Springtime Meditation


Close your eyes and take three deep inhales and exhales, focusing on your breathing. Imagine that you are sitting in a Sacred Circle of Springtime.

Bring the Springtime to all your senses. With your eyes, see or sense the emerging of the new flowers and baby animals into the world.

See the shapes. See the colors. See the bright sun shining on them. With your ears, listen to the sounds of Spring, the brooks gurgling, the baby chicks calling, the lambs bleating, the children laughing.

With your nose, smell the smell of rich dark moist earth nurturing new life, smell the aromas floating on the Spring breeze, smell the lilies of the valley, smell the rain.

With your fingers, touch the satin of new buds, touch the bark of the old oak as it springs to life once again, touch the curly wool of lambs, touch the crumbling earth, touch a baby's cheek, touch your own cheek. With your mouth, imagine the flavor of new asparagus stalks and strawberries. Sense all the wonders of spring, renewed from winter's sleep, filling your Sacred Space.

Now focus inside yourself. Like the earth, you are a place of nourishment and hibernation...for new ideas, for new health, for new friendships, for new prosperity, for new life. See the sun rising up inside of you too.

Feel the rain nurturing renewal within you. Feel the new warmth and light of Spring filling you from your toes to your head, with the light of renewal.

Feel the warmth and light of Spring spill over and fill the Sacred Space around you with love and growth.

Take a deep breath and as you exhale, say: Spring and Renewal are with me. Breathe and exhale and say: Spring and Renewal within me. Breathe and exhale and say: Spring and Renewal surround me. Breathe and exhale and say: Spring and Renewal protect me. In this Here, in this Now, I re-affirm my Life. So be it.

Take three deep breaths. Say thank you to the Powers-that-be for your moment of safety and ease. Ask for protection for yourself, for your safety, for those you hold dear, for other life forms emerging into life, and for this sweet Earth and her heavens. When you are ready, open your eyes, knowing that only good can come from what you've done. Smile at the world. It is GOOD

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