©2003 - Mary Willemsen

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Earth Tree Meditation

Take a deep breath and centre yourself. Become aware of your breathing. See your lungs inflate and deflate. Become aware of the trunk of your body. Just be the trunk of your body. Breath as the trunk of your body.
Now think of the trunk of a tree. A big, solid, sturdy healthy tree. See the bark. Notice the patterns. Imagine the feel of this bark. Does it have a smell? Is the bark dark with rain, or it is warm with the caress of the sun?

Have a strong sense of this tree trunk, for you are going to place yourself inside this trunk. Be inside that tree trunk. Imagine the safety of the bark encircling you, protecting you, nurturing you, sheltering you from the outside world.
Take the next step and be this magnificent tree. Be it’s solidness, be it’s steadiness, totally unaffected by the world you have left behind. Just be this tree. Be that trunk, proud and beautiful, be safe and strong. I am the tree.
Now draw attention to your roots. Feel them thick and powerful, searching, sinking into Mother Earth. Wallow into her nourishment. See her sending you love and support. Respond back with your love and friendship. Rejoice in this reciprocal arrangement of shared energies. She gives you food; you hold her soil together.
Be still in this unasked for, but oh so willingly given support of each other. Send down your wish for harmony and peace. Mother Earth will feed this back to you.
Draw this peace and love up to your trunk. Your, oh so magnificent trunk. Saturate your trunk with Mother Earth’s love for you. Think higher and see your branches stretching into the sky. Explore them as your fingers playing in the air. Send Mother Earth’s love out to your leaves. Send your love for self out to your leaves. Feel them respond to this love. Happy, proud, loved, honoured. See them kissed by the sun. Feel you reflect back this joy. The wind comes into dance with you. It picks up this joy, does a giggle and is off to share this with others. Oh life is good as a tree. No cares in the world. Blessed by sun and tickled by rain, stroked by the wind and nourished by Earth. Decorated with flowers or adorned by fruit, you are always glorious and loved. Reflect this magnificence. Rejoice in it. Luxuriate in it. You love and are loved.

Take a deep breath, capture this feeling and place it strongly in your heart. Keep this feeling with you as you rejoin this dimension. The peace of nature restores you, strengthen you. All is well with the world.
 

MW2003