Five Element Qigong Morning Meditation For Healing & Power

Heal and expand your consciousness in this ancient QiGong visualization that takes you through the Five Elements and the Five guardian animals. You can do this at the end your day to cleanse and clear your energy body, or at the start of your day to energize and revitalize. This practice can be done standing, seated, or lying down, depending on what feels best for you.

Transcript

Welcome to this five element healing and protection meditation. This is a simple yet profound and powerful visualization that has been used since ancient times for protection and healing. You can practice this seated, Standing or lying down. If you are standing or seated, Let your feet come hip distance apart and let all of your toes connect with the ground beneath you. Allow your arms to rest by the sides of your body. If you are seated or lying down, Feel free to use any cushions, Pillows or other forms of support to ensure you feel comfortable and held. You may wish to half or fully close your eyes if that feels good to you. If you prefer to keep your eyes open, Allow a soft gaze but draw your awareness inwards. Begin by arriving in your body. Notice any areas of tension and relaxation. Starting at the crown of your head, Soften your scalp, Your forehead, Your eyebrows, Your eyes, Your cheeks, Your nose and your lips. Relax your jaw and soften around the back of your neck, Your shoulders and through your chest, Down your arms, Through your elbows, Your wrists, Into your palms and your fingers. Continue along your upper back, Softening your ribcage, Moving down into your abdomen and allowing some breath and spaciousness in your pelvis. Release the muscles of your lower back. Soften your hips, Your buttocks and your groin. Soften your legs, Your thighs, Your knees, Ankles and your feet. Gently guide your awareness inwards to the inner landscape of you. Allow this awareness to descend to the rainbow arches of your feet, Landing just behind the balls of your feet. Visualize two points, One each under the arches of your feet. They are called bubbling spring, The kidney one acupressure point. See these two points like two portals gradually opening. From the opening of these portals, Feel an invitation to root down towards the core of the earth. Let your roots grow down and as they grow down deeper, They spread, Grow and deepen, Becoming stronger and thicker. Eventually, Let your roots find a place to spread out and to latch on, To connect with. As you grow and spread your roots, Feel the earth, Know the earth, Trust the earth. In the balance of Yin Yang, This is your connection to Yin, To the earth, To your feeling of support and grounding. Inhale and breathe in from the earth through your roots, Through the soles of your feet, Up through your legs, Into your lower belly, Into the space of your heart. Into the space three fingers below your navel. This is your Dan Tian, Your elixir field, The center of your power and energy in the center of your belly. Visualize a pearl as small and as compact as an elixir, A pill yet as vast and expandable as a never-ending field. Inhale from the earth through your roots, Through your legs, Into this pearl and allow your pearl to expand slightly. Exhale and let your Qi, Your energy, Move back down through your legs, Back through the portals of your feet, Through your roots, Back to the earth. Continue like this for the next five breaths, Allowing your pearl to expand a little more each time. Breathe once into the pearl in your Dan Tian and visualize a green mist. Breathe in this green mist and fill your liver with this green mist. As you do so, Let the corners of your mouth softly cull in a gentle smile. Let this green mist expand from your liver, From the right side of your body and let it spread out through to the left side of your body, Through the horizon. Let this green mist transform into a forest, A lush, Leafy, Dense forest that extends far and at the foot of this forest. See a giant green dragon, The guardian animal of the wood element. Watch the dragon, Its head, Its body, Its tail. Watch it start to rise, Spreading its wings, Rising up, Up, To fly above the trees of this forest far, Far into the horizon. Let your energy field and your consciousness expand to the left through the forest with the green dragon. Breathe into your pearl in your elixir field and visualize a white mist. Breathe in this white mist through your nostrils and fill your lungs with this white mist. Smile in this white mist and let it move up from your lungs to the right side of your body. Fill the horizon to your right with this white mist and let this white mist transform into a vast range of iron ore mountains as far and as wide and as high as you can see all, All around. There, On the pinnacle of one of these mountains, See the guardian animal of the metal element, The giant white tiger. See the white tiger. Watch the tiger move its head and its tail. Watch it leap from mountain peak to peak far, Far into the horizon to your right hand side. Let your energy and your consciousness expand to the right through the iron ore mountains with the giant white tiger. Breathe into the pearl in your elixir field and visualize a red mist. Breathe in this red mist through your nostrils and fill your heart with this red mist. Smile in this red mist and let this red mist spread out in front of you. Let this red mist transform into a wall of fire, A protective fire