Welcome to Find Yourself Meditations.
I'm Julie LeBreton.
I invite you to sit back and close your eyes as we relax our bodies and clear our minds in preparation for our journey.
Let's begin by taking three deep breaths,
Breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth.
Allow your body to relax more and more each time you breathe.
Breathing in healing love and light and breathing out all the stress and worry from your body.
As we continue to breathe,
We'll begin to focus on relaxing our bodies.
Let's start at our feet.
Focusing on your feet as you breathe,
Feel your feet relaxing.
Feel all the tension draining out of your feet.
This feeling of relaxation continues up your legs and thighs as they begin to relax.
As you continue to breathe,
Focus on your lower back.
Feel it relax.
Breathing in and out,
Continue to relax your body.
Feel all the tension leave your upper back and shoulders.
Feel your arms and hands relax.
Feel your neck and face relax.
Feel your whole body fully relax.
See yourself fully relaxed.
Now let's empty our minds.
As thoughts arise,
Think of them as leaves floating on a stream.
Allow them to slowly float away from you.
The thoughts become fewer and fewer until soon there are no more leaves,
Just clean,
Clear,
Flowing water.
You find yourself sitting in the soft grass under a shade tree.
It is a very lovely spot.
As you look around,
You notice something is peculiar about your surroundings.
Although everything is realistic and moving,
You realize you are inside a painting.
There are painted flowers growing around you with painted bumblebees buzzing around them.
Far from where you sit is a slow moving stream and as you watch,
A small boat floats to the shore and stops.
Curious about this new addition to the painting you are in,
You decide to go for a ride.
As you step into the boat and settle in comfortably,
The boat begins to move downstream.
You take in the view on both sides of the boat.
Instead of scenery you might find in a painting,
You see painted scenes from your life.
On your left,
You see what must be your birth.
It is just how you have imagined it from the stories you were told since you were little.
On the right hand side,
You see your first steps.
There was nothing holding that child back,
You think as you pass by.
The boat floats along and you see other scenes from your life,
All painted in vibrant colors.
You are floating along enjoying more recent memories when your boat suddenly stops.
You look ahead and see that instead of paintings,
There are just blank canvas walls.
The blue water in the stream around your boat begins to shimmer and then it changes.
It is no longer a blue stream,
But now a stream of vibrant colors.
You see a jar in the bottom of the boat full of paintbrushes and realize what you must do.
I'm not an artist,
You call out,
But no one answers.
How can I finish this painting,
You wonder aloud.
The jar of brushes by your feet rattles impatiently.
You pick up one of the soft brushes and dip it into the stream of paint and stop.
What will you paint?
Suddenly you realize this is your future.
You get to decide.
It is a blank canvas.
Take a few moments to envision what you would like your future to look like.
Anything is possible.
There are no limitations.
When the ideas of what you want your life to look like become clear,
You take the paintbrush and touch it to the bright white wall.
With no effort at all,
Everything you were imagining becomes a painting.
You think of more and more ways you can make your life amazing and add them to your life painting.
You look down the stream.
The white walls continue as far as you can see.
You smile as you realize the future is whatever you want it to be.
You only need to create it.
And now when you're ready,
Opening your eyes,
Bringing back this beautiful future you've created for yourself and taking it with you out into the world.
