Your place

Your Own Special Place

While it is important to find a quiet meditation space in your home, it is also good to have a place within yourself in which you feel perfectly safe and comfortable. Somewhere you can go to when you want to get away from the drama of everyday life. A peaceful retreat. An inner space where you can reveal your true self without any fears. A place where you can enjoy simply being yourself.

Where is that place? How can you find it? Let's go there, now. Please allow me to guide you, as you reach within your mind to begin the journey.

Visualise a doorway in front of you. The door is slightly open. Press the palm of your right hand gently against the hard surface of the door and it opens inwards. You are now standing at the beginning of a short corridor. At the other end is a flight of seven steps leading upwards. Walk to the base of the steps and then place your right foot on the first step, your left foot on the second step and so on until you arrive with your right foot on the seventh and top step. Bring up your other foot so that you are now standing squarely in front of a second doorway. This door is closed. You try the handle but it is locked. Around your neck is a soft silken cord with a small silk pouch on the end, suspended over your heart. Reach into the pouch and take out a silver key. You will find that it fits perfectly in the door lock. Turn the key anti clockwise, pull the handle down and the door opens. Return the key to the silk pouch.

You step into a circular room and close the door behind you. As you look around the room, over to your left you see french windows leading out into a beautiful garden. At the far end of the room is a full length mirror. To the right of that is a picture window looking out over a clifftop. To the right again and to your immediate right is a solid, panelled wooden door which is closed. In the middle of the room is a large, comfy looking armchair. Above it, in the centre of the ceiling is a circular skylight.

You may furnish the rest of the room as you wish. Take a few minutes to personalise it in whatever way is most pleasing to you. Perhaps you would like a particular colour scheme. Just picture it in your mind and there it will be without any tedious painting and decorating. You might care to add your favourite artwork or photographs of loved ones. This is your personal room, your special place. It belongs to you alone.

Approximately 3 minutes Silence

After a few moments, you hear a sliding sound from the ceiling above. You look up to observe that a panel in the skylight has opened. A beam of golden light is reaching down towards you. It feels as if a panel has opened in the crown of your head, enabling the light to pour directly into you. You can feel the warmth sliding down the inside of your skull, behind your eyes and face, down through your throat and into your chest. The wonderful warm sensation spreads throughout your body, along your arms to your fingertips and all the way down to the soles of your feet and the tips of your toes. Your whole body is filled with golden light which re-energises and revitalises you. As you catch your reflection in the full length mirror, your body appears to be glowing from within. You are a picture of perfect health, radiating an aura of vitality. Enjoy this well being. You deserve to feel good.

Approximately 10 minutes silence

When you return to the everyday world, lock the door to your special room and keep the key in the silk pouch suspended over your heart. You can come here as often as you like. Spend as much time as you want in this place or use it as a starting point for journeys beyond.

You can find another guided visualisation on the Visualise page, strangely enough.

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