I invite you to sit back and close your eyes as we relax our bodies and clear our minds in preparation for our journey.
Let's begin by taking three deep breaths.
Breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth,
Allow your body to relax more and more each time you breathe.
Breathing in healing love and light and breathing out all the stress and worry from your body.
As we continue to breathe,
We'll begin to focus on relaxing our bodies.
Let's start at our feet.
Focusing on your feet as you breathe,
Feel your feet relax.
Feel all the tension draining out of your feet.
This feeling of relaxation continues up your legs and thighs as they begin to relax.
As you continue to breathe,
Focus on your lower back.
Feel it relax.
Breathing in and out,
Continue to relax your body.
Feel all the tension leave your upper back and shoulders.
Feel your arms and hands relax.
Feel your neck and face relax.
Feel your whole body fully relax.
See yourself fully relaxed.
Now let's empty our minds.
As thoughts arise,
Think of them as leaves floating on a stream.
Allow them to slowly float away from you.
The thoughts become fewer and fewer until soon there are no more leaves,
Just clean,
Clear,
Flowing water.
You find yourself sitting peacefully on a blanket in a field of golden wheat.
The sun is shining down,
Warming your skin,
And a gentle breeze moves the wheat around you,
Creating a soft rustling sound.
The wheat is just high enough to hide you from the outside world.
Your eyes begin to grow heavy,
And you lie back on the blanket,
Relaxing and admiring the shapes of the clouds as they float by above.
You smile drowsily as you see a cloud that looks exactly like a white horse galloping across the sky.
You can almost hear the sound of pounding hooves.
You close your eyes and feel yourself beginning to float off your blanket into the sky.
You look down and see your blanket in the wheat field below as you float higher and higher towards the clouds.
You feel completely peaceful and relaxed as you float.
The horse cloud you were admiring earlier comes into view,
Galloping across the sky towards you.
It is even more detailed now,
And you see it is not alone.
There is a beautiful goddess riding on its back.
Her hair flows out behind her,
And she laughs,
Enjoying the ride.
She rides closer and closer and now is directly in front of you.
Her beautiful horse glistens in the sunlight,
Covered in sweat from their journey.
Goddess Epona jumps down from her horse and lovingly strokes its long face.
She takes an apple from her bag and hands it to you,
Motioning for you to share it with her horse.
You hold out your palm with the apple and giggle as the horse gently nibbles the apple from your hand.
It eats it happily with two chomps and comes back looking for more.
The goddess offers you another apple to feed to her companion.
After your new horse friend enjoys its treats,
It meanders off to inspect some clouds,
Leaving you with goddess Epona.
She is a beautiful Celtic goddess,
With long hair and fair skin.
She smiles at you with a twinkle in her eye.
Thank you for meeting me today,
She says,
Linking her arm with yours.
Let's walk and chat.
You look down at the clouds,
Wondering if this is a safe place to be strolling about.
She sees your concern and with a reassuring smile says,
I promise to keep you safe,
Here and always.
You feel reassured and exhale the breath you didn't realize you were holding.
I've come here for a special reason,
Goddess Epona explains.
There are some beautiful things in your future.
Some wild and exciting adventures are waiting for you.
However,
I see a little bit of an issue.
Goddess Epona stops and takes both of your hands in hers,
Looking deep into your eyes.
You seem to be holding back from your true potential.
She says with a furrowed brow,
It's almost as if you don't want to fulfill your dreams.
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
You think about the things you have always dreamed about doing.
The things you have always wanted to achieve,
But have never been sure you could.
You begin to see the times you have held yourself back.
How you have unwittingly sabotaged the very things that you were working towards.
Goddess Epona sees the realization in your eyes and smiles.
Yes,
Now that you've seen how you have kept yourself from your dreams,
We can eliminate that from your life.
You don't have to be scared to walk the path before you.
Just like our stroll across these clouds,
I will walk with you.
I will keep you safe.
I will help you to be strong and recognize everything that keeps you from achieving your goals.
And together,
We can make all your dreams come true.
Would you like this?
She asks.
You are excited to have her assistance and eagerly agree.
There is just one thing,
She says,
Leading you to the edge of the clouds.
You look down,
Looking at your blanket in the wheat field far below.
Every dream begins with a leap of faith.
Are you willing to take this leap today?
Do you trust me to keep you safe and to help you achieve your goals and dreams?
Do you trust yourself and understand that you are worthy of having everything you dream of?
If you do,
And if you want to truly start on your path to do all the great things you are meant to do,
You must jump.
You look down again at the blanket far below and decide if fear will keep you from your dreams or if you are truly ready to let nothing stand in your way,
Especially yourself.
You close your eyes and make your decision.
And now when you're ready,
Opening your eyes and bringing back this energy of Goddess Epona with you and anchoring it into your life.
