Welcome to your sacred practice.
In the meditative journey ahead,
You'll be offered guidance that will be grounding and if you choose,
Expanding.
As we move into a space of intuition,
Calm,
And bliss.
And settling into the experience,
You're invited to just begin by noticing the gravity,
That gentle embrace,
The pull,
The weight,
Anchoring you to the earth.
Perhaps,
Practically speaking,
You notice how it feels to be seated or reclined.
And that weight,
The solid support,
Even the texture of how you are connected to that which holds you up at this time.
And bringing your awareness here in whatever way you may be able to deepen this connection.
Just simply by noticing or maybe imagining how you are cradled,
Soothed,
And comforted.
And the suggestion is to consider it as though it is an embrace,
The earth,
Nature,
Holding you close,
As one does when you hold someone beloved in a hug.
Take a few moments and breathe a little easier,
Deeper,
As if dropping down into your heart.
Down into the pelvic bowl,
Expanding.
And allowing this deepening of awareness of your connection,
Of that gravitational pull,
In whatever way you would like to allow it or imagine it as an embrace from the earth and from nature,
From life.
And oftentimes,
When breathing easier,
With more intention and allowing oneself to be held by the earth in that embrace of gravity,
It seems to become easier to just connect with the felt sense of the heart space.
It may be imagined or noticed as an awareness,
Centeredness.
And already,
This is opening and expanding the senses of the inner planes,
The inner realms to greater experience.
And why greater?
Well,
In the physical world,
In the external world,
While there is beauty and a magic and abundance in the external world,
As it is created and complete,
There's a sense of limitation.
And so we move into that inner landscape where anything can happen.
Indeed,
This is the inner landscape where the becoming into the external world is conceived.
And so taking this journey within and sinking into it just a bit more,
Whatever way you would like to experience a sense of journeying,
Imagining,
Maybe even a playful narration.
As I describe now,
A scene that may come alive in the way that is specific to you and whether you depart into your own journey,
All is exactly in that higher perspective that can be sensed from within.
And imagining or recalling one of those days when you are spending time next to a natural body of water.
A person who is fortunate spends several days of a life witnessing or even interacting with a natural body of water.
And it may beg the question,
How is any body of water not natural?
And so in this journey,
Anything is possible.
And what is certain is that it is only that which is good,
Positive,
And true.
And as the intention has been released,
That it will bring the deeper sense of intuition,
Calm,
And bliss.
And now sitting beside this natural body of water.
And beginning now with those senses that come alive and awake when in nature on that just right day.
The temperature so lovely,
The light inspiring just by being present in the light and in that right attenuation of warmth and cool.
And of course that scent,
That aroma.
Nature gives all of the aromas of the pleasing manner.
The water seems to have a certain kind of release of its expression of aroma and the grass,
The trees,
The flowers,
The breeze.
As if dancing with you in your senses and offering a lulling and inspiration all at once.
And there's that moisture that carries on the breeze and is also given by the natural body of water.
For water is so alive,
Flowing,
Containing,
Expressing,
Vitalizing.
And so as this is being embraced,
The life of the water,
The water itself is alive and it also supports life.
And deepening the connection and resonance with water on the air and in the pool of the natural body.
And as we do call collections of water,
Bodies of water,
It can be inferred that this body of water is amplifying your own intuition,
The body,
This subtle body of your intuition.
Supporting life,
Being alive in and of itself,
Expression and movement,
Containment,
Flow.
Take a moment or two here,
Allowing the water,
The body of water and even the water as it flows in the breeze and expresses in effervescence.
Allowing it to attune and awaken you to the body of your own intuition and its expressions and effervescence.
And another nuance of water presents.
And whatever kind of activity water may be expressing,
Whether it is ocean waves,
A calm placid lake,
A babbling brook,
A roaring river.
Or when it dances with air as mist,
Rain or cloud.
There is always a layer of calm,
Presence,
Abiding awareness.
And water is teaching now,
This is true of your intuition.
And another dynamic of water presents that even in the calm,
There is always a layer of bliss.
Bliss in presence and expression.
Find that now in water and in your own intuition.
And now it is time to return.
Nowadays,
Such as this,
It holds the magic of being both eternal,
That it can be revisited upon at any time.
And yet,
Just like the days of nature,
You are also released to experience something more different.
Perhaps this is the moment where you seal this with appreciation for all that was received,
Learned.
And in your appreciation,
There is a sense of giving permission for it to continue in the same way that a day such as this is eternal.
And so imagining,
Allowing,
How one would stand up,
Soaking up the last few moments of this day,
Sending a prayer or a word of gratitude to the body of water and everything that has wrapped around in this experience,
Carrying it with you in your heart,
And turning and making the path back,
And with a swift and easy shift of awareness,
Back in the soothing,
Calming embrace of the gravitational pull of your seat in your time-space,
As you connect with the external world again,
Bringing the intuition,
The calm,
The bliss,
And with a full,
Clarifying breath,
Dropping in that inhale to find yourself back in your time-space and on the long and full release,
Welcome back,
And be blessed.
