And now,
We're going to take a moment to take a deep breath.
Lay down gently in your bed.
Take a moment now to make any adjustments in your position that will allow you to rest comfortably.
Take in a nice deep breath and exhale.
As the air glides out of your lungs,
Slowly allow your eyes to shut.
With your eyes closed now,
Allow yourself to begin to use your imagination.
Allow yourself to use your imagination and use your imagination to focus on your hands.
Just think about your hands.
Concentrate on your hands.
See and feel your hands in your imagination.
Focus on your hands.
Notice the feeling of the material beneath your hands.
Notice if your hands are clasped together or are separated.
Perhaps you become aware of how your fingers naturally curl.
Perhaps your fingers remain straight.
Perhaps you notice your palms supporting the weight of your hands.
Just simply concentrate on your hands.
And I wonder if you can experience everything you can about your hands.
Just your hands.
Simply watch the image of your hands in your mind's eye.
Focus on the image of your hands in your imagination.
Focus on your hands forming that picture in your mind while your eyes remain gently shut.
You may begin to notice a nice gentle weight pressing down on your eyelids.
A very nice gentle pressure on your eyelids pressing them shut and allowing yourself to simply slip into a nice pleasant state of relaxation.
This relaxation slowly begins to wash away any stress,
Any tension.
This relaxation now begins to wash away that image of your hands in your imagination.
Just allow that image of your hands in your concentration to simply fade away like an echo far,
Far off in the distance.
Getting away into a far,
Far off place now.
Allowing yourself to enjoy the calming sensation of peace and surrender.
Beginning to sweep gently over your body.
You may find that your mind has a tendency to wander about.
You may find yourself thinking about responsibilities,
Plans for the future,
Or perhaps even events from your past.
The tendency for your mind to wander about is completely normal and is to be expected.
You need not stress and worry that your mind may be wandering,
Simply allow yourself to place these wandering thoughts into a nice peaceful restful pause.
A pause in which these wandering thoughts can remain still.
You do not need to worry about forgetting and you will be able to return to these thoughts later.
Any time your mind wanders,
Simply focus your attention back to the sound of my voice.
Simply focus your attention back to the sound of my voice and you will find yourself falling deeper and deeper into a nice pleasant state of relaxation than you were the moment before.
Feeling so good just to let go and sink deeper and deeper into relaxation.
I'm going to guide your awareness to parts of your body and as I speak,
Simply focus on each part of your body that I mention.
And I want you to imagine that your attention has the power to wash away tension.
Washing away tension from your body.
Leaving you feeling loose,
Limp,
And weightless.
Go at peace as you begin to focus now on your face.
And you allow yourself to let all tension drain from your face.
And you wonder how deep the relaxation can seep.
Sinking down all the way through your neck,
Allowing your neck to gently rest.
Feeling now the relaxation spread through your shoulders.
Let your shoulders go.
Sinking,
Drifting deeper and deeper into relaxation.
You relax your face,
Your neck,
Your shoulders.
And now you feel the relaxation glide down your arms.
Feeling so loose and limp all the way down your arms the relaxation goes.
From your arms to your hands as your hands begin to feel so heavy.
So heavy as though a gentle weight is pushing down on your hands.
And you drift deeper and deeper down into a very pleasant state of relaxation.
Letting go.
And you are really beginning to enjoy this pleasant state of relaxation.
This relaxation feels so good and it offers you the peace and rest you desire.
This relaxation is going to continue to grow as we go along.
The attention on your face,
Your neck,
Down to your shoulders,
Down your arms,
Down through the hands has washed away all tension.
And now the soothing relaxation continues to spread throughout your chest.
From your chest and now rinsing down to your stomach.
Rinsing down from your stomach,
Down to your pelvis.
Now washing relaxation all over your hips as you sink.
Drifting deeper and deeper down.
Feeling so calm and so at peace as you simply let go and allow the relaxation to soothe its way down through your thighs.
From your thighs to your knees,
Rinsing away all tension down through your calves.
Your calves to your ankles.
Now the relaxation fills your feet with a gentle weightless feeling of peace.
Sinking,
Drifting deeper and deeper down to a nice pleasant relaxation.
You give yourself permission to simply let go and relax.
You deserve peace,
Comfort,
Rest and healing.
This is a time and space for you to let go and relax.
It feels so good just to let go and relax and it's going to continue to feel even better as we go along.
