Bubbles n' Flow: An Active, Creative Guided Meditation with Pop! (20 min)
Distilling the classic microcosmic orbit into a water cycle for all you nature + seltzer lovers.
Read MoreSpine of Pearls: A Vivid Guided Meditation to Help You Relax and Reduce Neck/Back Pain (12 min)
A guided visualization in which the spine is a jigsaw puzzle column of bones getting refurbished, while also using the metaphor of a necklace, make that pearls!
Is your spine a column of bones or is it a pearl necklace? You be the judge. (Hint: it can be both!)
Curious about artists who paint the body in imagined and mystical ways? Here’s your Art Rx:
Be a River: a Guided Meditation to Reduce Stress and Practice Eco-Embodiment (10 min)
One River. One Body. Feel them merge. Be the current.
Water is soft and silky, mighty and powerful, and deeply cleansing.
We have a lot of work ahead of us to make our rivers as clean and fresh as they are in our imaginations. If you feel called to make a donation, here are some organizations doing deep work:
Cave Body ft. the Heart and Pelvis: A Guided Meditation to Reunite your Upper and Lower Body (15 min)
Step into the ancient sensation of embodiment and trace the petroglyphs on the back of your skin.
Art Rx:
On Anxiety and the Imagination: Want to Learn More about my Method of Metaphor Medicine? (5 min)
If you are like me, a creative thinker who is a touch high strung, then you've probably had anxiety influence your mood and your body. Have you ever invented a catastrophe and felt your stomach flip, sweat break out, or your chest get tight...or worse? All you did was invent a story…and let it play out in your mind, and your body reacted as if it had happened (at least a little bit.) Just the thought made you sick. That's how powerful the imagination is. Stories do affect our bodies. So, let's tell ourselves some stories that help us feel more safe, more creative, more calm, more grounded, and more aligned. Then we can put the imagination to use to help us feel better.
Read MoreSo, what is Metaphor Medicine?: An Explanation on Guided Meditation and Embodied Visualizations
The way you feel affects the way you feel. Does it ever feel like you've been invaded by negativity? Your mind and body might feel irritable, edgy, and uncomfortable. When you feel that way your perspective constricts and that affects the way you see things: others, the world, and your own experience. But, if something happens to open and widen your perspective, and you feel lighter, more positive, or even all the way up to awesome-- you might notice some of the symptoms you previously experienced lessen, recede, or even vanish. Listen for a bit more on this topic.
Read MoreHourglass: A Guided Meditations for Headaches, Jaw Tension, and Better Sleep (10 min)
Sifting sand brings you back to a balanced, grounded state.
Read MoreNight Sky with Roses: A Mystical Wondrous Guided Visualization from Body Land Metaphor Medicine (17 min)
Feel the vibes of outer space as a free-floating astronaut in your own cosmos.
Be a galaxy. Then nat geo the night sky with roses blooming on loop at your pain points.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Between the Earth and Sky, to feel grounded and a sense of belonging (15 min)
You are sandwiched between the earth and sky. This is where you belong. Here, and in your body. Blend into the horizon to pleasantly disappear -- and belong.
Read MoreSpecial Thanks: Season 1 Appreciations from Body Land
Thanks to my patients for coming in and being the canvases for collaborative ideaphoria and metaphorical painting. And thank you to helpers Leslie Huddart, Niyati Evers-King, Anusuya Starbear, Jason Powers, Breesa Culver, Sanae Yamada, Betsy Amster, Brenda Garcia, Leslie Barber, Alissa Beddow, Kara Marie Dean, and Bruce Patterson.
This is Body Land: Welcome to your Source for Imaginative Guided Meditations
Body Land is a collection of guided visualizations designed to help you feel better using the super powers of your imagination. Have a dose of metaphor medicine to relax, restore, and rejuvenate.
Read MoreComing soon... Stay tuned for Metaphor Medicine from Body Land!
COMING SOON… SOUND BITES FOR SELF CARE
BODY LAND is a podcast style resource for your self care. These sound bites send deep image lyric storytelling through your ears to your body. These guided visualizations are made by me, Liz Greenhill, licensed acupuncturist, artist, and writer, and they are based on the hands-on work I do with patients.
The basis for these visualizations comes from my personal experience with anxiety. When I was in my twenties, I struggled with my mental health. The EMDR therapist who helped me through that difficult time, Bruce Patterson, taught me that anxiety is the imagination gone rogue. In an anxiety state we are telling ourselves stories that aren't true, stories that are filled with hypothetical tragedy, pain, chaos, and scenarios of misfortune and failure. The idea behind Body Land is that we can repurpose our wonderfully creative imaginations for the opposite effect: to use metaphor and lyric imagery to get embodied and build sensations of safety, nurturing our cravings for belonging, awareness, intuition, and inner peace. These small experiences are not meant to be curative solutions for anxiety but rather help managing it. They offer fleeting micro-antidotes to help you remember what the opposite of anxiety feels like and to land in your body and claim it as your home.
Each visualization is designed for you to feel more safe and comfortable in your own skin. Listen to these visualizations with your eyes closed and let the imagery sink in to your bones. Let yourself space out, travel to the in-between, or even sleep. The images that appear in your mind's eye are yours to keep. Imagine them floating around inside you like holograms in outer space. You can call on them whenever you need. Your body will remember.
BODY LAND is produced by Night Sky Acupuncture + Ideaphoria.
Recording sound bites for self care for ya.