meditation exercise II

Find a very comfortable and peaceful sunny spot, or a good bright lamp. Close your eyes and face the light as directly as you can. Keep your eyes closed for this entire vision journey. Let the light on your closed eyes be so bright that it is hard to see darkness---

Let the light remind you of the first journey at the edge of the universe. So peaceful, like the golden bird gliding through space… disappearing as it was immersed by light. Let the light cast warmth on you. This time, feel it beaming onto your forehead and cascading over your eyelids. Feel a glow vibrating and radiating from the skin of your eyelids. Let your body settle into its center and pause.... sit with the moment. See the insides of your eyelids--- the light casting color inside resting eyelids. Feel how it is like a warm towel gently across the face---- see the pink and green hues cast of the light inside your eyelids.

Keeping your eyes closed, move the eyes around in circles, or horizontally or vertically, without pattern. Feel the eyeballs inside the sockets, floating within their orbits, attached, but somewhat independent-- as if they could almost have a life of their own. Let the eyes move around a little more, slowing the movement down. Gently, slowly... explore how much the eyes will stretch their movement at your asking. Give the eyes so much room to move-- let them stretch so far, that the head may try to follow the movement of the eyes.

Let the eyes find a comfortable seat in the sockets--- let them sway to the calm rhythm of breathing --- let them slow, until they rest... and you become only aware of warmth and light enveloping the calm closed eyes...... and your slow, relaxed breathing...hear the breathing for a moment ...

then within the mind, see how the cascading light moves in tiny pulses and beams against the shaded background... see the light moving... washing, caressing, cascading... like a gentle mist on a sunny day, casting many colors, as a rainbow....

... let the brightest and warmest gentle mist of the colorful light be felt by your nostrils---- coming into your nostrils with each breath drawn in. See it moving, around the back of the sinus, down your throat--- feel the warm of the light caressing and entering the bronchial tubes and expanding the lungs...

feel the expansion and contraction of the lungs and chest... see the light casting a healing, powerful glow into the lungs... and see it glowing there... even as you breathe out--- see it getting stronger with each breath drawn in... and watch the little rays of light form tiny energy beams that move with the capillaries of the lungs, gently flowing.... to the heart.... until the entire lungs and rib cage become a single shining light, alive, with the brightest concentration of light, at the heart...

See the ball of light enveloping the heart, outlining and forming the heart...
feel how it warms the heart, how it moves with the heart...
hear each beat of the heart... surge energy into the light... expanding, contracting---
until the overflow rushes into the arteries... with each pulse... traveling... warming... glowing healing newborn energy--- from the sun, from the universe... distant stars....

watch and feel the movement of the energizing light streaming and moving through the vessels of the body... travel with it, around the stomach and abdomen... move slowly with it, to feel each organ, each rib and bone in the body…see each part infused with energy...

travel through ---feel the amazement of the organs together, so perfectly.... living as one...
explore and feel every space inside the body with the light... feel the muscles around each area moving, in unison... light infusing each strand through the life giving vessels that rush through...

continue to follow the light through vessels down into each leg,... alighting each area, down through the thigh... going around the knee, massaging the calf, sliding down the Achilles... streaming into the foot... see the entire leg shining, infused, with the light...

then each arm, to the hands.. one at a time slowly through the elbows...then, each part of the spine... to the very top of the head... until the you feel the rush of energy crawling from the top of the spine through the follicles and the top of the head... radiating..... until the body is completely outlined and radiating light... completely at one with your vision... with your spirit and mind... ... relaxed as one... be awed and amazed at the gift of feeling each part of the body... feel the healing and warm light infusing…

listen to each organ and cell... feel how each part is as one... how each is grateful for life... for connection... for movement... for breath... and how the light is grateful to enter and feel each microcosm and cell within this unique body….

when ready---- keep the eyes closed, and slowly let the head drop and roll the back down to stretch the spine... roll back up to straighten...
move and straighten the fingers and rotate the wrists... eventually stretching the arms...
and breathe in a deep breath... exhale any stale air and excess energy.... breathe in again deeply..

see the light encircling you, still enveloping your body, but starting to move around you like a gentle wind... see it blowing like a feather… surging gentle electric vibrations…
let it dissipate with the air around you... but continue to hold the traces and warmth in your body... as you move your head away from the bright light...

tighten the muscles in your abdomen... straighten your spine again... roll your shoulders... take five faster breaths.... (you may feel like yawning at this time)---
open your mouth and breathe through your mouth a few more times...

slowly open your eyes………take a moment to adjust your focus--- then ---
stretch your body gently, stand... balance, awaken ....