Caution with Quiet Mind and Mindfulness and Trauma

Avoid Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations and practices which include Mindfulness as an element if you have experienced Trauma and are not ready for what may come up when you allow things to. When this is the case, turn to Focus and Open Heart or Quiet Mind without those elements. 

Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations:

• The flow of Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations vary for each route below. However, the common thread, is about the self getting smaller, or sound quieter until there is silence, or the absence of things. 

• All Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations begin with a focus target that gradually softens, quiets that attention and shifts to an expansive attention where the self is small. 

• This is a style of NeuroMeditation, in particular, where FORCE will yield the opposite of what you want. The key here is surrender, allowing, letting go. 

• Focusing on the vastness or spaciousness of any vista, view, or thing that is vast and spacious like the ocean or space.

• Focus on the empty spaces between things . You can do this with anything - the space between the walls, the space between your hands, the emptiness in the middle of a circle. Play with this and see if you find a way your brain engages with.

• Focus on the feeling of suspension. Feel your bed holding all of your weight. Explore various imagery around suspension.

• Combine various approaches. 

  • • An example: Picture yourself in space suspended in an expansive "net" connecting the stars and holding you like a hammock or stretched net. Focus on the distance betweens stars and planets around you while FEELING the suspension in the body. This allows for the feeling of RELEASE and fully relaxing tension in the body.

The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory