Welcome everyone to a sweet time of relaxation.
Let's start by finding a comfortable position and close your eyes.
Take a deep breath in through your nose and say our mantra B,
And a slow cleansing breath out through your mouth,
Saying our mantra free.
While you listen to my words,
Continue your slow calming breaths while repeating our mantra be free.
I'd like you to please join me for a piece of chocolate.
Bring to mind a box of chocolates and pick out your favorite one.
Pop it in your mouth,
Savor that rich creamy chocolate flavor,
Relax and enjoy for the next few minutes with me.
Each piece of chocolate describes times in our life's journey.
My favorite would have to be a mint milk chocolate melt away,
Smooth silky taste with a hint of refreshing mint just melts in your mouth,
A moment of happiness to savor.
This to me represents smooth sailing in life,
Those times where things just fall into place seamlessly with no effort,
Times when we are happy and good fortune is plentiful.
The good times,
The best times.
But for most of us,
That time is few and far between.
We tend to choose chocolate with an assortment of nuts,
Cashews,
Almonds,
And peanuts.
Still a sweet savory treat,
But not the previous smooth experience.
This symbolizes the rocky times,
Rough patches in our life's journey,
Times we would rather bypass altogether,
But still much needed times that shape us into who we are.
I believe the rough times and coming through them instills in us the great attribute of compassion and empathy for others,
How to show kindness to our fellow man and hopefully helps us to embrace that same kindness to show ourselves too.
Now if you are like me,
You appreciate a good peanut butter square of chocolate.
That rich sticky filling bursting in your mouth,
Sending your taste buds on a journey of their own.
This piece of chocolate brings to mind how the peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth and can be a little hard to swallow.
Such is life,
When you receive news that is hard to comprehend such a thing could happen,
Or the feeling of being stuck in quicksand or peanut butter and not being able to pull ourselves out of troubles or difficulties in life we are encountering.
Also a feeling of being stuck in place,
Unable to,
Or simply not wanting to move forward on your journey to possibly,
Hopefully better times.
Many others have the favorite of a rich gooey chewy caramel covered in delectable smooth chocolate,
What a treat for the senses.
This piece could be twofold in our analogy of life.
On one hand you have the rich flavor and smooth chocolate,
All sounding like good or rather great attributes,
But you have on the other hand the sticky messy caramel that could portray sticky situations you may get or be caught up in,
Or simply problems you're having a hard time dealing with.
This piece is a mix of good and bad.
Smooth sailing with some storms along your journey may pop up too out of nowhere.
Whereas it could deter your easy flowing journey by some rough patches,
There is also enough good on the journey to keep you pushing forward through the bad to get to more peaceful times.
Now look at that piece right in the middle,
Hmm,
What could it be?
Rounded top?
I think I know what it is,
Yep,
A cream filled piece.
I don't know about you,
But I avoid these pieces.
To me they are just not that interesting,
But many people love them,
Or they wouldn't be such a large portion of the box,
But they do have the best of both worlds combined in a tiny piece of chocolate.
The rich creamy chocolate outside and the overly sweet cream on the inside.
This piece cannot symbolize anything but the sweetest moments in life where things are great and cannot possibly get better,
But then they do.
Those pure happy moments in our life,
Such as our wedding day,
Birth of our child,
Starting our dream career,
Or opening our own business,
Possibly finally retiring to travel the world or visit that first grandchild,
Or simple bliss moments like the hug of a child or kiss from your lover,
The memories we never want to forget,
The overly sweet cream filled chocolate times in our lives that keep us going.
The next piece of chocolate is one of my favorite,
The chocolate covered toffee squares.
Again we have the rich smooth chocolate cover that envelops a hard crunchy piece of indulgent toffee.
The chocolate and toffee mix is a metaphor for soft and hard,
The soft easy place to fall when the hard times push us to our breaking point.
The way the chocolate melts in our mouth and washes away to reveal this crunchy sticky toffee that we can't get off our teeth,
Letting the easy times slip away so quick and the hard times tend to linger in our lives and try to hold us in place a bit too long.
The last piece in our box is a cherry cordial,
Such an elegant piece of chocolate,
A rich dome of chocolate wrapped around a whole cherry and its decadent juices.
This piece can be two-fold also,
On one hand you have the rich sweet cherry and chocolate mix to symbolize the good life,
The sweet life,
But on the other hand it could symbolize how life can be the pits,
Cherry pits so to speak,
A mix of good and bad in life,
Happy times and hard times,
Easy roads and rough patches.
You can't just take one piece and go with the smooth easy ride,
But you have to take the whole box,
The smooth,
The rocky,
The sticky,
The sweet,
The hard and the pits.
These combined make life,
Make life what it is,
Interesting,
Fulfilling,
Worth living.
Smooth roads are great to travel on,
But it is the rocky uncharted roads that we learn the best lessons,
Life lessons that make us who we are today.
Just think how much more grateful we are for things when we had to overcome so much to achieve,
The sad rocky times we go through make the happy easy times so much sweeter.
In life there will be many bumps in the road,
Many sticky situations,
Many times you feel like you're walking through quicksand,
But you can't give up,
You can't quit,
There are many people that love you and want you to keep going,
Need you to keep going,
Always remember the road will get smooth again,
This too is only temporary,
Hard times are only temporary,
You are loved,
You are enough.
Now let's slowly open our eyes and savor the last remnants of chocolate,
I hope our time together was as sweet for you as it was for me,
Now please be free to enjoy every piece of chocolate in your box of life.
