Welcome to your 10-minute mountain meditation.
For this meditation,
You might want to try standing in a mountain pose,
Which just means standing upright with feet planted into the ground,
Feet hips-width distance apart,
And standing tall like a mountain,
The top of your head reaching towards the sky,
Shoulders relaxed.
Seeing if you can broaden your shoulders and really embody the presence of a mountain in this moment and imagining your feet and legs like the wide,
Strong,
Solid base of the mountain,
The middle of your body,
Like the middle of a mountain housing life,
And the top of your head,
Like the tip of the mountain just resting in the clouds.
Perhaps picturing your favorite mountain.
Maybe it's a place that you've been to before or a place that you saw in a movie or just simply imagined.
What is your mountain like?
Is it teeming with life and animals?
Is it snowy and majestic and really still and quiet?
Or is it spring and teeming with rivers and beautiful trees growing on it?
Really allowing yourself to drop into the imagery of a mountain,
Whatever mountain you choose,
Dropping into the qualities that you would use to describe your mountain.
You think of a mountain,
You think of something that has been there a really long time,
That's seen a lot of change,
But there's a sense of stillness and quietness and strength about just witnessing that change.
The mountain doesn't become attached to seasons.
It simply observes as the seasons come and go.
The mountain isn't affected by who is there to enjoy or observe it.
The mountain is no more or less majestic.
If one person is there,
No people are there,
Or hundreds of people are there.
The mountain just is.
The mountain supports life for itself and for everything that resides on it.
It has a self-sustaining quality that nourishes itself and other life around it.
There is that reserve of nurturance that is inherent.
The mountain is tall and strong and stable.
Maybe if you've been feeling a little inconsistent or ungrounded,
Really allowing yourself to tap into that strength and stability and consistency and feeling that in your body as if you were a mountain,
Rock solid,
Powerful.
Even though the wind might be blowing around the mountain,
The mountain doesn't bend down to it.
It's strong enough to sustain the wind.
The wind can blow,
The mountain just is.
The mountain remains unshaken.
It's fast enough to hold so much,
And yet there is a softness and a beauty to the mountain.
And there is a softness and a beauty to you as well.
Taking these moments to really appreciate those places within yourself and seeing if you can tap into them and access them now.
Maybe some undiscovered or uncharted places,
Just like those hidden nooks and crannies in the mountain.
Seeing if you can find those places within yourself,
Places yet to be explored.
There's a sense of joy in finding and exploring those places,
And wonder as you walk around the mountain landscape,
Just wondering what's coming next,
Or just allowing yourself to kind of bask in the beauty of what's there.
Maybe you're imagining a patch of sunlight that you can just allow yourself to stop and be,
And rest into it.
What other qualities would you use to describe your mountain?
Maybe asking yourself what qualities you most need to embody right now.
Is it strength?
Is it fortitude?
Is it consistency?
And allowing yourself to tap into that,
Embody that,
And make your body posture match those qualities.
So if it's courage,
Be widening your posture even more,
Allowing yourself to take up even more space.
Maybe it is nurturance,
Or seeing the beauty within yourself.
Allowing yourself to not only think of these qualities,
But feel them in your body.
Where in your body can you tap into and really feel these qualities?
Is it in your chest,
Stomach?
Or maybe you can feel it in your feet,
Really feeling your feet rooted into the ground,
And feeling the connection and strength in your base.
Bringing the image of the mountain to your mind again as a whole,
Realizing how powerful imagery can be,
And again,
Reminding yourself of the qualities of that mountain that you want to carry forward with you into the rest of your day.
And opening your eyes if they were closed,
Ending this meditation,
But bringing those qualities with you.
Namaste.
Namaste.
