Sweet Sanctuary with Essential Oils Welcome to Sweet Sanctuary with Essential Oils,
A place to relax,
Regroup and restore a tranquil heart.
This meditation can be used at bedtime to induce peaceful slumber or anytime to cultivate a sense of safety and calm.
Using essential oils is optional,
But if you have them available they can enhance the practice.
I recommend any essential oil that feels nourishing,
Nurturing and calming.
Some of my favorites include rose,
Pine,
Lavender,
Frankincense,
Geranium rose,
Jasmine and sage.
Whatever you choose,
Sprinkle a few drops in the palm of your hands and rub your hands together.
Breathe in deeply.
Alternately add a few drops to your diffuser and place nearby.
Now either lie down in preparation for sleep or find a comfortable seated position for meditation.
Bring your shoulders up to your ears and then let go with an audible exhale.
Repeat this a couple more times.
Feel your body relaxing,
Totally letting go,
Your muscles melting away from your bones.
Begin to deepen your exhales,
Perhaps counting to 3 on the inhale and counting to 4 or 5 on the exhale.
Repeat this several more times.
Now begin to visualize a starry night against a clear black sky.
The stars are so thick they form a blanket,
A dome of fabric,
The pattern being pinpricks of light.
Take in this blanket of stars as protection,
A safe cover over you.
Now watch the stars as they start to swirl in a galactic spiral pattern,
Swirling into a funnel,
Pouring down towards our small blue planet.
As these stars pour down on us,
They begin to converge into a solid sheet of white light.
This sheet wraps itself around your home,
Creating a protected sanctuary.
And then it moves closer until it's around your body like a soft pillowy blanket,
Closing over your head,
Enveloping and protecting you,
Creating a cocoon of complete peace and safety.
Allow yourself to be held by this starlight and stardust,
The stuff of which everything is made.
Now,
Within this soft cloud of safety,
Place your right hand over your heart and your left hand on top of it.
Breathe deeply into your heart center,
Visualizing the air entering your lungs as beads of love,
Light and tenderness.
Feel the deep knowing that you are surrounded only by kindness,
Truth and compassion.
You are cradled and fully supported by this benevolent source energy.
Breathe.
Now,
Release your hands,
Placing them lightly back at your sides,
Stomach or wherever is most comfortable.
Starting to feel the winds of kindness breathing into your heart.
Envision your heart glowing with pure white light.
A radiant glow of love.
Still softly floating within this pillowy cocoon,
Place both hands on your belly,
Feeling its gentle rise and fall with your breath.
Now,
Allow a soft golden light to fill your abdomen,
Warming and nourishing the area.
This calming elixir of light creates an energetic anchor from the core of your abdomen to the core of the earth,
Grounding and soothing you.
Breathe slowly and deeply into this golden light.
Relaxing your hands back into a comfortable position,
Imagine the white cloud of sanctuary beginning to swirl,
Funneling into your chest,
Its glow creating an inner sanctum of safety that takes permanent residence around your heart.
Breathe,
Knowing you are held in loving kindness by an infinite cloud of stardust.
Send this love inward and in its abundance back outward to those you love,
Those you don't know in the world today and the millions to come after us whom we'll never know.
In this radiance of love,
Include all beings,
Including non-human animals,
Plants,
Everyone with whom we share this planet.
Send this infinite well of love back outward,
Mirroring the love flowing inward from the universe.
As you're ready,
Open your eyes softly and know that the safety of this retreat is available to you at any time you need grounding and inner sanctuary.
Breathe,
Knowing you are held in loving kindness by an infinite cloud of stardust.
Send this love inward and in its abundance back outward to those you don't know.
