Guided visualization.
Welcome to time for healing.
This time is just for you.
As you relax,
Allow your body to become heavy and if you'd like let your eyes close gently.
Listen only when you are able to completely focus on yourself.
To reduce anxiety,
Start by taking a moment to relax your body.
Soften any unnecessary tension in your belly and shoulders and find a posture that feels both relaxed and alert.
Now close your eyes or look downward and rest your hands in an easy effortless way.
Take a few moments to scan your awareness through the sensations of your body and wherever possible soften and release obvious areas of physical tension.
Feel the sensations in your body in this moment and as you breathe allow your body to completely and fully relax.
Allow stress to flow out of you with each breath.
Your body is becoming calm and comfortable.
Let any tension in your brows go.
Let any tension in your lips go.
Let any tension in your eyes go.
Just relax in the comfortable space that surrounds you.
Once you feel relaxed and centered,
Start to bring yourself to one of your favorite peaceful beautiful places.
This could be a place you've been before like a silent redwood grove with cool shade and towering ancient trees or a white sand beach where the ocean waves gently lap the shore and the smells of the sea make you feel at home.
It could be a place built entirely in your imagination.
A lovely slowly swaying bridge that you stand on watching a babbling brook flow away beneath it or an ancient oak in the autumn with golden leaves falling around you as you sit under the shade and watch the golden orange sun pass over the horizon into twilight.
Whatever this special peaceful place is for you,
Take some time to imagine it as completely as you can all around you.
Once you have your special place in mind,
Bring yourself into the picture.
Imagine that you're in this beautiful place.
Put yourself there.
Take a walk and look at the lovely peaceful relaxing surroundings.
Before you were looking at this peaceful scene like a painting from a distance.
Now you're in the scene.
You're living it.
Be there right now.
What do you see around you?
There's no need to actually verbally answer this question.
Just look around and see what you see.
What in this scene is most relaxing to you?
Take a walk in this special place and see all that you can see.
What do you smell in the air?
Can you smell the trees and the soil of the forest floor beneath you?
Do you smell the salty air of the ocean?
Bring scent into your visualization.
Smell the air where you are.
Reach out and touch something that's attractive and peaceful to you.
How does it feel?
Is it soft to your touch?
You're living in the scene.
You can feel the ground beneath you and the air on your skin.
How does it feel?
Take a moment to listen.
What sounds do you hear in this beautiful new surrounding?
Can you hear birds chirping in the woods?
Do you hear the ocean waves and their perpetual booming rhythm?
Perhaps there's music from an ancient flute in the background.
Or maybe you hear the voice of an old friend that soothes and calms you.
Whatever you hear.
Take a moment now to enjoy listening to it.
You can stay in this beautiful space.
You can stay in this scene as long as you want to,
Enjoying this moment of relaxation that you've taken for yourself.
As you begin to return to the outer world,
You will remain relaxed and your inner mind will process what you heard.
You are feeling more alert.
You are now ready to resume your day.
You are feeling good about taking this time for healing.
This time just for you.
