Welcome to this awakened body,
Deep body listening,
Guided meditation.
The body has a profound ability to heal itself,
To return itself to balance,
To thriving,
To vitality.
The body is doing this work all the time.
As we settle in now to sleep,
We want to support that process,
Helping the body to restore itself in these peaceful nighttime hours.
Now is the time to let the body rest.
Stretch out your body in the warm,
Comfortable place where you will sleep tonight.
Open the mouth nice and wide and exhale the breath out,
Releasing the stress of the day.
Now is the time for sleep.
Now is the time for restoration.
Now is the time for healing.
Your body now is safe and whole.
It served you well today.
It carried you from place to place,
Helped you fulfill your roles and responsibilities.
Now is the time for rest.
Let's begin to relax the body,
Feeling ourselves getting heavy,
Heavy with sleep,
A heaviness,
Letting the muscles relax,
Letting the soft,
Warm cushion where you're laying receive the fullness of your weight.
You are held.
You are safe.
And let's relax the forehead and cheeks and eyelids.
Place the tongue on the back of the teeth.
Relax the jaw,
The neck.
Feel the collarbone expand as the ribs sink into the bed.
Feel the shoulders soften.
Uncurl the hands,
Feeling the upper body become weighty and relaxed,
Softening through the torso,
Letting the spine rest from its work of today,
Long and stretched,
Held by the surface where you're lying.
Let the legs splay open.
Relax the organs of the torso.
Relax the belly.
Relax the legs,
The quads and calves.
Relax the feet.
Inhale deeply.
Exhale out through the mouth,
Laying the body down for deep rest.
Feeling held,
Cradled,
Supported in the weighty embrace of your physical body.
Let's call to mind now the Garden of Eden,
A place whose essence is life,
Adorning its heart,
The tree of life.
The Garden of Eden is our birthright.
It is our true home.
We too are made of the tree of life,
Our roots sinking deep into the earth,
The divine feminine,
Our uppermost branches stretching well beyond this earth plane whose nature is duality and separation.
The highest parts of us rest comfortably in oneness,
Never having left source.
Pouring out from the center of the Garden of Eden were four rivers,
Each one extending in one cosmic direction.
These rivers nourish us even now,
Watering the garden,
Offering ever-present possibility for healing and renewal.
See the tree of life at the heart center as you inhale.
Feel the holy waters flowing in four directions as you exhale.
Inhaling vitality,
Exhaling purifying waters,
Renewal,
Rebirth.
Let's use this dream space for healing.
Let's allow our attention to rest on some block in the flow of these supernal waters,
Some point of resistance,
A tight place or a hard place.
Some story your body is keeping for you until you are ready to bring your full attention to it.
Feeling supernal waters flowing through all the channels of your body,
Noticing one area of tightness,
Of resistance,
Like a stone blocking the water's path.
Allow your attention to rest there.
Now you are safe.
Now you are cradled in the container that is the physical body.
Now you have the space and the resources to bring your full attention to this resistance.
Lay your hands upon it.
See the way it causes the water to flow around it.
And invite it to tell you its story.
What is this resistance here?
This darkened,
Hardened place in you.
Your body has held it for you so that you could gain wisdom from this pain,
From this forgetting the truth that all is one,
That you are safe and whole.
This sacred,
Holy forgetting,
It's why we are here to walk on the earth plane.
Now from the safety of sleep,
Come to know this tight place.
Come to love it.
It is just like a small child curled up in fear,
Hardening in order to try to protect itself.
As you feel the purifying waters of the Garden of Eden washing over it,
Coaxing it to soften.
Feel it begin to release.
Allow it to tell you its story.
Watch the waters soften,
Soften,
Soften this point of resistance until it is fully washed away.
And the emotional body again becomes ever flowing,
Crystalline waters,
Purifying and renewing every cell in the physical body.
Feeling now all the parts of you,
Flowing freely,
Feeling vitally alive.
Having surrendered the point of resistance that had become stuck in a particular moment or past event.
Now it too can flow freely in these purifying waters.
Now you can deepen into healing sleep.
Now the crystalline waters of the emotional body too become a container for divine light,
Warming the waters,
Renewing every cell in your body,
Calling it to remember its purpose,
Its place in the vast cosmic order of creation.
Sleep now in this place of ease.
May you awaken rested,
Restored,
Ready to greet the new day with a sense of hopefulness and curiosity about all the goodness this world has in store for you tomorrow.
May you awaken rested,
Restored,
Ready to greet the new day with a sense of hopefulness You You You You You
