The "Lemon" Visualisation Meditation

As you think,

So you become.

Please come into a comfortable seated position with the spine upright.

Take a moment to draw the awareness to the breath.

Inhaling slowly and deeply and exhaling fully until you feel more relaxed.

I'd like you to visualize standing in front of a refrigerator.

And imagine that you're opening the door and inside the fridge is a lemon.

A ripe lemon.

Imagine reaching in and taking hold of this lemon and feeling the cold skin of the lemon against your palm.

And bring the lemon between both your hands and roll the lemon around in your palms.

Feel the lemon is soft and squishy.

Perfectly ripe and juicy.

Imagine taking this lemon to the countertop where you have a chopping board and a knife.

Before cutting it open you bring the whole lemon up to the nose and take a deep inhalation smelling the scent of the lemon.

Imagine bringing the lemon to the chopping board and you slice the lemon into quarters.

And you smell the flesh and the inside of the lemon.

Take one piece of the lemon and hold it up to your nose and inhale that fresh clean scent of the lemon.

And as you bring the lemon to the lips just allow the juice of the lemon to caress and moisten your lips.

Very slowly open the mouth and imagine sucking on the juice of the lemon.

And then bringing your teeth into the flesh and biting down into the lemon.

And now take a moment to observe your actual physical experience.

In fact there was no lemon to begin with but your thoughts may have created a biological response to the visualization of eating a lemon.

This is how your thoughts affect your physical well-being and how your thoughts affect your life around you.

Gently draw your attention back to the thoughts in the mind and take a few moments of silence to observe the thoughts that go on in your mind and how they may affect you in your physical body and in your life around you.

Very gently draw the awareness back to the breath bringing your awareness to your surroundings and gently open the eyes.

This concludes our guided meditation practice for today.

Thank you.