All the weight,
All stress,
All tension you have been carrying is beginning to fade away as you float.
Drift deeper and deeper down.
Feeling so weightless now.
In just a moment I will begin to count.
I will count to three and when I reach three you will sink,
Slip,
Drift deeper and deeper down.
Drift deeper and deeper down into a nice calming state of relaxation.
A relaxation that is going to continue to grow as we go along.
Let's let it grow.
Get ready now.
One,
Two and three.
Sinking deeper and deeper down.
Feeling so calm,
So free and so at peace.
You will find now that your body feels very relaxed,
So relaxed and free from tension.
Your body feels weightless,
Drifting down and supported in peace.
This wonderful relaxation is going to increase throughout your entire body and the relaxation will pull you deeper and deeper down into a place of rest.
A nice,
Peaceful,
A nice safe pause in life.
A pause in life that you deserve and yearn for,
Fully suspending you in comfort and healing.
I want you to get ready to fully let go.
Give yourself permission to fully let go and experience a sense of complete relaxation.
A sense of weightlessness as I guide you once again to wash this relaxation over your entire body,
Rinsing away all remaining tension and worry.
Notice the muscles of your face become relaxed.
As you let go and let the relaxation wash down your neck,
Loose,
Limp and weightless,
You have allowed your face and neck to relax and the relaxation rinses away all tension.
Rinsing away all tension down through your shoulders.
Let your shoulders sink.
You feel so calm and so at peace and you notice the relaxation spread deeper and deeper down through your arms.
All the way down your hands you feel a sense of gentle weight pulling down on your face,
Pulling down on your neck,
Pulling down on your shoulders,
Pulling down on your arms and your hands,
Gently pulling your body deeper and deeper down to rest and relaxation.
Feel the relaxation spread into your chest,
Feeling the relaxation spread deeper and deeper down to your stomach.
Rinsing away all tension and now the relaxation drifts deeper and deeper down to your hips.
Spreading now through your pelvis,
The relaxation rinses its way down through your sides and thighs,
Down through your thighs to your knees,
Deeper and deeper down through your calves.
From the calves to your ankles and now the relaxation spreads over the tops of your feet as your feet experience a nice warm weight gently pulling down on your feet,
Pulling you down,
Sinking,
Drifting,
Drifting away,
Deeper and deeper down as you now feel your entire body begin to follow the gentle weight on your feet,
Pulling your entire body all the way down to a nice pleasant state of relaxation,
Feeling so weightless,
So calm and so at peace as time begins to slow,
Time continues to slow,
Time stops.
Replace all of your thoughts of your life on a temporary pause.
You know that you can return to these thoughts later after you are fully rejuvenated,
Fully rejuvenated and ready to take on any task with full confidence.
In this calming,
Peaceful pause,
You have allowed all tension from your body to simply drift away and you feel fully suspended now by this relaxation and peace,
Fully safe and fully secure,
Feeling so good and know that it is going to feel even better as we go along.
Peaceful,
Dreamy,
Warm sense of calming,
Relaxation now suspending your entire body,
Suspending your entire body in this gentle sense of weightlessness,
Suspending your body,
Suspending your body completely in relaxation as you now find yourself laying down in a nice,
Soft and secure raft of comfort and peace.
This raft of comfort and peace you are lying on is completely supported by a calm river below and this river slowly carries you down its peaceful waters.
Its gentle current simply pulls you along deeper and deeper down into peace.
Peace is a special river,
A river that flows to a pause,
A pause in which all outside thoughts can be placed on hold,
A place of escape,
A place of serenity,
A place of healing.
The subtle sound of the gentle river's current pulls you deeper into relaxation and farther and farther down the river,
Closer and closer to the place of complete serenity,
Complete healing and complete pause.
This is a place which you deserve.
You can smell the scents of the beautiful tall,
Deep green pine trees of the forest lining the edge of the river as the river effortlessly and gently carries you along.
Birds perched on the overhead branches look down at you and sing their greetings to you.
A gentle breeze caresses the surface of your skin and you think to yourself how perfect the weather is on this day.
You feel so calm and so at peace on this lovely adventure and you decide to play a fun little game with yourself.
You begin to count down with each tree you see along the side of the river as you slowly pass by.
Each time you see a tree pass you by,
You count down and with each number you count,
You will notice your level of relaxation double.
10.
