Are you ready for a quick mood boost? Havening touch has been shown to create Delta waves in the brain that stimulate the release of your brain’s happiness chemicals: dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin, so it’s a lovely technique to use when you need a quick mood boost! This Havening exercise also has a regulating effect on your nervous system. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: learning to regulate your nervous system is the ultimate happiness hack! Without us even realizing it, our nervo...
Feb 02, 2024•15 min•Ep. 12
Here’s a quick hack to relax your nervous system (that I truly think we all need)! Interestingly, our eyes and our gaze affect our nervous system. And when we spend our days looking at small details up close (like we do with our computers and phones), this can actually send stress signals to deep parts of our nervous system. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you through a quick exercise to soften your gaze that can effectively relax your nervous system and leave you ...
Jan 26, 2024•8 min•Ep. 11
Compassionate self acceptance is the birthplace of true self love. Plus, developing compassionate self-acceptance is absolutely vital to creating the conditions within where true healing can take place. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , join Karena as she guides you through a regulating meditation (using Havening and iffirmations) to help you cultivate more softness and tenderness towards yourself. Episode timing: 00:00 - The importance of compassionate self-acceptance 02:53 - Gui...
Jan 19, 2024•24 min•Ep. 10
Welcome to the expansive world of iffirmations! Iffirmations are a more powerful, authentic and effective form of affirmations. They help you shift your mindset and get unstuck by priming your subconscious mind for creative problem solving and opening you up to greater curiosity and possibilities. But, unlike affirmations, they feel expansive and authentic (and don’t require you to engage in toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing)! 🩷 In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena expl...
Jan 12, 2024•14 min•Ep. 9
Connect with your future self to create more clarity and momentum towards your dreams and goals! Your future self can be a powerful source of compassion, support and guidance! Plus, research has shown that emotionally connecting with our future self can help us make decisions that are aligned with our highest and greatest good in the long term with more ease. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you through a meditation to get guidance from your future self using Regene...
Jan 05, 2024•30 min•Ep. 8
In a world full of overthinking and endless choices, the intelligence of your heart can be your truest guide. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you through a Heart Centered Intention Setting Exercise so that you can align your goals, resolutions and intentions with the profound intelligence of your heart. ➡️➡️➡️ You can bring ANY goal, resolution or intention to this exercise to gain more clarity, alignment and support. 5 reasons to do heart centered intention settin...
Dec 29, 2023•28 min•Ep. 7
Learning to accept your emotions more (and resist them less) is one of the most powerful ways to deepen your self-compassion, decrease your self judgment, strengthen your inner peace and help your emotions move through you - like they’re meant to - instead of staying stuck in your difficult emotions. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you on a gentle journey towards tangibly accepting your emotions more so that you can feel more relaxed and at peace within your heart,...
Dec 15, 2023•23 min•Ep. 6
When we’re on a healing journey, looking at our emotional triggers can be profoundly useful. When we know how to listen to them, our emotional triggers can guide us towards inner parts of ourselves that are calling out for healing. If we know how to pay attention, they can tell us so much about our limiting beliefs, unprocessed emotions, past pain and subconscious blocks. And learning to heal them deep at their subconscious roots can be one of the most transformational things we can do on our he...
Dec 08, 2023•29 min•Ep. 5
In a world full of triggers, discover the magic of soothing your amygdala for immediate emotional first aid! In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you through a Havening Exercise to calm down when triggered. This exercise is so powerful because it actually soothes the reactive parts of your emotional brain that get activated when emotional triggers come up for you. We all get triggered sometimes. And it’s profoundly valuable and supportive to know how to nurture and supp...
Dec 01, 2023•23 min•Ep. 4
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we absolutely need quick and effective ways to relax, regulate and shift our state! In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you through a soothing and simple 5 minute breathing exercise can help you calm your mind, connect with your body and quickly induce a state of deep relaxation. This practice combines elements from Qigong-inspired breathing and Open Focus Exercises developed by Dr. Les Fehmi. You can do this exercise in any p...
Nov 19, 2023•7 min•Ep. 2
Imagine having a reliable way to decrease your stress, overthinking, anxiety and emotional turbulence … while simultaneously increasing your capacity for peace, calm, compassion, happiness, playfulness and overall well-being. Welcome to the world of nervous system regulation! In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations , Karena guides you through a super effective nervous system regulation exercise (using Havening Techniques® and Orienting) to help you release anxiety and stress and rewire yo...
Nov 17, 2023•17 min•Ep. 1
Are you ready to regulate your nervous system, deepen your healing journey and feel better in your body? I’m Karena with Hello Inner Light and I’m so excited to announce the launch of my brand new podcast, Somatic Healing Meditations. Every episode of Somatic Healing Meditations contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way. Using Ha...
Nov 10, 2023•54 sec
