Find a comfortable position.
Let your eyes close or soften your gaze.
Feel the support beneath you.
Take a gentle breath in and release it slowly.
Allow your shoulders to settle and your jaw to soften.
For these few moments,
Give yourself permission to simply be.
Imagine a quiet pond.
Its surface touched by morning light.
You're resting beside the water.
Surrounded by soft green reeds.
A dragonfly settles on the tip of a slender stem.
Its amber wings catch the sunlight.
Notice how lightly it rests.
How the stem holds it as it sways.
And your imagination become this dragonfly.
Feel your delicate feet resting upon the reeds.
Sense the space around you.
And the warmth across your wings.
There is room to breathe here.
Room to pause.
Room to discover how you wish to move.
Imagine the water beneath you holding the story of an earlier life.
A time of growing below the surface.
Before wings.
Before flight.
Let this be an image for the changes within you that took shape quietly.
Long before anyone could see them.
Bring to mind something in your own life that is changing.
Perhaps a relationship.
A role,
An expectation.
Or the way you understand yourself.
You may still be finding words for it.
Let it be here without needing to resolve it.
As you rest upon the reed,
Gently ask yourself,
What if I outgrown?
What am I ready to loosen?
I hold upon.
Allow a word,
A feeling,
Or an image to arise.
If nothing comes,
Stay with warmth and the breath.
Feel your wings opening.
Imagine giving a little more space to the person you are becoming.
You can appreciate what carried.
You this far.
And acknowledge when something no longer fits.
Take a breath with that possibility.
Notice what happens in your body.
When you feel ready,
Imagine lifting from the reed.
Feel yourself moving above the pond.
The air supporting your flight.
You hover.
Turn.
And discover another view.
Let this movement remind you that you can pause and reconsider.
You can choose a different direction.
For a few breaths,
Explore this sense of lightness.
There may be something you can set down today.
And expectation.
An old explanation.
The pressure to have everything figured out.
Imagine resting it on the shore while you move freely through the air.
Quietly offer yourself these words.
I allow myself to change.
I can move gently into what comes next.
There is room for me to grow.
Now settle upon the reed.
Feel the stillness after movement.
Let the image of the dragonfly offer its message.
You can rest along the way.
Even as your life unfolds.
Return your awareness to the support beneath your body.
Feel your hands,
Your feet,
And the air against your skin.
Take one last comfortable breath out.
When you're ready,
Open your eyes,
Carrying this permission to grow.
And be like the dragonfly.
And to the rest of your day.
