Volcano Depths These planet meditations are designed for you to sit with the beautiful elements and life in all its glorious creation on our earth as you quiet yourself to be here right now.
They can be used to return you to your sense of oneness with the whole planet or you could simply enjoy them and relax.
I hope you can use them in a way that resonates for you.
I invite you to take a couple of full breaths,
Letting the air out slowly,
Bringing your attention to your breath,
To the inflow and outflow of your breath as you gently close your eyes and beginning now to notice any sensations you can feel in your body,
Beginning to notice how it feels for you in this moment.
What sensations might you notice in your body right now,
Right here?
Bringing your attention to your body and gently scanning slowly down as you breathe from your head,
Neck,
Shoulders,
Chest,
Back,
Tummy,
Hips,
Thighs,
Calves and finally feeling into your feet,
Noticing the sensations in your feet and in your toes.
Perhaps your toes are touching or maybe they're apart,
Nothing to do about them.
Simply becoming aware of the physical sensations in your body,
Bringing your focus into your body.
Perhaps you can sense some tingling or numbness,
Restlessness,
Maybe there's a sense of tightness somewhere in your body,
Just breathing in and out and allowing all sensations to just be.
Bringing this sense of kind,
Gentle curiosity to all you might find and feel now,
Sensing where your body makes contact with the surface supporting you.
Perhaps your heels or calves or your shoulder blades pressing into the floor,
The chair,
Whatever you sense just noticing and letting be.
And now bringing your awareness up through your body and into your lungs,
Noticing the feeling of the air entering and leaving your lungs,
Breathing in and out,
Noticing the movement of your body as it fills with air and the movement as the air leaves again.
Perhaps you can even notice the pause,
The pause on the in-breath before you let the air go and the pause on the out-breath before you draw new clean air in.
Simply bringing awareness to your breath and your own natural ebb and flow.
Maybe noticing that your body knows what to do in every moment and with each breath,
Moment by moment,
Minute by minute,
Day by day.
And now bringing your awareness to the sensation of your breath on your face,
Maybe noticing the sensations on your cheeks or just below your nose or over your chin as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
What's the temperature of the air like on your face?
Is it warm?
Cool?
Perhaps noticing any difference?
However it is for you right now,
Just noticing with kind curiosity,
With nothing to do or change,
Nothing to decide,
No rights or wrongs.
Just lying or sitting here,
Supported by the ground,
Breathing with your own natural ebb and flow.
Noticing what's happening for you in this moment.
And now bringing your awareness to any thoughts,
Any thoughts which may be arising,
No need to push them away.
Just let them arrive and leave again,
Gently returning your attention to your breath,
To breathing into the body.
And now bringing into your mind's eye the image of a vast volcano.
It may be one you've seen on film or in a book or it may be one you visited.
And beginning to see the contours and shapes of your volcano.
Is it a large open bowl,
A crater,
Or maybe it's a tall mountain of stone,
Waiting silently.
And now coming closer to your volcano,
Seeing its sides.
Maybe your volcano has deep slopes down to its central core.
Maybe it's been resting for many years and scanty shrubs cling to its darkened slopes.
Or maybe it's a steep cone with only a smattering of green coating its sides.
Maybe your volcano sleeps so soundly the small creatures scamper over its slopes.
Or maybe it's restless,
Tremoring,
Reminding the creatures and plants who visit of its hidden depths.
And now lying here,
Safely supported by the surface on which you rest,
Breathing.
And seeing in your mind the wonder and beauty of your volcano.
Knowing that whatever turbulence may be taking place beneath its surface,
Or in its skies or even oceans above.
So as the fury of magma churns and swirls below,
All the storms and climates rage above.
It sits in its chains and patterns with other volcanoes,
A part of your beautiful planet,
Taking its place in the chain of life.
Simmering,
Exploding,
Resting.
No matter what comes,
Belonging here in this beautiful earth,
Feeding the soil with its ashy deposits,
Creating new life from its fiery roots.
Returning to calm once its storms pass,
And no matter what turbulences come up,
Sensing the ancient wisdom of Mother Earth's core that created it.
This sense of knowledge,
Creation,
Allowing all to be.
And seeing yourself as your volcano now,
Sensing the turbulences that may arrive and churn within,
Or the changing weather of your emotions.
And yet knowing underneath and throughout your own calm place,
Your own deep belonging,
At one with your volcano,
A part of the very earth that created you both,
A part of the skies that look down on you both,
Breathing your own life in and out,
Finding your own peace once each storm passes.
Seeing the beauty of change and creation coming from your own times of rupture,
Getting the sense of your own majestic belonging.
And now,
Letting your ancient volcano go,
Breathing here now in your own strong body,
Focusing fully onto your breath once more,
Onto the in breath and the out breath,
And simply bringing your full awareness to this moment.
Noticing your breath,
New breath,
In each and every moment.
Breathing in,
Breathing out,
And when you hear the chime,
Gently opening your eyes,
Wriggling your fingers and toes if you wish to wake up,
Or snuggling down if you wish to sleep,
Perhaps smiling.
Blessings.
