Defy Dystopia! Energy Clearing Meditation for Trauma and AuDHD

About this episode

This week’s episode follows on from Episode 98 and the seemingly endless trauma triggers from the news. It feels like it’s been getting more triggering for years and years but amping up even more recently. I keep telling myself it’s all coming up for healing and sunlight is the best disinfectant. That, ultimately, we are in the process of remembering we’re all connected, we all deserve safety, connection, love and the potential to thrive and we’re creating a new, more peaceful, free and equitable – for ALL – world.

And we can do nothing to help ourselves or anyone else if we’re quietly rocking back and forth, in floods of tears, feeling helpless and hopeless. By coming together, supporting and speaking up for each other, we can find joy and hope (while doing the work we all need to do in the giant group project called life) in more sustainable ways.

This simple, quick and easy (the more you practice, the quicker it gets) not only helps to clear our own energy fields and connect with our own miraculous Self but it helps us clear the space in meetings, communities and the world at large so we’re ultimately defying the dystopia some people are perfectly happy for us to feel is inevitable. It is not. We get to remember the power we all have as individuals and to amplify it by working together, energetically and in practical ways, too.

Let me know a) how you get on with the meditation and b) what kind of world you’d LIKE to help contribute to building – comment or email [email protected]

le grá (with love),

Eve

This week’s episode follows on from Episode 98 and the seemingly endless trauma triggers from the news. It feels like it’s been getting more triggering for years and years but amping up even more recently. I keep telling myself it’s all coming up for healing and sunlight is the best disinfectant. That, ultimately, we are in the process of remembering we’re all connected, we all deserve safety, connection, love and the potential to thrive and we’re creating a new, more peaceful, free and equitable – for ALL – world.

And we can do nothing to help ourselves or anyone else if we’re quietly rocking back and forth, in floods of tears, feeling helpless and hopeless. By coming together, supporting and speaking up for each other, we can find joy and hope (while doing the work we all need to do in the giant group project called life) in more sustainable ways.

This simple, quick and easy (the more you practice, the quicker it gets) not only helps to clear our own energy fields and connect with our own miraculous Self but it helps us clear the space in meetings, communities and the world at large so we’re ultimately defying the dystopia some people are perfectly happy for us to feel is inevitable. It is not. We get to remember the power we all have as individuals and to amplify it by working together, energetically and in practical ways, too.

Let me know a) how you get on with the meditation and b) what kind of world you’d LIKE to help contribute to building – comment or email [email protected]

le grá (with love),

Eve

CHAPTERS

0:00 Power, self-connection and the benefits of this energy clearing meditation

0:51 Podcast intro, resources and weekly nervous system support

2:52 Defying dystopia through self-care, boundaries and compassion

3:53 Introducing the magnet clearing meditation

5:03 Why this meditation is quick, adaptable and beginner-friendly

6:09 Grounding the body and preparing the nervous system

6:36 Clearing above and below to release inauthentic energy

7:48 Clearing front and back for fears, pain and past experiences

9:08 Clearing left and right for giving, receiving and contribution

11:25 Filling the energy field with golden healing light

13:30 Clearing the path ahead and staying in your miraculous Self

14:59 Using the practice in daily life and difficult moments

17:02 Closing reflections, ripple effects and staying connected

FULL TRANSCRIPT

But as with all of my work, I’m wanting you to remember that we have more power than we think we do. Wherever we are in the world, whatever’s going on around us, the more we connect with and look after our own self, that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself, the more we connect with our own energies and work with them, befriending our trauma, histories and ADHD brains, helping ourselves heal with compassion for ourselves and others. Yes, absolutely setting boundaries. And this is where this meditation comes in.

Hi, I’m Eve Menezes Cunningham and you’re listening to the Feel Better Every Day Podcast. You can find out more and access older episodes at thefeelbettereverydaypodcast.com and you can also access loads of free resources and find out more about the book, 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, the column I write for Platinum every month, other titles I contribute to, my work, loads of free resources I’ve created over the years.

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Welcome to episode 99 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast. In today’s episode I am wanting to help you and me and everyone defy dystopia.

A big ambition. But as with all of my work I’m wanting you to remember that we have more power than we think we do. Wherever we are in the world, whatever’s going on around us, the more we connect with and look after our own self, that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself. The more we connect with our own energies and work with them befriending our trauma, histories and AuDHD brains, helping ourselves heal with compassion for ourselves and others. Yes, absolutely setting boundaries and this is where this meditation comes in. It’s one of my favourites.

