Blessing Orb For Transitions

In this guided practice, we imagine an orb, radiant with our own inner wisdom, that supports us through the big changes in our lives. It sends light in all directions to enhance our ability to flow through transitions, and then that light washes down through us and fills our body. In this way, we recover our capacity for resilience in unsettled times.

Transcript

For this meditation,

Please settle into a comfortable sitting or lying down posture.

You can begin by feeling the body resting on whatever you're sitting or lying on.

Can you feel the weight of your body pulling you down,

Anchoring you to the earth?

And then whatever is supporting you is ultimately resting on the earth,

So just take a moment and allow yourself to be completely supported.

In this moment,

There's nothing to hold up,

Nothing to prove,

Nothing to do.

We're just settling in,

Being held by the earth itself.

You can imagine a plumb line or roots dropping down from the base of the spine through the top layers of the earth,

Through all the layers of the earth,

Down to the very center of the earth.

We can imagine a golden,

Stable,

Grounded earth energy flowing back up through our connection to the center of the earth,

Connecting with the base of our spine,

Filling our whole body.

Feel the spine reaching up long,

Straight,

Tall,

And our crown is oriented toward the apex of luminous space above us.

So we're just getting our own physical body oriented toward both of these at the same time,

Grounding and spaciousness.

Somehow that grounding can help us to deal with the spaciousness and not get swept away in it or not feel it as something deeply threatening.

It's more like freedom,

Release.

The attention shifts now into the heart center.

We can have the intention,

The aspiration to connect with our own capacity for feeling grounded,

Feeling soothed in times of upheaval and transition.

And somehow as a natural response to that aspiration,

An orb of light appears above the crown of our head,

An orb made of our own capacity for being grounded,

For feeling soothed.

But it also sends out beams of light in all directions throughout the entire universe,

The past,

The present,

The future.

This orb connects with all sentient beings experiences of feeling grounded,

Feeling soothed,

Feeling able to go through their transitions.

These beams of light that the orb sends out and that come back into it can be whatever color feels good to you.

Just imagine them going out,

Contacting moments of profound calm,

Moments when you or any living being in the middle of upheaval was able to reconnect and feel their own stability again.

And in particular,

You might imagine these beams of light going out to moments in your own past when maybe you were going through transition and you didn't feel calm,

You didn't feel grounded.

You lost a bit of your ability to stay connected during a time of upheaval.

So can you imagine that these beams of light go out and that they touch these moments and they bring back any of this ability that you might have lost.

You're retrieving your own lost ability to stay connected and you're also touching into every moment of deep connection and soothing that's ever happened during transitions.

These beams are going out,

Touching these moments and returning to the orb of light above your head and charging it up.

This orb of light becomes very powerful,

Replete with all this energy of grounding,

Of connection,

Being able to navigate transition.

We can feel the beams of light flowing down from this orb and touching our own crown.

And we feel that it's so delicious that we want to invite this energy to flow down and begin to perfume our body,

Our mind,

Our energy with its qualities.

So this light is pouring down,

Touching the crown of the head and dissolving all the cells of the crown of the head to radiance.

The light pours down through the crown now.

It's flowing through our entire head and every single cell of the head is dissolving into light.

And any sense of disorientation,

Any sense of being overwhelmed by a transition,

All of that is getting dissolved in this light and washed out through the base of your body.

So our entire scalp dissolves to light.

Our entire skull dissolves to light.

Our entire brain dissolves to light.

Let's take a moment and imagine this light flowing down through all the various regions of the brain,

Helping the amygdala and the fear networks to relax.

Flowing into the prefrontal cortex,

Which seems to be correlated with positive emotions and executive control,

Helping the prefrontal cortex to relax and function optimally.

We can imagine the primitive parts of the brain,

The parts whose job is to keep us alive and to register threat,

All those areas of the brain dissolving into light.

We feel this light pouring down through our face,

Dissolving all the cells of our face to light,

The skin and muscle,

The eyes,

The nose.

Now if there's any excess tension around the eyes or in the jaws,

We invite that to relax.

We invite any tension to be washed out by the light.

Feel this light now flowing down through the neck and throat region and dissolving every single cell of the neck and throat region into light.

The skin and muscles and bones of the spinal cord,

The trachea,

Your blood vessels that supply the brain,

All of that can dissolve to light.

And if there's any excess tension within the muscles of the neck,

We invite that to relax,

To be washed out by the light.

Light flows now into the shoulders,

Dissolving the skin and the fatty tissues and muscles and bones of the shoulders,

Dissolving all of that to light,

Every single cell.

If there are energetic or emotional patterns that we carry in the shoulders,

Like maybe taking on too much responsibility or feeling overwhelmed,

We can invite that to be washed out by this light.