As you count your first tree,
You notice how your level of relaxation is increasing and this makes you excited to keep counting,
Knowing that each tree you count will bring you deeper and deeper down into relaxation as you are carried farther and farther down this gentle,
Peaceful river.
9.
You see another tree and notice how there are birds on this tree and they seem to be watching you as you pass by.
You are amazed how much more relaxed you are feeling and you want this relaxation to grow even more.
Your level of relaxation grows even more as you pass by to 8.
This tree's branches are so bushy and full,
You notice how good it feels to pass by more and more trees,
Farther and farther down the river,
All the way down to 7.
You notice how this tree's branches seem to be waving to you in the breeze.
They welcome you farther and farther down the river,
Feeling so calm,
You feel so good and let go of all stress and tension.
Floating down deeper and deeper into relaxation,
All the way down to 6.
This tree also dances in the breeze.
Its branches seem so free,
So flexible,
And you notice your entire body feeling so loose and so limp,
You feel as though you are simply floating down the river with no effort,
All the way down to 5.
The images of the trees become blurry and they begin to fade from your awareness as your body seems to be gently melting,
Gently melting,
Dropping,
All tension leaving your body as you sink down to 4.
All thoughts of needing to imagine trees continues to fade as all the muscles in your body are now fully relaxed.
You no longer need to support yourself now as your body melts fully into the security and comfort of your supportive raft,
All the way down,
Melting deeper and deeper down to 3.
So relaxed now,
You allow yourself to completely stop caring about imagining trees.
You are more interested in this feeling of wonderful,
Pleasant relaxation,
This weightlessness,
Cleansed of all stress,
All thoughts,
And fully ready to place your life into a nice,
Relaxing pause.
You can feel the supportive raft glide farther down the river,
All the way down to 2.
The gentle river surrounds your entire being in a gentle,
Warm sense of peace and security.
This is a sense of peace and calm that you do not need to hold.
This is a peace and calm that holds you.
The peaceful,
Calming river continues to carry you down,
Carrying you deeper and deeper down farther and farther down the river,
Sinking deeper and deeper into relaxation.
You feel so supported and you enjoy not having to think about a thing.
You need not do anything.
You allow yourself to simply enjoy the relaxation.
This calming,
Peaceful river invites you to fully let go.
Get ready to fully let go and relax.
Here it comes.
You sink deeper and deeper down,
All the way down to 1.
All the way down now.
All the way down to the deepest level of relaxation you have ever known.
Deeper and deeper down,
All the way down now.
So calm,
So at peace,
Feeling more relaxed now than you have in your entire life,
Feeling fully suspended and calm,
Peaceful security,
All tension washed away,
Feeling loose,
Limp and weightless.
You have now reached the pause,
A pause that gives you the time and space to heal,
The time and space to rejuvenate.
This is a time and space that has been calling to you for a while.
This is a time and space that will give you what you need.
This is a healing experience that you deserve and you are ready to receive it.
You can feel a complete sense of weightlessness now.
You have really left behind everything and have sunk deep,
Deep into the nice,
Peaceful bliss of relaxation,
Fading away,
Sinking deeper and deeper down,
All the way down to a place of rest.
Imagine that you are standing on a soft dirt path,
Just outside the tree line of a beautiful forest.
You begin journeying along this path,
Step by step in a casual stroll,
And you begin to enter the forest as a gentle breeze carries the scent of cool,
Crisp pine into your nose and nostrils.
And as you take in a nice,
Deep breath,
You feel the fresh air fill every cell of your body with a cleansing sense of renewal.
The tall,
Vibrant green pine trees above you introduce themselves through the birds that perch in the branches,
And the birds sing their playful songs of welcome.
You look up above as you walk and smile at these playful birds as they watch you while singing,
Each bird curiously rotating their heads at all angles as they observe you.
You feel so welcome in this forest as you take each step down this dirt path,
A path that many before you have cleared the way for,
And it's so easy just to simply follow this path,
Deeper and deeper into the forest you travel.
From the far-off distance,
You become aware of the sound of a subtle flow of a far-off creek.
The creek also welcomes you with the sound of its water dancing over the rocks.
The sound of its water pulls you even deeper into a nice,
Pleasant feeling of relaxation and peace.
Feeling even more welcome and safe as you travel farther and farther down this path,
Feeling so calm and so at peace.
As you walk down the path through this forest,
You feel so grateful that you have made time for yourself for this adventure.
And this day is so perfect,
Almost as though this day was meant just for you.
