You can allow your eyes to be closed here,
Feeling grounded and rooted,
Also reaching up and out from your roots like a tree,
Receiving energy from the soil,
From the rain,
Even connecting with the roots of other trees.
Now,
Also feeling the way in which you grow up out of the ground toward the energy of the sun,
Growing simultaneously downward and upward.
Now,
You might imagine that you are a small tree amidst a vast forest full of ancient trees and the trees create a canopy above,
So you can't quite see the sun,
You just see glimmers and glimpses of it and you can kind of feel it and you might notice any urge to stay hidden under the shade of the canopy and also notice the urge to move toward and into the energy of the sun.
You don't know what it will be like,
But something about it feels right.
So now,
Imagine yourself growing toward the sun,
Up toward the canopy,
Closer and closer breaking through the canopy into the open,
Endless sky,
Feeling the sun directly,
Feeling the energy of the present moment directly.
Now,
You might just take a few more deep breaths.
You can also gradually allow the eyes to open if they were closed and you can make any movements in the body,
Whatever the body might like to do and maybe bring this visual with you into your daily life,
Noticing the ways in which you might shrink away from the energy of the sun under the shade of familiarity,
Certainty.
But here,
Maybe feeling some encouragement to move into the unknown,
Above the shade,
Out into the open sky.
