Today we are going on a journey in the forest with a guided meditation.
First we are going to make ready the body and mind by conducting some preparation meditation exercises.
Let us start by taking a few breaths to calm and relax.
Take a slow deep breath,
Pause,
Then slowly exhale.
As you exhale push out stress or worry you feel.
You will not need that now.
Now we will surround ourselves in a healing bubble of light.
Imagine a bubble of shining white light around you.
Feel this around you and know this protects and heals you throughout this meditation.
We will now conduct a mindfulness practice.
Notice the contact of your body with the chair or ground.
Notice your breath gently coming in and out of your nose.
Can you feel a cool sensation as you breathe in?
Is there a slight warm sensation as you breathe out?
Does your body have any tension?
If any body part has tension,
Send healing energy to that location.
How do your shoulders and neck feel?
What about your lower back?
Do you have tight legs or sore feet?
Make a conscious effort to relax your whole body.
Close your eyes and prepare your body for the guided meditation.
Get into whatever position is comfortable,
Lying,
Sitting or reclining.
For best results sit in an upright seated position with a straight back,
Palms facing upwards.
We are now going to take a journey into the forest.
As you walk over a meadow,
You see a forest in the distance.
As you get closer,
You start to relax.
The birds are chirping.
The bees are buzzing.
The smell of wildflowers is in the air.
There is a gentle caress of the wind on your face.
You hear running water from a nearby stream.
You look up and see a perfect blue sky.
The healing energy of the sun is warming your body.
You get an awareness of the sacred energy of the forest.
As you move into the forest,
You feel apprehension and you realize this is the stress of everyday life just below the surface.
You know the forest is a safe place.
And as you walk further,
Your feet connect with the ground with each step.
It becomes a walking mindfulness practice.
You feel the earth discharge and draw your stress energy away with each step.
As you move closer into the forest,
You feel your heart center open and tingle with energy.
You look down and see a quartz crystal in the center of your chest.
You think this is strange,
That it's not connected by a necklace.
It is a part of you.
As you focus on this,
You feel the energy of your heart center expanding.
You imagine brilliant,
Emerald green energy at your heart.
It expands to fill your aura.
You stand there and bathe in this energy and light.
You feel your feet touching the earth.
This grounds your energy and connects you with the forest.
You feel pressure and warmth at the soles of your feet as you connect to the energy of Mother Earth.
You continue to walk.
Time loses all meaning.
Sometimes you feel yourself walking.
Other times you glide over the earth.
The further you go into the forest,
The thicker and darker it gets.
You push past a low hanging branch and walk into a tunnel of trees.
You see a light at the end of the tunnel and walk towards the light.
Time seems to skip.
It is unclear if seconds or hours pass.
You come to an opening and walk out into the light.
A white light blinds you.
You put your arm over your eyes and as your vision clears,
You look up and suddenly you're in the middle of a clearing.
You look around and for a second you are completely disorientated for you're in the center of a circle of seven enormous trees.
The size of the trees are enormous.
They are the size of California redwoods.
As you look at the trees,
You can't seem to identify them.
They seem to shift and change.
You look around and you are completely dwarfed by these majestic giants.
You are totally overwhelmed by their size.
It feels like you are in a dream because the scale of the trees does not register with your concept of reality.
Your vision shifts and you see yourself from a bird's eye view.
From this aerial view,
You are slowly rotating in a circle.
Only now can you truly see the sheer size of these trees.
You are tiny in comparison.
You become aware of the connection with the earth.
It's almost if you have a dual awareness of looking down on your body and being in your body.
You feel the crystal at your heart center swell with energy.
You see your aura expands well past your body.
This energy grounds you and brings you back into your body.
Your energy merges with the crystal's energy.
The energy starts to travel down into the ground like white roots searching for nutrients.
This energy travels down deep within the earth.
You feel your awareness rushing down.
This energy is searching,
Trying to reconnect with its crystal family.
It finds them and anchors you to the earth.
Your awareness stops its stillness and silence.
You become grounded and protected like you have never felt before.
You have an urge to return to the surface.
You feel the wisdom of the crystals travelling back up as it goes through the earth.
It comes out of the ground and through your feet.
It energizes your body,
Mind and spirit as forgotten experiences over eons of time become a part of your consciousness again.