I work a lot with the nervous system and also with energy so the nervous system is incredible. It’s a wonderful tool. You’ll have access to older episodes where I go into that a lot and future episodes as well but today it’s an energy clearing meditation which I learned a long time ago in London.

It’s a magnet clearing energy so if you imagine a magnet and how easily it draws iron filings to it, there’s no hassle, there’s no stress. It’s just what’s meant to do. All of the energy in our energy fields is neutral when it comes to the planet. We can release energies that aren’t authentically yours, that get in the way of your miraculous Self and send them deep into the centre of the earth where they can be reused, transmuted, recycled for the benefit of the planet so they’re no longer clogging up your energy field.

The reason this is one of my favourite all-time meditations, I’ve been teaching meditation since 2001, 2002, different types. I did all sorts of complex ones through the crystal therapy training, through the yoga therapy. I adore many, many. I have daily practices myself. I do daily Metta, mindfulness, all sorts but this is something that is so simple and so quick and you can expand on it or you can do it very quickly. You keep your eyes open. You can close them if you want to but part of my training involved practising it walking through London, central London, Holborn.

I learnt it from Art Giser, the creator of Energetic NLP and it’s just really lovely and really quick and really easy. So if you are in a position to do it now, if you’re driving, do not close your eyes. Do not even do this although as you practice you’ll be able to do it when driving. If you’re in traffic, absolutely. If you’re stressed in any way, it’s one of those immediate ways in which we just release inauthentic energies and allow our miraculous selves to flourish.

So start by making yourself comfortable. So feet firmly on the ground. If they don’t reach, you may want to put a few cushions below you.

Connecting with all the parts of the body that are sitting, that are connected with the chair, just feeling that support, that earth’s nourishing supportive energy below you. Lengthening through the spine to a degree that feels comfortable for you and imagining a magnet above your head, a few metres above your head, gently, effortlessly, easily releasing inauthentic energies from above. Any headaches, anything you’re struggling to understand, make sense of, any blocks to you reaching your dreams, your potential, your connection with your intuition, any headaches of any kind, releasing all of those inauthentic energies up through that magnet above you.

You may think consciously of certain things, letting them go. It may just be like, just let whatever feels ready to go, go. And then imagining a second magnet a few metres below your feet, letting any inauthentic energies be drained from the lower part of your body, anything to do with the lower part of your body, anything to do with your next steps in life, direction, sense of security, safety, money, anything like that.

Just allowing those inauthentic energies to be drawn away easily, effortlessly, like iron filings to a magnet. Imagining a third magnet a few metres in front of you, drawing away any inauthentic energies from the front of your body, anything to do with any physical ailments with the front of your body, in addition to medical advice. And also anything around fears of the future, any challenging situations you have coming up, difficult conversations, just imagining all those worries, all those anxieties, all those stresses being easily and effortlessly taken by this magnet.

Then imagining another magnet a few metres behind you and drawing away any aches, any pains, any issues around the back of the body. And again, medical advice really important when needed, but allowing any energies to be taken away from the back of the body and anything you’ve survived, anything, any traumas, any bad ways in which you were treated, any regrets, any grief, anything you’re ready to let go of from your past, just allowing the magnet to draw it gently, gently, gently, easily and effectively away from you now.

Imagining a fifth magnet a few metres to the right side of the body, drawing away any inauthentic energies from that right side of the body, any issues with the right side of your body, and also any issues with the way you contribute to the world, to the way in which you give your energy and anything else, the way in which you show up, helping you show up in a way that feels safe for you, that as Gay Hendricks says, making your biggest contribution to the world in a way that also is doing what you love as much as possible.

So, spending as much time as possible doing what you love while making your biggest contribution to the world. So, this fifth magnet is releasing any blocks to that, making things easier in terms of you feeling valued and appreciated as you show up when you’re maybe potentially tired of showing up. So, It’s really important to defy dystopia and keep putting your beautiful, healing, generous energy out into the world, looking after yourself while you do it.

