Tree Roots Visualisation
A simple way to ground and centre your energies, reduce thought and mental activity and become connected to your surroundings:
Settle in your seat so you are comfortable. Have your feet uncrossed and firmly placed on the floor.
Take a few slow, deep breaths and allow yourself to relax further into your seat.
Lightly put your attention on your body. Feel its solidity and its weight. Become aware of the pull of gravity downwards and let your mind settle on the feel of that pull.
Now allow your awareness to flow downwards beyond your feet and begin to sense, see or feel that energy as roots growing and extending downwards into the earth. See them reaching out in a widening circle around you.
Feel those roots of energy as they search deeper and deeper, establishing you firmly and securely upon the surface of the planet.
Allow gravity and the magnetic attraction of the earth’s heart to draw your roots deeper and wider with each breath you breathe.
When you feel that you are secure and well-rooted, begin on your in-breath to draw sustaining energy back along your root-paths into your body.
Feel the nutritious and life-giving energy of the earth slowly fill the whole body as it travels upwards from the very root-tips of your earthed awareness.
Continue to draw the energy upwards with your in-breath. On the out-breath allow that root system to strengthen and spread deeper and further outwards from your place.
Remain in this pattern of feeling and growing for as long as you like.
When ready, slowly allow the images to fade. Become aware of your physical body, your surroundings. Take a few deep breaths. When you feel ready, slowly open your eyes. Take a while before resuming normal activity.
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