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Imagine the presence of a great warmth that feels utterly nurturing, good, and peaceful. See it as the most beautiful color or colors that you can imagine.

Notice your emotions.

• What color or colors are they?
• What shapes do they make?

insertsm Notice your thoughts.

• Again, what colors are they?
• What shapes do they have?

Notice the energies of your physical body.

• Where are they moving?
• Where are they not?

Try slightly adjusting the way that you are sitting and see if your energies move more freely in your body.

• Notice how the planet feels, both the earth under your feet, and the sky all around.
• What does the Great Mother, the earth itself, wish to say to you?

Go back now to your body.

• Find a place of tension in it that has something to say to you, and ask what that is.
• When you are done, take a deep breath, let it out, and then take another.
• Let that tension go.

Remember a happy feeling from the past, or imagine one now.

• If you like, tie it to a scene or image.
• Feel the feeling. Be in the middle of it.
• Let the happiness of that feeling fill you full and overflow beyond you, filling the room.
• Imagine sharing it with loved ones, and receiving their happiness as well.
• Continue exploring this happiness. If it has a color and shape, see it; if it has movement, feel it.
• Ask it to open itself to you, so that you can be a part of it.

This meditation is excerpted from the book:

Meditations for Self-Discovery
by Shepherd Hoodwin.

Click here for more info or to order this book.

About The Author 

Shepherd Hoodwin is an intuitive[[comma]] workshop leader[[comma]] and teacher. He also does past-life therapy[[comma]] counseling[[comma]] and channeling coaching (teaching others to channel). He is the author of: "The Journey of Your Soul -- A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings"[[comma]] "Meditations for Self-Discovery -- Guided Journeys for Communicating with Your Inner Self"[[comma]] "Loving from Your Soul -- Creating Powerful Relationships"[[comma]] and "Opening to Healing Energy". Shepherd can be contacted through his website at http://summerjoy.com.

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