Are you ready to meditate with Kari?
Lie down,
Get comfortable,
Make sure everything is just right in your room.
It's time to let go of everything that's happened so far in your day.
Time to relax,
Stop thinking,
Stop doing,
Just lay down,
Be still and quiet.
Annika was painting.
She was painting a picture of a place that she saw in her mind.
This place was full of insects.
Annika liked insects.
She'd been studying them,
All different types,
Different shapes,
Different sizes,
Different colours.
They were very fun to paint and her painting was coming along very nicely.
She painted bumblebees,
Butterflies,
Caterpillars.
She painted spiders on the webs,
Ladybugs,
Roly poly bugs,
Grasshoppers,
Ants,
All of the different insects that you could think of.
Annika had painted and her picture was absolutely amazing because she was very creative and talented and imaginative.
As she was finishing up with her painting,
She thought to herself,
Wouldn't it be nice if I could be there right now surrounded by all of these awesome insects?
The place on her painting looked sunny and warm and very,
Very colourful and friendly.
It was like a special garden that had a magical feel to it.
Like it would have hidden little fairy houses here and there or different pathways where you could walk down and find little insects in their homes doing their thing.
Wouldn't it be nice if I was there right now,
She thought.
In her real life in her bedroom,
It was a warm sunny day.
There was a gentle breeze blowing through her bedroom window.
She decided that she put a paintbrush down that she would lay on her bed,
Close her eyes and imagine she was right there in her insect world,
In her special garden that she created.
As she closed her eyes,
She knew she had to start to let her body relax.
Time to stop thinking.
Annika had a tendency to think just a little bit too much sometimes.
It was time to stop thinking and time to relax.
She thought about her feet relaxing her toes.
She whittled them just a little bit to feel them and then told them relax,
Relax toes,
Relax.
She let her legs get heavy and comfortable.
She slowed her breathing down to a nice,
Gentle,
Relaxed pace.
The world was getting all comfortable and warm and squidgy.
Her bed was soft.
She felt like she was sinking deeper and deeper every breath she took.
The tips of her fingers started to tingle,
The nose even relaxed.
Everything was comfortable.
Comfortable enough to feel like she was in that place of being half asleep and half awake.
That yummy place where your body starts to feel like it's floating,
Like a balloon in the sky.
Everything gets tingly.
You can feel yourself falling deeper and deeper into sleep state but you know you're still awake,
Almost asleep.
She was right there when all of a sudden she was in her insect garden,
A magical place that she'd just painted.
There was insects everywhere,
All different colored caterpillars on the bushes that she was walking by,
Big fat ones,
Hairy ones,
Cute ones with spots on,
Munching away on the leaves,
Just doing their thing.
The grasshoppers were making their noises.
She could hear bees close by making honey,
Collecting pollen from all the different beautiful flowers in her garden in her mind.
She was just slowly walking through this special place.
Then she got to the area where all the different butterflies were.
There were blue ones,
There were monarch butterflies,
White butterflies,
Yellow butterflies.
Some were very,
Very,
Very big and some were smaller,
Tiny little white ones flying by.
She stood still for a moment and imagined that they were all coming to say hello.
This was her dream.
So that's exactly what happened.
The butterflies flew,
Gently landed on her fingers,
On her arms.
She could feel them very,
Very,
Very gently tickling on the top of her head.
They just stayed there as if they were very happy to be resting right there,
All over her body.
She had them on her shoulders,
Her back.
She pulled her hand closer to her face and looked at the one that was just resting on the tip of her first finger.
It was the prettiest butterfly that she'd ever seen and she studied it very intently.
She was very inquisitive,
Looking at all the different details,
The different textures.
And then she moved on and the butterflies all flew back to their flowers and their leaves and settled back down in the trees.
In front of her,
Just like on her picture that she painted,
Was a hill.
The hill was Ladybug Hill.
As she walked up the hill,
She could feel the soft,
Spongy,
Green grass underneath her feet.
Everything smelt like fresh-cut grass on a summer's day.
She smelt and took in a big,
Deep breath,
Closed her eyes for a second.
It was just like she painted.
Everything about it was exactly the same,
But it was even better now that she was there and it was real.
When she got to the top of the hill,
She lay down on the grass and stared up at the sky.
The clouds were just like she painted.
It was exactly the same color blue.
There was even tiny little birds in the sky that she painted on her picture.
She was so happy and relaxed.
And then,
As if it couldn't get any better,
From nowhere,
Hundreds and hundreds of the cutest ladybugs appeared like a big ladybug cloud right there in front of her vision.
The ladybugs were flying in different formation.
They were making different shapes.
They made the shape of a love heart.
A big,
Red ladybug love heart.
And they made the shape of a flower.
Big,
Red ladybug flower.
And then,
What was so cute was they made the shape of her teddy,
Eloise the elephant,
Her favorite teddy.
And they looked just like her.
And then they all landed on the hill.
Some of them sat on her,
Some of them sat next to her.
It was like a red carpet.
There were so many of them.
It was like she had 10 million ladybug friends all at once.
All over the top of Ladybug Hill.
She was in heaven.
She closed her eyes and relaxed.
Completely relaxed.
No thinking.
No thoughts.
No words.
It was like her mind was still and quiet.
Her body was completely comfortable.
The grass was so soft.
She was in Ladybug Heaven.
She was in Insect Heaven.
And she created it all on her own.
With her awesome imagination.
Annika stayed here like this for the longest time.
It was like she became part of her own painting.
She relaxed so much.
She eventually fell asleep.
She fell into a sleep that was so sweet and deep.
She was calm and safe.
And surrounded by all the things she loved in the world.
All of her insects.
If you were to see Annika's picture and you looked really really close past the bumble bees,
Caterpillars,
The grasshoppers,
All of the beautiful flowers that she painted.
Right there on top of the hill.
Ladybug Hill.
You'd see her lying down on the grass.
Surrounded and covered in a red carpet full of ladybugs.
Looking peaceful,
Quiet and fast asleep.
The end.
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