This journey begins in the center of your heart with eyes closed and sitting or lying down in a relaxed position.
See yourself there within the center of your heart.
Allow yourself to meander,
Wandering,
Following your intuition as you explore and observe.
It's almost as if you're inside an art gallery,
Seeing so many scenes from your life displayed.
Moments that you'd completely forgotten appear,
As well as people and places,
Experiences that are often in the forefront of your mind.
All of these are blending together in both realistic and surreal ways.
It's almost as if it is a dream.
And yet you are the one taking your time,
Moving step by step,
Breath by breath,
Observing,
Remembering,
Enjoying,
Reflecting,
Letting the emotions come,
Whatever they may be,
A joy,
A sorrow,
Frustration,
Peacefulness,
Recognizing that this mixture,
This coalescence of feelings and experiences is part of life's music,
Sometimes loud and exciting,
Sometimes jarring,
Sometimes slow and quiet.
All different rhythms,
All different sounds combining,
Recombining,
Harmonies washing over you,
Flowing through you,
Moving through the circuitry of your mind,
Your brain,
Cascading,
Moving through your throat,
Following the pathways through your body,
Nourishing the vital organs,
This flow circulating all the way to your fingertips,
Your toe tips,
Enlivening your entire system,
Mind,
Body,
Spirit,
Returning back to the heart center with a renewed radiance,
Integrating these clusters and constellations of memories,
These treasures,
These challenges from your life all mixed together,
Defining you,
Redefining you,
Allowing yourself to be as you are,
Completely as you are,
Recognizing stress where it is,
Where you feel it,
Where you see it,
Within your own self,
In whatever corners of your mind,
In whatever joints or muscles of your body,
Letting your jaw begin to soften and relax,
Your throat softening,
The shoulders letting go,
Releasing any tension in the neck,
Letting the eyes soften,
Allowing the skin on the forehead to soften,
Feeling the incoming air and the outgoing air,
Enjoying a slow,
Deep inhalation and a full exhalation as the air flows in and flows out,
Supporting you as you let go of worries,
Struggles,
Strains,
Doubts,
Fears,
Giving them permission to exit as you exhale,
Breathing in fresh energy,
Strength,
Faith,
Hope,
Compassion,
Forgiveness,
Peace,
Bathing yourself in this moment,
In the possibilities of transformation,
Embracing each moment with its newness,
Its freshness.
You are not who you were even at the start of this journey,
In this continuous evolution of self,
Of this experience of life.
Opening to these changes,
Freeing the stagnation so that new windows,
New doors,
New pathways begin to appear,
Almost as if out of nowhere,
Unexpected synchronicities,
Beautiful blessings in the form of small miracles,
Arriving like a hummingbird or a dragonfly with iridescent wings,
Staying steady and strong as a mountain,
Even as the weathers shift,
Ferocious winds,
Dynamic storms with their lightning and thunder,
Perhaps even hurricanes,
Blizzards,
Sandstorms,
And then,
As all things do,
They change.
The sky clears.
The sunlight,
The warmth,
Return.
The weathers survived,
Bringing strength and resilience.
The ability for new life to sprout after the bleakest winter,
With months of ice and snow.
So too,
In our spirit,
At some point,
Light travels from some unseen depth back to the surface,
Regardless of how long it's laid dormant.
With this glimmer of light,
It's the waking,
The waking of something new,
And yet something intrinsic,
Resonating,
Resonating with your essence,
Inside your soul,
As if in that heart center where you stood before,
There's a luminous flame,
A single candle that is seemingly embroidered into your heart center,
That light shining within you,
Sometimes dim,
Sometimes bright,
Other times fluctuating in between,
But always there,
Counterbalancing whatever stress,
Whatever struggle,
Whatever crisis you may find yourself in,
When your life becomes a labyrinth,
Whether for a moment,
An hour,
A day,
A week,
A month,
A year,
Or years upon years upon years,
Trusting yourself as you move,
Taking one step and then another,
Seeing yourself within this very large,
Circular labyrinth,
Perhaps this labyrinth exists within your own mind,
And you find yourself seemingly walking in circles,
Unsure of where the path is taking you next.
Notice what happens when you feel your breath.
The breath spools in and spools out,
As if it were a thread that you could use to help you trace your way through this labyrinth of life.
To guide you to a point of feeling free,
Feeling liberated from these mazes internally.
The flow of the breath is not unlike the flow,
The smooth flow of water,
Picturing,
Hearing,
The waves of the ocean rolling in and out of your body.
The flow of the breath is not unlike the flow,
The smooth flow of water,
Picturing,
Hearing,
The waves of the ocean rolling in and out of your body.
The flow of the breath is not unlike the flow,
The smooth flow of water,
Picturing,
Hearing,
The waves of the ocean rolling in and out of your body.
The flow of the breath is not unlike the flow,
The smooth flow of water,
Picturing,
Hearing,
The waves of the ocean rolling in and out of your body.
The flow of the breath is not unlike the flow,
The smooth flow of water,
Picturing,
Hearing,
The waves of the ocean rolling in and out of your body.
All of these things are shifting,
Perhaps perceptibly,
Perhaps imperceptibly,
But in the natural flow of coming and going,
Of night and day,
Of movement and stillness.
The change is constant,
Releasing,
Relaxing into this awareness,
Feeling your body becoming like water,
Flowing in and out of your body.
Gently,
Fully present,
Flowing as freely as the breath as it enters and exits,
As it comes and goes.
Finding your way slowly back to your heart center.
And if you like,
Placing one hand on your heart and the other hand on top,
So that both hands are resting there at heart center.
Listening inwardly until you can feel the rhythm of your heartbeat,
Feeling its soothing rhythm and appreciating the wonders of your heart.
The gift that you are,
Just as you are,
Allowing yourself to rest in this awareness and carrying with you the light,
The beauty,
The strength of your heart center.
As your journey continues.
