The Magical Forest Temple: Meditation Sleep Story

Welcome to this Slumberland Sleep Story.

I'll be your guide as you journey to the magical forest temple,

Walking through the forest,

Finding the ruins of an old temple,

Settling down to sleep near the ruins before awakening in the morning and noticing a dragon has landed nearby,

Talking with the dragon and seeing the temple as it once looked,

Learning from the experience before settling down and drifting peacefully asleep into slumberland.

I would like to take this moment to wish you the most peaceful nights,

Sleep and pleasant dreams as you fall asleep to this bedtime story.

Before we begin the story,

You can take a few moments to settle down comfortably.

You can shift about a little if you need to to make yourself even more comfortable and when you are ready,

You can let your eyes gently close.

And as the story unfolds,

You can take a few deep,

Relaxing breaths,

Allowing the out breaths to be a little longer than the in breaths.

This triggers the bodies natural relaxation response.

And as you relax,

You can find yourself,

One morning,

Walking through a forest.

As you quietly and comfortably walk through this forest,

You can be aware of the sounds around you,

The sounds of the daytime animals in the forest,

The way that the sun tries to creep down to the ground through the canopy overhead,

The rustling of the leaves as the wind gently blows a breeze,

And the smell of the forest air.

And as you continue to walk deeper and deeper into the forest,

So the day continues to pass by and you continue to become more absorbed in the experience.

And as evening sets in,

So you can notice the developing sounds of those evening animals.

Very little evening light makes it to the forest floor here.

You can occasionally hear the movement of animals creeping through the treetops,

Perhaps finding their way home to settle down for the evening,

Remember that there is a profound stillness setting in to the air in the forest,

Which can give this place an enchanting,

Magical,

Otherworldly feeling.

Among the dense trees,

You can see fireflies dancing in the diminishing light.

As the light from the day continues to fade,

So you light your way with a torch.

And as you move the torch around in the inky darkness of the forest,

So you can notice the distorted shadows of branches,

Tree trunks and leafy plants dancing around you.

You continue to push on deeper and deeper into the forest,

Brushing aside leaves and small branches and navigating around trees which stand in your way.

As you push through the branches touching different leaves,

You can notice the variety of textures to those leaves.

Other times you can rest your hand on the bark of trees as you climb over obstacles in your path,

Aware of the rough texture under the palm of your hand and fingers,

Which add additional grippage to help you remain steady as you continue to navigate in the dimming light.

While trekking deeper and deeper into this forest in ever encroaching darkness,

You notice how difficult it is to track time and to be aware of how far you have travelled.

Everything around you in the darkness looks and sounds the same,

Every direction seems to be the same as any other direction.

You don't feel like you're getting closer to anything or further away from anything like you might do when you normally travel somewhere.

You continue to follow the planned route deeper and deeper into the forest,

Getting closer and closer to your destination,

Determined to keep pushing on until you get to where you're going before you stop and rest for the night.

You have heard that there is an ancient temple deep in this forest which connects two worlds,

But as no one has been there for hundreds of years,

You only have the evidence you gathered to go on.

There are no photographs or modern reports of this location,

Just myths,

Legends and stories told through the generations.

Eventually while walking you notice that the ground becomes lumpier than it has been for the whole trek.

You assume that perhaps you're closing in on the temple and maybe these are the ruins near the temple.

You carefully navigate in the dark,

Over the rocky undergrowth,

Weaving between the trees,

Continuing deeper and deeper into this magical forest.

After some time longer your torchlight catches a glimpse of the ruins of a stone wall protruding out from the forest floor.

You head towards that wall and can see more walls including a corner wall revealing the heart of the temple.

Having arrived at the temple,

You decide that you can finally stop and rest.

The forest has encroached around the outside of the ruins,

But there is a little less foliage within the walls of these ruins and an area large enough that you would describe it as a clearing.

You light a campfire,

Its light illuminating the masonry,

Flickering and dancing,

The light gently tickling the forest beyond the ruins.

You set up a tent a short distance from the campfire,

Hang a torch inside the tent and settle down,

Feeling the pleasure of relaxing and resting your feet after a long walk.

You have some food and drink before taking a few moments to write down your experiences so far,

Recording your journey,

Where you came from,

The route you have travelled,

How long it has taken you to get here,

Anything of interest which you have noticed on your adventure so far.

