Free Guided Meditation Technique
Here’s a free guided meditation technique that you can use pretty much anywhere where you can grab 10 minutes to shut yourself away from everything and re-charge your batteries.
Imagine yourself strolling along a very straight flat path. It’s a dull, cloudy, drizzly sort of day, the path is leading between two high banks, there is damp grass beneath your feet, and you can see the cloudy sky above. Somehow you feel heavy, you are aware of a heavy back-pack on your shoulders, making your steps heavy and slow.
Your back is bent a little to support the weight and you seem to be looking at the ground in front of you as you trudge along the path, feeling damp and cold and weighed down.
You glance up and see the entrance to an old railway tunnel: this must be a disused railway line. As you look, you can see a point of light at the other end so it cannot be too long. You decide to continue on your walk; at least you will be out of the drizzle in there. As you approach the entrance, the tunnel seems very dark, but that small circle of light at the far end is reassuring so you keep moving forward …
At first it seems very dark, you can hardly see at all, but the floor feels even and it is easy to walk along. As you do so, all those old doubts about yourself begin to surface in your mind; you are aware of your own failings and those things you wish you hadn’t done, and indeed the things you wish you had done in the past . . . Just let them come gently to the surface of your mind.
The back-pack seems to be getting a little lighter as these different doubts and regrets unpack from your inner mind, gently and easily. You keep walking, and notice a pool of light on the floor ahead . . . there must be an air shaft there.
As you go through the pool of light you suddenly remember a happy time, when someone really enjoyed your company, a time when you felt really good about being you. As you move out of the light into the darkness again you feel lighter still, the back-pack is emptying and you are standing a little straighter now, but the doubts are rising to the surface, the regrets are floating up into your mind again.
The circle of light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger now, but here is another air shaft, with that shaft of light penetrating the gloom of the tunnel. Again, as you pass through that light, another good memory of being appreciated for who you are, being praised for something, or complimented, comes to the forefront of your mind.
Now you are back in the gloom, but it doesn’t seem as intense as before. It is getting lighter and warmer step by step now, and more and more good memories of those who have loved you and events that pleased you come into your mind …
As you get nearer to the end of the tunnel you notice that the sun must be shining because it all looks very bright out there, and you find that you feel so much lighter, as if you have lost that back-pack altogether now, and a pleasant warmth is beginning to replace any traces of damp and cold that you felt before.
Eventually you step out into the bright summer sunshine, and smell the aroma of freshly cut grass, and walk out with a light tread into the warmth of a bright summer’s day, feeling lighter and valuing yourself and the world around you much more. You realize you have still so many opportunities and possibilities awaiting you and new chances to do things that make you feel good about yourself, and at ease with others.
Your contribution is important, and you are a valuable and lovable human being. Walk out of that tunnel into a brighter, lighter world.
Use this free guided meditation technique whenever you feel stressed or drained, and in need of a quick pick-me-up. All you need is ten minutes relaxation time and you’re back on your feet.