We are going to begin our meditation by getting into a comfortable position with our hands on our laps,
Face down.
We are going to scan our body from head to toe to find any tension.
When we find it,
We are going to tense it for a second and then release that tension until we can no longer feel any tension in our bodies.
We are going to take some deep breaths,
Breathing from deep in our abdomen and inhaling until we feel our lungs rising.
And then when we have inhaled as far as we can go,
We are going to hold the breath for a second and then slowly ever so slowly let that breath escape from our mouths,
Gradually and slowly allowing all of the breath to release.
As we inhale again,
We are going to imagine a white energy coming into our bodies through the crown of our head,
Through what is known as our crown chakra.
This white energy is bright and luminescent and as we inhale it fills every cell in our body.
This white energy is bright and luminescent and as we inhale it fills every cell in our body so that our bodies shine with luminescence.
As we exhale,
We are releasing tension.
We are releasing any type of negative emotion or feeling.
We release stress and worry.
All of our fears,
Nagging concerns are being released with each out breath so that on the inwards breath in comes that beautiful white source energy.
The energy that comes from the creator from source and on the outward breath we are releasing tension and stress.
Release and release.
Now we are going to imagine that we are sitting on the bank of a slow moving river.
The day is warm and we are noticing the mayflies dancing on the surface of the water.
The river gently meanders and the aquatic weeds undulate in the eddying water currents.
We are mesmerised by the scene of tranquility as we relax into the flow of the water.
We feel our worries and stresses being swept away with the river flow.
We remove our socks and shoes and dip our toes in the slow flowing water and the water feels warm and inviting.
We can feel the gentle currents massaging our feet and gently soothing us.
We can feel the warmth of the sun beating down on our heads and we are calm and peaceful in this idyllic scene of rural bliss.
We can feel all of the nagging worries that have been troubling us floating away with the water flow.
All those money worries,
Relationship worries,
Whatever is causing us stress.
It might be worries at work or at home or with our children or our parents and for the time being we are going to suspend those worries as we just enjoy swishing our feet through the warm water and watching the river flowing and the mayflowers dancing in their swarms.
We become fascinated by their endless dance on the water's surface.
Animals do not get stressed unless they are in the presence of humans who are constantly stressed.
And so we are going to learn from these creatures of nature to let go of stress as it does not serve us.
It has no place in our lives.
We begin to gain an understanding that stress is not something caused by circumstances but is created from within us and we have the free will to release it so that we are no longer experiencing it.
The power and choice comes from within.
So when we feel that knot tightening in our stomach,
That nauseous feeling,
That tightening of our chest,
That tensing of our muscles,
We can now take ourselves to a gentle flowing river and let the stress just ebb away.
We recall the nursery rhyme.
Row,
Row,
Row the boat gently down the stream.
Merrily,
Merrily,
Merrily,
Merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Life is but a dream.
It may feel very important and significant but life is just a dream,
A wonderful technicoloured high definition dream,
A lucid dream.
The stress is a fiction designed to trap us in our worries instead of just enjoying life and the carefree pleasures of sitting on a riverbank just living in the moment.
We are liberated by this thinking and we realise that the riverbank can be called up at a moment's notice.
Just think of the trigger like putting your thumb and your index finger of your hand together and pressing.
When we do this,
We can bring back this riverbank and the lazy flowing river and the aimlessly dancing mayflies and the gentle waving reeds and the swirling currents and the ducks swimming happily across the smooth surface just basking in the warmth of the sun.
We are complete.
We are restful.
We are calm.
We are tranquil.
We are serene.
We are beyond the reach of any fears or worries.
The fears and worries that kept us awake at night no longer seem very important at all.
We know that in a month's time these worries will seem out of place and irrelevant.
We know that they do not really matter in the overall scheme of things.
We know that our stress is a temporary pause from the natural flow of the universe.
We know and trust that we are exactly where we should be in the scheme of things.
We are glad being us and grateful for all of the good things in our life.
We mentally run through all of the things we are grateful for one by one focusing on each thing.
The list goes on and on.
We feel the stress turning into just a faint memory and we stare at the river flowing and weaving its way.
We are calm.
We are contented.
And now we bring ourselves back into our bodies and we are conscious once again of our breath.
We inhale and bring in that white source energy and we exhale and we release those final vestiges of worry and release that last bit of stress.
We are relaxed,
Calm and at peace.