Get those muscles to relax.

This light flows now through the shoulders into the upper arms,

Dissolving every single cell of the arms into light.

Fatty tissue,

Muscles,

Connective tissues,

Bone,

Bone marrow,

All dissolve to light.

Elbows dissolve,

The lower arms dissolve to light.

The wrists,

The hands,

The fingers,

All the way down to the fingertips,

Everything dissolves to light.

Now our attention returns to the shoulders and we feel this light flowing down into the upper chest and the upper back,

Filling up the chest,

The mid-back,

Dissolving all those cells to light.

Skin,

Muscles,

Fatty tissue,

Spinal cord,

Rib cage,

The lungs,

Our heart,

All those cells dissolve to light.

We can check in with our heart center also,

And if there's anything we're carrying there that we'd like to let go,

We can invite this light into our heart center,

Flowing down and washing that out.

Stress,

Anxiety,

Rigidity,

Just a basic resistance to change,

All that dissolves when this light touches it and gets washed out through the base of the body.

This light flows down now into our upper abdomen,

To our mid-back,

And it flows down all the way through the abdomen and the lower back.

Every single cell of those organs in our abdomen dissolve to light.

Stomach,

Kidneys,

And spleen,

Everything dissolves.

Muscles,

Bone,

Fatty tissues,

Skin,

All these amazing,

Intricate organs,

Every single cell dissolves to light.

We can feel into our navel chakra,

What the Chinese call the Dan Tian,

This energetic center in the middle of the abdomen,

Connected with vitality.

And if we find that we're constricted or tight there,

We can invite those restrictions,

Those obstructions,

To dissolve in this flow of light and be washed out through the base of the body.

This important energy center is once again clear and ready to support us.

As this light flows into our pelvic region,

Our hips are dissolving,

Every single cell turning to light.

The light flows through our hips into our thighs,

Dissolving every single cell in this powerful area of our body into light.

Light flows through the knees into the lower legs,

Dissolving every single cell to light.

Through the ankles into the feet,

Into the toes,

All the way to the tips of the toes and the soles of the feet,

Every single cell dissolves to light.

Every sense of being hypervigilant,

Being too attuned to potential threats,

All that just gets washed out by this light,

Washed out through the base of the body.

And it drops deep down into the earth and becomes fertilizer,

Becomes something that's going to compost and enrich the earth.

It may even be that if there are any last pockets of the sense of being overwhelmed or anxious,

They may want to leave.

You can invite them to come out and you may find that they want to jump into this light and be washed out.

And they find a resting place in the earth where they can transform back into pure energy.

You just take a moment and feel that our whole being is washed by this light flowing down through us,

That we're completely renewed and cleared out.

Every single cell has already dissolved to light.

And now we imagine that the energy flowing down from the orb above the crown of the head saturates every cell of our body.

We're fully,

Deeply blessed to be able to stay connected to our own deep self during transition,

To be able to keep our balance and not be overwhelmed by transition.

The energy of this light flows down into our toes,

Filling them up.

And now it's filling up our feet,

Our ankles,

Our lower legs.

Our knees are becoming saturated with this light.

This energy flows up,

Saturating the pelvic region,

The lower abdomen and lower back,

The upper abdomen and mid back,

The chest and upper back.

The shoulders,

Arms,

The hands out to our fingertips are saturated with this energy from the orb.

Back up through our shoulders and our neck,

All filling up with this light.

Our head is filling up with this light,

Becoming completely saturated with it.

Somehow just resting completely saturated with this light.

We know that there's a part of us that can withstand any change.

There's a part of us that has always been and will always be okay.

If we can relax into that and learn to trust it,

It will make it so much easier for us to navigate the changes in life,

Both those that we choose and those that we don't.

Now we feel some gratitude toward this orb above the crown of the head for helping us to have this experience,

To realize there's something within us we can trust.

And in response,

The light of this orb becomes very soft,

Very gentle,

Sinks down and touches the crown of the head.

And we invited to come in.

So it sinks down through the body and comes to rest in the heart center.

And there it dissolves completely into our own heart center.

We call it our own,

But really our heart center is a point of connection where deeper levels of ourselves and deeper levels of the universe connect with us.

This orb dissolves completely within us there.

We can just take a moment to appreciate that if we need to call on this energy,

It will always be available to us.

And now we'll let go of trying to make anything happen,

Trying to imagine anything.

We'll just take a minute or so to absorb the experience that we've just had.

Enjoy a little more brass in logic.

And finally,

We end the meditation.

Reviews

Gorgeous and grounding body scan. Perfect for transitions or really any time

Lovely calming & enlightening visual! 🙏🏻

Very nice, and much needed, thank you. Didn't dissolve all my tension, but did a remarkable job! To try again soon.