Forest Meditation - Short Version

This is a guided meditation inviting you to surround yourself with the healing green of the forest.
Barbara guides you, with her deep and calming voice, to follow your breath, relax, and immerse yourself using all your senses, in the forest.

"It is my mission to help people to deepen their connection with nature ...through my paintings of the forest where I live, and my writings about spending time in the forest – through sharing my love of the forest and how it inspires and soothes me – I want to help people to connect with their own true nature and thereby enrich their lives, helping them to get grounded and calmed, helping them to slow down and to appreciate the beauty of life that surrounds them."

Transcript

This is a forest meditation by Barbara Brown from the book Sylvan Reflections.

Find a comfortable position,

Sitting or lying down,

With your spine as straight as it can comfortably be.

Close your eyes and rest your gaze on the back of your closed eyelids while relaxing your eyes and feeling a smile in their corners.

Relax your cheeks and your jaw,

Feeling that smile gently touch the corners of your lips.

Release any tightness in your shoulders and scan your body for any other areas of tension and let it go.

Turn your attention to your breath,

Breathing deeply from your belly but with calm,

Gentle,

Natural,

And unhurried ins and outs.

Begin to count your exhalations.

Deepen your relaxation with each out-breath.

As your mind wanders gently and lovingly,

Bring it back to counting your exhalations.

Don't worry if you lose count.

Simply start again.

Now imagine yourself in the forest,

Surrounded by its soothing green wildness.

Imagine the smells,

Trees,

Flowers,

Soil,

The clean oxygen-rich air itself,

Healing aromatherapies.

While continuing to count your exhaled breaths,

Imagine the sounds of the forest around you.

Are you near a creek?

What bird songs are you hearing?

Is a breeze rustling leaves?

Is there a squirrel or other creature nearby quietly going about its day?

Feel your weight on the forest floor beneath you,

Mother Earth supporting you.

Feel the soft,

Pure air on your skin.

Keep counting your out-breaths as long as you would like to.

Each time your mind wanders away,

Bring it gently back to the forest surrounding you with its healing embrace of your senses.

And when you're ready with a final round of gentle exhalations,

First think of Earth,

The element Earth.

And while doing so,

Be aware of your bones and your flesh.

Then,

With an exhaled breath or two,

Think of water and place your attention on the blood flowing through your veins.

With the next couple of out-breaths,

Think of air and place your attention on your breath,

The air in your lungs,

And the oxygen it brings to your whole body.

Next,

Think of fire,

And with an exhalation or two,

Feel the heat that your body generates.

Now,

Imagine the vast spaces between each cell of your body and between each proton and electron that make up those cells.

And think of the vast spaces of the ether of the universe.

And finally,

With this,

Your last exhaled breath,

Spread your arms wide,

Open your palms,

Open your eyes,

And say out loud,

I am.

And feel the vast resonances of that I am consciousness.

Reviews

A guided forest meditation which includes a body scan & grounding connection with the spiritual dimension of physical existence within nature. Thank you for sharing.

Beautifully relaxing and restorative. Missing the forest these days, and this Meditation gives me a piece of the woods

Thanks for this amazing trip to the forest. I’m writing a romance set in Amazon Rainforest and this meditation was a wonderful source of inspiration. 🙏🏻🎄🌿🍃☘️🍀

I have done this meditation twice now - imagining myself in the forest is really calming and grounding for me. I appreciate your deliberate, clear voice. It also helps that there is no music - my imagination can create the sound track. 🌻 Thank you

I felt there was much more to this than the imagined forest, I really liked the clarity of your voice and the words deliberately chosen. The ending was an interesting surprise too.

make me calm.. nd happy

I like the inclusion of the aether

really calming, very helpful with centering and grounding. Thank you.

Amazing! I loved the ending!

Sunday morning perfection.

Beautiful! I will return to this one for morning meditations! Thank you!

I felt like I was there, smelling the evergreens, hearing the waters lap at the shore. Thank you. Loved it

Love your soothing voice a lovely meditation for grounding.
Thank you 🙏

It took me a minute to get into this, but I really enjoyed it and will return to it!❤️🙏🏻

I am.....air,earth,water,fire

Beautiffuly done! Thank you Barbara. 🙏🏻❤️🕉

Loving the the link between the elements and different body parts.

Really enjoyed this one, soothing, could have been longer, will certainly be keeping this one. 🍃