Hello and welcome.
This CD is designed to bring you a set of powerful skills known as Mindful Awareness Skill practices.
These practices help create inner peace and wellness to assist in coping with stress management and challenges of modern day life.
Let us begin.
First,
Just become aware of your breathing.
Simply becoming aware of your breath.
Breathing in slowly and deeply.
Breathing into your belly.
Not stopping at the lungs but breathing,
Breathing in deeply.
Filling the belly like a balloon on the in-breath and falling gently on the out-breath.
Filling the belly,
Rising on the in-breath.
And relaxing on the out-breath.
The breath moving in and out.
And as you do this,
Now imagine that you are breathing in a pure white vapour if you can.
So with each breath in,
See this pure white vapour moving in down through your nostrils,
Down into your belly and filling the belly with this pure white vapour of light.
And as you breathe out,
Feel the light.
And as you breathe out,
Imagine that you are releasing a grey light vapour.
The count of the light is going to be the most powerful.
And as you breathe out,
Imagine that you are releasing a grey light vapour that carries with it all the old and worn and unwanted emotions,
Feelings,
Thoughts.
And as you breathe in again,
Imagine that you are breathing in that pure light of vapour and bringing with it all that is pure,
Positive,
Fresh and vital.
Breathing out,
Releasing the old.
Letting go of anything unwanted in your system.
Continuing to breathe in the light vapour and breathing out a grey mist vapour.
Releasing and letting go of your day.
Letting go of your problems.
Letting go of all the personalities and the masks that you wear every day.
Just for this moment,
Letting go of all of the roles of being a parent,
A worker,
A husband or wife.
Letting go of the role of being someone else's child or even a friend.
And just relaxing,
Sitting or laying and letting go of the body and the physical sensations and all of these roles,
Personas and survival strategies.
Letting go,
Releasing and letting it all simply be.
Letting go of everything that you have,
All of the survival strategies.
Letting go,
Releasing and letting it all simply be.
Relaxed and at ease.
Breathing deep and slow.
Handing everything over,
Setting it free.
Nothing more to do.
Right now there's nothing to figure out or nothing to achieve.
And just arriving here in this moment.
Begin now to relax the muscles on your body,
Starting with the feet.
Feel all the tension leaving your feet.
They become totally relaxed.
Now begin to relax your legs,
All the muscles in your legs.
Let go of the tension in your stomach and lower back,
Allowing them to relax.
Slowly move your attention upwards to your chest.
The wave of peace follows and your chest becomes free from tension and your breathing becomes natural.
Feeling the muscles in your arms relaxing down to your hands and right to your fingertips.
Now lead your thoughts up to your neck,
Feeling your neck relax.
Let go of the tension in your scalp,
Your jaw,
Your entire face becomes free from tension.
Your entire body is completely relaxed.
Now picture yourself standing on the side of a road in the middle of a big city.
Picture the scene.
Cars racing past and the horns beeping.
Thousands of people walking past as you listen to the sound of their feet hitting the pavement.
Looking around you see a lot of movement and you stop for a moment and pay attention to all the little noises that are present in this scene.
The traffic lights clicking and people talking,
The constant murmur of sounds surround you and amidst all the sounds you notice the presence of a hum,
A silent hum.
Close your eyes in order to focus on this sound alone.
As you close your eyes you notice the sounds start to slow as the silence becomes louder until you hear the sounds of a horse walking by.
You open your eyes to find yourself standing in another time.
It must be hundreds of years back in time in the past.
Notice the surroundings.
It seems to be a lot less busy.
It feels as if time has actually slowed down.
There are a few people walking by in a peaceful manner as the horse continues past you at a steady rate.
You feel a sigh of relief having come to a point in time where things are not so busy.
You relax into the time and slowly close your eyes.
You notice that the silence has become more predominant and enjoy its increased presence.
All other sounds fade once more to the sound of silence.
From this silence the sounds of birds and running water begins to emerge.
You open your eyes once again to notice that you are surrounded by a beautiful forest.
The colours are soft and refreshing.
The ferns are blowing softly in the breeze and the sun is shining down on the flowers that cover the forest floor.
The movements are soft and so too are the sounds.
The river is singing a quiet melody to the sounds of the birds.
You can actually hear a silent hum acting as a stage on which the sound of nature dances so elegantly.
The sense of time is becoming less and less obvious.
It seems as though time is just drifting by at no set pace.
Just floating.
Close your eyes once more,
Feeling the peace that is present as you focus on the silence.
The silence becomes louder and the sounds of nature become quiet.
All you hear now is the silence.
Feel the power that it radiates.
This time the silence remains.
You open your eyes to see what is present in this silence and here you are greeted by nothing but light.
Surrounded by light.
A soft white light.
It is as if you are in an ocean of light and all that exists is light and silence.
The presence of this silence creates a deep state of peace.
It is as if time has now stopped.
You are aware of your existence and yet it feels as though other things have come to a halt.
The peace this brings is nourishing you and you enjoy this peace.
Breathing in the soft white light,
Absorbing the peace.
Immerse yourself in this experience for a few moments.
It is as if you are in an ocean of light and all that exists is light.
You you you you you in this state of peace you slowly become aware of the sounds in the environment where you are sitting you hear the sound slowly coming back into the silent space you have found and now when you're ready you can open your eyes and once again stay in the state of peace and see the world around you in this present time in peace welcome back hopefully you have gained an experience of the freedom that time can offer when it is not broken up by busy sounds and busy thoughts this shows you that time can be made to feel fast and busy if you clutter it with sound and thoughts and movement but it can also be made to feel non-existent as though time has stopped and this gives you unlimited freedom a freedom to make sound dance in time with a sense of flowing freedom of timeless motion you you you you
