Closing your eyes,
Neither resting comfortably on the floor or in a chair.
Just feel into your body.
Take some big deep breaths and just land in your body.
Feel into any tension that might be there.
Your mind,
Your face,
Your shoulders,
Your stomach,
Your legs.
Just delight in the deliciousness of feeling into your body.
And if there's pain,
Acknowledge it.
Not trying to push it away but really sit with that aching,
That tension.
And then feel into any space in your body where there's a lightness,
An energy waiting to be released.
A joy.
An ecstatic sense.
Breathing into both of those feelings at once.
Lightness and heaviness.
Joy and pain.
And then opening up your body to receive more light,
More energy.
You can do this by breathing even deeper or you can do this by visualizing light streaming down into your body.
You can do this by feeling yourself rooted and connected with the earth.
And all the nutrition that it holds for us in the soil.
And when you feel in your own body,
It's time to take a journey beyond the limits of this space,
Time,
Reality.
And in your imagination,
See yourself walking towards an old oak tree.
An ancient,
Beautiful vision of wilderness and wonder.
See that tree in all its beauty.
See the branches,
See how thick and old,
How far the roots spread.
See what's growing on it.
Just see in all the detail.
What season is it that you've picked?
Have leaves fallen to the ground?
Are they emerging again?
Is it ripe and ready for a new beginning?
And as you get closer to this tree,
There's a portal,
A circular shape like Alice in Wonderland.
As you get closer,
You find yourself shrinking to fit the size of that portal,
Immersing yourself inside of the tree.
And inside of the tree is a staircase going down,
Down.
And you're taking steps down and down and down,
Further into your subconscious mind.
Down and down and down,
Further into your soul wisdom.
Down and down and deeper and deeper.
And the beating heart of the earth is your inner wisdom.
And when you emerge in this dense darkness,
Feel into the vibration of this space.
How much we run away from the emptiness?
How much can we acknowledge the beauty that's in this still space?
Just allow the mind to float calmly in this darkness as you enter your trance state.
How much can we acknowledge the beauty that's in this still space?
And as you go through this space,
You find yourself in the most enchanted forest,
With lights flickering around the trees,
Dense,
Lush,
Green grass,
Soil that's rich and nutritious.
It is a place of beauty and wonder,
With flowers everywhere,
And the sun is shining down on you.
And in this space,
You will see animals appear.
Just connect the first animal you see,
The nerve,
And sometimes they speak to you without a word.
So you might hear a sound whispering in your ear,
A bird,
Or a noise,
A bark.
Or you might see an animal in front of you.
You can reach out and touch what's around you,
And hear,
And smell,
And feel,
Or see into what's there for you,
Waiting to guide you.
And in this place,
Ask for guidance on something you may be wrestling with in your own mind,
That is there in your deeper wisdom and beauty of the world around you.
Ask the animal that you sense,
The primitive part of you,
The answer is,
The first question that springs up into your deeper higher mind.
It may be,
How can I quiet my mind?
How can I create more freely?
How can I heal my body?
Let it just rise up to the surface.
Ask,
Waiting to receive guidance.
And know that sometimes this guidance comes in strange ways,
Symbols,
Sounds,
Shapes,
Whisperings,
Knowings.
Sometimes we're not ready to receive,
And it will come to us in dreams,
Or as we're running or walking in nature,
Or while we're relaxing,
A bath,
Or a shower,
A salad,
And we funnel in,
Because we're cultivating this wisdom that comes from beyond the logical mind.
And walking back towards that tree where we started,
Thanking your guidance for what you have received,
Acknowledging the power of the animal,
Acknowledging the power of nature,
The spirit it has inside it,
As do you.
Coming back to the portal in the tree,
Coming out the other side and seeing yourself expand bigger and bigger and bigger in your imagination so you're so full of light and wisdom.
Wiggling your hands and your feet and stretching your body gently and slowly coming back to the room,
Coming back to your body,
To your space,
And your reality here and now.
