Sea Horse,
Currents.
These planet meditations are designed for you to sit with the beautiful elements and life in all its glorious creation on our earth,
As you quiet yourself to be here right now.
I invite you now to softly close your eyes,
Beginning to feel your breath gently flowing in and out of your lungs.
Taking a few moments here,
Becoming aware of the softness of your breath,
Relaxing your jaw,
Feeling the air entering and leaving your whole body as you simply sit or lie or perhaps stand quietly.
Maybe this is the first time today you find yourself here,
Remembering to pause,
To stop and beginning to notice your breath,
Your physical sensations,
Your own body here,
Resting with whatever you notice and now breathing gently in your own natural rhythm.
Coming back to this breath and the next and noticing where your mind might be travelling and then with the next breath,
Coming back to the flow of your breath in and out of your body.
As our mind wanders,
Our body awaits with compassion for us to return.
So maybe smiling gently now as you allow your mind and body to come together in this moment,
In this breath,
Breathing smoothly and if today you find breathing difficult,
Simply noticing the sounds you can hear right now.
Maybe you can hear your breath or the movements of your body or a sound in the room where you rest or outside.
Whatever your ears notice,
Not following the sound,
Letting it come and then perhaps leave again.
Maybe now you can begin to feel the movements in your body as it fills and nourishes itself with air.
Perhaps noticing any physical sensations in your body as you rest here now.
Bringing your awareness as you slowly scan down through your body,
Breathing with ease as you do so.
Noticing the air on your cheeks.
Maybe it's warm or cool.
Down through your neck to your shoulders,
Your arms,
Your hands.
Noticing the position of your hands as you rest here.
And back up your arms into your chest,
Bringing your attention and awareness to the front of your body and round to the back,
Spreading out between your shoulder blades.
And now down to your hips and into your legs,
Past your knees,
Your ankles and down to your feet.
Your feet that lie or rest on the ground beneath.
And bringing your full awareness to the whole of your body now,
Resting here with you as you give yourself this time.
And now bringing into your mind's eye the image of an ocean floor.
Maybe it's one you know or one you've seen in a film.
Just breathing and seeing this cool underwater scene.
Noticing the colours in your ocean floor.
Maybe it's murky in your ocean bed with dense forests of green swaying softly with the currents.
Or maybe it's clear and bright,
The sun reaching it in dappled patches on the sandy bed.
Focusing on the colours now,
What colours can you see in your sea bed?
Maybe it's creamy and pale with only patches of light green.
Or maybe it's an exotic palette of iridescence and bright flashes of colour.
However your ocean floor is,
Seeing it sway and its own aqueous rhythms.
Moving,
Pausing,
Moving again as the currents fill it with fresh life.
New fish arriving in each wave of movement.
And now as you lie here safely supported by the surface on which you rest,
Seeing a pair of seahorses arriving amongst your coral,
Floating gently in on the current,
Their tiny fins stirring them into your ocean bed.
And becoming aware of them now and their curved necks,
Tails locked together perhaps.
Maybe your seahorses are tiny,
No bigger than your nails.
Or maybe they're large like your hand or even larger.
However they are,
Seeing them now.
Their colour,
Their familiar shape,
The elegance of their tiny curved tails.
And sensing their ancestry now,
Knowing they've been swimming in your ocean bed for thousands of years.
Living their life,
Following the currents to bring them to their food.
Their survival so delicate.
Seeing your seahorses floating across your ocean floor.
And as you watch them tipping and spinning,
Swimming in their own special way,
At one with the currents of their ocean.
Seeing their beauty,
Sensing the movement and life.
Their steady focus on their tiny lives,
Part of a vast water.
And yet their lives a key part to its completeness.
And seeing yourself now perhaps as your seahorses.
Sometimes you're spinning and following your own currents,
In your own vast ocean of life.
Feeling perhaps so small in this cosmos.
And yet knowing just like your beautiful,
Unique seahorse and that you,
Like they,
Are part of this wonderful web of life.
And as you breathe here now,
Leaving your seahorses and your ocean bed,
Sensing your own individuality and yet your own belonging,
Your own perfect shape,
A piece of the whole.
And breathing,
Focusing fully now onto your breath once more.
Onto the in breath and the out breath.
And simply bringing your full awareness to this moment right now.
Noticing your breath.
Breathing in,
Breathing out,
Filling your lungs with each new breath.
And when you hear the chime,
Gently opening your eyes,
Wriggling your fingers and toes,
Taking a stretch in whatever way feels right for you.
Perhaps taking a smile.
May the wisdom of our beautiful oceans and their precious wildlife be with you this week.
