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Curious why you respond to stress the way you do? The way your nervous system protects you (push, freeze, flee, or fold) tends to follow a pattern you learned long ago. The What's Your Pattern quiz takes just a few minutes and gives you language for something you may have felt for years. Discover yours here: https://course.healing-home.co/survival-mode-type-hhJoin the Channel Membership: https://bit.ly/wendy-meditateJoin the newsletter for calming practices in your inbox: https://wendy316.substack.com/Read the Book: https://bit.ly/365-days-of-optimismApply for 1:1 Coaching: https://course.healing-home.co/1-1-coaching-hhThe Healing Home: Volume I Course: https://course.healing-home.co/somatic-meditation-series-hhA somatic meditation to release survival mode, soften the body, and let your nervous system finally exhale.This practice is for the part of you that has been bracing for a very long time. The part that holds its breath, keeps the shoulders lifted, tightens the jaw, guards the belly, and stays ready to move, flee, freeze, please, or endure.In this guided meditation, Wendy leads you through a gentle body-based practice using the Healing Home five-element framework. You will move from the feet, legs, and hips into the belly, jaw, hands, throat, shoulders, heart, face, and whole body, giving each area permission to soften in its own time.This meditation is especially supportive when you feel stuck in survival mode, tense, guarded, emotionally exhausted, hypervigilant, or unable to fully rest. Nothing is forced. You do not need to figure anything out from the thinking mind. This is simply an invitation to let the body experience a little more support, safety, and space.Use this practice when you want to calm your nervous system, release bracing from the body, soften the jaw and shoulders, unclench the belly, ground through the hips and legs, and return to a quieter sense of safety inside yourself.You do not have to earn your rest by being finished. You do not have to understand everything before your body is allowed to feel safe. Your body can finally exhale.The Healing Home Method: healing-home.coHeadphones recommended. Seated or lying down.✨ Start your healing journey today — join Rest to Rise: A 7-Day Nervous System Reset here: https://wendymeditation.mysamcart.com/rest-to-rise-a-seven-day-nervous-system-reset-for-calm-and-clarity/🎧 Subscribe for new meditations weekly.🕊️ Explore nervous system healing programs & resources at:https://healing-home.co/#meditation #mindfulness #selfhealing #morningmeditation #nervoussystemreset #innerpeace #breathe