Hello and welcome.
This is Octavia Brooks with a guided visualization presentation called Releasing Guilt.
To prepare for this visualization,
Please bring to mind a situation that you would like to work with as an intention.
Think of a situation where you feel guilty,
Where you may have made mistakes,
And call that to mind now.
With your intention in place,
We will now go into the guided visualization.
Please enjoy.
Take some deep breaths into your chest,
Into your heart space,
And bring yourself into a relaxed and calm way of being.
In your imagination,
Begin to find yourself in a beautiful,
Natural setting.
This could be a place that you have visited,
Or one straight out of your imagination.
As you notice this natural setting around you,
Notice the lighting,
Notice that there is a gentle,
Soft breeze on your skin,
Notice that there is a body of water nearby.
It could be a creek,
A lake,
The ocean,
Or possibly even water molecules of humidity in the air.
And notice the firm ground underneath you.
And to this natural setting,
Let's call a guide now to join you on this journey.
Opening your heart and sending a call out now for the most appropriate and perfect guide to arrive here now with you in this beautiful,
Natural setting.
And now your guide shows you a little pathway that you did not notice before.
And on this little pathway,
You begin to walk together.
You come to a little woods of very tall,
Young,
Sapling trees.
And these trees sway in the breeze.
And as they sway in the breeze,
The light coming from the sky,
From the sun,
Creates shadows on the forest floor that move and play in the light.
As you continue walking down the pathway through the forest,
You imagine how wonderful it must be for the creatures to live in such a beautiful,
Beautiful place.
By and by,
You come to a clearing in the little woods.
And here in this clearing is a beautiful pool of water with very nice stonework.
And as you and your guide approach the pool of water,
On the other side of the pool,
A beautiful priestess comes out of the forest and begins walking towards you.
She introduces herself as the keeper of this pool of water.
And your guide has a brief conversation with her.
And she gestures you to a set of stairs that walk down into this pool of water.
She takes you into the pool of water as her beautiful gown flows out around her in the water.
And the two of you are there standing chest high.
She begins to dip water up with a beautiful conch shell,
Beautiful pink feminine conch shell,
Dipping the water and begins to very lovingly and gently pour the water over your body.
And as she does this,
She begins to chant things such as releasing other people's energy that relate to this moment that we're working with in this visualization.
She dips up a scoop of water and says,
This scoop of water is washing you clean of some of the judgments that people have placed upon you that you should be guilty,
That you should feel guilty.
And as the water flows over you,
Realize that you're receiving permission to release these judgments of other people.
You do not need to merge with those opinions.
And the priestess dips up another scoop of the blessed water that is the most perfect temperature and she pours it over your body and you feel the sensual pleasure of the sacred water cascading over you,
Washing you clean of the opinions and judgments of others.
Allow your heart to lift ever so slightly as the water cascades over you,
Scoop after scoop from the priestess of this pool,
Giving you the blessings of a clean and light heart.
By and by,
You begin to feel separate and released from these judgments from other people.
And sensing that you are becoming complete with this,
The priestess now leads you up the stairs and out of the water and back over to stand next to your guide where there is a very bright sunbeam.
Your guide and the priestess position you directly in the sunbeam and as you face this beautiful warm energy,
Loving life force energy of the sun,
You become completely dry instantaneously.
You and your guide now give thanks to this water priestess who has released and let go these judgments and opinions of others that might be clouding how you perceive yourself.
And giving thanks and mutually bowing to each other in appreciation,
The priestess now returns back into the forest.
You and your guide continue on the pathway through the little sapling forest.
And as you look ahead down the pathway,
You notice a brightness and you imagine,
Well,
Maybe the woods come to an end.
And sure enough,
Walking a little bit further,
The path gives way from the woods and out into a beautiful grassy field full of life and flowers,
Birds,
Bees,
All manner of color with tall,
Beautiful green grass.
The little pathway now leads and winds through this field as you touch the grass when you're passing by.
Looking ahead,
You notice an incredibly beautiful ornate building.
This building is so beautiful and yet also so incredibly large.
You cannot see where it extends to the left or to the right or into the sky.
And sure enough,
Your guide leads you directly over to this building.
As you get closer,
You notice it's decorated with spiritual symbols.
And you come to be aware that this is a temple.
As you come up on the porch of the temple,
The gigantic doors that no human could possibly move silently open to admit you and your guide.
You and your guide walk through the doors and you find yourself in the central chamber of the temple without boundaries.
Here in the central chamber are various altars and statues from every religious and spiritual tradition from throughout all time,
Space and dimension.
The walls and the ceilings and the floor are completely decorated with beautiful ornate artwork that has been produced with absolute love.
Your guide gestures you over to one of the altars.
And here on this altar is a mirror,
A bright,
Beautiful mirror.
As you step in front of this mirror,
You look into the mirror and you see a version of yourself.
This is the version of yourself who feels like you made mistakes that you should feel guilty about.
And when you look in the mirror,
You look at the way your thoughts represent you to yourself with these ugly feelings making you an uglier person.
You realize that what you're looking at in the mirror is how you have turned against yourself.
Your guide is there connecting with you and holding you and keeping you stable as you look upon what you are doing to yourself with your self-sabotaging talk about your guilt,
Your guiltiness.
Your guide supports you from behind with inner strength so that you can have the courage to look upon yourself in the mirror so that you can be honest with yourself.
The image in the mirror seems to respond very positively to this courageous attention.
