as I am?
More and more, I choose to allow my feelings
More and more, I choose to come home to me.
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
No one taught you how to love yourself. We’re learning now. 🌿
No one taught you how to meet your needs with kindness. Or how to sit with emotion without shame. Or how to stop performing worth, and begin feeling it instead. 💗
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a quick (but powerful) self-love practice.
Just 12 minutes to slow down, check in, and begin building the kind of inner relationship that helps you feel safe, grounded, and truly supported from within. 🧘♀️
Because self-love isn’t a feeling you chase. It’s a relationship you cultivate through presence, honesty, and care. ✨
💫 Listen now and take a moment to return to yourself.
In this episode:
How to love yourself right now
Quick Self-Love Practice
Related: Embodied Self-Love Series
Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship)
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
(If your heart is whispering yes to this retreat, but your mind needs a bit more clarity, I’d love to connect! You can book a 20-minute chat with me right here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16736577&appointmentType=80654090 )
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Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
We all struggle to love ourselves sometimes.
Even when we truly desire to be kind to ourselves, to feel our worth, and to see ourselves through loving eyes … something inside of us resists, or pulls away, or shuts down.
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the deeper reasons why we experience blocks to self-love.
You’ll be gently guided through a Somatic Meditation to Heal Your Blocks to Self-Love using Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM®). This practice invites you to connect with the parts of you that may be holding fear, pain, or resistance - and to meet them with warmth, curiosity, and compassionate attention. Together, we’ll create space for those parts to soften, so that self-love can begin to feel safer and more possible.
If self-love has felt distant or unreachable, this episode offers a quiet turning point. A space to breathe, to reconnect with yourself, and to take one soft step closer to the love that’s already waiting within you.
In this episode:
Why we struggle to love ourselves
Somatic Meditation To Heal Your Blocks To Self-Love (using Regenerating Images in Memory)
Related meditations:
Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship)
Self-Love Body Scan Meditation
Try more Regenerating Images in Memory Meditations here!
Read more here about our blocks to self-love here: https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/struggling-to-love-yourself-somatic-meditation-to-heal-your-blocks-to-self-love
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
(If your heart is whispering yes to this retreat, but your mind needs a bit more clarity, I’d love to connect! You can book a free 20-minute chat with me right here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16736577&appointmentType=80654090 )
__
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Authentic self-love is something we practice into being. 🌸 It’s something we cultivate gently, over time. And when we do, something beautiful happens: our relationship with ourselves starts to feel like home. A place where we can soften, rest, and meet ourselves with compassion, no matter what we’re feeling.
This week’s Self-Love Body Scan Meditation is a soothing, regulating journey to connect with an authentic sense of self-love in your body. We’ll begin with gentle breathwork, followed by a series of iffirmations - open-ended, curiosity-based prompts to soften into authentic self-love. From there, you’ll be guided through a slow, spacious body scan designed to help you connect with yourself with true compassion and care.
Think of it as an invitation to discover what self-love feels like in your body … and to anchor that feeling a little more deeply with every breath. ✨
If you’ve ever longed to feel more love from within, this episode offers a gentle path back—one breath, one moment at a time. 💗🌸
In this episode:
How to Cultivate Authentic Self-Love
Self-Love Body Scan Meditation
Regulating Breathing to Drop In
Iffirmations For Authentic Self-Love
Feeling Authentic Self-Love in Your Body
Rotation of Consciousness
Related: Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship)
Related: Try more Deep Relaxation Meditations here!
Read more here: helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/self-love-body-scan-meditation
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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Iffirmations for Authentic Self-Love:
I wonder what it would be like to experience more self-love.
I wonder who I could become if I learned to love and accept myself as I am.
What if I can soften my heart to myself today?
What would it be like to consistently treat myself with more warmth and kindness?
What would it feel like to look at myself through a more loving lens?
What if it’s safe for me to see the good in myself?
What if nothing in me needs to be “fixed” in order to be worthy of love?
What if I could feel more appreciation for the beauty within me?
What if I could feel more compassion for the struggle within me?
What if all parts of me belong, right here and right now?
What if all parts of me belong, right here and right now, even the ones that feel unlovable?
What if there’s a quiet part within me that never forgot my true worth?
What if there’s a quiet part within me that knows how to love?
What would it be like to look beneath the stories of self-judgment and connect more with that part of me?
What if it’s safe for me to slow down and show myself the warmth and kindness I truly deserve?
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Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
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What if self-love isn’t something you feel… but something you create? 💫
In this episode, we explore a completely different way of understanding self-love. It’s a view rooted in developmental psychology, somatic healing, and the attachment patterns that shape our inner world.
You’ll learn how the four-step attachment cycle becomes a powerful, research-backed blueprint for creating secure attachment with yourself.