You then rest back a moment,

Close your eyes,

Take a few deep,

Comfortable breaths and allow yourself to drift deeply and comfortably into a pleasant reverie.

And as you drift into that reverie,

You have a sense of relaxing your mind and body.

You focus on the top of your head,

Noticing what your head is resting on,

How it is so gently supported in place,

The comfort in and around your head resting there,

Having a sense of the muscles around your scalp and the back of your head softening and relaxing,

Relaxing,

Drawing in peace and comfort with each breath that you take,

Before moving your awareness around your face,

Focusing on what it is like for that relaxation to spread around your face,

Your ears and your cheeks,

Having the muscles in these areas soften and relax.

Relaxing the muscles around your eyes and across your forehead,

While the muscles around the side of your head and over the top of your head begin to relax,

Deeper and deeper.

Noticing how you can pay attention to fading tension or perhaps find that tension dissolves without paying it any attention at all.

You continue to allow that relaxation to spread down around your mouth,

Relaxing your lips and your jaw,

Relaxing the muscles around the side of your neck,

Around to the back of your neck and around your throat.

And as your jaw relaxes and hangs slightly loose,

Limp and comfortable,

That relaxation can continue to move down to your shoulders and upper back.

And you can discover whether that relaxation happens fastest around your shoulders or in the upper back or perhaps down the tops or the front of your shoulders,

As that relaxation progresses around your back and your chest,

Softening and relaxing those muscles fully,

Deeply and comfortably.

And as those muscles soften and relax,

While you rest there,

That relaxation can begin to spread down the arms to the hands,

All the way to the fingertips.

I don't know which arm will relax fully fastest,

Whether it will be the left arm or the right arm,

Or whether the arms will relax at the same rate and speed as each other.

And as that relaxation continues through those arms,

It can flow down through your stomach,

Through your sides and lower back,

All the way down to your bottom before extending deeply down through your legs to the tips of your toes.

And as your body becomes deeper and deeper relaxed while you drift into the most pleasant sleep,

So your mind begins to relax,

You begin to have a sense of a healing light touching your forehead,

Enveloping your face and head with healing deep relaxation,

Absorbing comfortably and gently into you with each in-breath that you take,

Filling you with healing peace and calm,

Spreading that healing restorative,

Recuperative light down through your body,

Breathing in healing calm relaxation and breathing out any stress or tension,

Aware of that healing light passing down your neck,

Softening and relaxing those muscles,

Spreading that healing light throughout the neck as it spreads down with the next breath to your shoulders,

Around the back of your neck and down into your arms,

Gradually continuing that flow of healing light all the way to the fingertips.

With another in-breath,

The healing light can spread down through the body,

Softening and relaxing muscles,

Healing deep within the body.

Filling the body with pleasure and deep relaxation.

As the light journeys down around your stomach,

Your lower back and sides,

And into your buttocks and all the way down your legs,

To the soles of your feet,

Filling your whole body with that healing restorative light.

And as you allow that light to flow with each breath,

You can find your mind drifting deeper and deeper into a reverie.

In this reverie,

You begin to imagine what this landscape might have looked like.

Did this temple sit within a wider complex of homes and other buildings?

You imagine that someone could have been in this temple performing a ritual.

You imagine that maybe a city was once here.

You imagine that maybe a city was once here.

Clearing out this area of the forest,

Making it so that,

If you looked up,

You would be able to see the beauty and majesty of the night sky arching overhead.

You imagine what people would be here.

Seeing people selling food,

The most incredible smelling spices,

Clothes and other items.

Seeing the streets lined with the faint,

Gentle flickering glow of lights in an evening.

A venue where people are spending their evening socializing and having fun.

You wonder what happened here and how it ended up being left to turn to ruins and overrun by the forest.

You continue to enjoy your reverie until drifting peacefully and comfortably into the most wonderful,

Deep,

Recuperative sleep.

Very early the next morning,

Before daylight has penetrated the forest,

You awaken in your tent to the sounds of the forest.

You leave your tent and make some breakfast at your campfire.

You take a few deep breaths of the refreshing forest morning air.

As the first shards of light begin dancing through the forest,

You hear a powerful yet soft sound,

Almost like the powerful sound of the wings of a large bird,

But as soft as a blanket resting onto a freshly made bed,

Followed by a dull,

Almost inaudible thud.

You look up and over in the direction of the noise to notice a fresh,

Friendly looking green dragon,

With a slight orange glow coming from its neck with each out-breath,

Revealing the power the dragon contains within.

