Relaxing Meditations To Relieve Stress and Increase Happiness

This mediation is designed to remove stress form your body and mind.

It is very good at what it was designed for and you may have t o work on staying awake long enough to get through it. If you have problems going to sleep during this meditation, make sure you are comfortable, but sitting up before you begin. If that doesn't prevent you from falling sleep, you will have to split your focus be tween the mediation and staying awake.

 Breathing

Beginning of meditation: Close your eyes and take a long, slow, deep breath in. Hold it for a few seconds, and then slowly release the breath. As you exhale, feel all the tension in your body leaving with the air as it is expelled from your body. Inhale again, slowly and deeply and then hold it for a few seconds, before gently releasing the breath and feeling tension leaving your body. Inhale once more, slowly and deeply, filling your lungs completely. Hold it for a few seconds, and then gently release it, feeling the tension leaving your body. Breathe normally now. You are safe and secure and at peace. Every breath you take, a little more tension leaves your body, quietly and slowly, in no hurry, just in relaxing and peaceful.

Visualize

In your minds eye, see yourself walking toward a stand of trees in the distance. They are beautiful trees, full of life to the point you can almost see a healthy aura glowing around this stand of trees. Keep walking towards the trees and every step you take, you leave behind another little piece of the tension and stress of t he world and allow it to simply float away so it can cause you no harm. Enjoy yourself, feel the sun warming your body. Hear the birds singing their sweet songs and taste the freshness of the air around you. This is a special place... a safe place... a relaxing place... As you get closer to the trees, see the birds flying from tree to tree, playing in the warmth of the sun. Hear their sweet song as it floats on the mild breeze blowing through the trees. And you are relaxed and at peace , happy as a lark as you walk even closer to the trees. When you arrive at the trees, walk among them. Feel the difference in the air temperature from stepping out of the hot sun light and into the cool deepness of the forest. Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of a stream flowing easily across the land. Gurgling as it flows over the rock s. Walk toward the sound of the stream. Move slowly an d calmly, deeply relaxed and at peace in this wondrous place of natural beauty. When you arrive at the stream, you notice that it i s not very deep and on the other side you see an outcropping of rock that look s almost like it was placed there specifically for people to sit and enjoy the peaceful flow of the water. Step into the stream. The water is cool and delicious on your bare feet. Now walk across to the outcropping and sit on the edge, allowing your feet to dangle in the water. Sit for a few moments simply looking deeply into the water in front of you. Watching it slowly gurgle by. After a few moments, you notice a pale blue light within the water. It seems almost like a cloud that has managed to become one with the water. This cloud slowly moves toward you and a feeling of wondrous peace washes over you. The cloud touches your feet and slowly starts to rise out of the water, moving up your legs, to your hips, then your tummy, all the while filling you with complete and total relaxation and peace. Allow the cloud to move upward, through your chest, down your arms, all the way to your fingers and up through your head. It feels so wonderful you decide to simply lay back and relax, with your feet still dangling in the water. After a while, you turn your head to face down stream and you see a line of little black pebbles floating from your feet and flowing down stream with the water and you realize that the black pebbles are all the tens ion and pain and negativity that has been tied up in your body for so long. Just allow it to continue for a while as you grow more peaceful. All the tension is leaving your body. All the pent up frustrations of everyday life is being washed away. Enjoy it.

Coming Back

Lay there for a while and just relax and when you feel like you are 100% at peace and you are ready, sit up slowly. Allowing yourself to simply enjoy the way you feel. When you are ready, slowly stand up and begin to walk back across the stream and back up to the trees, going back the way you came. Walk through the trees in a completely relaxed state. Enjoying every step, being thankful for the peace, quiet, happiness and love you are experiencing. Walk all the way through the trees and back into the sun light and slowly make your way back home, taking the peace and relaxation with you. When you are ready, you can open your eyes and return to the world around you.