Today's episode is a guided visualization, which is a simple yet effective technique to declutter the busy mind reducing stress and worry. So, unless you are driving or trying hard to appear like you're working at a job right now...get into a comfortable position.
Relax and gently let your eyes close, if an everyday worrisome thought comes into your mind just simply bat it away with no judgment and let your thoughts return back to my voice and the “Deep Relaxation Music by Kevin MacLeod. Let's begin by setting a clear intention to relax and to slow down to listen to our own breathing. Breathe in and out with the rhythm and the flow of the earth. Breathing in clear, clean, fresh air, breathing out toxins, debris, negativity and all that no longer serves us. Now breathe in happiness, healthiness and peacefulness. Breathe out stress, worry and negativity.
Next in your mind's eye, or you might call it in your imagination, picture a beautiful tree appearing before you. You are now inside a wonderful forest. admiring the strong majestic tree of your mind's creation. Spend a little time exploring its textures. branches, bark, roots, foliage... You are now in the perfect place, at the perfect time, at the perfect temperature you're exploring this perfect creation of nature. In your mind's eye, the tree and you begin to blend together until you become one till you begin sensing that your feet are strong, stable roots and your arms and your hair become parts of the many tree branches. Your body, from shoulder to hip is the center of this round, strong structure of nature. Immerse yourself in the beauty, confidence and vitality.
Next, feel the rich, moist soil below your feet. Imagining roots stretching out and downward into the earth, feel them coming out of your feet and going down into the grass, soil, gravel down to clay, down through slate beautiful crystals down and down, down in around and through caves stalactites, stalagmites and beautiful sparkling gems down deeper and deeper layer after multi colored layer until you reach the volcanic Center of the Earth spinning and spinning. Spend some time looking into the yellow, orange and red, swirling lava.
Now you see a ledge, a solid outcrop perhaps from a cliff and begin to wrap your roots tightly around. Round and around until it becomes stable. Feel the warmth and the colors of the molten lava begin to travel up the secured roots back up, up thru all of the layers of Earth. back up into the soles of your feet. Feel it raise up into your feet with a tingle and warmth. Feel it travel into each toe of each foot and then travel up into your entire foot, left and right, top and bottom, front and back…. Up into your ankles swirling around. tingling as it goes. Front, back, left and right, circling, warming, tingling and then up into your calves to the front of your shins, front, back, left, right, both legs. Around and around. up into your knees. Still circling around, warming and tingling as it goes up into your thighs. Front, back, left to right, around and around. Warming, tingling as they go, up into your hips, around and around your hips, warming and energizing your entire hip and back area. Front and back, left and right up into your stomach. Right around and below your navel, front and back, left and right, tingling and circling and lighting it up with energy. Feel it rise even further, above your navel, below your rib cage and around your rib cage. warming and circling with bright vital energy. Front back, left right now covering you from ribs to feet down into the earth with life, force, energy, swirling and tingling. As you feel it rising up into your heart space, you're ignited with the warmth of Mother Earth, front, back, left right. Circling, swirling and lighting up your entire chest area.
Now turn your attention to the sky and the shapes that the tree is creating with its branches, those silhouettes, those outlines, the blue against the green and the brown. Imagine the sunshine streaming, streaming through the spaces in the branches down to your face. So light and so bright as you roll your eyes, behind your closed eyelids, back into your skull, looking up to the sky to see its brightness. Similar to an imaginary zipper, there's an opening on the top of your crown at the top of your skull and millions of tiny electric currents come out of each hair follicle reaching up to the sky like branches traveling up and up, past the other trees up past the birds! Imagine feeling them stretching and stretching up and beyond clouds reaching up past the known Solar System traveling up past the unknown Solar System twisting and stretching further and further until they reach the nine times 100 stair steps in the stairway to heaven and up 9-8- 7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Before you is the brightest light you've ever seen, your eyes need a moment to adjust. You notice feeling nurtured and comforted in this space.
Stretching out in front of you is a magnificent crystalline mountain range with bright prisms reflecting every surface like rainbows, like diamonds, and you instinctively wrap your follicles, your many branches around the outcrops of these beautiful mountains and feel even more compassion, more nurturing, more attention as you dwell in this place. This divine light flows easily into the follicles, into your branches. Then down, down through the nine steps, down through the unknown solar system, down through the known Solar System, down past the clouds, down past the tree tops, and then down, down into the crown of your head. The energy waves tingle as they enter each hair on your skull. Then swirl around your forehand, front, back, left right down around each eyebrow, in the back of each eye socket and cheekbones, front back, left right around each ear and your jaw line and down the throat, like a sweet nectar.
Across the shoulders and down the arms, front, back, left right, circling and warming and tingling as it travels. Down across the shoulders, down each arm, down into the elbow and the forearms, front, back, left, right. Warming as it goes down into the wrist, swirling around each wrist and down into each hand. Entering and warming each finger. Now the divine sky energy meets the rich earth energy in your heart space, filling the entire chest cavity with warmth, compassion, happiness, love, joy, and unbelievably light vital life force, yet peaceful. Feel it in every cell, feel it deeply soak it in and let it warm your entire body from head to toe. Front, back, left, right circling Immerse yourself totally in this awesome essence of life. You can return to this vision of the tree of life and become the tree whenever you need to not only relax, but to become centered and grounded within the true you, the authentic you feeling all of your life force. Take a few minutes to feel connected with the space that you are in. Think of the beautiful blessing that life has to offer and then call it in, call in all those blessings. Call it in!