Allowing inauthentic energies from the right side of the body to be effortlessly and easily taken away. Final magnet, imagining it a few metres from the left side of the body, and again, releasing any blocks from the left side of the body, any issues with the left side of the body, and also anything that gets in the way of you receiving all the good life has to offer. Letting yourself be open to receiving things that you want, things that are freely given.

It’s not a matter of feeling bombarded or engulfed by what other people want to give you or put onto you. You freely choosing and then freely giving, but helping to clear inauthentic energies that get in the way of you being open to all of life’s goodness. So, you’ve got these six magnets working away, doing their thing, letting go easily, enjoyably, effortlessly.

And when you feel ready, let all of those magnets go deep into the earth, letting all of those inauthentic energies be taken, recycled, transmuted for the benefit of the planet. Now, imagine a few metres above you that you have a glorious golden ball of healing light energy, grounded light energy, and it’s spreading its magnificence to the top corners of your energy field and the bottom corners of your energy field. And creating, it might be a sphere, a bubble around you, you may prefer a different shape, whatever feels good for you.

But imagine this glorious grounded healing light energy coating this energy field for you. Really thick, gloopy, delicious golden paint covering every millimetre of your energy field. And once it’s coated with really delicious, glorious grounded healing energy, allowing it to fill up, creating a spa for your soul as you let yourself luxuriate in this glorious grounded light energy in which your miraculous self can flourish.

Nature abhors a vacuum, so imagining it really permeating all the areas in which you’ve released those inauthentic energies, letting it go deep, letting it fill you, every fibre of your being, every cell, every part of your energy field. Noticing how it feels and knowing you can do this for yourself anytime, anywhere, any place. The more you do it, you’ll come up with your own shortcuts.

Something to consider now is to imagine a little ball of beautiful, strong, powerful, golden healing light energy and imagining it bouncing ahead of you, thinking about the rest of your day, the rest of your week, the rest of the month, the rest of the year, the rest of your life. Just clearing your path, making life easier for you to connect with and stay with your miraculous Self. Being able to connect with others from that highest, wisest, truest part of yourself, knowing what you want, helping bring out the best in others.

And it’s not about imposing your will on others, you connecting with this energy. It’s like you walking through a crowded station smiling. Some people are going to be like, oh, and smile back.

Others might be and ignore you. That’s fine. But you by taking responsibility for your energy field and your miraculous self and creating the conditions in which you can flourish, it’s going to help you connect with others.

It’s going to help you connect with your resources and it’s going to help you help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome and loved and able to thrive. It’s going to help you heal your AuADHD brain and recover from your traumas.

Something I do most mornings is and also I do it in sessions. I do it out and about. I do it whenever I feel that there might be blocks. I do it when watching the news.

Do it anytime you’re feeling a bit icky. Just quickly release those inauthentic energies from all directions. And the most important thing is to replace it. Let yourself fill up with that glorious, grounded, healing, light energy and send that energy to situations you’re worried about, situations you feel hopeless and helpless about.

It’s a wonderful thing to do with any spaces you’re living in or working from as well. It’s really interesting how different spaces take different lengths and intensity off this meditation.

Sometimes you’ll experience a lot of energy has been released and other times it’s like, oh wow, that felt pretty clear. I noticed since moving to the west of Ireland, the energy really feels, it doesn’t take as long as it used to when I was in London and Essex, just it’s a beautiful natural landscape and fewer people. So notice, like I normally, as with the Metta moving out, I start with myself and then the room I’m in.

And then if I were doing it for the rest of the house, the whole space, the town, it could be a space you’re working in. Anytime I’m doing events or presentations, I try to have a look at the space in advance or teaching yoga classes or anything like that. Just doing that energy work in advance, clearing the space.

And then during the thing, it’s just a very quick magnet above, below, in front, behind, to each side. And the more you practice it, the easier it gets. But again, you could be in a challenging conversation, you could be feeling infuriated, you can ground and you can just consciously set that intention to release those inauthentic energies and create a space for your miraculous self, for their miraculous self, and defy dystopia.

Look after yourself. Know that everything you do to look after yourself has the potential to ripple out and help others. This is not about being codependent, but this is about us all working together.

That science of safety and connection, knowing that there is abundance, there is enough for everyone. And we’ve been conditioned by way too many oppressive systems over way too long to believe that we’re separate when we’re all connected. And everything you do to help yourself has the potential to help others as well.

So sending enormous love. Thank you for listening. And I look forward to sharing more next week.

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