Mental Forest Meditation

Begin to breathe with intention.

Pause at the end of your exhales, observing the stillness there.

Turn Inward

Turn your attention inward.

What does the inside of your mind feel like?

Be mindful of the speed of your thoughts, do you allow them to move too quickly?

Are your habitual thoughts productive and meaningful?

Are you aware of your emotional state at all times, regulating its role in your life?

Spend a moment breathing deeply and slowly, and meditating on the state of your internal self.

Visualize

Now that you are aware of your internal being, you may allow your mind to clear.

Awareness is all that you need to ask of yourself right now.

Allow your mind to melt into these words.

Breathe in...breathe out...pause.

You are standing in the center of a vast forest.

The air is sweet and cool, smelling faintly of wood smoke, evergreens, and roses.

From the gently swaying trees around you, birds sing joyfully out into the daylight.

Their voices mingle with the rustling branches which move in the warm breeze.

The winds have flown from across the world to brush against these very fronds.

What a blessing to hear the movement of the air and to feel its softness upon your skin.

sunlight shining through the leaves of an oak tree

Your body is shed in rays of golden light from the mid afternoon sun.

Breathe in, observe the sensation of the air as it enters your body.

Breathe out, notice the change in sensation as it exits your body.

Growth surrounds you, in oak trees and pines, in mosses and ferns.

The land extends way from you, the dark soil beneath your bare feet becoming stones, then river, then soil again.

From the center of your chest, a perfect, pure light begins to glow, flowing in a gradual rhythm through your entire body before shining out of the top of your head and fingertips and into the forest around you.

The leaves nearest are illuminated by your light.

You are an echo of the sun, shedding the world with your grace.

It can be this way forever, inside of your soul.

You have complete control over your mental habitat.

Soothe yourself with knowledge of the forest, rising to meet the sky far above you.

The limbs of evergreens bow in the breeze.

Your soul is peaceful.

Your mind is clear and open.

white rose glowing in the sunlight, tree vine

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