Welcome to this guided meditation to help you transition from your workday.
Whether physically leaving a workplace,
Or if you work remotely,
This meditation can help you with ending your workday and transitioning into personal time.
It can also assist any time you want to mentally and emotionally transition from one space to another.
Leaving a period of time and its responsibilities until you are ready to pick them back up again.
To begin,
I invite you to relax into the most comfortable position available to you right now.
It should be a relaxed yet alert position.
Maybe sitting upright in a chair or on a cushion on the floor.
You can relax your palms on your lap or on your thighs.
Your back should be as straight as you can comfortably sit without feeling forced or tense.
As you settle into this relaxed position,
I invite you to gently close your eyes.
If you prefer to keep your eyes open,
I invite you to soften and relax your gaze.
Take a moment now and notice your breath.
No need to fix or change it.
Just notice.
Does it feel fast or slow,
Shallow or deep?
Just take a moment to tune in and notice.
I invite you now to consciously begin slowing your breath just a bit,
Taking a nice gentle inhale and then a nice slow gentle exhale.
And I invite you to repeat this a few times.
I invite you now to visualize yourself approaching a stone wall with a gate.
You see the stone wall slightly off in the distance.
It looks to be about hip height and in the middle of the wall is a closed gate.
As you imagine yourself in this place,
I invite you to visualize yourself slowly moving toward the wall and the gate.
And as you're moving toward the structure,
You notice a tree just off to the right side of the gate.
You see that the tree is tall and it is beautiful.
As you get closer and you're right next to the tree,
You see you can easily reach its bottom branches.
And as you arrive here next to the tree and you're standing in front of the gate,
You notice there's a small table off to the side.
And on top of the table,
There are feathers,
Pieces of ribbon,
And a marker.
Intuitively you know that you are meant to write your worries,
Stresses,
And responsibilities from the day onto the feathers and ribbons.
The feathers are there for those experiences from the day that you want to fully release.
Those experiences that no longer serve you and you just want to let them go.
The ribbons are there for those experiences that you want or need to come back to,
But you want to save for another time.
Perhaps something you need to do tomorrow or maybe next week.
I invite you now to bring something to mind from the day that you want to release.
And as you do this,
Visualize yourself writing that experience or that stress or worry,
Whatever it is that you want to release,
I invite you to visualize yourself writing that on a feather.
And once you've written that experience on the feather,
You lift it up into the air and the breeze gently carries it away.
And as the breeze carries away this feather,
You feel a sense of release as the wind carries your worry away.
I invite you to bring to mind any additional thoughts,
Worries,
Experiences,
Anything you want to release,
And write each one of them down on the feather.
And as you write them down,
Lift the feather into the air for the wind to carry them away.
I'll give you a few moments to complete this practice before moving on to writing things down on the ribbons.
I invite you now to bring to mind anything from the day that you want to set aside for today but come back to at a later time.
As you bring this to mind,
Visualize yourself writing it onto a piece of ribbon.
And once you've written it down,
Tie the ribbon onto a branch on the tree.
Know that the tree will safely hold this for you until you come back and you're ready to address it.
I invite you to bring to mind any additional thoughts,
Experiences,
Responsibilities that you want to set aside for today and write them on the ribbons.
As you write each one down,
Gently tie it to a tree branch for safekeeping.
I'll give you a few moments to complete this practice.
I invite you now to visualize yourself before the gate,
Taking a moment of quiet reflection and gratitude for the completion of this work day,
Of this period of time,
For the wind carrying away what no longer serves,
And for the tree holding those responsibilities while you take time away.
You feel at peace and ready to transition to a time of relaxation,
Leaving the stresses,
Worries and responsibilities of this day behind.
And once you feel ready,
I invite you to imagine yourself moving toward the gate,
Opening the gate and passing through it,
Feeling light,
Peaceful and relaxed,
Knowing that you can enjoy the rest of your day.
I invite you now to seal this meditation with a few deep breaths,
Taking a nice,
Gentle,
Deep inhale,
And a nice,
Gentle exhale.
We'll do that again.
Take a nice,
Deep inhale,
Hold at the top of the breath,
And a nice,
Deep exhale.
And one last time.
Nice inhale,
Hold at the top,
And exhale.
Now I invite you to slowly bring movement back into your body and begin to bring awareness back to the room around you.
Maybe a gentle wiggle of your fingers and toes,
A gentle shoulder roll,
And then slowly open your eyes if they were closed,
Or bring your gaze and awareness back to the room around you if you left them open.
Thank you for taking the time to nourish yourself with this meditation and for practicing with me.
Wishing you a restful and joyful rest of your day.
