Close your eyes.
Feel your body resting against the back of your chair.
Your feet firmly on the ground.
Your hands gently resting in your lap.
Take a few deep,
Grounding breaths.
Feel the air fill your lungs.
As you exhale,
Take another breath and feel the fresh oxygen bringing life to every cell in your precious body.
As you exhale,
Let go of everything to not need to hold onto anymore.
Take a couple more deep,
Grounding breaths.
Feel your spine holding you up,
Supporting you.
This bony architecture that allows you to stand,
To be upright,
To move,
To walk,
To take steps in your life.
Feel now how much power and energy your body holds.
Now imagine that you're back in your forest and you have taken your first few steps inside.
You have been walking quite away and now you can no longer see where you entered.
Ahead of you,
It is dark,
The foliage is thick and you cannot see very far ahead.
With every step you take,
You must consider,
Will I go this way or that way?
You know that there is no one here to guide you but yourself.
No one to ask,
Is this right?
Am I making a mistake?
Which is the best way?
Now you come to a fork in the path and you must choose,
Will I go left or will I go right?
You decide to take the left but as you take that path,
You suddenly feel your heart beating.
Perhaps this is not the right way.
You turn back and you take the path that goes right but again after a few steps,
You second guess yourself.
Now you are totally confused.
So you turn back and you return to the crossroads.
You close your eyes.
You take a few deep grounding breaths.
You feel your spine holding you solid and your feet firmly on the ground.
You listen to the sounds of the forest.
Inside of you,
The small voice asks,
Whom I to be journeying alone into this dark forest?
Whom I?
You feel lost and unsure.
The small voice inside you flickers and then quietens like a dying ember.
You pause.
You stand firm.
Suddenly,
You sense something new glimmer inside you,
A new energy.
You feel the air around you and it is charged with quiet certainty.
Your heart tells you which path you should take and you follow it,
Knowing it will not lead you astray.
You trust the forest and you trust the ground beneath your feet and you trust yourself that you will not,
You cannot get lost.
You know that there is something waiting for you inside this forest that you have come to retrieve and that you must journey there.
It is part of your life's mission,
It is part of why you are here.
Each time you exhale,
You relax,
You soften and you let go of anything that can hold you back or stop you from writing.
Let all the anxiety dissolve away from you now and feel your conviction getting stronger and stronger inside you.
So you take a deep breath and you take your next steps,
Choosing the path that feels right to you.
It is your path after all.
And as you choose,
You feel equipped,
You have never felt more ready,
You feel how everything around you is conspiring to support and guide you.
Feel your feet sure and steady,
Your heart open and strong.
You are the only one who can help you.
You are the only one who can help you.
