Close your eyes
Listen to my voice
Use it as a rope
to lead you out of the labyrinth
you are about to enter
and now let go-
free fall
Straighten your back
Follow your breath
Make it long and slow
With equal attention
And equal time
Given to your Inhalations
And Exhalations
From the center of your foot
grows a giant taproot
and it plunges down
through the carpet
through the foundation
into the dirt
and it grows
deep.
It dives down
ten feet
twenty feet
and it starts to branch off
it creates a network
of tributaries
larger veins
branch off
smaller and smaller
until the roots
are capilaries-
little hairs-
from the center of your foot
grows a huge network
of roots.
Back to the breath
and as you inhale
the smallest hair roots
start to bring up energy
like soaking up water
from the Earth.
With every inhalation
you soak up more and more
energy until your roots
are saturated
and the energy
starts to come
into your feet.
Your body is now
a hollow vessel
and it is being filled
with fresh clean
Earth energy
it fills up your feet,
up your calves, the backs
of your knees,
up into your hips
your low back
fills up to your navel
and comes sloshing
into your heart area
with every inhalation
feel it come higher
up to your throat
down your arms
into your fingers
up into your head.
Now you are full of
the energy of the Earth.
As you inhale,
now,
the energy gets warm
with every inhalation
getting warmer
every inhalation
a few more degrees
heating the inside of your body
healing any place
that hurts,
maybe your shoulders
or your heart
warm like mother's milk
it heals you from the inside out
and your skin is now radiant.
Your liquid center
is getting warmer
and warmer still
it is hot now
approaching its boiling point
and it is getting
a little uncomfortable.
You start to sweat,
beads forming on your forehead
and hotter and hotter
it gets
until it's really
unbearable now.
And now,
with your exhalations, you start to cool down
degree by degree.
Feel the relief-
heat draining-
and slowly
you
are
back
to a normal temperature,
and your liquid core
begins to drain out
back into the Earth,
returning
by way of your roots
energy seeping back
into the dirt
until you are completely
utterly
empty.
The roots begin to retract
now
cappilaries shrink
into veins
into arteries
into the giant taproot
which comes back into your feet
and you are left
just as you were.
Take a minute to breathe
and feel
empty.
This is
your fresh start.
Reviews: (feel free to add your own!)
Who wrote this? Just reading this made me relaxed. --GoNZo
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