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Meditate a Moment featuring: Aleesha Stephenson Grounding ourselves whenever we meditate is so important. It assists us to stay connected while we travel to other dimensions within our mind, or other worlds. When we meditate and are not grounded, we feel light-headed and have a hard time as our mind will often wander rather than opening to the meditation. Then when we are finished meditating it can be hard to walk or even finish a sentence! So please remember to ground yourself before beginning any meditation. Let's begin. Take three deep cleansing breaths, in ease and exhale all the dis-ease of your day. Now for our second breath, IN-spiration and releasing any tension in your body and one more… IN-spiration and exhale any residual negativity. Feel your in-breath beginning deep in your base chakra and moving up towards your crown chakra. Allow your out-breath to be a whisper down your spine, returning to your base, ready for your in-breath. Visualize a star in a nearby galaxy; this is the Heaven Star. A beam of light is coming out of the Heaven Star. Feel yourself begin to draw this energy down, through the galaxy, towards Earth. Pull it down through our atmosphere and down down down towards your crown chakra (top of your head). This light moves very slowly into your head, past your eyes, your cheeks, your jaw and into your neck. Then vertebra by vertebra it moves down your spine towards the base of your spine (1st chakra). As this energy touches the base of your spine you feel it change. Roots begin to develop and weave their way down your legs, past your knees, slowly pushing their way down your calves and into your ankles. You feel them filling your feet and gently reaching out of the soles of your feet and pushing their way into the ground beneath you. Deep into the Earth they glide, down down down until the roots touch the Earth Star. Winding themselves around the Earth Star they meld with this Star and begin to feed. The energy of the Earth Star pulsates up the roots, up up up through the ground until you feel it entering your feet. Your roots continue to draw this wonderful grounding energy up, feeding on it, feeling its weight as you begin to feel ever more connected to the Earth. Visualize yourself in the middle of a field of flowers. The sun is bright in the sky and you see a trail winding down the hill into a grove of trees. As you follow the path focus on your feet. Feel them touching the Earth. See the ground changing as you walk. Notice the shrubs, trees and flowers along the side of your path. Ahead of you is the Crystal Pool. This is a cleansing pond. Sit at the edge of the pond with your back against one of the large "Grandmother" trees. Feel how connected you are to the tree as you gaze at the reflection of the other trees in the mirror-like surface of the pond. Keep looking at the reflection - allowing your focus to become relaxed and distant. The Crystal Pool is acting as a scrying bowl. The less you focus your gaze the more you will see. Sit relaxed while focusing on your breath for ten minutes. Feel your breath coming in your nostrils and then exiting again. Allow the cycle of your breath to take you deeper into your meditation. ~~~Unfocused gazing ~~~ When you are done, thank the Crystal Pool and the Trees for their assistance and wander back up the path into the field of flowers. When you are ready, open your eyes and come back to your day, feeling refreshed and alive. namaste' Aleesha Aleesha Stephenson is the Publisher, Editor, Graphic and Web Designer, as well as a Regular Columnist for Timeless Spirit Magazine. A Raw Foodist, Reiki Master Teacher, who lives her Buddhist, Shamanic, with many eclectic Pagan beliefs, she home-schools two of her three spiritually-enlightened children as her eldest has graduated and moved on to the school of life. Friend (and mother) to them, she is also a life-partner to her husband David. Her life truly is filled with light. Author of the "Pathways Series," a series of workbooks created for 28 consecutive nights of spellwork for Magi's Magick Spells. Aleesha teaches classes in tarot, meditation, and Reiki. She is also a Raw Food and Fasting Coach. For more information, please contact Aleesha via email or visit her personal web page.

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