So how we're going to begin is you're going to sit comfortably,
However that means to you.
It could be legs crossed,
Could be sitting in a chair,
Whatever it is,
Sit somewhere comfortably that you feel relaxed and comfortable and you're going to close your eyes and you're going to take three deep breaths.
Deep breath in,
Count to four,
Deep breath out,
Count to four.
And each time you exhale you're going to try and relax your body a little bit further.
So you're going to inhale,
Pause,
Exhale,
Pause.
So as you're doing this and you're relaxing it's in those pauses between breaths where we're going to go.
That is where your creativity meets your imagination,
Meets your subconscious.
So let's see what awaits you in the spaces between breaths.
Breathe,
Remember your breath.
Right now it is calm and deep.
It is what it needs to be to access memory,
To imagine another world.
Breathe deeply and let go of your reality.
Exhale slowly and purposefully and like a key turning a lock,
Slip beneath the surface of another world.
Your soul is light as you stride purposefully across the ice to the gleaming entrance.
Rainbows of light reflect here so spectacularly that you have to shield your eyes.
Idly you wonder if there's a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.
There are three steps leading up to a door which is much larger than you originally thought.
It is framed by a crystal archway with crystal dragons etched along the frame.
The detail is exquisite.
Inside the floor is as smooth as ice but here everything is reflected white with refracted color making a forest of rainbows that irradiates every surface.
You notice the effect can be felt within as well.
The refracted light seems to pierce your body,
Nay,
Your soul and every emotion within you feels pure without judgment or expectation.
It is so freeing.
The room you find yourself in is large and empty.
Those walls angle slightly towards the apex of the pyramid high above you.
A walk around the perimeter reveals no door or windows nor any other type of feature.
Even the entrance has somehow vanished as you come back around which is somewhat concerning.
Clearly there is something you must do.
Glancing up and slowly turning in a circle reveals more of the same.
There is nothing but smooth crystal and refractive light.
Despite this you can't explain it but the room feels full like if you just reached out you could touch something just beyond your grasp.
Hello!
You shout out cupping your hands to your mouth.
Nothing.
No echo.
Just silence.
Out of options you simply sit in the middle of the floor.
You need to think.
You close your eyes and just breathe deliberately slowing your breath until your inhales and exhales are elongated and equal.
Within you your emotions call to you so wonderfully crisp and clear in this place.
Contentment and happiness bubble to the surface and you reach for it.
Immediately a memory comes to mind.
This one of your childhood.
A time of freedom and unrestrained wonder.
You can't help but smile and as you exhale lost in your memory the strangest thing happens.
Unbeknownst to you your breath bends the refractive light to reveal the exact scene from your memory.
Although you sit with your eyes closed the scene plays out in front of you exactly as you pictured it.
Slowly you let your eyes open and somehow are not surprised to see the room filled with your memory.
The details are so perfect you are content to just watch.
But all good things must come to an end and when you are ready you turn inward once more.
The river of emotions inside of you moves and intertwines in an ever-changing landscape.
This time you select a new emotion.
Something that reminds you of something in your life right now and you reach for it.
Similarly the scene plays out in your mind and as you exhale the light bends again and this time a new scene forms.
You open your eyes and watch the details form.
Details that you didn't even know you knew.
The fascinating thing is that watching it like this you were removed from bias and therefore this new perspective offers you an opportunity to truly see.
What details are exactly as you remember?
What details shift?
Your mind buzzes with this new perspective.
What implications might this have for future choices?
This path of thinking takes you within once more and this time you search for the emotion you hope to have in the future.
For something you've been missing perhaps.
This time you grab hold and a new scene plays out.
This one of a future that has not happened yet.
At least in this world.
Open your eyes.
What do you see?
You stay with this for a long time.
Will this future come to pass?
Up to you.
It is time to get up.
With a sigh you release the emotion to the river within and stand up.
The scene fades and the room returns to crystal and rainbow light.
Thoughtfully you look around.
In any drawing of a pyramid you've ever seen there is always an eye depicted at the apex where the sides come together in a point.
It seems to you that that might be a destination of sorts.
But how to get up there?
Well you are only limited by your imagination here.
You close your eyes and breathe.
In.
Out.
In.
Out.
This time you imagine how you would feel if you reached the top.
You imagine how looking out over the starry ice you might gasp and wonder at the sheer beauty.
You imagine how it would feel to ascend slowly to the top of the pyramid.
In front of you a shape begins to form.
It is hazy and half-formed like something trying to come into creation yet not quite there.
You focus your efforts and picture in your mind what you want to see.
You imagine how it would look.
How it would sound.
You imagine how it would feel.
You imagine every detail until it is so crisp in your mind you are absolutely sure of its existence.
When you open your eyes a great spiraled crystal staircase shimmers concretely ascending directly up the middle of the pyramid.
It is beautiful.
The light bends in so many directions it seems to be made of rainbow.
A pot of gold indeed.
Smiling you step forward until you are standing directly in front of the first step.
You take a moment to reinforce the image in your mind's eye.
You must truly believe in its existence.
Then you take your first step.
It is solid and there is a slight ring as your foot impacts the step.
The second step is the same and so on and so forth.
Each step rings faintly leaving a symphony of sound as you ascend.
Up and up and up you climb conducting a harmonious melody of sound and light.
Your heart pounds from the climb but you stay focused until at last you reach the top.
The very top of the pyramid is open like someone had sliced off the very tip leaving a square opening to climb through and it is here that you ascend outside the pyramid.
The universe is laid bare in all its glory so vast and beautiful it is truly wondrous.
From here it is difficult to tell where the sky ends and the ice begins as it flows together so beautifully so naturally.
It is far more wondrous than you had even imagined it.
The emotions far more intense.
The starry sky must trigger something within you as a new shape begins to form as you breathe.
Great wings in a great tail form in the shape of a great dragon forms in front of you.
It is a rainbow of color that moves and flows like refractive light and hovers in front of you.
Its wings flapping gently.
Slowly it lifts its head and looks right at you.
Its eyes are wise and bright and as you gaze within them you see the future you imagined earlier and you are lost once again in that dream.
But then they cloud over with storm clouds and lightning.
With a breath you imagine a moving platform and one materializes beneath your feet as the dragon fades away.
You step onto it and it transports you gently from the tip of the pyramid down again to the ice where you find yourself standing on a starry sky.
The stars of the universe glow brightly above you and reflect below you.
You know now that you simply need to imagine a portal to return home but you're not quite ready.
Then the strangest thing.
A group of stars blend together and just for a moment you swear you see the shape of a great ship with sails of light gliding across the stars and it is gone leaving you alone with the universe of beauty and possibility.
