Meditation can be used to relax the body, clear the mind, search the subconcious for forgotten information, to move into altered states and to contact spirit. Many more uses can be explored the more you practice.

Many people tell me that they can not meditate. They can't keep their mind from "filling up with rubbish", it "jumps all over the place" when they try to concentrate on their breathing. They can not "empty " their mind at all.

OK, let's not try to do that. The human brain is working 24/7. It NEVER shuts down. It NEVER empties. It NEEDS something to work on. So if the usual Buddhist type of meditation, the concentrating on the breath, doesn't do it for you try a different kind.

What about visualisation? That is, GIVING your brain something to play with. A place or image of your own creation. A fantasy place to explore, taste, hear, smell, touch. Your place! Most people find this type of meditation MUCH easier. Even more so when it is led by someone else. Someone who will 'take' you on your journey and suggest what you can 'see' and where it will lead. Also it sometimes feels 'safer' when you are first begining to have someone on the reins to help you 'back'.

I soon will have CDs of my led meditaions for different subjects e.g. Self Healing, Relaxation, Meeting your Spirit Guides and more. These will be available on this web site. Below you will find one of the meditations I have created for the healer training courses.

This is called "The Healing Bubbles Meditation". ©

Sit or lay comfortably.Breathe slowly and deeply. In through the nose, out through the mouth.

Gently, slowly, deeply. Relax with each breath deeper and deeper.

You are in a warm, dry cave. The floor is smooth and even. Walk towards the entance. Step by step you relax more and more.

At the entrance you see it is a lovely sunny day. Ahead of you is a welcoming, green, sunny wood.Walk towards it and enter.

As you enter the wood it feels cooler. The sun dapples through the leaves making paterns on the ground and your skin. You hear the leaves above you rustling in the soft breeze. You smell the moist, secret aromas of the woodland floor as you scuff your feet along the path.

 As you walk along listen and watch for the woodland animals, at first a little shy but braver and bolder the longer you are in their world. They are a delight to watch and you feel honoured that they will approach you without fear.

Carry on through the wood and out the otherside.

The path leads you to a stone wall about seven feet high. Walk alongside this wall until you find a gate.

Open the gate and enter. You are in a stone porch. On the wall beside the gate is a row of coat hooks. On each hook is a cloak, each one a different colour. Choose which one feels right for you and put it on.

You step out of the porch into a beautiful garden.

Walk along the path amongst the flowerbeds, smell the wonderful scents, hear the birds singing, feel the sun warm on your skin. You may see that there is one colour predominating in the garden. Take all the time you want, enjoy YOUR garden.

You pass through a leafy arch and in front of you is a pool with a waterfall.

Stand at the edge and look down into the water. From deep in the pool a small casket rises slowly to the surface.Reach out and take it.

Turn around and you will see somewhere to sit in comfort. Open your casket. Inside are lots of beautiful shimmering glass bubbles, each one glowing with an inner light.

Take each bubble and place it anywhere on yourself that needs healing, or just where it 'feels right'. Sit and relax.

As you sit you will see the inner light of the bubbles being absorbed into you, and a soft swirling shadow fills the ball in its place. As each become full remove them and place them back into the box.

Take the full casket back to the pool and drop it into the water where it sinks down, down, down.The waterfall will cleanse your healing bubbles. The next time you need them they will be sparkling and glowing again.

Walk back through your garden, taking as much time as you like. Is there any change in the garden?

Hang up your cloak and leave by the gate.

Make your way through the wood, lingering as you wish, and back into the cave.

As you walk deeper and deeper onto the cave you will come closer and closer to reality. Until you are back in the now.

I hope you enjoyed your stroll? Remember your wood and garden are there whenever you feel the need of them.

(The 'Healing Bubbles Meditation' is included on the 'Self Healing' CD.)

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