Beach and Sea Visualization Exercise

Beach and Sea Visualization Exercise

This exercise is excellent for calming the mind, and also focuses your attention and stimulates your creative energies. As an aid to this exercise, try vaporizing a combination of essential oils in a diffuser; 2 drops each of lemon, juniper and cardamom is very uplifting. These aromas have a positive effect on mood and help to improve concentration.

Sit comfortably in an armchair, resting your hands on your lap, and your head on a cushion, dim the lights and relax.

Imagine that you are walking on a long stretch of white sandy beach, which you can see curving away towards the distant horizon. The temperature is warm and there is a gentle sea-breeze. The sun is shining brightly and you feel very comfortable. You walk slowly, and first you become aware of the sand through your toes. It is warm and silky soft to the touch; and every step you take is like a caress. Tiny grains glisten on your skin as you walk along.

You turn to look at the sea. It is quite calm, and a deep aquamarine blue, shining with lighter flecks of sunlight. You gaze for a few moments at the stunning blue colour, feeling it bathe your eyes. Then you walk down to the water, smelling the tang of salt, hearing the cry of seabirds and the sound of the waves. Pause foe a few moments and let the scene build in your imagination, let your senses create the impressions.

Now imagine that you are going into the water, tasting the salt on your tongue and feeling the tingling, rejuvenating effect of the sea, swimming without effort, still aware of the amazing aquamarine blue colour all around you. Feel how different it is to be in it as well as seeing it. Feel yourself supported by the water, the sun still shining brightly all around you.

You come back to the shore, and as you leave the water, feel how refreshed and revitalized you are. Take a few slow, deep breaths, flex your toes and fingers and let your awareness come back to the room.

Meditation to invite Fun into your Life

Meditation to invite fun into your life

- Sit comfortably, making sure the flow of energies up and down your spine is unimpeded. Settle into your breathing, becoming intimately aware of every breath. Surrender into the breath. At the same time as you are conscious of your breathing, become aware of the rise and fall of your stomach. After a while, add to this an awareness of your heartbeat. Feel these three activities taking place within the framework of your body. Now let go into the magnetic pull of earth’s gravity. Feel as though you are letting go into the arms of the Divine Mother, relinquish all control and sense the support you are given, the way you are held and how you automatically let go any tension in your body. It is a wonderful feeling.
- Ask your Higher Self to give you a container for the fun. Imagine slowly and gradually, a vast 3-dimensional web where the lines are constructed of threads of light, slowly descending to surround your body and aura, approximately an arms length from your body. Feel yourself in it.
- Starting at the base, take two or three breaths into each chakra to open them. (Don’t labour this stage. It goes quickly and easily and if it is too difficult to work with all the chakras just focus on your heart centre. It will work just as well.) When you have completed opening each vortex, imaginatively feel you have seven openings in your body. Continue breathing consciously and gently, and as you exhale bring through each opening beautiful, subtle rose-pink light. Let this spread into the web of light in and around you. Fill this web with more and more rose-pink light.
- With your inner eye, now breathe a gentle orange light through the chakra openings to add to the rose-pink light. Watch the two colours mix and gradually transform into a beautiful peach colour within the light web. After a while, long enough for you to sense you have really bathed in this peach colour, breathe brilliant white light through the chakra vortexes and again, rest in this, held within the web. Feel your sense of lightness and fun in the cells of your physical and emotional body. Your Higher Self now gives you a wand. Make this truly a delight; the end could be a twinkling star, a sparkler, a light-filled crystal, a rainbow. This is for you to wave over any person, task, challenge or situation to transform it with lightness and fun. Be grateful as you feel your new energy.
- Well done. Take your time and breathe yourself back into your body, being very present within your physicality; bones, blood, skin, and flesh. Only when you are fully present in your body, get on with your day, with fun and lightness, of course.