as far and as wide and as high as you can imagine. Filling the horizon in front of you, Dancing in the flames, Lies the guardian animal of the fire element, The giant red vermilion bird. See the vermilion bird. Watch it dancing amidst the flames. See its wings, Its tail, Its head, Its beak and watch this vermilion bird fly into the horizon in front of you through the flames far, Far into the horizon. Let your energy field and your consciousness expand in front of you through the flames with the red vermilion bird. Breathe once into the pearl in your elixir field and see a blue black mist. Breathe in this blue black mist through your nostrils and fill your kidneys with this blue black mist. Smile in this blue black mist and fill your kidneys letting this mist expand behind you. Fill the horizon behind you with this mist and let this blue black mist unfurl into an ocean, An ocean as far and as wide and as deep as you can imagine filling the horizon behind you. See the surface of the ocean sparkling in the sun. See the waves gently lapping and there gliding in the ocean waves. See the giant black tortoise, The guardian animal of the water element. See its protective shell and watch the tortoise gliding through the waves far, Far into the horizon behind you. Let your energy field and your consciousness expand behind you behind you through the waves, Through the ocean with the black tortoise. Let your energy field expand in front of you through the fire with the red vermilion bird. Let your energy field expand to the right of you through the iron ore mountains with the white tiger. Let your energy field expand to the left of you through the lush forest with the green dragon. Let your energy field expand in all four directions. Breathe once into the pull in your elixir field and visualize a golden yellow mist. Breathe in this golden yellow mist through your nostrils and fill your stomach and spleen with this golden yellow mist. Smile it in and let this golden yellow mist rise from your stomach and spleen and allow it to surround your body as it surrounds your body. Allow it to create a sphere of golden yellow mist. Let it expand and expand and expand as far as possible in all directions above and below. Let this giant sphere of golden yellow mist transform into an earth planet earth upon the earth embracing and encompassing the other four elements and see flying around this earth the golden yellow sacred dragon horse the tealing the guardian animal of the earth element. See the horn on its forehead. See its dragon head and its horse body. See the dragon horse leap around the earth guarding over the other four elements. Let your energy field expand in all directions below, Above, Behind, In front, To the right, To the left. Notice your roots that are your connection to the earth. Allow your awareness to float up to the crown of your head. Draw your awareness to the point at your crown to the point Baihui, A hundred meanings right at the crown of your head. Here see a gateway opening at the crown of your head and from this gateway let your consciousness expand up into the sky through the sky through the blue into the realm of the stars. See Polaris the north star shining brightly and the constellation of the Big Dipper. Visualize the energy of these two meeting like a great beam of light. Let this great beam of light move down from the realm of the stars descending down like a great pillar cleansing, Purifying purifying, Releasing. Let it move down, Down through the blue of the sky down through the crown of your head. This healing light all the way down into your body cleansing your spine, Healing your tailbone. Let it move down through your arms trickling down along your fingertips through your hips through your legs all the way down through your roots into the earth. This great powerful beam of healing and purifying moving down through all of your body cleansing and enlivening every single bone, Muscle, Fiber, Cell, Thought, Feeling, Memory, Every vibration of you like a giant waterfall. Condense this powerful energy from the heavens into your palm. Mix it with the energy you've received from the earth beneath you. Place the center of your palms one on top of the other over your elixir field. Gently condense Yin Yang into you. Breathe into your palm back into your center and say to yourself three times I am supported. I am loved. I am whole. I am supported. I am loved. I am whole. I am supported. I am loved. I am whole. Linger here for as long as you wish receiving this energy in your palm between heaven and earth. When you feel ready to conclude this practice gently bring your palms together and rub them creating warmth, Heat between them and when your palms feel warm enough gently cover them over your eyes. Breathe in this nourishing Qi through your palms into your eyes and in the darkness of your palms gently allow your eyes to awaken. Take in this nourishing energy and slowly brush your healing hands down your scalp, Down your face, Down your neck, Down your arms, Your chest, Your body. Washing your body with this healing energy that you've gathered and bring this energy and healing with you into the rest of your day.

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Outstanding Taoist meditation. She leads you step by step along a path of healing and protection. Different than the standard 5 Element meditation in that it is richer and more comprehensive. I highly recommend this meditation and teacher.