The weather is perfect,
Not too hot,
Not too cold.
The weather is simply the perfect temperature for this adventure down the path,
Down the path,
Deeper and deeper into the forest.
So easy you find it is to stroll down this path.
Many have come before you down this path clearing the way,
And many will come after you.
You learned of this path through your best friend in the world,
Your best friend who loves you and cares for you,
Told you all about this path and where it leads.
Your best friend,
This person that you think of,
A person who loves you and cares for you,
A person who only wants the best for you,
Is the one who told you about this path.
And this is why you are here today.
This person who loves you and only wants the best for you recently traveled down this path.
And this person told you that at the end of this path you will meet the medicine woman.
Down the path you continue to travel,
Now thinking about the medicine woman.
The person who loves and cares for you told you that they recently went to see the medicine woman,
Because the medicine woman can heal people.
The medicine woman healed your loved one,
The person who loves you and cares for you.
The medicine woman has also healed many other people,
Allowing them to be washed clean of old pain,
Old trauma,
Fears,
Stress.
Farther and farther down the path you remember what others had said about the medicine woman.
You remember how she is described as a sweet,
Gentle elder,
A grandmother to all people and to nature.
The medicine woman was born to heal the sick and guide the lost.
She is the protector of all men,
All women,
And all living creatures.
The medicine woman honors life and cleans all that needs cleansing.
The medicine woman chooses to live deep within the forest,
Far down the path,
Deep within the forest as your steps carry you closer and closer to her.
Getting so close now.
The medicine woman chooses to live in nature,
Far from the distractions of city life,
Close to nature,
For it is in nature where her healing powers come alive.
And as you walk deeper and deeper down this path,
You think about the healing that you will receive today.
There has been so much you have been carrying from the past.
Many experiences from your past are beautiful,
Empowering,
Like colorfully painted memories.
These positive experiences of your past give you strength and confidence to move freely in your life and farther and farther down the path,
Down the path to healing,
Down the path to see the medicine woman.
You can also feel deep inside of you the experiences from your past that weigh you down.
Those experiences in your life which hurt,
Which made you afraid,
Caused you to worry.
You were so strong that most of these old negative experiences simply got you wet like the rain and then soon dried and faded away as the sun came out.
Some of these old negative experiences were tricky and they tricked you into carrying around their lies and pain.
You carry these old negative thoughts and experiences with you farther and farther down the path to the medicine woman.
And you grin to yourself for you know that soon the medicine woman will clean all these away and you will be free and liberated and weightless.
Your steps now begin to speed up down the path.
Your steps begin to speed up as you think about how good it will feel to be free,
Free and liberated.
You cannot wait to meet the medicine woman and she cannot wait to meet you.
Before long you see just ahead of you a small cottage in a clearing.
Some gray smoke gently wafts from the cottage chimney as your steps carry you closer and closer.
You can smell that something delicious is cooking.
You arrive just outside the hand carved wooden cottage door.
Looking at the cottage door now you begin to prepare yourself to knock on the door seven times.
You begin to prepare yourself to knock on the door seven times.
Seven times just like all the people who were healed before you have done.
You decide to count down as you knock on the door.
You want to make sure you knock all seven times.
Counting down with each knock you begin.
Seven the wood feels so soft on your knuckles as you knock.
Six the gentle sound of the knock fills your ears.
Five you allow yourself to become ready to heal.
You give yourself permission to release.
Four you can hear the sound of someone from the inside of the cottage getting up from a chair as it scoots out and slides on the floor.
Three you think to yourself that this is the day you get to heal.
This is the day you choose to let go.
You are ready.
Two you hear the lock of the door click.
One the door opens and you find the medicine woman smiling her famous grandmotherly smile right into you.
Her smile seems to flow right into you and fills you with warmth,
Security,
And comfort.
You know you are safe and you know she will heal you and you are ready to heal.
The medicine woman never speaks with words and only uses her gentle grandmotherly touch.
Hums,
Smiles,
Laughter,
And gestures.
The medicine woman was expecting you.
Holding your hand the medicine woman gently guides you into her cottage and she has you sit down on a soft,
Thick,
Hand-woven blanket in the center of her home.
The medicine woman hums a tune as she scoops various herbs from glass jars into a bowl.
The medicine woman grinds the herbs and pours warm water into the bowl.
A sweet invigorating smell fills the cottage as she strains the herbs from the water and pours out a golden,
Shining liquid into a cup,
Handing it to you.
