Trauma Informed and Resiliency Focused, Compassion Infused Meditation and Mindfulness

Stillpoint Visions creates a soothing and comforting container within which you are empowered to cultivate resilience and lean into your own (sometimes hidden) pockets of support and resources available from within.  

A place of inclusiveness for all, Stillpoint recognizes the common humanity we share within a diverse and complex framework of individual strength and vulnerability. It is from here that we can learn humility, develop courage, and engage our creativity to build the capacity for greater buoyancy.

Our ability to sit with difficult emotions, and to process experiences can vary from moment to moment. Recognizing our own limits, boundaries and flexibilities allows us to discover our own inner processing space through self awareness and radical choice. 

Welcome home to yourself.

A Sight Anchor for Calming

A Sound Anchor for Calming

A Touch Anchor for Calming

A Taste Anchor for Calming

Creating a Sacred Space

Cultivating the Soil for Change

Meeting Your Wise Guide

Kimber

Trauma Informed, Resiliency Focused

Try this Sight-Anchor meditation to engage your unique inner resources and wisdom. Mindfulness and meditation build our resiliency and can be one of the most effective tools for healing. It can also be surprisingly activating and difficult for those who have experienced prolonged stress or trauma. When our nervous systems have been over-activated, focusing on the breath as a meditative anchor can be difficult. Let this help you to find that anchor. 

Becoming aware of our inner resources and senses can help us to calm, center, and think more clearly by engaging the parasympathetic nervous system. This increases relaxation and improves your ability to feel more in control of yourself.

Creating an internal space that is completely yours is a way of engaging the vagus nerve, which creates a parasympathetic rest and digest response. Imagining this sacred space will help you cue a state of greater relaxation that allows for improved sleep and making this an ideal track to play each night as you go to bed. 

The more you listen to this track the more you will create a safe trait within yourself, a way of regulating the body and emotions, even in stressful situations. If you create a body anchor by placing your hands or arms, in the same way, each time you listen to this meditation, you will remind your body to relax each time you engage the body anchor in real-life situations.  

We often think about the seeds that we want to plant for new growth to begin in our lives, but cultivating the soil before we plant is equally important. This meditation will lead you to think about what you want to plant, and what needs to happen before you begin the planting process.  

When we are stressed, have experienced trauma, or are living in sustained difficulty, it can be difficult to find a sense of hope. It's even more difficult to fully embody hope. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Stanley, this practice will help you to discover your connection to your own body, to feel grounded and secure, and to find hope within your body. 

Where Hope Resides

Eighty percent of the information shared between our mind and our body comes directly from the body to the mind, making the body an intelligent being. We often forget about, are angry at, or feel disempowered by our bodies. This meditation will help you to connect with and understand your body through subtle awareness, interoceptive attention, and respectful response. 

Listening to the Body's Messages

Come. Sit. Listen quietly to the Creation Story; the story of how God created the Earth in 7 days.  

Creation Story #1  Genesis 1:1-2:3

Listen to how God created the garden of Eden, his warning to man, and his desire for man to have a companion. 

Creation Story #2 Genesis 2:5-2:21

Every spiritual tradition and Indigenous culture has a practice of communing with the wisest part of ourselves, or with a spiritual guide, to gain insight and self-knowledge. Use your own inner wisdom to connect with your wise guide, spirit animal, angel, or ancestor. This meditation will help you to lean into your true self, answer burning questions, or learn the gift that is waiting for you.  This meditation builds on a script I learned from Dr. James Gordon.  

Touch can be a wonderful substitute for the breath as an anchor in your meditation practice. Touch can also help when you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or detached. In this meditation, you will use something that you like to feel, hold onto or touch as a way of self-regulating and grounding. Choose something that you want to feel in your hand or on your body (a weighted blanket would work well for instance) before you start the meditation, or - just imagine something!

Parenting - the toughest job anywhere, anytime. Take this short break to give yourself a moment to pause, breathe, and come back into your body before heading back to your family. 

Parenting Pause

Is alternate nostril breathing something that can stimulate your light (or sun) side? Can it engage the dark (or moon) side? Traditional tantric and yogic systems of understanding and our latest understanding of neuroscience have a lot in common! Learn how similar they are to practice several different types of alternate nostril breathing. You'll gain an understanding of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and how you can regulate these to improve your mood, maintain health and get better sleep!

Science of Alternate Nostril Breathing

Negative thoughts can take the steam right out of us. They can derail our plans, make us feel bad, and create problems in relationships. This meditation will guide you to specific ways of noticing, questioning, and living with negative thought patterns so that you can shine a light on them and allow them to naturally burn off. 

Shining a Light on your Thoughts

This practice can be an effective way to bring your energy level up, to increase your awareness of your current surroundings, and to feel yourself come back home into the body. When we are spaced out, disconnected, or disengaged, sounds or music can sometimes help us to draw our awareness back into the present moment through anchoring our attention in our sense of hearing. 

Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth stimulates the vagus nerve, curing the sympathetic nervous system to begin helping you to relax. This meditation will help with concentration, focus, and centering. Want to know more about soft belly breathing? Check out the Center for mind-body medicine. 

Sweet Soft Belly Breathing for Stress

Present-moment focus can be increased by using your sense of smell. You may want to collect an essential oil or your favorite tea. You could also imagine homemade bread baking in the oven, or the cookies your grandma baked for you after school. Whatever feels right for you at this moment will work to help increase your awareness, focus, and attention. 

Great for a daytime pick-me-up or if you need to work on a project at work but are feeling sleepy. Depending on the scent you use, this can also help you to calm, center, and relax as well. 

A Scent Anchor for Grounding

Meditation builds an increased capacity for resilience and is one of the best tools for healing from trauma. Meditation can also be particularly challenging and sometimes activating for those of us who are living with sustained stress (such as living through a pandemic, experiencing historical trauma, or learning about crimes against a whole group of people) or who have a history of trauma.  Working with internal resources, or external resources can help to make meditation more accessible. You can do this as a stand-alone activity, and you can also come back to it as a practice of pause during any other meditation to find your footing and then return to the meditation practice from a more resourced, available place.  

Activating Your Personal Resources

Mindful eating is a wonderful way to reset the way you experience food and taste. It can help you re-establish your relationship with food, or allow you to look at how fast you tend to eat. This is a very brief exercise in mindful eating - just to give you a small taste of what you might want to look at doing more of on your own.

This is the story of Genesis 1:1 through 2:4. A beautiful way to wind down the day and fall into God's arms as you drift into sleep.  

God Created the World

Sleep is often prevented or interrupted by the mind's continual thought process. This meditation will help you to contain those repetitive thoughts so that you can sleep.

Creating a Container for Sleep

This breathing practice starts with alternate nostril breathing and moves into a full pineal glad breathing meditation. The pineal gland creates melatonin in darker environments and helps promote sleep.

Dragon's Breath

Prayerfully asking God to give us the courage to face and not to turn away from what is dark and confusing. To let us look upon that we do not understand without scorn or fear or judgment. To help us to have the heart that He meant for us to love others with. To allow us to see the spirit in those who fear that theirs is lost. And to let us be the light that sees the best in others.