Brian Anwar Blog: Resiliency Meditation

Resiliency Meditation Graphic

Namaste Beauties and welcome to our practical enlightenment meditation series, where our specific meditation today is Resiliency. As we go through life, sometimes we feel like we’re getting battered down. There’s so much coming at us. We can feel stressed. We can feel frazzled. We can feel over-scheduled and over-worked. It’s important, especially in these times to call on our inner resiliency and the part of us that is limitless and the part of us that doesn’t have the same sorts of limitations as when we identify with the limited ego.

There’s energetic essence, this part of us, the more we connect in, it’s like getting water from the, well, the more we can call on this energy and this power and this resiliency inside of us to get us through tough times, to get us through whether it’s bigger life events or the day to day hardships, we can call on this resiliency and we don’t have to rely on anything outside of us. It’s all inside of us.

This is a great meditation to call on in those times, especially, and you can listen to it. You can practice the meditation twice a day when you’re really working on building resiliency and building your connection to your inner strength.

Let’s get started.

Guided Meditation

Go ahead and take a comfortable seat. Your hips elevated on a cushion or sitting on a chair with your feet. Nice and flat on the ground.

Go ahead and lift your spine. Nice, strong, straight posture, shoulders, more or less over your hips.

And then go ahead and bring your hands to your knees or your thigh.

And as you inhale, you’re going to close your hands into fists, and then you’re going to imagine this tension spreading for your forearms and up into your arms and hold that tension. And then they slowly exhale.

And then just imagine the tension and release fully relax. This is based on a general teaching by Paramahansa Yogananda.

We’re going to inhale, close your hands into fists, and then feel that tension expanding up into your forearms and your upper arms all around shoulders back, and just holding that tension and then opening your fists and letting all the tension dissipate and relax.

And again, inhaling and closing your hands into fists, forearms, arms, shoulders, upper back, everything gets tense. And then you start to relax the whole area and just feel immediate release down into your fingertips. Shoulders down, back down one more time. Inhaling.

Now, pulling your fingers into fists, increasing the tension through your hands, forearms, elbows, upper arms, shoulders back, and then exhaling and slowly opening your hand, feeling full relaxation, their entire hands, shoulders back now taking a deep breath in and exhaling out.

Let’s do a count of six today and try to keep the breath silent.

Sometimes when we make a lot of noise, it means there’s constriction. We may be closing our nostrils. Instead of forcing just a nice, slow pulling in at the breath.

Here we go. Inhaling 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and exhaling 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, again, inhale 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, nice and slowly exhaling out 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

So powerful. So subtle letting the breath come in.

One more pattern like that. 3, 4, 5, 6, and exhale, and just feeling the power that comes from that quiet inner place three for a sec, just keep breathing like that.

Fairly slowly, almost effortlessly, but feeling that flow of energy coming in and out without the pushing, without the grasping or overly controlling, just feeling present with that beautiful flow of breath and energy.

Setting the Intention for Today

And I’m going to introduce our affirmation, our intention today, just stay in this potent space. This is how we start to reprogram our minds and our beliefs. When we’re open and receptive, we start to focus on different ideas, like more expansive ideas beyond our limited ones.

So deeply focused on my words. And if it feels like it helps your focus to say the words out loud, silently to yourself, go ahead and do that, but keep your mind right here with me right now.

Resiliency Meditation Quote

I Am resilient and strong. I can cope with whatever life brings me.

I Am resilient being. I Am strong. I Am here. I can cope with whatever life brings me.

Just keep breathing.

Now take a moment to let that integrate.

If you’d like to continue further, just keep breathing. I’ve let this meditation tract run out. Keep going on your own. Otherwise, go ahead and bring your hands together into prayer position. Now Anjali mudra in front of your heart. Palms pressed together.

Take a moment for gratitude giving thanks for our path, our lives, this practice.

So grateful to be here with you to be on this journey and to share what has helped me so much. This meditation path. Sending you so much love.

Om shanti om. Peace and love. Namaste.