The medicine woman sits down in front of you,
Facing you,
And hums a prayer.
The medicine woman then gestures for you to drink.
You hold the cup filled with the healing golden liquid to your lips.
You begin to think about all the things you wish to release,
All the things you wish to heal,
And you prepare yourself to become liberated.
You prepare to be freed as you sip down the golden healing liquid,
Feeling the golden healing liquid flow all the way down to your stomach.
The liquid fills your entire body with warmth and security.
It seems to flow through every cell in your body,
Every memory you carry,
Every feeling you carry.
It flows through every fiber of your being.
As it flows over the experiences in your life that filled you with confidence and joy,
A pure,
Bright white light shines over these parts within yourself,
Magnifying,
Amplifying,
And radiating those positive emotions.
The pure white light shows you how strong you are,
How loving you are.
The pure white light shows you how far you have come.
The pure white light praises you for how hard you have worked in your life.
The pure white light is showing you that these are the parts of yourself that are true,
The real you.
You begin to notice the pure white light continuing to radiate through every part of your body,
Deeper,
Deeper now inside.
Deeper and deeper the pure white light spreads.
It continues to shine deeper and deeper,
Spreading,
Radiating deeper and deeper down into your body.
It begins to shine into the deep,
Dark,
Hidden parts of yourself.
The deep,
Dark hiding places where all of your guilt,
All of your pain,
All of your worry,
All of your trauma,
All of your negative patterns hide.
These deep,
Dark hidden parts of yourself were so well hidden that even you forgot about them.
You have searched for all of your guilt,
All of your pain,
And all of your worries and trauma,
Your negative patterns,
All stress,
All anxiety.
You have searched for all of these things for so long and now the pure white healing light has found them for you.
The pure white healing light washes over these old negative experiences.
The darkness washed out by the pure white healing light,
Washing away all the lies of your past trauma,
Washing away the lies of all your past mistakes,
Washing away all the lies that made you believe that these negative experiences were a part of you.
The lies that made you believe you needed to carry them around.
The pure healing white light shining truth over all the lies you believed.
The hidden lies that made you believe that you weren't good enough,
That you were a bad person.
The lies that told you you deserved pain.
All these lies are being washed away.
You take a moment to watch these hidden traumas and lies wash away.
These old negative experiences hold no power as they simply wash away as the pure white healing light glides over them,
Rinsing them away.
Take a moment now and see all the old hiding places,
The hiding places filled with pain,
Shame,
Guilt,
And fear fade away.
Take a moment and watch as all of your old hidden pain washes away,
Washed out by the pure healing white light.
The white light fills the once hidden parts of yourself with pure healing,
Gentle white light.
These old hidden parts of yourself are now empty,
Cleansed of all negativity.
The pure white healing light asks your permission to replace the empty space with all the magnified,
Amplified,
Radiating positive experiences of your past.
The hidden empty spaces of yourself are now visible,
Now uncovered,
Now open,
And the pure healing white light fills these parts with joy,
Confidence,
Peace,
And healing.
The pure white healing light shows you that you can forgive yourself.
You can let go.
You let it all go.
You are free.
You feel so liberated.
The pure white light shows you that you are now wiser and kinder than you were in the past.
It shows you that we all make mistakes.
Mistakes will happen.
Just like little children accidentally bumping into one another on the playgrounds.
The pure white healing light shows us that we can forgive ourselves.
Just like forgiving a small,
Innocent child for not knowing better.
You know now that you are wiser and stronger.
You know now that you are stronger to feel the wetness of negative experiences rain down on you during the occasional storms in life.
You know that you are wiser to allow yourself to dry off from the wetness of negative experience,
Dry off from the wetness of the occasional storm in life.
You know now that you are able to move on and that all wet negative experiences dry up and fade away as the sun comes back out and life moves on.
Your life will always move on and you will move forward in life now,
Feeling so free and liberated from the past.
You will move forward in life now feeling so calm and confident,
Full of trust,
Knowing that you can handle any challenge that comes your way.
The pure white healing light has now filled up your entire being and you feel so full and so confident and you know that your healing is complete.
The medicine woman smiles at you and begins to hum her hum,
Letting you know that the healing is complete and she sends you on your way and on your way you go back down the path,
Back through the forest and back to your life,
Feeling so free and liberated,
Feeling so calm,
So confident and at peace with yourself and life.
