As Spacious As The Sky, As Bright As The Sun

When you were young, did you lie on the grass on a sunny day and rest your awareness in the wide blue sky, feeling you could almost merge with it? How good did that feel? In this meditation, raise your energy to feel as vivid and bright as the sunshine and as spacious and clear as the sky. This is a meditation to transform the feeling of being tight, trapped, or limited into ones of being at one with the vibrant spaciousness that inhabits all of creation. That vibrant spaciousness is within you too.

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As spacious as the sky, As bright as the sun. This is a simple visualisation practice for feeling spacious and vibrant. Begin by finding somewhere you can completely lie down. Lying on your back with your spine making full contact with the earth and its support. So you might be lying on a yoga mat or a bed or a sofa or you might actually be able to take yourself outside and lie on the ground. You can pause this while you choose. And feel your body begin to give itself to the ground. To release into the earth underneath it. Even through the support you are on, Underneath you all the time is the support of the solid deep curve of the earth. Stable, Strong and nurturing. And you are here right now. Melting into that connection. With your awareness feel up and down the whole length of your body, Especially your back body where it is resting on the earth. From the crown of your head all the way down to your feet there is a channel of energy that runs all the way down the centre of your being. Feel how your energy is connecting with the energy of the earth. How the channel of your spine rests on the energetic curve of the earth. As you breathe up and down your body, Breathing in deeply from the earth and breathing back down through your body into the earth again. Now in your mind or actually take your gaze up to the sky. Visualise the wide expanse of bright blue sky above you. Remember how as a child perhaps you loved to lie on your back looking at the sky and daydreaming, Taking in all that spaciousness. Return now to your body's familiarity with how that feels. Gazing at the sky. Its vastness. Its depth. The colours. The play of light. Birds and planes and any clouds drifting. And the way the sky goes on and on and on. And as you sky gaze. You may feel your body drifting, Melting or merging into sky. All the space inside you becoming sky. Fast and wide and bright. And now visualise the sun in the sky. And feel the way the sun beams through the sky, Sometimes dazzles through the sky. Touching the earth with its rays. Touching you. And you now between the earth beneath you and the sky above you, Being penetrated by these beams. By these rays of delicious sunshine. Bright and invigorating. And all of your soft skin receiving the sun, Delighting in it, Soaking it up. The vibrancy of sunshine into every cell of your being. Bathe in sky and bathe in sun. Fill with sky and fill with sunshine, Feeling your cells plump up. Museums yet so you you and now you you