Hello,
Thanks for joining me,
Klara,
For this guided visualization.
Before we begin,
I'd like to take a few moments to help you become more comfortable and relaxed for your magical carpet ride.
Start by settling into a comfortable position and allow your eyes to close or keep them open with a softened gaze.
Allow your breath to carry you into relaxation and find its own natural rhythm.
Bring your full attention to each inhale as your breath travels down to your lungs and causes your belly to expand.
And when you exhale,
How your belly contracts as your breath moves back up through your lungs and out of your nostrils or mouth.
Invite your awareness to flow with your breath.
Be present in the moment with your breathing.
If your mind wanders away with thought,
Emotion or sensation that catches your attention,
Gently guide your awareness back to your breathing.
You're staying in a rustic cabin in the middle of an old growth forest.
Inside the cabin,
Laid out on the living room's wooden floor,
Is a soft,
Skillfully woven antique carpet of magical patterns and designs illuminated by bright sunlight streaming through the window.
You walk over and sit,
Cross-legged,
On the sunny spot in the centre of the rug.
The fabric of the carpet feels warm and velvety under your bare feet.
As you relax and close your eyes,
The carpet begins to levitate.
At first,
You think you must be dreaming.
But when you open your eyes,
You see you are indeed floating in the air in the middle of the room.
The sensation makes you feel uneasy and in response,
The carpet descends back down to earth.
When you relax again,
The carpet drifts back up into the air.
Whenever the carpet perceives your uncertainty,
It lowers you gently back down.
After a while,
You understand that the more you let go and relax,
The longer the rug floats above the ground.
This continues for a while until you gain trust and have the confidence to hover high above the sunny place on the floor.
With a leap of faith,
You decide to go with the flow.
The cabin's front door opens and you float through.
The perspective of your world immediately changes.
First,
You see the small cabin where you stay,
Nestled in the forest and the narrow,
Rugged lane leading up to it.
The trees seem miniature.
Before long,
You're flying over verdant fields that resemble thick pelts of fur,
Moving like the sea in the currents of air.
In amongst the fields are white specks of sheep,
Scars of fences,
Hedges,
Walls,
Roads That speck is someone walking their dog.
Now you see a small village huddled on a hillside.
A sudden tailwind makes the carpet go even higher.
Up here,
Away from everything you're familiar with,
The world is peaceful.
The only sound is the lullaby of the breeze.
Upending the laws of the universe,
Defying gravity,
Feeling the gentle wind in your face,
Soaring through canyons of fluffy cumulus nimbus clouds.
How you love being part of the sky.
Here and there,
Brilliant shafts of sun highlight random features of the landscape and the clouds cast patterns with their shade.
Your shadow also follows you,
Fleeting across the fields below.
A few birds fly in and out of the landscape,
Like short-lived punctuation marks.
Now you're soaring over a mountain range,
Snow-capped,
Inspired with mysterious towers touching the clouds.
The magic carpet sails close enough to the cliff face for you to feel the frosty air.
And you hunker down for warmth in the velvety folds of the fabric.
The carpet descends and flies slowly along a steep ravine and then between the walls of a canyon,
At the bottom of which is a bright azure ribbon of a river meandering along the valley floor.
You follow the river until it meets the sea.
Waves soar over the waves and beyond out over the deep indigo blue ocean.
A tropical island appears that resembles a jewel.
It seems so tempting.
The carpet reads your mind and descends slowly and within a short time lands smoothly on the sandy beach under the shade of a massive palm tree.
What a perfect place.
You don't even have to move.
The sound of the waves lapping on the beach.
The palm fronds swaying gently in the wind.
And the soft magic carpet.
All you want to do is close your eyes,
Relax and breathe.
Thank you for listening and have a good night.
