Mindfulness With A Raven

Mindfulness with a Raven is recorded during an Insight Timer live session. In our session of mindfulness with animals, we connect with the wisdom of an animal that would love to share. In this meditation, a beautiful Raven took us on a journey to meet our guide.

Transcript

Welcome to Mindfulness with animals.

Feeling your feet on the floor,

Feeling your body being supported by your chair,

Really feel your shoulders coming down,

Relaxations around your cheeks and your chin and even the top of your head is relaxing.

Take a breath in and out.

Good.

And with the next in breath,

If you haven't done so yet,

Take a breath in and close your eyes.

Nice.

I just want to take you a moment to just check in with yourself.

You know,

It's been a whole week,

Let's check in,

Let's make sure that all parts of us are here,

That everything is switched off and you can have a moment to just really relax and connect with your heart to connect with the heart of an animal.

And if you need to wiggle,

Now is the time to wiggle and feel like a dog that makes circles and circles until he or she finds the perfect place to lay down in their bed.

And that sigh they give like,

Oh yeah,

Yum,

Really good.

And then in your mind's eye,

I want you to imagine that you're sitting on this beautiful bench.

It's a bench made out of wood completely.

And this bench is next to a pathway and while you're sitting here,

There's people who are walking by with their dogs and people are pushing strollers,

You have some jokers coming by and with some of the people you nod and smile.

Other people are just completely listening to whatever is in their ear.

Some people are training,

So they're very focused.

You have the dogs who walk by who come up and sniff your hand and wag their tail and you exchange a little bit of a small talk with whoever is holding the leash behind there and just feel while you're sitting here how that smile is just arriving in your face.

It's such a pleasure to be here and to sit at this bench.

And then while you're sitting there,

There is this beautiful raven.

It's just lands next to you on the bench.

And it just looks at you and goes in and you can just feel the energy and the heartbeat and you can just feel how the two of you are connecting.

It's such a magical way to connect with an animal because you can just hear the voice of the raven.

The raven says,

Let's go for a walk.

So it pushes off the bench and starts flying and you think,

Well,

Great,

An adventure.

So you get up from the bench and you start walking and the raven keeps a good eye on you.

Make sure you're following.

In the beginning you're following the path of the park,

Which is really nice.

And he just flies from tree to tree.

And then there is this hedge there and the raven is going to sit on top of the hedge and you go like,

I'm not sure,

Am I going to go through the hedge?

How does this work?

But when you come closer,

You can see that the hedge opens up for you and you can just walk through it and then calmly and silently the hedge is closing behind you.

And the raven looks at you like,

Wow,

Thank you so much for trusting me and thank you so much for joining me.

And you are walking into this beautiful,

Beautiful park and you can see butterflies,

Amazing trees,

Trees with apples and oranges.

It's just fantastic.

You pick up an apple.

It's nice and juicy to eat.

You just can feel how it's this beautiful fruit is warming up your body and filling up you with joy and laughter.

And you just keep walking.

And then there is another bench.

Beautiful,

Beautifully carved.

So you're going to sit on it.

And the raven is coming to sit next to you and then you notice in front of you there is this beautiful lake.

Really amazing,

Beautiful lake.

And the raven says,

Let's connect today with your guide.

It's been a hectic year and to reconnect with your guide to have this beautiful conversation.

And he's waiting for permission from you to say like,

Yes,

Yes,

I would like to meet my guide.

It's been a while.

And then with this permission,

The raven points out this boat that is coming on the lake.

It's slowly coming closer by and stops.

And your guide gets out of the boat,

Pulls the boat into safety.

And then your guide walks up to you.

Such a good feeling to meet up with your guide.

You can just feel the love flowing into your body.

And the two of you give each other a beautiful,

Enormous long hug.

That feels really good.

Your guide thanks the raven for,

You know,

Making this possible.

And the two of you are going to sit at this beautiful carved bench.

The guide asks you how you're doing and how are things going.

There's a lot of questions going up and down.

Just take a breath into that.

That's what happens when you meet up with good friends.

There's this word flow coming.

And then the two of you sit down and look over the lake.

And this calmness comes over.

Just sit with that.

Wonderful.

And then the guide,

Your guide,

He turns to you.

And she says,

You know,

I know there's a lot of questions and maybe we don't have time to answer all of it.

But let's work with one question.

And then you share your question with your guide.

Just take a breath.

And breathe out.

And know that you're in a safe place on this bench.

The raven is keeping an eye on the time.

And it's all up to you to have this conversation together.

Don't be shy.

Every time.

Then you come to this feeling that you are complete.

You thank your guide and you give each other a big hug.

The guide goes back to the boat,

Pulls it back into the water and slowly goes back over the water.

You just wait until your guide is completely out of sight.

You look at the raven and go,

Gosh,

Thank you,

I really needed that today.

I didn't even realize how much I missed having these conversations.

And the raven asks you if you are ready to go back and you said yes.

So he takes you back,

Walking through this beautiful magical park where you end up at the hedge.

With the raven sitting on top of it,

It is opening up and you can walk through it.

You walk to the park where you find the pathway and the raven stays with you.

You walk on the pathway,

You reconnect with the people who are there as well.

It is bringing you closer and closer to your bench where you can go and sit down and take a breath in.

Thank you raven,

That was beautiful,

Thank you so much.

And the raven flies off,

Wishing you all joy and happiness.

And when you are sitting here,

You slowly start feeling your feet on the floor.

You can start wiggling your toes and your fingers and kind of roll your shoulders and open your eyes and close them again and slowly getting familiar with your own environment.

Take a breath in and out.

And welcome back.

Reviews

What an incredible experience! The hedge opened up into a beautiful garden and I met a spirit guide whom I have missed so much in this life since he left. Thank you for this beautiful meditation. I loved the background guitar as well😊

Lovely journey. Thank you for sharing this.

Thank you Renee. I really enjoyed the meditation and the beautiful music. I know that I need a dog to be happier.

Wow, beautiful. It really was a year ago since my last conversation, I thought my guide had abandoned me... He gave me the answer I needed most.
Thank you so much.
Love,
Amber🌸