Find a comfortable place to sit,
On a chair or cross-legged.
If it's a cool day,
Cover yourself with a blanket.
Make sure you won't be disturbed for 20 minutes or so.
You can choose to lie down and if you do,
You may fall asleep.
That is perfectly okay.
Close your eyes.
Pay attention to your breath.
As it goes in,
And as it goes out.
Now take charge of your breath.
Breathe in through your nose.
Hold.
Now breathe out through your nose.
One more time,
Breathe in.
Hold.
Breathe out.
In your mind's eye,
I want you to see yourself in a garden.
It's a very familiar place.
Peaceful and serene.
You can feel the gentle rays of the sun on your back.
Surrounded by greenery.
In front of you is a small flight of stairs leading down into the garden.
You step down the first step,
Sinking deeper into peace.
You take the next step,
Feeling more calm,
More ease.
You step down again,
Hearing the tranquility of your surrounds seeping into your body.
You take another step down,
Sinking deeper and deeper into the feeling of calm and relaxation.
You take the final step down into the garden.
You're fully immersed in the peace of your surroundings.
Now you're in the very heart of this beautiful,
Serene,
Calming place.
The warm breeze is gentle as it stirs the leaves from the trees.
Take another breath in.
And breathe out.
Find a space for yourself to sit on the soft,
Green,
Inviting grass.
Feel your body getting heavier and heavier.
Sinking deeper and deeper into relaxation.
Now I want you to imagine you are growing roots down from your feet through the ground,
Deep into the core of the earth.
Feel your energy wrap around the centre of Mother Earth.
And then wind its way gently back up through your feet and into your body.
Feel the deep peace of the earth relaxing every single cell of your being.
Sitting on the grass,
You're feeling deeply connected to yourself and to Mother Earth.
When a young child of maybe three or four walks towards you,
She's smiling at you,
Delighted that you have noticed her.
Reach out your arms and give this child a warm embrace.
Notice that the child is very familiar to you.
Yes,
It's the little girl that once was you.
Feel the connection you have to your younger,
Innocent self.
Feel all her dreams,
Her excitement,
The delight she has in small things,
And the mystery of the world around her.
Feel the excitement that she feels.
Allow those feelings to expand in your heart,
Through your heart spreading and growing with the way you feel,
Like a lotus flower opening that's sitting on top of your heart.
Now watch with comfort and ease as she gently skips off to pick some flowers.
She stays within your eyesight and you feel a soft glow of appreciation and love for her,
Of all that she is and all that she will go through and of all that she will become.
A second young child walks towards you.
She seems very familiar,
Like somehow you should know her.
She comes up with a big smile on her face,
Full of warmth and love that wraps all around you.
It takes you a few moments to realise that this is your mother as a young child.
Innocent,
Pure,
Loving,
Without all the burdens that you are used to her carrying,
That that's how you knew her before all of that happened.
She seems very different to the mother that you have known throughout your lifetime.
Carefree,
Spontaneous,
Peaceful.
Wrap your mother in a warm hug.
Feel the love you have for her and that she has for you.
Feel the dreams that she once nurtured as a child.
Now watch as she goes to join your inner child picking flowers in the garden.
The other two children continue to pick flowers and play nearby.
You somehow know this third child.
Slowly it dawns on you that this is your child to come.
Here,
But not yet here to be seen.
The child walks up to you and embraces you saying,
Mummy,
I love you.
I'm waiting for you to be ready and for me to be ready when our time together is right.
You hug your child with the absolute knowing that this is the first of many hugs you will share.
Allow that feeling to settle into your heart and feel the lotus flower sitting on your heart opening up even more with the love that you have to share with this young child.
The other two girls skip over to you.
They have made a flower crown for you.
All three children place the flower crown gently on your head shining eyes of love and appreciation and trust in you.
Feel that trust and appreciation and love growing in your heart.
You hug each child with tenderness feeling your deep connection.
You sit back down in your garden feeling complete.
You choose to trust yourself.
You trust your body.
You are worthy.
You believe in yourself.
You are courageous.
You are willing to take this journey for yourself and for your baby.
It's time to head back and leave the garden now.
Know that this space is always available for you anytime you choose to return.
Take with you the trust you have in yourself,
Your body and your child.
Opening up the steps slowly.
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
And five.
Feeling back into your body.
Become aware of the room that you're in.
When you are ready,
Open your eyes.
I now invite you to go back mentally over the meditation.
If anything caused you to get emotional,
What was it?
Write it down.
Wishing you peace and a beautiful journey to the family of your dreams.
