Secret Garden Meditation

 

 

 

Secret Garden ...A Guided Meditation  Designed to be read to yourself and to help in expansion of the self...Use your imagination to visualise a secret sanctuary where you can heal yourself.

 

In a quiet place, sit where you will be comfortable and not disturbed. If you can, have your feet flat on the floor. Arrange yourself so that your limbs are comfortable, legs and arms soft, hands soft, ankles soft. Visualise cords extending from the bottom of your feet down gently through the earth, down to the centre of the earth. Imagine a slight feeling as the cords make contact with the heart of the earth as you consciously ground yourself and are now supported by the earth. Where you are sitting, the chair, sofa or ground is supporting you fully,  you lean into that place as it takes your weight. You are resting and comfortable. Take some deep breaths and then allow your breathing to come to its own pattern.

 

Ask for a white ray of light to surround you and light your way. Intend that you will not connect with anything that is not for your higher good on this journey. If any worries or troubles pop into your head, visualise that they are placed, like stones in a basket, covered with a healing cloth and protected. Place this basket out the way for now, you will come back to it later.

 

Continue breathing in a comfortable pattern and adjust any part of you that needs adjusting. Draw your attention to the breath as it flows into and out of your body. If thoughts bubble up that distract you, place them in a bubble and blow them away, if they are important they will come back to you after the meditation.

 

Be aware of your body's physical boundaries, and then of the energy field that extends from you, this may take practice. Intend that  these boundaries and energies are all in place, intact and healthy. Hold the intention that you are filling this energyfield with love and light and allow yourself to just float in this space.

 

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After a while, a time defined by yourself, allow yourself to feel the touch of soft grass under your feet. Allow yourself to feel a warm breeze against your skin. Allow yourself to smell meadow grasses, or wet cut grass or any flower or tree that tells you that you are in a garden.

 

Create the space that evokes a healing sanctuary for you: a garden with high meadow grasses that you can walk through;  an mystical garden with wise and ancient trees; a garden that has different shrubs and herbs, each containing leaves fruits, and flowers that are medicinal in nature; A garden of eden with exotic coloured flowers and a light tropical mist that greets and refreshes you. You can walk freely here, there is nothing that will limit you, it is your creation. Sunlit or shaded, open to the world, or closed off and intimate. You may enjoy a sheltered walled garden where ivy climbs along walls aged with time. The garden may be filled with the colourful orbs of roses, bursting with reds, magentas, oranges and purples. You may be seated on a wooden bench or treading softly on a sun warmed cobbled path through flowers. You may hear water playing in a brook that runs through your garden or, water creating music as it falls from a frountain. You may clear a clean uncluttered space and place in it only a Japanese feature, a Buddha statue, or some soft  round stones. Whatever will make you feel at peace, it is your hearts desire. Take your time and play with your imagination.

 

When you are happy with your garden walk through it, embracing the love it is filled with. Breath in the scents, acknowledge the sounds of  birdsongs, or  the hum of summer insects or listen to the space within the silence. Touch the leaves, feel the grass, look up at the sky and wander through the place you have created. When you are ready, take a seat, on a garden chair, on a wooden bench, or on the soft grass by a babbling brook, anywhere you choose will be the right place. You are still as you relax into this beautiful creation. You breath in the beauty that you have created. You breath in the peace and grace of this place.

 

This place is filled with the serenity and love that you need at this moment. Allow the energy of serenity and love to merge with your own energy. This vibrant, warm, energy flows to you as your own energy yields to it. It washes through you in warm waves that nourishes you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Allow yourself to bathe in this love and light healing energy. Take as much time as you need for this. Just allow the healing to occur. Allow grace, allow peace, allow joy, allow abundance to flow toward you.

 

See within you that - all that is not healthy and happy, leaving you now. It gently lifts out of you and is taken away. You feel your body lighter, full of ease, you are shining from within as healing is touching each cell of your body. Each cell is lit up and shining like a diamond. You are lighter as each thought and emotion is lit up and held by a loving embrace until it is healed. Your spirit is filling with grace as you recognise beauty and love in all things, in all creations. Finally you realise that you are holding this beautiful space within as temple for your divinity. You are divine. Allow this recognition to wash through you. Allow this recognition to expand you. Sit in this space you have created, it has empowered you, and you are from the devine, you are divine.

 

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When you are ready, ease yourself up from the place in your that you chose to sit. Hold your hands together and bow your head in thanks.  Gratitude and joy for your healing ensures that healing will continue as you ask for it.

 

Come to the place where you were when you began to create your garden. Look at your creation and be pleased. Give thanks for your garden and intend that you may return to it when you wish to experience empowerment, healing and grace.

 

Before you leave this place, your glance falls on the basket containing your worries.  You go to the basket and gently pull back the cloth. You are surprised to see each worry stone has transformed into a butterfly. The butterflies, with wings of purple, violet, blue and green, raise up and out of the basket, they scatter and fly up into the sky.  You are pleased as you trust your worries are being transformed.

                    

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When ready, place your focus back to your feet and where they touch the ground. Coming back to this physical reality, adjust your breathing to deeper in breaths, as it may have become quite shallow. Feel the ground under your feet. Give thanks and acknowledgement to the earth for supporting and connecting with you.

 

Gently come back fully and stretch. Intend that the healing energy stays with you as you go through your day. Allow peace to come to you when you are in need of it.

 

You have given yourself the gift of love.

 Michaela McGrath