Grounding and Centering Meditation

Grounding and Centering Meditation

Before you begin: Visualize yourself surrounded by white light. Tell yourself and know that no one that wishes you harm can penetrate that light.

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Close your eyes and take a few relaxed breathes. Try to keep still as you go through the meditation. Take in a deep breath and let it out slowly. Keep deep breathing with long, slow exhales. Feel it, hear it, and observe how this affects your body. As you breathe, mentally tell your body that it can relax.  Keep your mind only on your breathing. Focus on the sound, the feeling of your lungs expanding and shrinking, and simply breathe. When your body has relaxed move into the following visualization.

 Visualize yourself standing in a field. Take in a few deep breathes and imagine your body filled with a colorful smoke. As you take a deep breath in see the smoke drifting into the center of your torso, right above your belly button. Every time you breathe in imagine the smoke condensing more and more into a ball. As the ball becomes solid see it glow and sparkle with energy.  Once it is glowing brightly and completely solid move on.

    In your mind visualize that ball of energy breaking down into streams of light moving down. The streams of light move down your torso, past your hips, and down your thighs. Feel the light moving over your knees along your shins and over your feet.  Imagine the light pooling right into the bottoms of your feet. Take a deep, relaxed breathe and visualize that light moving into the earth beneath your feet like roots, but it never loses contact with your feet. The light within your feet moves upward to branch through your entire body. The end image will appear as a tree of light under you and within you.

  When you are ready to come out of this state imagine the branches out light within you slowly retracting into the soles of your feet. When all of the branches have been retracted visualize the light moving from your feet deeper into the earth. Let it detach from you and move into the world. Take a few relaxed breathes and open your eyes.