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Lake
Meditation
©1996 Frank Sant'Agata
Guided
Visualization
These
meditations are best experienced by recording them on tape or
reading to a group
in a slow peaceful voice with pauses. It may be also helpful
to include soft, meditative
instrumental music in the background.
Picture a beautiful, tranquil
lake or pond. The water is pure and crystal clear. It is a perfect
temperature. Lie back on the water and find yourself so light
and buoyant that you float effortlessly and safely on its surface.
Your mind is very quiet and peaceful. Thoughts may attempt to
capture your attention now and then, but they don't need to linger;
simply allow them to drift away and then bring your awareness
back to floating on the calm surface of the water. . . floating
comfortably and effortlessly with a secure feeling that no harm
will come to you. You are nested in the clean, clear water and
feel as though you are a part of it. The sky above is clear and
bright and blue. You are alone in peaceful solitude in this quiet
still pool of crystal aquamarine. The beauty is breathtaking.
Lie there for a moment and feel the peace. Experience the tranquility.
Now begin to feel the water permeating your being. Like a sponge,
you are absorbing the water and you feel a merging with it. You
know this is a safe feeling as you begin to dissolve into the
water. Slowly, your earthly being dissolves into the liquid and
you become more and more a part of it, more and more liquid,
until you disappear from sight. The warmth of the sun is soothing
and very comfortable and you feel light--very light as though
you are rising. The sun is evaporating the water that contains
your being. You are turning into a vaporous existence as you
rise high above the earth. The feeling is warm and safe and secure
as you realize you are part of a beautiful cloud hovering in
brilliant blue sky. Weightless. Floating on air.
Look directly below, you and see the place you call home. You
are ready to return to that place. You become a gentle rain that
falls in slow motion. It feels as though it will take hours to
reach the ground as you descend gracefully. Your being consists
of millions of tiny raindrops and you are mixed together with
millions of other raindrops. Each tiny raindrop is the result
of a loving thought from every person who ever lived in the world,
and these loving thoughts are joining with and becoming a part
of you. You are part of an infinite array of droplets that are
indistinguishable from one another. . . all the same; all as
much a part of you as you are a part of all the others.
Eventually a few of the drops touch the ground and splash into
even smaller drops like a fine mist as they transform into the
remanifestation of your earthly being. As you begin to gather
back together, you behold how purified your being has become
in the process. All error has been washed away and only good
and pure droplets reunite with your being. If there were any
imperfect parts to your existence, any thoughts that were not
completely loving, any feelings of insecurity, doubt, guilt or
fear that lingered on, they are now washing away, flowing downstream;
far away from you, never to return. Each one being replaced by
loving thoughts in the form of rain droplets that surround and
merge with you. You are becoming whole and healed as you take
back your material form. You feel rejuvenated and refreshed;
alert, filled with joy. . . and washed clean of any imperfection.
As you reenter the room you feel the presence of love all about
you; your entire being filled with love; made of love; an expression
of perfect love. . . and nothing more.
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