Just Imagine

Sometimes our days are very hectic. We’re running here and there, trying to cross off each and every job that needs to be completed off the list we compile each morning. Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours or minutes in the day to complete all of our projects. Have you taken time for yourself today? Do you feel the need to relax, release some stress, calm your frantic mind? There isn’t any time to do this? Well, take fifteen minutes from your whirlwind schedule and let’s relax. Find a comfortable seat, or perhaps it’s once you slide into your car before you head off for the next chore on your list. Don’t put the key in the ignition, just lean your head back and breathe deep. I’m going to give you an exercise to help you along with your day.
Exercise #1
Take a minute or two, sit back and relax. Focus on your breathing. Inhale deep through your nose, then let it out slowly through your mouth. On the third deep breath, let your eyes drift shut. Imagine, just imagine that you are going someplace you’ve always wanted to go, or perhaps returning to that place you fell in love with at one point in your life. Picture this place in your mind’s eye. What do you smell? Do you remember the wonderful aromas that you encountered while you were there? Look around. What do you see? What do you hear? Are you able to feel the sand, the grass, the trees, the air upon your face? What emotion comes to you while you’re in your special place? Is there someone special there with you? Can you see them? Hear them? Feel them? Smell them? This is your special place. A place where you are safe and secure. A place where you can come to relax, to find yourself, to rejoin your inner you. You can sit, stand or wander around for as long as you like. If you use this exercise every day for ten or fifteen minutes, it’s a great stress reliever.
Exercise #2 is one to use if you are feeling a bit out of sorts, a little lost or troubled.
Now, imagine you are walking along a wooded path, going deep into a forest. You are secure and comfortable in these woods. Visualize or imagine a bowl that you are carrying in your hands. You’ve been along this path many times before, but this time you will meet three others, people or creatures, beings, possibly out of fairy tales, history, mythology, whoever or whatever you’ve always wanted to meet. You will meet each of these three, one at a time. When each one places something into your bowl, they will tell you why they have given it to you. You will also ask each one, “Why have you come?”
Describe in detail the bowl that you carry. What is it made of?
Describe the first being or creature. Why did it come? What does it give you? Why did it give you what it did?
Continue walking and describing your journey through the woods.
Describe the second being or creature. Why did it come? What does it put in your bowl? For what reason.
And the third? Why is it there? What does it give you and why?
After you have received all of your gifts, you will wander to a fallen tree and sit. As you gaze at your gifts, these symbols and what you have been told by the giver, do these have any meaning for you regarding something that has or is happening in your life right now? Describe how these gifts can be applied to your life in the present.
Take a deep breath in and slowly release it. Another and another, opening your eyes on the third exhale. How will you apply this new knowledge to your life’s journey.

This exercise may be one that you want to jot down what or who you meet and the gift they’ve given you along with the reason and meaning. It will add a little food for thought when you have a few spare minutes to meditate on what you sensed.
Sue Thornton
Owner, Blue Heron Transitions

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