In my yoga/pilates/meditation class today we did the nicest visualization:
We pictured sitting next to a nicely running stream of water, somewhere in nature.
We see three leaves on the ground, and pick them up. One is vivid red, one is bright orange and one is sparkling gold.
As we contemplate the red one, a word or phrase representing our most intense current challenge or problem appears. Slowly, we consider the word/phrase, then we drop the leaf into the water, and watch it eddy about, then float down and away.
The orange leaf develops with a word or phrase representing our greatest fear. That one too, after contemplation, drops to the water, and floats away on the surface.
Then, the bright gold leaf develops the word or phrase or image of the greatest wrong ever done to you, and..(you guessed it, you smart things!), it too goes the way of the first two.
Then we are to visualize the wonderful life left to us, having released those three things to the cleansing and distancing of those moving waters.
The instructor did a mch better job of verbalizing the whole thing, but it was VERY interesting, vivid and somehow comforting/motivating!
Just thought I'd share.
The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)