Are you ready to meditate with Kori?
Get comfortable in your bed so that you can relax your body.
Try and stay still.
Get all of your wiggles out.
Make sure that you're comfortable so that you can be still and quiet.
You can listen to the story with your eyes open or your eyes closed.
It's up to you.
If you close your eyes though,
You can visualize things in your mind and you can picture yourself on the journey as if you're going through the motions and you're experiencing all of it as if it was real.
So if you want to do that,
Close your eyes.
Let your body start to get comfortable.
Take a nice big deep breath in for me,
Breathing all the way down as far as you can.
And then a big breath out,
Breathing out all of the air,
Trying to empty all of it out as if you're like a ball or a balloon.
When you breathe in,
You expand and get full.
And when you breathe out,
You empty and your tummy gets flat towards the back of your spine.
When you breathe in long and slow,
It helps you to start to relax.
It makes your brain think that all is well in the world.
It helps you to feel safe and comfortable just by breathing nice and slow.
Trying to create pictures in your mind,
I'd like you to imagine that you're walking towards a river.
As you get closer to the river,
You notice that it's no ordinary river.
Instead of the water being crystal clear or blue or green,
It's actually a creamy color.
And the water is thick.
As you get closer and closer,
You smell it.
There's a very strong smell of vanilla in the air.
And when you take a nice big deep breath,
It smells as if the lake is actually vanilla bean ice cream.
You're standing right next to the lake now and you watch it.
The ice cream is like a soft serve and it's moving downstream.
It's thick and creamy and it smells delicious.
You bend down and stick one of your fingers in and have a taste.
It's definitely vanilla bean ice cream.
The whole lake is made of ice cream.
You take a look around and see if you can notice anything else.
There's trees around the lake.
There's some rocks as if there's a small mountainside or like a cliff right over on the far right hand side there in front of you.
But mostly you just see the cream lake.
You start to walk by the side of the lake.
You turn left and start to follow it as if you're following the flow of the water.
As you look as far as your eyes can see,
It seems to be as if the lake turns into a river.
You can see that the ice cream is more choppy and moving a lot faster.
Further left as you walk closer to where you can see the water moving quicker and quicker.
Just up ahead you notice something on the side of the lake on the banking.
It looks like a raft of some kind.
The raft is big enough for you to lay down on and be on there alone but it wouldn't be big enough for two people.
You get closer to the raft and you notice it's made from really,
Really thick,
Crunchy looking wafers.
It seems very lightweight but very sturdy and it's tied together with licorice shoelaces.
It makes you wonder where you're at,
What is this place?
You feel drawn towards the raft so you pull it closer to the edge of the river and you climb on board and then you let the shoelace loose.
It was tied on a tree branch and as you let the shoelace loose the raft starts to move quite slowly more into the centre of the moving vanilla bean ice cream.
You're standing at first but then you decide to sit.
You don't feel scared at all.
It feels very safe on the wafer raft.
And the ice cream current is not too quick and choppy.
It's not scary like a rapid or a waterfall.
It's kind of pleasant.
It's just got a nice rhythmic bounce.
It moves the raft and makes it sway a little bit from side to side as if something is underneath.
Just pushing it left and pushing it right,
Backwards and forwards and as if you're gently being rocked by the current.
As you move downstream it definitely goes from a lake to a river.
The water gets narrower and a little bit quicker but still you're very comfortable.
It smells so good.
You can smell the wafers,
You can smell the ice cream,
You can smell the fresh air all around you.
It's a really nice day.
There's birds in the sky.
Everything else around you looks very normal except this weird vanilla bean ice cream lake and this wafer raft that you're riding on.
You decide to relax even more and lay down on the raft.
It feels as if you're laying on a lilo,
One of those blow up beds and the waves are moving underneath your body.
It feels just like that and it reminds you of a time where you were laid on one when you went on that vacation that one time.
The smell of vanilla is really,
Really strong.
It's also really relaxing.
You stare up at the sky and start to look at the clouds,
The wafer raft moving gently underneath you.
You think to yourself,
I bet this is what a water bed feels like.
Since you've never laid on a water bed,
It's probably just like this.
Staring at the sky,
There's lots of big fluffy clouds up there and they're all different shapes and sizes.
You decide to let the river take you wherever it wants to go.
Maybe it has a special journey planned and while it takes you,
You decide to play games with the clouds.
You start to look for different shapes,
Clouds that might look like an animal or clouds that might have a message written in them for you.
A story.
You see a cloud that looks like a boot and you think to yourself,
What's the boot for and what kind of message is a boot?
You can't think of any.
That makes you laugh because that kind of destroys your whole idea of getting messages from the clouds,
Especially when the first thing you see is a boot.
Maybe I need to be booted.
I don't know.
Maybe it's Santa's boot and he's trying to tell me what.
Maybe I need boots.
That's it.
Maybe I need boots.
Maybe it's going to be a really cold winter and I need boots.
You get lost in your thoughts,
Trying to make sense of why you would see a cloud shaped like a boot.
And then you see one that definitely looks like a chicken.
I like chickens.
Then you think about the message about a chicken.
Maybe I should get a chicken for a pet.
No,
No.
Chicken won't let me have a chicken for a pet.
I wonder if chickens make good pets.
And before you know it,
You're lost in thoughts about chickens being pets.
And then that makes you think about the story about the chicken and the egg and which came first and the egg and the chicken and does the chicken cross the road or does the egg cross the road?
And then you get all annoyed because that doesn't make any sense.
And then there's a big ripple underneath you as if to shake you out of your thoughts.
As if the vanilla bean lake is telling you to let that go.
So you do.
You clear your mind and stare at the clouds once again,
Waiting for something to look like a message.
You seem to be waiting for a long time.
The clouds just look like clouds.
And you close your eyes and that feels nice for a while.
Because with your eyes closed,
It's like you could be anywhere.
You could be floating in the middle of the ocean,
Surrounded by really cute dolphins with top hats on and mermaids singing to you.
Or you could be flying through the sky on a magic carpet.
And the wafer raft is actually a magic carpet and it's taking you to somewhere very exotic.
Somewhere where you're a prince or a princess.
And they've been waiting for you to return.
The wafer raft could actually be the ground.
You could have been laying in a field full of flowers and all of a sudden the ground starts to move and change and rock you back and forth underneath.
And then it opens up and you fall in and you realize that everything in the middle of the earth is actually made of chocolate.
With your eyes closed,
You start to drift off into many different worlds.
And you can see the many different places that you can create in your mind that are just as real as the ones that are all around you when you open your eyes.
You don't realize it but your body is starting to slow down even more as if it's secretly falling to sleep on you.
The sleep is sneaking up as if it's been tippy-toeing all this time just waiting for you to close your eyes.
And now that your eyes are closed and the smell of vanilla all around and the rocking wafer raft,
The combination is making you very,
Very tired.
You can feel your body getting heavier.
You can feel your muscles relaxing.
You can feel your body starting to drop,
Sink deeper as if it's literally falling into another world.
The sound of the birds and the vanilla bean lake are just distant sounds like you've gone somewhere else,
To a completely other world,
Somewhere in your mind.
The world of dreams.
The world of sleep.
Far,
Far away from your real reality.
The end.