Back in your body you become aware of your breath.
You look up and in front of you is one of the trees,
The first of the septenary.
You feel the earthy colours washing over you,
Reds and browns,
Yellows and oranges.
You realize the tree is reaching out to connect with you.
It is showing you how to connect with the earth.
How to be mindful and aware of your body.
How to sense the energy directly surrounding you.
You then reach out your awareness and sense the energy from nature.
You feel this connection and energy seeps into your body and nourishes you.
You feel safe and protected.
It is like being back in the womb but you are in the womb of Mother Earth.
You become aware of your breath as these feelings of comfort,
Safety and protection wash over you.
The gentle patter of rain on leaves grabs your awareness next.
You look over and see the next tree.
You gaze up and see bright orange leaves.
Deep red in other patches but change into yellow and orange in others.
Like autumn leaves turning with the seasons.
You feel rain gently on your body.
For a second you want to get under cover but the rain feels nice on your body.
It's a cool balm on your soul and your energy continues to be purified.
The tree's energy is reaching out to you.
Your feelings and emotions are being balanced.
You know your creative and expressive nature is being expanded.
You see different perceptions and ways of looking at things.
All your creative ideas flash before your mind's eye.
Inspiration and innovation leap out of you.
It wants to manifest.
You let this energy become a part of you.
You know when you want to be creative this energy will naturally come to the surface.
Become aware of your breath.
As you think of projects this creative energy can be channeled too.
Next,
You feel heat like the sun warming your body.
You look in that direction and see another tree.
It seems to be covered in golden yellow leaves.
The sun's rays are coming through the branches.
The yellow leaves are growing and expanding.
This does not make sense until you realize you are seeing the aura of the tree expanding with the energy of the sun.
As you feel the sun and energy of the tree the only word to describe is power.
Your self-esteem,
Inner drive and assertiveness are being boosted.
As it washes over you,
You realize there is both masculine and feminine energies.
It is helping to align your power center.
They combine in you as the sun and moon unite.
You look up and notice that the moon and the sun are in the sky.
This power is strong and you feel your confidence growing.
It is equally balanced so the energy does not become arrogance.
It is balanced by your willpower and discipline.
As this is happening you can feel this golden yellow energy building at your belly.
It gathers at your belly and spins around and around healing and strengthening you.
You know this energy will be there spinning inside you when you need to bring your power and confidence into your daily activities.
As you notice your in-breath imagine this golden energy gathering at your belly and on the out-breath imagine this spinning around your body.
There you go.
Wind lightly blowing through the branches of a tree gently grabs your attention.
As you look over and up at the tree,
Your whole vision is taken over by the colours of green,
Light green,
Aqua,
Dark green,
Emerald green.
It seems to be alive and pulsating,
Moving through the different shades and hues of green.
It expands and reaches out like arms embracing you.
It connects with your energy field and locks onto your heart centre.
As this occurs,
The feeling of love grows.
As your heart swells,
You cannot help but think of the people you love the most.
Your most treasured moments come to the front of your mind.
They feel so real,
Like you are reliving them again.
The joy,
Happiness and loving kindness threatens to overwhelm you.
The urge is strong to sit there and be grateful to the life you have and how lucky you are to have these people in your life.
You take heart centring breaths as you relive the most precious moments with your loved ones.
As you become calmer and more relaxed,
You start to gain a greater awareness of the energy that surrounds you.
It's everywhere.
It fills the space between all other objects.
You sense rather than see the next tree.
Amongst the energy that is everywhere,
A powerful ancient force full of wisdom and insight is gently reaching out to you.
You can sense the size of the tree.
It reaches up and touches the sky.
You suddenly realise this is nothing compared to the roots that go deep into the ground.
They reach deep into the earth.
You feel like an ant sitting above the roots of an ancient oak tree.
As you open your eyes and look up,
Your vision is dominated by the tree.
As you open your eyes and look up,
Your vision is dominated by the tree and a perfectly cloudless blue sky.
The tree is that big.
As you look up,
Up,
Up,
You gently fall backwards and land in what feels like a fluffy white cloud.
You are just floating there,
Looking up at the tree and the blue sky.
The tree is that tall that it seems to be moving towards you.
