Find a comfortable seated or lying position. Allow your body to soften and your breath to slow.
Gently close your eyes.
Take a slow breath in through your nose… and exhale through your mouth.
Again — inhale slowly and exhale, letting your shoulders drop.
Now bring your awareness into your body.
Notice the weight of your body being supported by the earth beneath you. You do not need to hold yourself up right now.
You are held.
Place one hand over your heart and one hand over your belly.
Feel the warmth of your hands. Feel your breath moving beneath them.
There is nothing to fix. Nothing to change. Nothing to become.
Just feel.
Begin to Listen to Your Body
Bring your awareness to your heart center. Notice any sensation present: warmth, tightness, openness, heaviness, numbness — all are welcome.
Silently say to yourself: “I am here with you.”
Pause and feel what happens in your body. Now bring awareness to your belly.
This is the center of safety, identity, and emotional memory. Breathe gently into this space. Say softly inside: “You are safe with me.”
Allow your nervous system to hear these words, as this is an essential aspect of nervous system regulation.
Reclaim Self-Love
Imagine now that you are sitting across from yourself — the younger you, the hurting you, the tired you, the brave you — all aspects of you.
Notice what you feel in your body as you see yourself. Without forcing anything, gently say: “I will not abandon you.”
Pause.
Feel the response in your chest, throat, or belly.
Now say: “I choose you.”
Breathe slowly.
And then: “I love you exactly as you are.”
Let your body receive those words instead of trying to believe them. Somatic love is not thinking — it is allowing.
Integration - Merging with Self Love
Imagine now that the version of you sitting across from you stands up and slowly steps into your heart.
You are no longer separate. You are together. Whole.
Notice how your body feels when there is no one to chase, no one to prove yourself to, no one to become for love.
Just breathing. Just being. Just loving.
Closing
Take three slow breaths.
With each exhale, allow your body to soften more deeply into support. When you are ready, gently open your eyes.
Carry this knowing with you:
You are the love you have been searching for. And your body already knows how to return you there through mindfulness coaching and somatic awareness.