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Meditation for New Beginnings
In this meditation, you will focus your energies toward a successful new
beginning. Whether it is a life change, a new job, a new project, or something
else, this mediation will focus your energies on that new beginning and help you
visualize it through to fruition.
Again you will want to record this meditation or have someone read it to you.
Get into a comfortable position, close your eyes, and take several deep breaths,
exhaling and inhaling for at least a count of five each time. Relax and begin your
recording of the meditation here: Ahead of you lies a new path, a new beginning.
The path is cloudy and foggy and you cannot see very far down it, but you feel
compelled to walk forward into the fog. With each step you take you feel you are
moving closer to the fog, yet you never seem to be catching up with it. Each step
you take is in clean, crisp, fog-free air. The fog remains ahead of you.
As you walk forward, you notice new things appearing on the path next to
you. Images from your past show themselves to you—a childhood friend, a
favorite teacher, your first girlfriend or boyfriend. As you walk past each
one, they turn their gaze to follow you as you continue down the path. You
are passing by your past as you move forward, but you do so with gladness.
These memories bring you joy and happiness. You realize that with each
new person, there was a first time you met. (Allow a pause to recall images
of the past.) You see yourself ride a bike for the first time, learn to swim, go
to an amusement park, or go on a favorite family vacation. You see yourself
getting a driver’s license, graduating high school, maybe even graduating
college. All are happy events from your past that you enjoy remembering.
Each one of these events had a first time. Each one of these events was at
one time a new beginning. Each one of these events brought you joy and
happiness even though right before it happened, and maybe while it was
happening, you were nervous and unsure about the situation or event. You
made it through and you did so amazingly well.
With each step you take, the images at your sides become visible and clear,
but the fog in front of you still remains. You continue stepping forward and
the images at your sides are more recent. You are in your present now. You