Meditation to Ease Difficult Emotions

Sometimes our emotions can be troubling or overwhelming. This gentle guided meditation invites you to observe your feelings as they arise and transform within you. Building this ability can help us to acknowledge and release unpleasant emotions, preventing them from building up.

Observe the sensations of the body and their emotional feeling tones, to learn what our body is trying to tell us. Explore different emotional feeling tones, from pleasant sensations of happiness, ease and joy to unpleasant sensations of possessiveness, jealousy or fear. Pay close attention and discern that even feelings that may at first appear neutral, can be subtly pleasant or unpleasant; perhaps a sense of spaciousness and receptivity, or that of boredom, lethargy and indifference.

Vanessa will guide you in how to create a safe internal space to practice, how to anchor to the breath as a resting place, and how to access the resources of the natural world around us to support us. The meditation concludes with a moment of nurturing and techniques are introduced that we can use to care for ourselves, through validation, protection and soothing.

Vanessa is a Mindfulness Meditation, Pranayama and Yoga teacher and holds a Masters degree in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy. She has over seventeen years’ experience helping others to understand or accept their thoughts, feelings and emotions as they navigate through the journey of life. Vanessa also incorporates thirty years of personal practice, and the wisdom gained therein, into all her Personal Mentoring sessions.

Vanessa believes an inherent wholeness exists within all of us, and the potential for it to develop can be nurtured through kind and skilful inquiry. During her consultations, Vanessa facilitates a safe, empowering space for curious and non-judgemental self-exploration. This process ultimately cultivates a growing awareness by drawing your attention within. Through the creative application of practical tools and techniques, Vanessa guides you to release old habitual patterns, and embrace new ones that allow you to see, and be in your world in a different way.