Even if you didn’t grow up with consistent emotional attunement, your body can still learn what it feels like to be truly seen, supported, and loved from the inside out.
We’ll talk about why so many of us struggle to feel safe with ourselves, how to gently re-pattern those old dynamics, and what it means to create a felt sense of inner trust and belonging. 🌱
Then, I’ll guide you through a somatic meditation based on the attachment cycle using Regenerating Images in Memory®. This is a deeply intuitive process that helps you attune to your real needs and respond with care.
💗 If you want to move from thinking about self-love to feeling implicitly loved, this episode is for you.
In this episode:
Secure Attachment with Yourself: Creating Real Self-Love
The Attachment Cycle - Your Inner Blueprint for Secure Attachment with Yourself
When It Feels Hard to Love Ourselves
Meditation For Secure Attachment with Yourself (using Regenerating Images in Memory)
Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here!
Learn more about secure attachment and self-love here.
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Have you been feeling disconnected from yourself - like you’re going through the motions but not really here? Like somewhere along the way, you lost touch with your own presence?
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided through a calming somatic meditation to help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. Through breath, gentle touch, and Havening Techniques®, you’ll be invited back into your body with care and curiosity.
You’ll also be guided through soothing “iffirmations” to support your compassionate return to yourself.
If you’re longing to feel more grounded, more like yourself, and more at peace in your body, this meditation is for you.
Take a breath. Let go of the doing. Come home to you. 💗
In this episode:
Reconnect With Yourself Deeply
Somatic Meditation To Come Home To Yourself:
Self-Havening explained
Reconnect and Regulate using Havening
Iffirmations To Reconnect With Yourself
Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Learn all about Iffirmations here
https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/reconnect-with-yourself-deeply-a-somatic-meditation-to-come-home-to-yourself
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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🌿 Iffirmations to Reconnect With Yourself
What if I can gently come home to myself?
What if I don’t have to force myself back? What if I can just return to my senses in this moment?
What if I can allow my presence to soften into this moment, more and more?
What if it’s safe for me to be here now?
What if every time I come back to my body and feelings, I come back to myself?
What would it be like to welcome myself back, more and more, with each breath?
What would it be like to meet myself with gentleness and curiosity right here and right now?
What would it be like to feel a sense of home within myself?
What if I’m safe in my own presence?
What if I could release all pressure to be anything other than myself?
What if I wasn’t as far away from myself as I thought?
What if I have always belonged to myself?
What if my true essence is always here, even if I feel disconnected from it?
What would it be like to reconnect with the part of me that’s never forgotten my true essence?
What if it’s safe for me to slow down and listen to my inner world?
What would it be like to release what’s not mine and come home to who I truly am?
More and more, I choose to reconnect with myself.
More and more, I am coming home to me.
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
What if your anxiety isn’t a problem to fix… but a message to listen to? 💛
We’re so often told to silence anxiety - override it, out-think it, distract ourselves from it. But what if real relief comes not from resisting our anxiety, but from turning toward it with care?
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a powerful somatic meditation for anxiety relief - a practice that helps you shift from control to compassion. You’ll explore what happens when you stop bracing against your anxiety and begin to gently feel it, listen to it, and honor the wisdom it holds.
This 4-step anxiety relief process is rooted in neuroscience, somatic emotional processing, and deep inner attunement. It’s not about forcing yourself to be calm - it’s about becoming a safe place for the parts of you that feel anxious.
🎧 If you’ve been longing for a way to meet your anxiety that feels gentle, real, and deeply healing… this episode is for you.
In this episode:
A Somatic Approach to Anxiety Relief
Somatic Meditation For Anxiety Relief
Step 1: Feel The Anxiety in Your Body
Step 2: Turn Toward This Feeling
Step 3: Iffirmations For Anxiety Relief
Step 4: Understanding The Message Within
Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here!
Read more about this somatic approach to anxiety relief here.
Iffirmations for anxiety relief
What if it’s okay that I’m feeling this anxiety right now?
What would it be like to make space for this anxiety without needing to push it away or fix it immediately?
What if it’s safe for me to feel this right now?
What if there’s nothing wrong with me for feeling this way?
What would it be like to soften my heart to myself in this moment?
What would it be like to soften my heart to this anxiety in this moment?
What would it feel like to welcome all parts of myself, even the parts that feel anxious?
What would it be like to meet this anxious feeling as an invitation to go deeper?
What would it be like to listen to this feeling and honor the message within it?
What if these anxious feelings actually make sense in a way?
Sentence leads for going deeper
What if these feelings make sense in a way because…
Because what I’m really feeling deep down is…
What I really want or need when I feel this way is…
What feels most supportive to me when I’m feeling anxious is…
What I’m realizing now is…
How it feels to realize that is…
Giving voice to anything else that wants to be known until that feels complete.
✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?
You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.
💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗
Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.
There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.
Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛
Learn more and enroll now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!
Ever find yourself spiraling into panic, shutting down in a conversation, or overreacting in a way that just doesn’t feel like you? You’re not alone - and you’re not broken. You may be experiencing something called an amygdala hijack.
In this episode, we’re diving into what amygdala hijack really is - why it happens, how it feels in the body, and what’s going on in the brain when your amygdala takes over. Understanding this can be a game-changer for anyone who’s ever struggled with reactivity, shame after conflict, or feeling out of control in moments of stress.
We’ll also talk about why you can’t think your way out of an amygdala hijack - and why somatic tools like Havening Techniques® are so effective at calming the emotional brain and bringing the thinking mind back online.
You’ll then be guided through a gentle, body-based practice to calm your amygdala and return to a felt sense of safety.
If you’ve ever wished you could stop the spiral in real time, this episode is for you.
In this episode:
What is Amygdala Hijack?
How to Calm Amygdala Hijack
Somatic Practice to Calm Your Amygdala using Havening
Related: Try more nervous system healing meditations here!
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.
Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!
Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats
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Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica
We all avoid our feelings sometimes … but even when we’re not actively thinking about them, those emotions don’t disappear. They stay with us - in our bodies, in our breath, in our inner dialogue - quietly shaping our experience from underneath the surface.
This gentle somatic meditation is an invitation to stop running and start listening. You’ll be guided to turn toward what you’ve been holding inside and meet it with compassion and care - creating space for insight, integration, and emotional release.
Using a powerful emotional healing technique called Regenerating Images in Memory® (RIM), this practice helps you connect deeply with what’s really going on within you in a way that can facilitate a deep emotional release. RIM works with your body and imagination in a deeply intuitive way, supporting healing that feels organic, safe, and surprisingly relieving.
If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or just sensing that something’s unresolved beneath the surface, this episode is for you. Let this be a soft place to begin again.
🎧 Press play when you’re ready to gently feel what’s here - and release what no longer needs to be held.
In this episode:
The power of turning toward our feelings instead of avoiding them
Gentle Meditation For Healing And Emotional Release (using Regenerating Images in Memory)
Related: Enjoy more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here!
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
You don’t need to think harder. You need to listen deeper. 💗
When it comes to making decisions (big and small), most of us try to think our way to clarity. But real clarity doesn’t come from overanalyzing - it comes from reconnecting with the quiet wisdom of your body and heart.
This guided somatic meditation for intuitive decision making helps you shift out of the mind and into the felt sense of what’s true. You’ll explore the heart as a powerful center of intuitive intelligence - and learn how to access the deeper knowing that lives within you.
Intuitive decision making isn’t something you have to figure out.
It’s something you can feel into.
And your heart - your beautifully intelligent, deeply connected heart - knows the way.
Whether you’re in the middle of a big life decision or you’re just longing to trust yourself more deeply, this meditation is for you.
In this episode:
Your Body is Home To A Deep, Intuitive Intelligence
Somatic Meditation For Intuitive Decision Making
Breathing to Reconnect And Regulate
Centering In Your Heart
Asking Your Heart For Guidance
Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
This simple breathwork practice is truly self-care for when you're too exhausted to do self-care. 😌
When you're depleted, burned out, or running on empty, even the idea of doing something to feel better can feel overwhelming. That’s why Bhramari Pranayama—also known as humming bee breath—is so powerful. It takes almost no effort at all, but gently shifts your body out of stress and into a state of rest and repair.
Just a soft inhale… and a slow, humming exhale. That’s it.
And yet research shows that this quiet, simple practice can nourish your nervous system, calm your stress response, and support recovery on a deep physiological level.
If you're longing for healing but don’t have the energy to “do” anything—this practice is for you. Press play and let the hum help you recover from fatigue and exhaustion, one easy exhale at a time.
In this episode:
How Bhramari Pranayama helps you recover from exhaustion and fatigue
Guided Breathwork Practice for Deep Relaxation
Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
When you’re struggling, it’s easy to believe you’re doing something wrong—that you should be handling things better, feeling less, or already be “over it.”
But the truth is, struggle doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re human.
And what you need most in those moments isn’t to push through—it’s to be met with compassion.
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic self-compassion practice that uses Havening touch to calm your nervous system, ease emotional overwhelm, and bring compassionate support to the parts of you that are hurting. You’ll be guided to connect with what you’re feeling, normalize your experience, and soften inward using soothing “iffirmations.”
If life feels heavy right now, this practice is here to help you feel held—from the inside out.
🩷 Press play and experience the healing power of self-compassion.