The dragon speaks in a deep and gentle voice,

Telling you that they are Eddie.

They explain that this temple straddles two rivers,

And that the water is the source of the water.

They are Eddie.

They explain that this temple straddles two realities.

Those in your reality allow the temple to crumble into ruins,

Whereas the temple in the other reality is still thriving.

Eddie explained that there are multiple realities overlaying each other,

And that the best way to describe it to be understood is that the realities are in a slightly different frequency or phase from each other.

This temple,

And others like it,

Was used to create a bridge between the two realities,

To create a location where the two realities could develop a harmonic resonance.

They then synchronise,

And a space is formed where both realities share the same frequency,

And so both exist in the same space and time.

For this to be possible,

What is in the location during the synchronisation has to match,

So the temple is identical in both locations,

Or at least that there is nothing which can be damaged by the overlay of both realities.

So when the realities merge,

The temples from both realities become a single temple.

Eddie shared that until this temple fell into ruin,

The temples were permanently connected,

And so because of the temples being overlaid with each other,

Those in the other reality noticed that the people in this reality were leaving the area.

They had heard about new and exciting opportunities beyond the forest,

And wanted to go and discover those opportunities,

But they didn't notice that the temple was falling apart.

By the time they realised the extent of the damage to the temple in this reality,

It was too late to do anything about it.

They had crossed into this reality to try to establish the extent of the damage,

And were supposed to just fly over the area to take a look at the situation from above,

When the central bowl in the temple collapsed,

And the harmonic resonance was broken,

And they have been trapped here ever since,

Hoping that someone would find this place,

Who they can ask for help to re-harmonise the connection between the two realities.

You have questions like,

If people on both sides need to do something to connect the realities,

Who first did this?

How did they happen to do the same thing in the same location at the same time?

Eddie shares that there are enlightened beings in both realities,

Those who have mastered consciousness and can access higher states of consciousness.

These people are able to communicate with each other psychically on a level of consciousness,

Well above normal everyday consciousness.

They can harmonise the frequencies on the level of consciousness so that their consciousness synchronises.

What they wanted to do was to see if there was a way to do this physically,

To create a bridge between the realities that people could cross,

Rather than just creating a psychic connection.

The dragon explained that he knows the process to create this psychic connection,

But can't do it himself,

But what he can do is to guide you through the process.

This will allow you to be able to connect with others who can do the same,

To communicate with those in the other reality,

For them to guide you through the process of making repairs to this temple and then on both sides connecting the realities again and they will be able to travel back to their reality.

You agree you are happy and a little excited,

Eddie says in a deep and comforting voice.

Take a moment to sit comfortably,

You can focus on the sound of my voice and my voice can go with you in the back of your mind and as you focus on my voice I am going to count down from 20 to 1.

And with each count you can become deeper and deeper absorbed in the experience as you develop higher consciousness.

You will begin to see others who can do the same and will be able to connect with those others.

You will instinctively recognize those who come from the other reality,

Those who come from the other reality and be able to connect with someone who is near the temple.

Eddie continues 20,

19,

Drifting deeper,

18,

17,

Becoming deeper and deeper absorbed in the experience with each count,

16,

15,

14,

Slowly,

Carefully,

Softly entering higher consciousness,

13,

12,

11,

All the way,

Deeper and deeper,

Noticing the sensations through your body,

Perhaps a tingling or numbness or other sensations as your mind rises up and synchronizes into higher consciousness,

10,

9,

8,

Slowly,

Deeper and deeper absorbed in the experience,

7,

6,

5,

Perhaps already starting to notice others who have the ability to enter higher consciousness and seeing which of those people are from the other reality,

4,

3,

2 and finding yourself in that higher consciousness now,

1,

That's it,

And in this higher consciousness,

Eddie continues in the background of your mind,

You can walk over to the nearest enlightened being to this temple,

You can notice in your minds eye that there seems to be many enlightened beings close to the temple,

Like this is a gathering point for those who are enlightened,

You can see them glowing almost like beings of light and the world around you in your minds eye seems like a world of pulsing,

Moving,

Undulating,

Soft,

Comfortable light,

You head to the nearest person and notice them look up at you as you approach,

They then become brighter before the brightness around them fades and they look like a normal person standing in front of you,

