In this meditation you'll be guided to three different states of peace.
We'll begin with a peaceful place in nature that you've been to before.
And then we'll use this place in nature for grounding,
To explore deeper and deeper senses of peace.
So now just getting comfortable either lying down or sitting,
Feeling where the surface meets all the different parts of your body.
And as you feel the support of the surface under you,
Just opening to the possibility of peace in any way that feels comfortable,
Natural,
And right to you.
And now just slowly drawing your attention to your breath,
Breathing in and breathing out.
Noticing all the different places your breath meets the different parts of your body.
Breathing in and breathing out.
And as you breathe,
Just allowing each breath to draw a sense of relaxation around your body.
You may feel,
Sense,
Or imagine this relaxation like a cocoon surrounding you above and below on either side and in front and in back of you.
On your next breath,
Just breathing this sense of relaxation into your head and face.
Feeling any tension from around your eyes,
Your cheeks,
Your jaw,
And all the muscles in your face just releasing this tension.
Bringing this relaxation to your neck,
Feeling as your neck relaxes and loosens.
This relaxation seeps into your shoulders.
And then just feeling as this relaxation arrives in your arms,
Flowing down to your wrists and into your hands and fingers.
You may even feel your fingers tingle a small bit or you may not.
Follow this relaxation down your chest,
Flowing into your stomach,
Your abdomen.
Follow it all the way down your spine,
Vertebra by vertebra,
As it travels down your back.
Your buttocks relax and this relaxation also arrives in your thighs,
Following it as the relaxation flows into your knees and ankles,
Down into your feet.
You may even feel your toes tingle a small bit or you may not.
Returning to your breath,
Continuing to breathe in and breathe out as your body relaxes deeper and deeper with each inhale and with each exhale.
Allow yourself to rest fully and completely in this relaxation.
With each breath,
Your body becoming more and more relaxed.
And the more relaxed your body becomes,
The more relaxed your mind becomes.
And the more your mind relaxes,
The more your body relaxes.
On your next breath,
Just opening your heart widely to a place in nature that you've been to before,
A place where you have felt most at peace.
Just recalling,
Imagining,
Feeling,
Or sensing this place in nature where you felt peace most clearly and distinctly.
This place in nature can be from any time in your life.
I'm going to count from five to one and at the number one,
You will be in or be very near to returning to that place in nature where you felt most peaceful.
Five,
Just recalling that place in nature you visited.
Four,
With each number just getting closer and closer to fully and completely being in this place,
Knowing that you will soon arrive there again.
Three,
Returning to your breath,
Noting how each breath draws you deeper and deeper into connection with this place in nature,
Connecting you more and more.
Two,
Allowing all your senses,
Your inner sense of touch,
Smell,
Taste,
Sight,
And your inner sense of sound,
And especially your sense of inner knowing to open wider and wider to this place in nature.
One,
Now just arriving at this place in nature,
Stepping onto the ground.
And now just sensing how your feet feel on the ground.
Does the ground feel hard or soft?
Noticing the material the ground is made from,
Perhaps soil or rock or some other material.
Just feeling if there is a breeze,
Perhaps the air ruffles your hair or blows on your cheek or perhaps the air is still.
Take a moment now to feel what it's like to be back in this place.
Does it have a smell?
Where is the light arriving from?
Now just sensing,
Imagining,
Recalling,
Or feeling all the ways this place is so peaceful to you.
As you fully immerse in the peacefulness of this place,
I'm going to stop talking for a while.
One,
Have a mind.
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