A Havening Guided Meditation to Reduce Stress and Build Resilience with Dr. Kate Truitt

This is a guided meditation for reducing stress and building resilience. Dr. Kate invites you to expand your gaze around your environment, and to notice the expansive landscape of the room you are in. She assures you that there is nothing in your surroundings to fear, and uses an analogy to describe this fear as “tigers laying in wait.”

Dr. Kate explains that this exercise is geared towards calming your Amygdala. Noticing peripheral details around us in the here and now allows us to step out of a narrow framework. (We are also hardwired to seek out difficult moments).

She then encourages you to notice all the different basic shapes in your environment, and trace them with your vision, clockwise and counterclockwise. Dr. Kate mentions that this is helpful because our Amygdala loves to know that our vision is free and unencumbered to take in details.

She then asks you to find an experience in your life where you felt connected to something or someone. Dr. Kate suggests that you move into a deeper relationship with this experience, hold it here with you, and notice its attributes. She invites you to notice if the energy of this experience has a message for you, and if there is no message arriving, she encourages you to choose your own. Then Dr. Kate suggests that you welcome in “What if?” statements, such as “What if I was connected?” and “What if I was calm?”

After completing this exercise, you will have built a new “neural freeway” that you can connect back to in the future, and deepen your relationship with it. The more we build one neural freeway, the weaker others become.

Take a look, and see what you can see today, we are glad you are joining us!

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Dr. Kate Truitt is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, as well as holds a MBA in Healthcare Administration. She is the CEO of the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles, Chairman of the Board of the Amy Research Foundation, and leads her flagship organization Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates located in Pasadena, CA. Her teams of expert psychologists and psychotherapists provide individual therapy, group therapy, executive coaching, and neurofeedback throughout California via telehealth.

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[charlescook]

For anyone who needs this, in order to see a rainbow, you need to go through the storm

[nancytapia]

When I listen to this song, I think about my dad. I wish he’ll be happy in heaven

[kelliwillis]

love this, so relaxing and blissful...

[marionannmacredie]

Kate I think this is one of my favorites 💞 🌹🌹🌹🌹

[williamchristmas]

Keep the vibes high deep divers and remember to do something today that you can thank yourself for tomorrow.

[hattiebrooks]

Thank you for uploading this video, tomorrow I have exam and I hope i can pass it :)

[verliejaeger]

Very sad music. I can imagine the person playing this cry..and it makes me want to cry.

[robertsumma]

Super LOVE your methods and soothing Have approach more than others! I want to bring this into helping some of my clients with anxiety. I also notice you don't practice opening the eyes at periods throughout and look left to right several times... which i personally find abrupting ....but some haveners say its important. Wondering your thoughts on eye darting...

[chadstuckey]

This was very helpful. Thank you Dr. Kate

[frankfernandez]

dont worry let all your tears out, its ok this community is nontoxic <3

[erinstine]

Hope u doing fine. Take a rest now, please?