Scarf Meditation

Come into a comfortable seat or resting on your back. Close your eyes.  This is a time to be comfortable and to rest. Let go of anything weighing you down. You don’t have to carry so much.  Let your shoulders drop and soften.  Let your throat soften.  Let your jaw soften.  Let your eyes soften.

Imagine your favorite color floating like a scarf in front of you. Stay with the scarf, watching it move.  Let the scarf move with a wind that has come in to pick it up and drop it down, never falling, but just floating easily. You can stay there with the scarf floating easily.  Let whatever thoughts or feelings that have been weighing on you now become streams of light. Watch every thought become a stream of light. Imagine these streams of light moving from your head towards your heart center and circling until every singular thought or feeling has gathered there in your chest, circling. Imagine the circle becoming a ball of swirling light. Remember the favorite color scarf floating in front of you?  It is still floating in front of you.  It’s right outside of your heart center.  The scarf is right outside of your chest and that swirling ball of light is now moving out and over to the scarf. Feel yourself become weightless as the ball of light moves over to be with the scarf.  The thoughts and feelings that have been burdensome are now with the scarf.  Everything is held for you.  Imagine the scarf enveloping the ball and both slowly floating higher and higher up into the sky until you can’t see either any longer.

Let yourself rest easy for a little while longer. Breathe deep into your belly. Feel it rise and notice it fall as you breathe out easily. Stay with your breath. The only thing to do for now is breathe.

Guided voice with a recording of Steve Anderson playing Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy

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