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- In order to let ourselves relax, it is useful to start from a
- place of peace, a center, a point of stability, so the first step,
- will be to take ourselves to that place.
-
- Relax and sit back.. Close your eyes, and let your mind start to
- drift.. Breathe slowly, and deeply, breath from your diaphragm,
- from your center.. And as you breathe, sit straight, but remain
- comfortable.. As you straigten, so does your spine, and like a
- pole, it connects you between the ground below and the airy sky
- above.. Feel the energy tingle at both ends of the pole that is
- your spine, and let the energy flow from the earth, up your spine,
- and out the top of your head, dispersing back into the glorious
- starfilled universe above.. As this energy flows, let it carry
- with it all the negative emotions, pain, frustrations, bothers,
- and tensions that you have built up.. Let it carry those tensions
- up through you, and out of you, and let new energy, and a peaceful
- state of relaxation fade in slowly..
-
- Now, let yourself relax, and if you want, let yourself sink
- backwards until you are lying flat on the ground.. Let your mind
- drift, and let any thoughts that surface just surface and float
- away, like bubbles on a calm day. You can and will remember them
- later if you want, but for now, just let them go, and let yourself
- float..Breathe deeper, and slow your breathing down with every
- breath.. And with every breath, relax your body and your mind even
- further, and the more relaxed you get, let your breath slow even
- more.. (repeat this a few times, then pause)
-
- Now as you relax, feel yourself enveloped in a cool, comforting
- red mist.. It's neither hot nor cold, and you can just barely
- feel it against your skin.. Let it swirl around you, and
- relax..Feel yourself lying on a cloud, solid enough to support
- you, but very very cushioned, very very comfortable..Every part of
- your body is supported by this cloud, your feet.. your legs.. your
- arms.. your back.. your neck.. your head.. all cushioned, all
- supported, all very very comfortable.. Now the cloud slowly starts
- to sink through the red mist, carrying you along with it.. very
- very slowly, and very very comfortably you are carried deeper and
- deeper into relaxation.. The mist around you slowly begins to
- change from the deep lustrous red, to the beautiful orange of a
- fall sunset.. slowly, slowly.. The orange lightens, and the mist
- changes color to a soothing lemon yellow.. and as the color
- lightens, so does your body, you float on the cloud that carries
- you barely touching it.. and slowly, the yellow darkens to the
- verdant hue of a summer lawn, a green so beautiful, you can almost
- hear the wind blowing through grass stalks.. and slowly, the green
- deepens to the blue of a summer sky, beautiful and brilliant, an
- azure heaven surrounding you, and you still float downward on the
- cloud.. resting lightly, relaxed and comfortable.. Now the blue
- darkens and deepens to the midnight purple blue of the moonless
- night, dark and peaceful, quiet.. and you feel the cloud you have
- been riding touch down gently..
-
- And the mist fades away, and you are lying on your back, on a
- patch of grass. The wind blows lightly over you, a very full moon
- pours down light onto the field, and you can hear ever so faintly,
- the crickets and other night insects chirping in the distance..
-
- Wherever you are now, there will be something that draws you
- towards it..it might be a path, it might be a place, it might be
- another person in the field with you.. There can be anything here
- that you desire, because this is your sacred space, your heart of
- dreams.. In this place, anything can change, but it can only
- change as you let it.. Since you have built this place, you have
- furnished it, you have populated it.. It is a place for you to go
- to explore yourself, and your connections to the world around
- you.. Go now, and explore this area for a time, taking note of
- what interests you, speaking to whomever you encounter and wish
- to.. (LONG pause)
-
- Very slowly, you come to realize that it is time for you to bid
- farewell for now to this place. Say farewell to whatever
- creatures you have conversed with.. bid farewell for now to any
- things that you wanted to look at, but have not yet had time to
- examine.. They shall be here if you ever choose to return.. Know
- that you can return here if you wish to, just by willing it, and
- bid this place farewell.. Let yourself lie down again in any
- small clearing in the place..
-
- Feel the mist, comfortable and relaxing, close in over you
- again, dark as the midnight moonless sky, and feel the comfortable
- cloud form again under your feet.. your legs.. your arms.. your
- back.. your neck.. your head.. feel it support you, and begin to
- rise, very very slowly, very very comfortably.. breathe deeply,
- and relax, and rise upwards, and let the dark sky of midnight fade
- to the azure blue of noon.. slowly, slowly, rising.. the blue
- deepens to the verdant green of a summer lawn, and the cloud keeps
- rising slowly.. slowly the green lightens and is replaced by the
- soothing lemon yellow.. and slowly, slowly, you keep rising..and
- the yellow deepens to the beautiful orange of the summer sunset,
- and you rise again slowly, slowly, until the orange fades, and is
- replaced by the deep soothing red..
-
- Let your mind still float, and your body remain relaxed, but
- very very slowly start to ease back into the feeling of the floor
- under your back, the sense of people around you in the room..(long
- pause to let everyone recenter)
-
- okay. (said, makes sure everyone breaks the trance if they are
- still in one).
-