Imagine Yourself in a Peaceful Place

Meditation is incredibly beneficial in so many ways.  It not only brings a sense of peace and calm, it can boost every aspect of your life including your health and well-being.  It can help you move beyond limiting beliefs or behaviours, find the insights and inspiration to feel more fulfilment in your life, to find more peace, joy, clarity, confidence, creativity. 

By it’s very nature, meditation helps you to find stillness in body and mind so that you can cultivate the feelings of inner peace.  This visualisation meditation will take you to a peaceful place that you remember from your own experience.

To guide yourself, here are the steps to follow: 

• In a comfortable seated position, sitting tall and with dignity but also with softness, close your eyes and focus for a few moments on the flow of your breath, in and out.  
  
• Feel your whole body settle and allow the stillness slow everything down.
  
• Now think of a place where you have felt blissfully happy, peaceful and calm.  It could be a beautiful place in nature you know (a beach, a forest, a mountain), it could be any place, inside or out, where you’ve felt a deep sense of peace.  
  
• Imagine yourself there.
  
• Remember all you can about this peaceful place.  Remember the sights, the sounds, the scents that you experienced. Think of all the details...the time, the season.  Visualise all the colours that surrounded you.  Remember the sounds, the scents, the temperature, the feeling of the breeze on your skin… Remember as many details as you can conjure.
  
• Remember how you were feeling in that place, remember the joy, the peace, the sense of bliss.  And feel those feelings as though you were right there again.  
  
• Be there in those serene and tranquil moments for as long as you like. 
  
• When you are ready bring your awareness back into the room. And then bring all those beautiful sensations and peaceful feelings with you into the present moment.  
  
• Begin to bring some movement back into your body, and gently opening your eyes.

If you prefer to hear my voice guiding you on this peaceful journey for 10 minutes (including 3 minutes of silence), click the link below.

Mindful practice tip: If your mind wanders away from your peaceful place, gently bring it back, without judging. It’s normal for your mind to wander during meditation, and part of the practice is noticing when it has wandered and being kind and compassionate to yourself when it does.  
 

Add the Gyan Mudra to your practice: This particular mudra (hand gesture) is helpful if you want to invite calm and stillness to your mind so that you can cultivate the feelings of inner peace.  With both palms facing up, perhaps resting on your knees, touch your thumb to the tip of your index finest and extend the three others. Hold this mudra for as long is as comfortable.