Without them saying a word out loud,

You hear their voice in your mind talking to you,

You respond the same,

Just thinking of talking communicates with them,

You explain about the dragon,

Eddie,

How you are at the ruins of the temple in this reality and that Eddie has guided you into this state of consciousness and has told you that they would be able to help you fix up this temple so that the connection can be restored and Eddie can get home,

The enlightened being says that you will remain in this higher consciousness state as you slowly open your eyes and see the world around you so that you can follow their instructions,

They share with you how to repair a bowl which has fallen over in the centre of the temple,

They tell you that this is the most important part,

You need to now head to a nearby stream to gather some water to place in the bowl,

You make multiple trips to the nearby stream to collect water to fill the bowl,

Once the bowl is filled to the correct level with water,

The enlightened being tells you to clear the area as best as you can,

This takes many hours but over that time,

You do your best to clear away rubble and any tree branches and trunks which would be within the boundary of the temple,

This is the area where the realities will merge together,

You aren't able to clear everything but you manage to clear most things,

You're then guided to search for a stone baton,

You find this and make it as clean as you can,

They then tell you to sit down beside the bowl,

Gaze at the twinkling of the light on the surface of the water in the bowl where the waves undulate gently and while gazing at those undulating waves,

Breathe slowly and calmly,

You notice they lower their tone and slow their breathing,

With a steady pace,

You begin to run the stone baton around the rim of the bowl,

You start to slowly run that stone baton around the rim of the bowl,

You notice the waves in the bowl almost appear to become stationary as a frequency is caused by the baton rubbing around the rim of the bowl and the water takes on that frequency,

The frequency is too high pitched to hear but you can see its effects and then you begin to notice what almost looks like a static shock wave forming around the bowl and as you continue to rub that baton around the bowl with that steady pace,

Another shock wave appears further out from the bowl and continuing to rub that baton around the bowl,

Continues to create what looks like shock waves further and further from the bowl until there is a shock wave forming where the walls of the temple are situated,

You start to notice some creaking,

Cracking and crumbling sounds as you see the temple seemingly reforming,

Almost as if it is fading into reality from some ethereal place,

Once the temple has fully formed the resonance between the bowl and the rest of the temple seems to be self-sustaining as if the boundary of the temple is just the right distance for the resonance to bounce back to the bowl and continue to pulse between the bowl and the temple walls keeping these realities overlapping even when you are then instructed to stop rubbing the baton around the bowl.

On stopping rubbing the baton around the bowl you are told that you can now sit down,

Relax a moment before opening your eyes and exiting this higher state of consciousness.

You do this and when you open your eyes you find that a whole day has passed.

You can think to yourself that it didn't feel like a whole day in that heightened state of consciousness yet you had done a lot of work and so you suspect it must have taken you all day.

You see around you the temple now looking rebuilt except for areas where you had been unable to clear rubble,

Branches and tree trunks where the temple has formed in the same locations as these bits which have then damaged the walls of the temple in those locations.

You see people from this other reality and engage in conversation with them.

They share that they will fix up these areas of the temple.

You can see two large entrances to the temple with one entrance looking out over the forest as you know it to be and the other entrance looking out over the most beautiful city in the forest.

Eddie enters the temple from your reality,

Thanks you for your support.

They're greeted by the people in this temple and welcomed back.

A long time has passed but everyone they knew is still here.

They head through the temple looking forward to connecting with their loved ones,

Their friends and family.

This reality is very different to your reality.

It's a reality of fairies,

Dragons and magic among many other surprises and time flows differently in this reality to your own.

The people from this reality say that they will repair the temple in your reality and will maintain the temple in both realities.

As it's late and you feel tired you go to head into your tent thinking about the experience you've had today,

Wondering whether you have the ability to guide yourself into that higher state of consciousness.

As you head towards your tent one of the people invites you to stay with them,

Stating that they can offer you a meal and a comfortable bed.

You take them up on this offer follow them to their home enjoying your first proper view of what this reality looks like.

You have something to eat before being shown to a bedroom.

The bed looks so comfortable.

You sit on the bed and it feels just perfect.

You settle down in the bed looking forward to exploring this other reality and learning more from these people and other beings from this reality.

You know starting tomorrow that you'll be here for a long time as there is so much to learn and discover.

But for now you know that you need your sleep and rest.

So you close your eyes,

Settle down comfortably and deeply and you find yourself drifting and floating peacefully relaxed asleep into slumberland.