Episode #9: The Glass Body Meditation

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Hi there everyone! This months podcast is a guided relaxation meditation. I ADORE this meditation and is one that I have adapted from several meditations that I love. It is super easy and doesn't require a lot of effort, except just staying with me. It is particularly easy to use before, during or after doing exposure for OCD or other anxiety disorders. I also encourage this when practicing mindful eating or intuitive eating. It is a great way to direct your attention back to your body and into the moment. Try it and let me know what you think. And Happy Belated Thanksgiving! Warmly, Kimberley

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Kimberly Quinlan and this is your anxiety toolkit.
0:13.2	Welcome back. It is the end of November and we are moving very quickly into the holidays.
0:20.0	This month's podcast is going to be somewhat brief.
0:23.8	I'm going to offer a meditation that I would say is my most requested meditation
0:29.3	in sessions from clients.
0:32.0	It's pretty easy.
0:33.5	It doesn't require any activity or any tools.
0:38.3	It just requires you to stay still and stay with me.
0:42.3	So without further ado, I'm just going to get straight into it.
0:47.3	Okay?
0:48.3	I would like for you to recline or sit in a seated position with your feet firmly on the floor. And I'd like you just to
0:59.8	really lay back and relax yourself as best as you can. Once you're in a seated and relaxed position,
1:11.6	I want you to take a nice deep breath in
1:16.6	and take a deep breath out.
1:20.6	And slowly close your eyes.
1:35.8	Now using visualization, I want you to imagine that your body is made of glass, your entire body.
1:50.3	And once you have imagined that, I want you then to imagine that not only is your body made of
1:57.9	glass, but it is a hollow silhouette similar to a vase where you
2:05.1	are the outline of you is glass, but the inside is hollow.
2:15.0	And once you have that visualization, I want you then to imagine that the glass body that you are sitting in is filled to the top with your favorite color of water.
2:32.7	It might be blue, it might be red, it might be a soft yellow, whatever you like.
2:43.3	Continue breathing and once you have this image in your mind, I want you to then imagine that at the end of both of your
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