In this episode:
The Healing Power of Self-Compassion
Somatic Self-Compassion Practice using Havening Techniques
How To do Self-Havening
Connecting With Your Felt Sense
Iffirmations To Normalize Your Struggle
Iffirmations To Soften Toward Yourself
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Related: Enjoy more Iffirmation Meditations here
Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
Iffirmations to Cultivate Self-Compassion
Iffirmations to normalize/humanize your struggle:
What if it’s okay to feel this way right now?
What if lots of people struggle like this sometimes?
What if there’s nothing wrong with me for feeling this way?
What would it feel like to stop fighting with my feelings?
What would it be like to just accept my feelings right now?
What if my reaction here actually makes sense in a way?
Of course I feel this way because …
Iffirmations to Soften Toward Yourself
What if I can soften my heart towards myself right now?
What would it be like to soften my heart toward the part of me that’s struggling right now?
What if I can start to accept myself where I am and as I am?
What if I can love and accept myself even when I’m struggling?
What if I can love and accept myself especially when I’m struggling?
Who would I become if I could release my self-judgment and foster self-understanding instead?
What if I can gently be more accepting toward myself?
What would it feel like to become a steady source of love and compassion in my life?
What if self-compassion is my best route forward?
What if I truly and deeply deserve compassion?
What if I truly and deeply deserve compassion, because …
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
If you’ve found yourself stuck in cycles of procrastination — even when you want to move forward — this episode will help you understand what’s really happening beneath the surface.
Procrastination isn’t a character flaw. It’s often a protective response from your nervous system, signaling that something inside doesn’t feel safe, ready, or supported yet.
And, pushing yourself harder or relying on willpower usually makes the cycle worse. What you actually need is to listen to your body and bring it back to a felt sense of safety.
In this gentle Havening meditation, I’ll guide you through soothing touch and a series of iffirmations — compassionate “what if” questions — to help you calm your nervous system and reconnect with your inner motivation.
This practice will support you in moving forward without force, at the pace of your body and in the direction of your truth.
In this episode:
How to Move Forward When You’re Stuck in Procrastination
Havening Exercise to Move Forward Without Force
Self-Havening explained
Guided Self-Havening to regulate your nervous system
Squeeze and Sigh
Get a Felt Sense of Your Procrastination
Iffirmations To Break the Cycle of Procrastination
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Learn all about Iffirmations here
Related: Enjoy more Iffirmation Meditations
Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
Iffirmations To Break the Cycle of Procrastination
Iffirmations to accept where you are:
I’m stuck in a cycle of procrastination right now.
What if it’s okay to be stuck sometimes?
What if there’s nothing wrong with me for procrastinating?
What if this is just the state of my nervous system right now?
What if this procrastination actually makes sense in a way?
What would it be like to stop fighting with my procrastination?
What would it be like to soften my heart to myself in this moment?
Now, check in with yourself.
How does it feel to accept where you are right now?
[Note: please feel free to repeat the above iffirmations several more times before moving on to the next iffirmations.]
Iffirmations to Move Forward Without Force:
What if it’s safe for me to move forward now?
What if I can begin to do what I need to do?
What would it be like to open to the possibility of taking a step forward?
What if it’s okay to start small?
What if I don’t have to do everything, I can just take one step?
What if there’s a way forward that feels safe and true?
What if I can do it gently, one step at a time?
What if small steps are more powerful than I think?
What if I can trust the momentum that comes when I soften and start small?
What if clarity comes as I take gentle steps?
What if it’s safe to choose one small thing to focus on now?
Now, ask your body how you might move forward now.
Can you imagine a manageable next step?
Can you imagine yourself moving forward with softness?
What other support do you want or need to move forward authentically?
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
In a world that teaches us to minimize our emotions and push past our needs, so many of us have become disconnected from our deeper selves and our true feelings. But here’s the thing: being honest with ourselves about what we’re actually feeling is where authentic healing begins.
Emotional honesty is also deeply regulating. When we stop pushing away what’s true and start gently acknowledging it, the nervous system begins to settle. The fog clears. And we come back into relationship with ourselves.
In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic meditation using Regenerating Images in Memory®—a practice designed to help you reconnect with your emotions, uncover hidden needs, and bring loving attention to the parts of you that have been quietly waiting to be seen.
This is not about getting stuck in your feelings—it’s about letting them move through you, so you can feel more clear, grounded, and whole.
🌀 Press play and experience the healing power of emotional honesty.
In this episode:
The Healing Power of Emotional Honesty
Somatic Meditation for Emotional Honesty (using Regenerating Images in Memory)
Related: Enjoy more Regenerating Images in Memory meditations here
🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!
In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.
Enroll for free now!
Connect with Karena:
@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
helloinnerlight.com
Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here
Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course
Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community
1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena
A lovely meditation. My body craves comforting, safe and loving comforting, no strings attached comforting, no expectations comforting. Thank you Karena.