As you look in the mirror and evaluate the whole situation that is on your mind and you consider where you may have made mistakes and perhaps something in the mirror shows you something that you need to see about a mistake that you might not have realized.
These mistakes that you've made are the gifts of your humanity.
Having compassion for the image in the mirror in front of you that made these mistakes and is carrying these mistakes as heavy,
Heavy burdens.
Open your heart to this part of you that is feeling guilty and remorseful for having made human errors and mistakes.
As you open your heart you can see a light in your heart reflecting into the heart of the image in the mirror.
The image of the light in the hearts of both you and in the mirror begins to get brighter and brighter.
In fact this heart light becomes increasingly bright and begins to fade out some of the image in the mirror.
As this begins to happen you are able to think of how we are all human and we all make mistakes.
And even though we make mistakes it's not impossible to recover and repair where we've made mistakes because the whole world is made of humans and we are able to be human ourselves and humans are not perfect like the divine.
Humans are not perfect.
With this realization in the bright image in the mirror you can find your eyes and look directly now into your eyes and say the words either in your mind or out loud I forgive you.
I apologize.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
I apologize.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
Continuing to hold the eyes steady bestowing upon yourself the blessing of forgiveness.
I apologize.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
And as you make this last gesture the light begins to fade just slightly revealing again your image in the mirror.
Now with crystalline clarity and presence you find yourself as you normally see yourself in the mirror released of these burdens of the guilt of the mistakes you've made.
In this courageous effort to acknowledge your humanity and acknowledge your human weakness and acknowledge that you made human mistakes that you can correct.
Give a bow to yourself in the mirror and allow your guide now to take you to another altar.
Here at this altar are many many different tools.
You can see pen and paper,
Candles,
Scissors,
Every single tool that you could think of that might help you take actions to correct your human mistake.
You are welcome and invited to choose any of the tools here on this altar that would serve you in repairing the situation because of your human mistake.
Find these tools extremely useful and helpful for taking the actions needed.
Your guide is there with anything you might need to help you carry these tools with you.
After you have collected all the tools you need your guide begins to walk you over towards the doors of the temple but before you exit a beautiful being begins to arrive a very tall golden beautiful being much taller than normal human height.
You begin to recognize that this being is a member of the divine perhaps an angel or even a god.
The presence is almost overwhelmingly beautiful.
This beautiful being asks you about your intentions.
What actions do you intend to make as you go back out from this place?
And so take a moment to share with this being what it is that you intend to do to repair the human mistakes that you made.
Having heard your plan this bright being asks you one very important question.
Are you committed to taking these actions?
Are you committed to promise to take these actions to restore equanimity and balance in your situation?
And make your answer.
And as the being hears your answer they nod and smile in appreciation.
And because of your humility and your courage this being is willing to give you a blessing right now to make everything easier.
If there are words that need to be spoken you now receive the gift and the blessing of finding the perfect words and the perfect timing to express yourself to correct the situation where you made a mistake.
If something written is required,
If something must be done,
Any of these actions that you need to take are now receiving a wonderful bright blessing from this being.
And you are empowered for these actions to be very very easy,
To be blessed by grace and beauty.
And take a moment now and receive these gifts from this divine being that will make your action steps much easier and simpler and more graceful.
Smiling as these blessings have been bestowed upon you the divine being stands aside and you and your guide now proceed through the doors of the temple that are opening once again.
And you step out onto the terraza,
Onto the porch outside the doors as they silently close behind you.
And here on the terraza you're looking down the stairs and looking out over the beautiful grassy field.
And your guide says to you now,
Are you ready to make a fresh start?
And with your answer the two of you begin to walk down the stairs and reaching the beautiful green grassy field.
As you set foot on the ground you notice that you can smell the flowers better than you could before.
And as you continue walking you swear that there are more birds,
Even more colorful with more beautiful songs than what you noticed before.
And you think to yourself,
Oh my goodness,
A new chapter really is starting now.
And decide whether you will do your best,
Your absolute best to the extent of your humanity in this new chapter.
And continue walking through the grassy field,
Drinking in the life force energy that is here,
Touching the grass as you walk past,
Feeling the sensual pleasures and delights of all the pretty flowers,
The beautiful song birds,
Enjoying the sunshine.
And by and by you come back to the entrance of the little sapling woods.
And entering the woods now it seems as though the trees are even more alive and more beautiful than they were before.
And now you can hear the creatures here and you send out your hello and your greeting.
And you can swear that you receive love back from them.
By and by you come to the clearing and see once again the sacred pool of water,
Bowing in acknowledgement and appreciation,
Knowing that you would not have been able to identify your own human mistakes if you had not released the opinions and judgments of others.
You recall the moments from the priestess's help and give thanks once again.
Continuing down the path,
By and by you come to the little pathway and exit the woods,
Taking the little pathway back to your starting place and your beautiful natural setting.
Taking a deep breath here and acknowledging once again the solid ground under your feet,
The slight breeze on your skin,
The water that is close by,
And the preciousness of the light around you.
Giving thanks to your guide who has been your steady companion on this journey.
Allow them to go back now to where they came from,
Knowing that they will always come whenever you need them.
And taking everything about this experience into your heart now with a deep and rich breath,
Begin to come back into the room where you're sitting,
Touching your body,
Patting yourself down,
Taking a sip of water,
And you may wish to take some notes about your experience.
Thank you for joining me today and have a fantastic rest of your day.
