Hello,
This guided meditation is intended to help you visualize your perfect beautiful place.
Visualization is a powerful method that allows you to use your imagination to help you relax.
Please do not do this meditation while you're not 100% ready to be in the present moment.
Please return to this at a later time when you can fully relax into the sound of my voice.
Simply find a comfortable spot,
Listen to my voice,
And follow my direction.
Take a moment to sit back and relax.
Gently close your eyes and breathe deeply into your abdomen.
Feel yourself in your body right now in this moment.
As you breathe,
Allow your body to completely and fully relax.
Stress is flowing out of you with each breath,
Letting go of any tension you may feel.
Let the tension go in your brow,
Letting the tension go in your lips,
Letting the tension go in your eye.
Your body is becoming limp and comfortable.
Just relax in the comfortable darkness that surrounds you.
Once you feel completely relaxed and centered,
Start by bringing yourself to one of your favorite peaceful beautiful places.
This could be a place you've been before,
Like a silent redwood grove with cool shade,
Towering ancient trees that protect you in their mammoth embrace,
Or a white sand beach where the ocean waves gently lap the shore and the smell of the sea makes you feel it.
It could be a place built entirely in your imagination,
A lovely slowly swaying bridge that you stand on,
Watching a babbling brook flow away beneath it,
Or an ancient oak in the autumn,
Something out of an old legend,
Or golden leaves that fall all around you as you sit under the shade and watch the golden orange sun pass over the horizon into the twilight.
Wherever this special peaceful place is for you,
Take some time to imagine it.
Imagine it as completely as you can all around.
Once you have your special place in mind,
Bring yourself into the picture.
Imagine you're in this beautiful place.
Put yourself there.
Take a walk and look at the lovely peaceful relaxing surroundings.
Before you were looking at this peaceful scene like a painting from the distance.
Now you are in the scene.
You are living it.
Be there right now.
What do you see around you?
There's no need to actually verbally answer this question.
Just look around.
What do you see?
What in this scene is most relaxing to you?
Take a walk in this special place and see all that you can see.
What do you smell in the air?
Can you smell the trees and the soil of the forest floor beneath you?
Do you smell the salty air of the ocean side?
Bring scent into your visualization.
Smell the air where you are.
Reach out and touch something that's attractive and peaceful to you.
How does it feel?
Is it soft to your touch?
You're living in the scene.
You can feel the ground beneath you and the air on your skin.
How does this feel?
Take a moment to listen.
What sounds do you hear in this beautiful new surrounding?
Can you hear the birds chirping in the woods?
Do you hear the ocean waves in their perpetual booming rhythm?
Perhaps there's music from an ancient flute in the background.
Or maybe you hear the voice of an old friend that soothes and calms you.
Whatever you hear,
Take a moment now to enjoy listening to it.
You can stay in this scene as long as you want to,
Enjoying this moment of relaxation.
Feel free to walk around this special place as long as you want.
It's yours.
You can change the scene as you wish.
Remember that this special place is always here for you.
You can come back to it whenever you wish.
You need not be afraid to lose it.
It's always with you.
The relaxation you feel right now in this moment in your body is yours to call on any time you wish.
When you're ready,
Slowly let the scene before you dissolve back into your mind.
Allow yourself to slowly come back to the comfortable darkness that was there before you imagined your special place.
When you're ready in your own time,
You can slowly open your eyes.
You can come back to this moment,
This time,
And this reality.
Before you get up,
Take a moment to note how relaxed you feel right now.
Then slowly,
Attentively,
Lovingly move on with your daily life.