The tree's energy is ancient.
In fact,
The tree's energy was ancient when humans first walked the earth.
It wants to share its wisdom with you.
Your throat starts to tingle as you realise your ability to comprehend and communicate improves.
Things you want to say come to your conscious mind.
By saying these things,
It will be like a weight lifted off your shoulders.
You know that when the time is right,
You will remember this and the energy of the tree will help you articulate and communicate what is required.
You feel a tingle of energy at your throat centre.
Concentrate on your breath as you balance your thoughts.
Majors in mechanical engineering.
Om You hear the sound of Om as energy gathers at your forehead.
This is a gentle,
Subtle energy.
It's as if you look outside of your body through your third eye.
Your vision is tinted by purple.
You see the next tree right in front of you.
It is the same height as you.
You only see the tree.
Everything else is blurred.
The tree is unassuming.
It is just there.
It has always been there.
It is always a voice in the back of your mind saying,
Yes,
That's the answer.
Yes,
That's the path you must take.
It seems so clear and easy to understand now.
You don't know why it is so hard to hear it usually.
You know you must listen to the voice.
It comes from a place of unconditional love and wisdom.
It is telling you what you need,
Not what your ego wants.
You get a sudden realization.
This is my higher self.
It has always been there.
Down through all your lives,
It has always been there.
It's leading you there.
It's leading you home.
You can almost reach out and touch it.
Feel it.
You now know what you have been searching for your whole life.
That connection with the source.
Now is not the time though,
There is still much you need to do.
There are many lessons you still need to learn.
There is so much good you still need to do.
You have come so far to be here right now.
You are so lucky to be in this place with all the gifts bestowed to you.
These feelings soothe your soul as you reorient to your life purpose.
Your awareness is drawn to a slight pressure and energy at your third eye.
As you concentrate on this,
You become aware of your breath again.
You notice that you are surrounded by white light and a humming noise which seems to be coming from everywhere.
Before you is the tree.
It is the tree of light.
The light everywhere seems to be dull in comparison to this shining tree.
Only you and the tree exist.
One moment you are a small child in front of a sapling growing its first buds.
The next you are a growing person in front of a large tree.
Your awareness shifts and you now are a ball of light next to a seed of energy.
You seem to grow infinitely larger zooming past atoms,
Matter,
Soil and earth,
Lakes,
Living cities,
Forests,
Oceans,
Countries,
Earth,
Solar systems,
Galaxies.
In the blink of an eye or a blink of an eternity,
You are a being of light next to the tree of light.
Cosmoses and galaxies are but playthings and throughout it all,
The sacred number 7,
The Seperary,
Is played out again and again.
Time does not exist.
Reality does not exist.
In these heightened states,
Wisdom and knowledge washes over you.
Everything is connected,
The mental dreamscape of reality.
The correspondence was small and big,
Internal and external.
Nothing rests,
Everything moves,
It is all in constant motion.
Reality is seen in everything.
All things rise and fall,
It cycles,
Within cycles,
It's even,
Interities within interities.
Cause and effect,
Karma,
Dharma,
Birth,
Growth,
Death,
Rebirth,
Again,
Again and again.
Gender across all planes and in all forms.
You seem to get a glimpse behind the veil on how it all works.
It's just numbers and symbols and perfect symmetry.
The emblems and archetypes,
They all make sense.
But this knowledge is too much for a conscious mind to take in.
You must concentrate and ground yourself.
The tree of life comes back into your focus.
You try to understand what it all means,
But your conscious mind cannot fathom it all.
What stands out most is that what it is like below is the same what it is above.
It is all an illusion,
A dream,
But it's all about perspective and right now the only thing that really matters is.
.
.
You think of that word that has come to you,
That gift,
It might be the answer,
It might just be what you need right now.
It doesn't really matter,
You are just thankful for the gift.
Now slowly let your breath relax and become normal.
Put your awareness at your third eye.
Just watch your breath slowly coming in and out of your nose.
Do not try to change the breath in any way,
Just be aware of it.
If your mind wanders,
Gently bring it back to the awareness of your third eye and watching the breath gently coming in and out of your nose.
You will now sit here in this state of peace and relaxation for about five more minutes.
Congratulations.
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