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April 26, 2020
Feeling Your Body and Mind as a Lake. To reduce anxiety, make yourself comfortable lying down on your bed or the floor, or wherever you can be comfortable.

Here’s a Sample of the “Feeling Your Body and Mind as a Lake” Guided Meditation Script:

So, to reduce anxiety,
please make yourself comfortable
lying down on your bed
or on the floor,
or wherever you can be comfortable,
maybe putting a pillow of some sort
under your knees.

Allow your eyes to close
and your body to just melt into the floor
or the bed,

Take a few moments
to scan your awareness
through the sensations of your body,
and wherever possible,
soften and release
obvious areas of physical tension.

This can be done with great effect at the end of a long day,
although it can be done at any other time

Allow your attention
to gently come into the body
to the flowing of your breath.

Experience the sense of your body as a whole,
simply lying here,
extended,
and breathing.

Feeling Your Body and Mind as a Lake, Feeling Your Body and Mind as a Lake

When you feel ready,
picture in your mind’s eye
the image of a lake,
perhaps a lake that you know well
and that you go to from time to time,
or one that you’ve seen in a photograph,

Just see if you can bring that image into vivid focus
in your mind’s eye.

Notice how it’s an extended body of water
held within the earth’s surface,
and perhaps fed by a spring or a stream...

If you watch and observe the lake carefully,
you’ll notice that it’s always changing,
and yet it’s also always itself.

It changes as the sun moves across the sky.
The light is reflected off the water in different ways.

It changes depending on the weather.

About the author 

Sean Fargo

Sean Fargo is the Founder of Mindfulness Exercises, a former Buddhist monk of 2 years, a trainer for the mindfulness program born at Google, an Integral Coach from New Ventures West, and an international mindfulness teacher trainer. He can be reached at [email protected]

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