Springtime Meditation for Renewal

for those who

cannot bear to sleep

because the starlight

is too beautiful

and closing eyes means

the misery of farewell

to the infinite heavens,

these words hold power

and will gently guide you

to a state of renewal.

You may begin to breathe more quietly now, as a cooling mist falls delicately across your skin, the droplets settling themselves in tiny lakes which gather in the curves of your collarbones.

You slowly become more conscious of the state of your physical being.

Beginning in the very tips of your toes and fingers, a glowing warmth puddles like honey, and you feel its golden sensation filling your body from the bottom up.

You are not weighed down by the glowing presence, rather, you become impossibly light, as the warmth purifies and releases any tension that it meets as it flows steadily towards your heart.

The lightness cleanses your limbs, filling your lower body up to your chest.

Take this moment to consider what you hold in your core; what do you allow to be on your mind every day, and what do you need to release? What resides in the center of your being? Does it deserve to be there, making a home in your soul?

The glow continues now, subtle and loving as it crosses the threshold of your heart, filling your core with the warmth of compassion and clarity as it purifies and releases what does not belong.

Finally, your entire body rests filled with glowing, beautiful, impossible lightness.

Your mind remains untouched as, for a moment, stillness encompasses the world.

Breathe in....
Breathe out....
Pause.
Breathe in....
Breathe out....
Pause.

Honey-like warmth pours upwards, opposing gravity as it drips into your mind, filling your consciousness with sunshine.

You are glowing now.

You have the ability to choose awareness and positivity, to escape despair in each moment. You are light.

You must remain conscious of your power at all times.

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